I've recently turned two food stubs into articles, and I would like to get their titles listed on the page "Category:Food and Drink" under "Articles in category "Food and drink"", but I have not a clue what the process might be. The list does not allow for ordinary editing as far as I can tell. -- Mothperson 14:08, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I had no problem getting my password reset emailed to me from wikiquote, but I'm still not getting it from wikipedia. Can someone help? Or am I missing something obvious? Twice I've used "Mail me my password" from the login screen.
Thanks. Username = CatEllen
I have the same problem. I can't log in, and mail my password doesn't seem to work. Are there people who can manually reset passwords? username = gcanyon.
Same here. Only my thought was that, improbable as it seems, the email I registered may be one that I've since discarded. Al-khowarizmi.
I'm confident there are only two email addresses that I might have used within the last few years, and both are active. In any case, is there a procedure where an admin can manually reset my password? gcanyon. Peter posted contact info, so I will as well: gcanyon@inspiredlogic.com. I don't think it will do any good, though, as this plea for assistance has gone unanswered for weeks. I see gcanyon2 in my future <sigh>
I am also having the same problem. I have requested a new password several times but no e-mails have shown up. My username is Peter McGinley. A Wikipedia admin or sysop or whoever can reset passwords may e-mail me at peter@petermcginley.com. This is the e-mail address I have on my account (or at least I think so). It is annoying not being able to log in. - Peter McGinley ( 202.173.180.85 12:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC))
Last week I accidentally hit "reset password" instead of "login". The porblem here is when creating the account I did not enter an email adress, because that was optional. Now I have no idea where the new password is. It got sent to limbo I guess. Any idea how I can successfully log back in? Skeeter08865
I have finally regained access to my account again. It turned out to be an issue with the e-mail going to my blog (TypePad - which I had CNAME'd my domain to) instead of to my Gmail inbox. I remove the CNAME record and the e-mail showed up. Peter McGinley 10:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
How do you make a template? Do you just create an article called template:title? Howabout1 19:40, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am a professor at a community college. I would like to create a "Private" educational wikipedia for use only by students in my classes. My idea is to post a topic, and let them develop the topic, exactly the way Wikipedia does. The general public would not have access to the students' contributions. Is this possible?
I go to Help:Contents, and it has a link to "How to upload a file"; all that has is a piped link to Special:Upload, which doesn't really tell me how to upload. How do you specify what name you want for your upload? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 02:19, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
Why does the English Wikipedia have underlined links, while no other language Wikipedia, Wikimedia project, or any Wiki site has them? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 04:50, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just created a category Category:Tournament systems, and put four articles in it.
Now, when I use my usual browser I see that for instance Swiss system tournament is redlinked to that category, and clicking that link brings me to the editing page. however, when I used an alternate browser I saw the category bluelinked like it should be, so I hope that is what everyone else is seeing.
What's going on? Sjakkalle 13:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sometimes, a line break is inserted in front of a template. It seems to depend on some weird, distant context. See Help talk:Template for details.
Could someone please take a look? I posted my problem there a couple of days ago, but nobody noticed. Thanks! — Sebastian ( T) 17:36, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Protection policy states "There is no need to protect personal css and js pages like user/monobook.css or user/cologneblue.js. Only the account associated with these pages is able to edit them." However, I was able to edit another user's monobook.js (with her permission, of course). Is this because I am an administrator? — Knowledge Seeker দ 19:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I want to make a cover page for a report. To make it more dramatic I want to place a picture on it. I do not want to change it nor spread it to other sites. After my report the picture is going to be destroyed. Do I need permission?
Is this a technical question about Wikipedia or rather a general question about copyright? In the latter case you want to post your question at Wikipedia:Reference desk. Sebastian (talk) 19:54, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
What is the HTML character code for the "section" marker (the one that looks like two interlocked capital S characters)? -- John Fader ( talk | contribs) 22:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
After spending quite a bit of time as a Wikipedia lurker, I've finally registered and begun to do some editing in my areas of expertise. I notice that there are articles for quite a few authors here, and I'm a writer myself. Would it be appropriate to list my books on my user page or create a regular article, or are those just for the famous "big name" authors? I'm not a famous author by any means, but I do have over 20,000 books in print through mainstream publishers. I'm not looking to create a vanity page (I already have my own site), but if authors are going to have Wikipedia entries, I'd just as soon write mine myself. -- Gary D Robson 01:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could whoever is in charge of this:
{{Uspresidents}}
Please fix it so that it directs to Franklin D. Roosevelt and not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the article has now been moved? Adam 03:57, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I see that the template has changed, but when I go to here, I see all the Presidents still redirecting from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Do you know why this is? Adam 08:28, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. I was hoping to avoid having to do that. :( Adam 00:09, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I seem to have remembered someone using a dollar sign ($) in a template to supress an unused parameter from showing a red link. Naturally, I can't find it now I want to document it for later use. Can anyone help? Mgm| (talk) 09:45, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
Just came across this page Dremel, it looks like a blatant POV adverterising to me. But I can't say I know much about the Dremel drill myself. Were would I bring this to the attention of other wikipedians? I know I could put it on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion but I'm not sure it shopuld be deleted I just want to know what other people think.-- JK the unwise 13:29, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
I want to add 4 photos of mine of a location to a page here about that location
I put the filename in the "Filename:" box
What goes in the "Summary:" box?
I added info about the photos
How long does this take to upload a photo?
Do I get notification when it's done? Thank you
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UPDATE : May 2 Tried again (several times) Waited 10 minutes - nothing happens (using DSL)
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I'm doing a project to calculate character frequencies/probabilities in different languages, so I need loads of source text. So what's the best place to get plain text from Wikipedia, Wikibooks or Wikisource ans what's the best way to extract the text and remove all the html formating?
Where can I find the articles which have been spoken verbally? I remember seeing a page where it says an audio version of this article is available (or something similar).
• Thorpe • 20:36, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I copied several paragraphs from a court affidavit to post an article. (The article solely consisted of these paragraphs, plus a few links to other wikopedia articles. When I came back to the article a few minutes later the words Wikipedia:Copyright problems#April 28 appeared.
Looking through "The Public domain by Stephan Fishman" page 14/19 I found a section "Is Court Testimony in the Public Domain". His answer "there is no clear answer to this question." He says some copyright experts believe these should be PD, but no ones ever tested it in court. He also says court testimony is often copied and distributed in many different including websites. And that the fair use doctrine almost certantily applies in these uses.
so my question is how to deal with this? (see article Joyce Wiley)
I made a note under the articles discussion/talk Joyce Wiley but I then went to Wikipedia:Copyright problems and could not find the article name there.
Hey folks. Is there a list anywhere of all the templates that are used as article tags (cleanup, npov, factual dispute, stub, etc)? A friend was asking, and I don't know offhand. Isomorphic 15:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What's the character encoding of the database downloads? Is it UTF-8?
I have written an article and it says I must wikify it. I thought I had done that, but apparently not, and I must admit to being totally lost. I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do at this point, and I'm lost in the help section. Is there someone who can help? Thank you. I can be reached by email at rebmor at gmail dot com.
Why does your article titled "Viet Cong" say the National Football League had something to do with opposing the South Vietnamese government?
thanks.
I want to start a new page which I don't think has been mentioned on any other article and I don't really know how. Just so you know the article will be on the Nintendo Offcicial Magazine.
Please can you help me?
I want to link to a picture listed on Wikipedia Commons. What tag do I use? Also, the image and its description are in French, so I don't know the restrictions on linking to it. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Palmyre_Vue_Generale.jpg Yuber 15:00, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
In the slide rule article, we're having a problem with the photo near the top overlapping with the table of contents. It's kind of complicated, because the problem appears to occur inconsistently, perhaps depending on the browser and/or size of the user's screen (or browser window). Currently, we have the image formatted as: "Image:pocket_slide_rule.jpg|frame|none|A slide rule being used to multiply by 2. Each number on the D scale is double the number above it on the C scale." This works for me in Firefox on my own size of browser window. However, another user (see the article's talk page) has reported that this formatting causes the image to overlap with the toc. When he changes the formatting to "...|frame|right|A slide rule ...," it looks right on his machine, but it overlaps with the TOC on *my* machine! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this? TIA! -- Bcrowell 17:10, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I was setting up my new account and inadvertantly hit the wrong key so that only my name was registered...not my password or my email. Now I'm unsure about how to correct it! Please help! Thank you!
Is theer any way I could add javascript to a wikipage.
I wanted to add a counter on of my wikipages. Is there any way I can do that.
I have seen websites, such as www.mysic.org, that are affiliated with wikipedia where you can search for a topic and the wikipedia result comes up. How can you sign up to affiliate?
I was wondering if I could have permission to post some of the articles from wikipedia on my website.
THERE IS A SUN CITY IN SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR HILTON HEAD ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF INTERSATE 95 IN SC. SAVANNAH GEORGA IS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF IT.
If you look at the varibables listed in Help:Variable#Varying_with_time you'll see that {{CURRENTMONTH}} produces 07, a 2-digit number, but {{CURRENTDAY}} produces 21, a 1-digit number. Is there a 2-digit alternative? Will there be in Mediawiki 1.5? Thanks, Alphax τ ε χ 06:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Is there any download to have wikipedia on my toolbar so it's present at all times on my browser?
Or. if you're using a Mac OS your "Bookmark Bar" might look like this: File:Wikipedia Bookmark.jpg hydnjo talk 19:07, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
What does it mean to "purge the Main Page cache"? How is that related to the featured article? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 21:21, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
Does the number of "true" articles stated in the special page "statistics" contain also redirects? If not, can someone state this there? Thanks. -- Eleassar777 22:36, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
i just created an account, but i have a few edits from before i was a person of account indexed under my ip (all during the past few weeks) - can i get these attached to my new account?
- SFWarlock
I'm afraid not – see above [now moved to archive 18] — Sebastian (talk) 00:49, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
meh. well, thanks for your answer. 67.169.151.167 02:06, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
oops, wasn't logged in. SFWarlock 02:07, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
If anyone knows how to make this spin as in real life, please replace this static beachball with a spinning version. I give up. Thanks to whoever comes to the rescue. hydnjo talk 02:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
How do I post comments/queries on the discussion pages for a specific article?
Ta,
Malangthon malangthon@xtra.co.nz
Hello, I have a question about abuse/defense. My older brother has abused me off and on my whole life but most of the time we are actually friends. But now that I work with him he is constantly risking my safety by pointing a nail gun at me while the safety gaurd is off. Throws rocks off of the roof and near my head. A couple of months ago he "accidentally" hit me in the mouth with a role of duck tape. when I was 15 he kicked me as hard as he could in my face. Now I am emotionally and physically able to stand up for myself. Now I know tirst thing you might say is stay away from him and to that I say that he is always around myhe f family and life long friends (not to mention I don't want to giveup my job ) and he'll just find a different time to threaten my life. Second thing people will say is call the cops but, if I do that he'll find another way for me to have an "accident" he's very intelligent and will find a way not to be liable for what ever happens to me. I tried to talk to him and some times I dont think he even understands or laughs at me. If I defend myself physically will it be considered self defense? it sure ought to be. Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated
Thanks Ted
Hi, I'm sure you have a problem, but wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The help desk is for questions about wikipedia, not your personal life. If you have a question or want to join wikipedia, this is the place to do it. Howabout1 02:32, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
This is really the wrong place to be asking, because you have no idea who is answering. You need to find someone you can trust and tell about this. A family member would be ideal. Failing that a close friend, one older than you. If you belong to a church, someone there. As a last resort someone at work, a counselling service or a telephone helpline. Get help from a real person. As for fighting back, don't do more than you need to to keep yourself safe. DJ Clayworth 04:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I had the following message "This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. Please remove this notice once this has been done,"that was left on the Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family page of the US political families pages at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%2C_Hoar_%26_Sherman_family
When I went to the Talk Page I was met with this message, "Do we really need all of this detail here? That's what the main articles are for. RickK 00:34, May 3, 2005 (UTC)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Baldwin%2C_Hoar_%26_Sherman_family
Which seem to contradict other messages that I have received. Could you please let me know the Wikipedia position?
Aaron Baldwin
No, I don't. I checked my talk and the message keeps coming. I never had any previous problems with the message on this machine. Can anyone remind me how to get rid of it? Mgm| (talk) 11:47, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
It just happened again. Howabout1 00:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC) What has worked for me is just pressing Ctrl+F5 to clear the cache.-- Fito 03:36, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
How can I create a template? Do I need to be an admin or obtain someone's permission in order to do so? I am referring to a template that links a few articles together, not something like {{cleanup}}. Thanks for your help in advance. Ultimate Star Wars Freak 17:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Can someone remind me how I set the monobook style of my logged-in view to see the paragraphs with proper spacing? I was told how long ago by an admin, but I cannot remember the information they gave me. If it's in the style guides, I'd like to bookmark the page explaining this as well. I would like to know this so I can tell others new to wikipedia among people I know how to view these pages with proper spacing between paragraphs even though they'll have to get an account to see it. — Emerman
Can I use XHTML for editing Wikipages. If yes could anyone please tell me where I could find a tutorial for doing the same.
I want to start an article about what has variously been called rising inflection/intonation, Antipodean (rising) inflection/intonation and, on one page, Antipodean posterior rising intonation syndrome (probably someone not being funny). Basically, people sounding like they're asking a question when they're actually making a statement. My problem is I don't know the proper name for this, shall we say, phenomenon. For all I know there's already an article about it, though I've done some searching and come up with nothing. Can anybody help me? I'm sure there's an 'official' term in linguistics to describe this. ZephyrAnycon 21:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Yeah thanks for that I'll make some redirects for the terms I came across.
Ecce my loving Wikipediation (all redirects):
17:07, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean rising intonation (top)
17:06, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean rising inflection (top)
17:05, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean inflection (top)
17:04, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean intonation (top)
17:04, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean posterior rising intonation syndrome (top)
17:03, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) APRIS (top)
17:02, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Rising intonation (top)
17:01, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Rising inflection (top)
16:47, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Australian Questioning Intonation (top)
16:47, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Upspeak (top)
16:46, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Australian questioning intonation (top)
16:45, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) AQI (top)
ZephyrAnycon
17:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
I could not figure out to create a category called Rivers in Nature Page for uploading images
arvindps70@yahoo.com
dear sir,
my requesst might sound very strange and non automobile related. but i am try to trace a person who migrated to Canada in the year 1970 from india. he was in touch with us till 1975 but we lost contact after that.
i would be grateful if you let mi know how to trace the person. is there any website for the immigration office in canada. if so wat is it.
pl help.
regards ashwin
I wrote the article on "Bari" currently in discussion section. I would like to place it as an article on its own, so that it can be expanded. How do I do that?
Thanks -- Loro LoLaja Kujjo 17:01, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Could anyone please explain why it is better for society to have the market, and not governments, determine prices of the goods we buy. If the government was running the market, how would you see marketing of goods and services differ than if society has the market?
Thanks, ``Sugar1 2May.05
Is there any way to change my username? -- Carolaman 02:29, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
The other day i found some sneaky vandalism by a user who has a page full of contributions. Since i wasn't sure if any of the older ones contained undetected vandalism i went backwards through his latest contributions and created a list on his homepage User:205.188.117.130 to keep track of which edits have been checked. But this was more effort than i would want to put in in similar cases in the future. What's the best way to deal with this? Do we just leave the edits and hope that some day someone might spot them in the text? This might take a long time, since they may be well disguised. I added him to the hall of shame, but i'm not sure if anyone cared.
Now my dream would be that all his changes got marked (e.g. with a slightly colored background) until someone checks it, so this information does not get lost in the big heap of history. But back to reality: What do we do to to mitigate such possible damage? — Sebastian (talk) 05:30, 2005 May 5 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:205.188.117.130 User:205.188.117.130
Thanks, everybody, for your replies! It was actually not about this specific user. (Your replies were valid and valuable, though. I now agree with Fred that in this case there were good reasons for good faith; if this is just a general cache for an AOL proxy then it's possible that there were just a number of independent clumsy new users. To Mgm: I have reverted many obvious cases of vandalism without asking the user first. If this were required policy i would stop watching out for vandalism. (To be honest, i have become bored of it and i'm doing much less watch duty now than earlier this year.) I am also not convinced that it helps in all cases: People who want attention won't stop their behaviour once they see it earns them attention.)
But back to my question about how to handle (real) sneaky vandals. I hope the dogma "assume good faith" doesn't blind us to the fact that there are malicious editors out there.
At Wikipedia, we love to cite the experiment of a newspaper according to which bad edits were reverted after 5 minutes. This may be the average of all acts of vandalism, given that most take place on a few closely monitored pages. However, from my experience i'd expect utterly different times once you look at the average of pages. I have seen vandalism remain for weeks, including cases where such misedits passed the scrutiny of several registered editors in a row. I am very concerned about this: We get a lot of flak for unreliability in the outside world, and justly so.
Wouldn't it be valuable to provide some way to make it easier for editors to identify and communicate malicious edits so that, once we found a bad apple, we can (and will) rapidly purge the others? My table may have been overkill for the case at hand, but i think it's at least an idea for a solution. Do we have any other solution or does Wikipedia just not care about this problem? Sebastian (talk) 04:16, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
I'm working on List of foods named after people, which is - um - kind of large, and getting larger. I recently had it brought to my attention that vast quantities of stuff are not wikified, but to do so would be to result in a near-solid mass of underlining. Is there a way I can get dispensation for not underlining everything, or perhaps a simplified rule for lists? Also, when do lists get so large they need to be split into two pages? -- Mothperson 16:27, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi there... I'm a journalist writing about Wikipedia. Does someone out there know what the first Wikipedia entry was?
Many thanks... j
Sure thing... the article will appear on www.continental.com/magazine in July (and beyond). Thanks for the help, j
- Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima - NOTE: The coordinates listed in the article at the time of this posting,( 24.78°N, 141.32°E ), are not correct ones. (example: 78 minutes, versus a max of 60 minutes available) - Would somebody with the correct cordinates, data please correct the error(s) - Thanks -
I just created an account for myself, since I finally realized that was the only way to flag edits as minor. Anyway, I have lots of edits that I did from an anonymous account. Is there a means whereby I can get those to be tagged as being against my new account.
An example would be http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Four_horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse&action=history I'm 47.248.0.43.
Thanks, jeffr
I have rewritten an article which I want copyedited by another user. How to send the same to the other user or where to find his email address?
My instructor requested that my citations of a wikipedia article (publicly funded medicine) cite the original author rather than just the page itself. How do I find the author of a page or even a specific section ("parallel public/private systems" and "role of the free market")?
How can I include "Picture of the Day" featured on "Commons" in a user page on "Wikipedia"? How can I include the English version of it and how the Slovenian one? Thanks. -- Eleassar777 16:08, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
I didn't mean how to include the pic of the day from Wikipedia in my user page, but the pic of the day from Commons. That's a different thing. -- Eleassar777 21:32, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
under the GFDL is it permissible to translate a (say) german wikipedia entry for use also in the english wikipedia without crediting the source?
Hi May you please tell me how to put writing from 2 languages in the one article. My user name is 220.233.64.218 thanks Wikipedia
Greetings - I have two videos from a USN site that I believe are worth including in Wikipedia. One is of a NATO Sea Sparrow launching, and the other is of a Phalanx CIWS mount firing. I tried to find references indicating acceptance/non-acceptance of videos on Wikipedia, but only found references to sound files, not video files. Going with the "be bold" philosophy, I figured I'd try to upload them and include them in the appropriate articles. Both files are .avi, and wikipedia told me that .avi files are not a recommended format.
So, Question 1: Are video files allowed? Question 2: If so, what format should they be in? Question 3: Does anyone know of a free, decent converter of .avi files to the format in Q2 above? -- Durin 02:57, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Yes, video files are allowed, as long as they are uploaded in a free format. It is highly recommended that you use Ogg Theora format. For more information on converting etc., see Wikipedia:Media and Wikipedia:Media help. -- Eleassar777 07:58, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
I've just created the template Template:Infobox Monarch - sorely needed in my opinion - but I'm not a programmer. How do I make the infobox more flexible? For instance, the word 'queen', will sometimes have to be substituted with 'queens', or 'prince consort'. Can anybody help me with this? Eixo 08:48, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
This is a great site for information but please be more careful in who you allow to edit pages. The following link was edited by someone obvious immature and thus we need some kind of check to make sure thses type of people no longer have access.
Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Physical_Characteristics
I made the correct changes to this page.
Someone had changed the word snail to poop and crap all through the page. It is really disheartening to see access abused like this.
If I did not get them all, I apologize.
Hi,
I'm planning to use a wiki in a class. I have a couple of concerns.
1. There seem to be too many help pages. I would like to be able to refer students to a single page which will tell them how to do the basic wiki things, including basic formatting.
2. I'd like a reference to some of the more sophisticated things, but without having to know the jargon before I find my answers. For example, How can I change the contents of the left side bars? I don't know how to find out how to do that.
Thanks
Russ.Abbott@GMail.com
I started a topic for the musician Vedran (his first name) Smailovic, and then realized that I had it listed last name first -- against the wikipedia convention!
I don't know how to change it. Does the article have to be deleted and a new one started?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smailovic%2C_Vedran
I started a topic for the musician Vedran (his first name) Smailovic, and then realized that I had it listed last name first -- against the wikipedia convention!
I don't know how to change it. Does the article have to be deleted and a new one started?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smailovic%2C_Vedran
i need to find my friend and i lost her e-mail when i swiched my screen name how do i get her e-mail back?
I just noticed that EricI234 ("Erici234") has been created, with a user name that appears on most/all wikipedia pages to be identical to my username ("Ericl234" -> "EricL234"). This user's contribution history ( [3]) consists of two recent edits ( [4], [5]) to the Stanford University page, which is one of the pages I frequently edit myself. Both of these edits were vandalism (changing "Stanford" to "Stanfurd" repeatedly), and one had the change summary "revert vandalism" (which it clearly wasn't), and so I posted a message to this user's talk page ( [6]) basically requesting that they cease and desist (although in kinder words). My question is that if this user continues to make similar edits (or even if not...), how do I go about getting that username blocked? I looked through all of the relevant help pages that I could find, and found nothing on how non-admin users, like myself, go about getting a vandal's username blocked, assuming no mediation or the like is necessary. Any thoughts? Thanks. -- ericl234 talk 05:14, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
How does Wikipedia assign hotkeys to tabs, and more importantly, how do I change them or turn them off? They're conflicting with my browser's interface. JRM · Talk 13:01, 2005 May 8 (UTC)
I have recently put up a Draft article. What is the safe procedure to withdraw/erase it?
Hi, my name is Lorna Nogueira and someone recently told me that I was included in Wikipedia. I checked the entry and there are some minor errors - I directed 'the Innocents' and the short story 'Turn of the Screw' was written by Henry James not James Joyce. Also, if the editors of this site would like to delete this article that would be okay with me. I didn't post it and while I appreciate the mention, I don't feel I belong in Wikipedia. Thanks.
Why come everytime I go to this site I get these messages threatening to delete my account? It is not just here, when I am at school I look up articles for my homework and I get some error message saying that I am violating rules. I think that you should only let users edit a page and have people log in to do so. Your filters suck! You do not know whose IP Adress us whose.
I want to create an article about Plan B operating system. But now article with name "Plan B" redirects me to some other article (unrelated with operating systems). What should I do?
I've told Wikipedia to remember my password across sessions, but sometimes when I go to refresh my watchlist, it shows me a screen with my IP address saying I have no pages on my watchlist and I have to sign in again. What's up with that?
And for some reason, I can't click inside the edit box. Whenever I do, it won't let me type. I've tried turning off my ZoneAlarm program, and that didn't help. I'm running IE 5.5, if that's helpful. Anybody know what's going on with that? Hermione1980 23:53, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
As for the edit box, I'm clueless. However wikipedia sometimes makes you log in every once in a while. It happens to me every 2 to 3 weeks. Howabout1 00:47, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
On the mainpage, today's feature article is about Samantha Smith. When I clicked on the Samantha Smith link...well, it doesn't seem quite right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith
I assume this is a mistake?
I can login fine but my account stays logged in for no more than 2 links, and always logs out if I try to edit a page. I've adjusted the settings on my browser (Opera) to allow all cookies, and I see that the ones in place don't expire till, say, 2009 or some such. I have the same problem using Internet Explorer. Any ideas why the cookies aren't sticking? (Signed, Mashford)
Metadata is an disambiguation page. Many articles link there. All that i checked actually refer to metadata (computing). Is there any way to change them that's faster than going into each article, finding the line, changing and saving it? Ideally, i'm dreaming of a list with checkmarks like this:
change | article | from | to |
---|---|---|---|
□ | Foo | text before [[old link]] text after | text before [[new link]] text after |
□ | Bar | yada yada [[old link]] yada yada | yada yada [[new link]] yada yada |
If there is a way to do something like this with admin privilege, could i ask someone to do this, please? Thanks! — Sebastian (talk) 07:21, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
I have found two pages with similar names, similar (but not identical) content about the same subject. What should be done?
Hi,
I looked around but could not find anyone with a section on how to deal with someone who deletes contributions. The Norman Conquest page was shy on a lot of stuff so I went to a lot of highly regarded works in Medieval history and began adding synoptic overviews. Lots of this stuff is on the booksheves now and some are out of print classics. I came back later and someone had torn it all out with the rationale that theories other than their own were the only allowable viewpoints. What is the solution? Put the text back in and hope that person gets the message. Please see my comments under Malangthon in the discussion page for that section.
Ta,
presumably latex is no good and they have to be done in .html?
I am extremely new to Wikipedia, and am having trouble with the language in explanantions of how to post a new subcategory, and how to add another example to an already existant subcategory? i.e. I am interested in creating a subcategory under Songs: listed by Album: Death Certificate, as well as adding another Album: listed by Artist: Ice Cube albums. I have written the content, it is sitting in my contributions file, but I can't list it under any sort of categorization. What am I missing?
I think Wikidea is a great idea and was wondering what I can do to help implement it.
What is Wikidea?
Wikidea is a future extension to Wikipedia that uses Wiki technology to allow individuals to share their own ideas and theories regarding how the world works. Until now, unique insights like those found at hedweb.com were spread out over the internet with little reader input or collaboration between individuals. Like Wikipedia, Wikidea will serve as a large free repository of ideas, theories and works of fiction collaborated on by people from around the world.
What kind of articles will visitors be able to post, revise and edit on Wikidea?
The articles found on Wikidea can deal with a wide range of topic and can be written for a wide number of purposes. Because users aren’t limited to posting only well accepted theories and facts as in Wikipedia, Wikidea serves to encourage creative thinking and will serve in part to compile insights into how the world works, how people think, and why people do the things they do, based on anecdotal observations and personal insights. Wikidea will also serve as a repository of statistics and data that may give credence to certain viewpoints or point out key areas of injustice, waste and abuse of the current system. Wikidea may even be used by political campaigns to get collective input and suggestions from their constituents.
Insights can simply serve to expand upon well accepted ideas, they may attempt to explain current events, or they may offer a distinctly unique or even a humorous new perspective with which to approach a topic. Users are free to post ideas for everything from new devices and innovative ways to use current technology, to ideas for television shows and other works of fiction that users can collaborate on to produce a detailed coherent plot with interesting scenarios, characters and dialogue. Users are free to post a compilation of free resources online regarding specific issues and policies that readers may add to or revise. Users are also free to post observed trends in politics and economics that offer insight into future trends, or users can share their unique life experiences, perspectives, philosophies, thought processes or insights on a political issue and can even propose their own compromise to an area of concern that other users can either expand on, or post a critique of. For example, individuals can post their specific concerns about the current drug policy or post suggestions to improve the current antidrug campaign that other readers can elaborate on or offer up criticisms of.
Why Wikidea?
While Wikidea will be used for a wide range of purposes including some that probably haven’t yet been conceived, it was primarily created to serve as a giant public policy think tank to which all individuals can contribute for the betterment of humanity. A significant portion of what drives our private sector economy is fresh new ideas. By giving private citizens and statisticians a venue through which to share their data and insights, as well as a venue to share fresh new ideas for political policies, Wikidea serves as a means through which the public sector can achieve the same increases in productivity and efficiency that the private sector continuously experiences. By giving all individuals the ability to edit and contribute to these ideas, readers are free to bring up challenges a policy may face as well as offer up suggestions in which a policy can be improved upon or made easier to implement.
Currently, there are numerous lobbies that serve to represent specific interest groups and put forth legislative reforms that help their specific constituents. There are also various media organizations that are at least in part motivated by a desire for more ratings. Yet there are very few organizations to which policy makers can turn that serve to accommodate and accumulate the collected knowledge and concerns of all individuals. Thus Wikidea like Wikipedia, serves to empower individuals not just in public policy but in all aspects of life.
Will there be any type of copyright protection offered to individual who submit ideas that could be used for commercial purposes?
That is an aspect of Wikidea that is still largely unexplored. Separating out the fiction aspect of Wikidea into a separate entity called Wikifiction where individuals can collaborate to create large, detailed, works of fiction and be credited for their contributions, is being considered. However, that still wouldn’t address articles dealing with ways to improve upon or new ways to utilize current technologies, products and services however.
You can reach me at centroles@yahoo.com. Thank you very much.
OK, I'm not here to ask how to revert, but rather a method of. I've seen many reverts, but I seem to see a lot of "(Reverted edits by <someone> to last version by <other guy>)" I usually put revert on my comment, but are people really writing this or is there a way to make the system automatically write this for you? WB 00:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
I've wondered the same thing. I was going to post another revert question, so I think I will do it here. Is there a system to revert one edit without reverting edits after it? Does the admin's rollback function do this? Howabout1 01:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
I've copied this from the Reference Desk, as I think this might have been a better place to put it, and its getting worse. Another eidt has appeared on the article with an incorrect time, and I don't know what to do about it. There are now 2 edits listed as occurring before the article was created! The Page History lists them wrongly, but stepping through old versions gives them in the correct order, but still with wrong times-it appears not to be stepping through them in order, but it is, it is the times on them that are wrong. -- John 09:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Mineirão page history is wrong. I am not sure how it happened, but somehow when an edit conflict occurred Wikipedia put my edit about 6 hours earlier than I did it (and before the article was created), so now it says I created it and I didn't. Can you just get rid of my edit, or move it to a more appropriate place (although I am not quite sure where it should be)? -- John 21:12, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Okay, this is bizarre. Yesterday, I clicked on Recent Changes, and three links at the top of the list were purportedly made on May 10, 2025. They were: an edit made by Maustrauser to his user page, an edit made by Heimdal to Talk:Germany, and an edit made by Hoary to Cam Jackson. Apparently, I am the only one that sees these edits as being made 20 years in the future; this was revealed by a conversation with Hoary at his talk page. Something is odd, and Recent Changes is effectively broken for me; it's "frozen" in time at 9:25 CST May 10, with the additional time-traveling edits at the top. Fortunately, a link also appears near the top that says: Show new changes starting from 09:25, May 10, 2005 and I can click on this link (and others like it with different times) to get the "current" Recent Changes page, although I just did that now and only got a list of a dozen or so edits... Help! android↔ talk 17:15, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Well, that fixed it. It was so bizarre I didn't even think to clear cookies, cache, etc. Thanks! android↔ talk 18:08, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
In Bible chronology the dates are based on doubling etc. and are a unique dating to the year of things that may not ever have even occured. Dates that go literally according to the text would not be unique and have a place in an encyc. Dates here are just made up 4.250.201.157 17:36, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded a picture. I am sure I followed the instructions correctly. I could see it ok when I uploaded it, but now I come abck to re-visit the article, I can see the thumbnail, but clicking on the link to the picutre page itself gives me the page WITHOUT the picture. I ahve tried re-uploading it again, but to no avail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:P7110224a.jpg
is the page concerned.
Hi. I hope you don't mind, but I added your question under a separate heading (actually someone else beat me to it, but I added the link to the page), so it can be more easily seen by others. Have you tried having a look at the page/picture again? It works for me. Also, it would be helpful if you signed your posts with ~~~~, which will automagically add your username and a current timestamp when you save your edit. android↔ talk 13:27, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm new to Wikipedia. I speak English, Irish and German and would like to contribute to articles in those languages. I've signed up to the en.wikipedia but cannot seem to log into the Irish or German language versions with the same username/password. I'd like to be able to make contributions to the three using the one account. Is this possible?
Damac
We have two categories that need to be merged but I'm not sure how to go about it. There is a category called [[Category:United States Department of Defense agencies]] and another one called [[Category:U.S. Dept. of Defense agencies]]. - Etoile 15:39, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
It's my first time posting here, so if there is a more appropriate forum for such things, please let me know. I am currently working on the article heim theory, and recently we added some data to the middle article with information about particle masses. However, it's not in a nice table format; only ASCII. Two things:
Thanks for your help! It's greatly appreciated! HappyCamper 15:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I am a new user and was just creating my userpage.
One of my passions is my business (which has a webpage.)
Is it appropriate to place a link to this in my userpage? It wasn't clear to me if that is allowed or not. So, for now, I'm holding off until I hear back from you.
Thanks!
John
I have discovered an incorrect link. On the recent deaths list the link takes you to a footballer pesons information but he definitly was not! How can i remove the link? thankyou
I've been steadily adding to the Velma Springstead Trophy page, and I have a sudden thought: should the years be listed ascending or descending? For instance, ascending would be:
1950
1951
1952
Whereas descending would be more like:
1952
1951
1950
The way I've done the page so far is ascending order, but I've seen at least one page where the dates were done in descending order, and I was wondering what the Wiki prefernce is.
How do I add an JPEG image to a page? I have already uploaded the image but I don't know how to add it to an existing page.
I would like to post a new event, and perhaps add a comment, but I can't, because every time I try to add an event, I am told I must verify my email address. I click on "Verify Now", and enter my email address and password, and basically, I am logged in again, in a new window, but cannot post a new event. Please fix this. Thank you.
Is there a way to create a half space between characters? Wayward 06:18, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
All sorts of things are missing. I haven't the faintest idea how to fix it or go back to an earlier form. Help! Kazuba I'm lost in space! Need some guidance!
Okay, I know this is going to sound pretty silly, but how does one make a request for comment on the fact that one's request for comment hasn't been commented upon, and therefore the matter remains in limbo? Or double limbo. I mean, I'd rather just have the first request answered, but if that isn't going to happen...it's not like the world is not going to end over the matter, but I'd still like some comment from external parties -- Mothperson 22:10, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
I was looking at the "oldest" articles of Wikipedia. What's with all the CamelCasing in the articles? I just couln't figure out why. Maybe a trend then? Hotmail was CamelCased like HoTmAiL sometime I ago I think (irrelevant). Anyway, WB 06:20, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
I looked through the site and still could not figure ot how to create an image of my own.
Let us know where you are up to. If you are still uncertain, let us know the article you are thinking about, and what kind of image you mean. Notinasnaid 13:32, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion, if you click e.g. on the edit link next to " Template:For" it'll edit "Template:Rotten" instead. This didn't happen a moment ago. Could it be because i inserted a <h5> headline further up? — Sebastian (talk) 18:27, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
I've scanned the cover of Cry, the Beloved Country for that article. I know I would use the {{bookcover}} tag to the summary when I upload it. But I don't understand the fair-use rules and such. Do I still have to get permission from the publisher before uploading? =\ -- User:Jenmoa 20:09, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Where is the "mail me my password" button?
Okay, so I messed us my account by naming it something I didn't like and now I need to get rid of it and possibly start over. How am I supposed to get rid of my account?
I have some trouble with marking links as patrolled in the Low Saxon wikipedia ( nds:. When I click on "diff" in the recent changes list, I get a diff with a link "mark as patrolled". However when an article is new, there is no diff available and hence no link to mark the new article as patrolled. How do I mark new articles as patrolled?
Kind regards, Heiko Evermann 07:56, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
An anonymous user has recreated the article Zezima when it had been previously taken through VfD: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Zezima. There's policy to undelete, but there doesn't seem to be policy on how to handle this situation. What happens if I nominate it for deletion again? Samw 11:08, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
When I upload album covers, I upload biggest and highest quality covers I could find. Could uploading gigantic pictures {eg. Renegades) potentially go out of the fair use policy? Album covers will not damage them, rather it will advertise them, but it doesn't seem to fit the size policy. WB 21:03, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that some users have a signature that doesn't just list their username (like the ~~~~ does) but also puts things like their talk page (sometimes it might display something like this - Hermione 1980). Is there some way to do that automatically, or do you just have to enter that manually every time you want it to display that way? Hermione1980 21:12, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
I have ported from[ Memory-Alpha] (a sister-wiki) and they have sigificant support for table classes (wiki-sidebar) for example, such as the picture table one puts to the right to show an example of the topic. Can that be done here?
Thanks JTMogh
Some well meaning editor just changed Template:history but inadvertently broke it. (The template ignored {{{1}}} and only displayed "history", and a link to its own history). I reverted the change, and after forced refresh it now displays correctly again. Now i just happened to visit a friend, whom i introduced to Wikipedia, and much to my surprise, when i showed him my homepage (which uses this template), it displayed broken again. I'm baffled. The content of the template is
If i enter e.g. "{{subst:history|Patty Murray}}", how can it insert anything but " Patty Murray"? — Sebastian (talk) 02:04, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
As a child, we were taught that those of the Islamic Faith were Moslems. Are they Moslems? Are they Muslims? Which is correct and what brought about the spelling change?
As a child, we were taught that the Holy Book of Islam was called the Koran. Suddenly, it seems "popular" to spell it Quran. WHEN did this change? How did it change from one spelling to another?
While doing some research on Pasteur Bizimungu, I noticed that almost the entire Wikipedia page is ripped right from this BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3728807.stm What's the correct way to deal with plagiarism on Wikipedia? I don't have the time or the desire to rework the whole thing myself.
Special:Uncategorizedpages has thousands of articles (displaying 500 doesn't even exhaust the letter A). I would like to help categorizing them. It don't want to start from letter A – crawling through the alphabet is biased and feels daunting. Is there a way to display a random page that has no category?
Variations:
Thanks, Sebastian (talk) 00:00, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
Is it possible to create user templates (looking kind of like the template for BJAODN), and how? Dralwik 01:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean by "template for BJAODN". Yes, you can create them. Just enter e.g. "User:Dralwik/mytemplate" as a page name and then reference it as " User:Dralwik/mytemplate". But please use it sparingly, as we are currently experiencing server shortages. See also Wikipedia:Transclusion. — Sebastian (talk) 05:32, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
I have a new word in English which has entered common use. How do I enter in into your website??
Regards,
Mark Nuckols nuckols@dartmouth.edu
While trying to link a new article I am writing to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), I came across two different articles for this museum. They are MassMoca, which is incorrectly capitalized (it should be MassMoCA) and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Both articles are very short stubs and both names are essentially correct. Obviously, these two need to be merged. However, I am not sure which title should be kept and I have no idea how to accomplish this edit anyway. Any help? -- Sophitus 16:10, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Sophitus 17:59, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Template messages/All and Wikipedia:Template messages/Links need to come out of Category:Companies_traded_on_NASDAQ. How do I do this? -- Michael180 17:48, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank You -- Michael180 00:00, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to get my employment history so that i may create an accurate résumé
I've tried wiki2static and I see that there is work in progress to create a DVD based Wikipedia along with a discussion of publishing a print version. I've discovered that wiki2static no longer works with the database dumps and and that further development of the perl script has stopped.
Is anyones else creating static copies of the Wikipedia? What are you using?
Background: We deliver content we collect on 250GB hard drives to schools that have no Internet access or very limited access. Most of the hard drives we've delivered are in Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania. Some are used in Haiti and Bangladesh as well. All of the content is served as static pages - sometimes through a web server, sometimes through a share. You can read more about our project at http://www.egranary.org/.
Thanks,
Peter
I never included an email in my 'first signup' so I cant use the Email me my Password option, and I cant remember my password! Is there an admin that could add my e-mail to my account so i can get old password resent? or a new password? my user id NEWUSER, you can email me infoATislamicarchitecture.org (THANK YOU!)
From Talk:Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber
I'm not sure why the note numbers don't show up properly--they're all 1s. Can anyone help?
Hi, this (see title) is the first article I have written from scratch on the 'pedia. Since I am not a native speaker, I welcome all input about style (do you find it incorrect? obscure? Have comments about content?). Please let me know here or on the discussionpage. Thanks for your help! ;-) -- Wikipedius 10:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
When it comes to statements like:
See article xx for more details the other type of article - or even for see main article article xx
as in, for example: Biology of the Sierra Nevada, is there a fixed formatting for this? I've seen indented (as in the Bahá'í Faith for the see main article) etc. Is there a fixed way of doin this (or even a template for it?) -- Tomhab 12:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
:''For X, see Y''
Is there a way to search an article or talk page history? For example, I want to see what happened when "Foo" was mentioned in an article - Did people edit "Foo" out? Was there an edit war over "Foo"? commonbrick 17:36, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
I'm having problems with user user:128.54.213.52 posting information that is either simply not factual or very biased.
The article where he/she appears to be most active is the Carlsbad, California article. The article looks more like a real estate advertisment then an encyclopedia entry.
I have attempted numerous times to correct the article, but the user repeatedly reverts back to his/her own writing. At one point I attempted to provide focus on topics the user is so biased on while attempting to keep the article from being overly POV, but even then he/she edits the biased language back into the article. Even my most recent edit, into which I added lots of additional material, was either reverted or rewritten.
Reverting to past versions of the article will not solve anything (as the user will just revert/edit back his/her original statements), and neither will a continuing edit war.
I personally do not think it is likely that she will respond to any attempt for me contact him/her, but if anyone thinks it would be best to do so, I will.
I need input on what to do next. Any help is appreciated.
Many thanks, Short Verses 18:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello!
I'm writing a technical manual in Wiki and know how to create a so-called "index" of section and sub-sections. (I usually call this a "table of contents.") But what I would really like to do is create the kind of index you find in the back of a book, which shows links to key words and phrases.
Is there any kind of program available to mark index links of this type?
Thank you so much!
--B. Scott
hi.
i uploaded 3 maps into both wikipedia and wikimedia commons. at this time i did not know that a file in wikimedia commons could be linked to directly. so, it seems that i have added an unnecessary duplicate of each map in wikipedia.
if this is so, i think it would be good to delete the maps in wikipedia & just link to wikimedia commons.
i am correct? do you agree? if yes, then i request that this action be taken.
the images in question are
thank you very much — ishwar (SPEAK) 22:04, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
There is different categories for songs and singles. Can you place the same song in both songs and singles?
I'll Be Missing You is placed in both Category:1997 singles and Category:1997 songs. Is this allowed? • Thorpe • 16:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if it remains a verbatim copying, if a Wikipedia article is split up into sections as several articles. No editing would be done other than cutting the article into sections. Article titles would be the section headings. Also, do all links need to remain in the article.
Thanks.
Paulette Gibson donzacat@comcast.net
Hello;
I'm a newbie to Wikipedia.
Many of the images on your pages can benefit from simple colour and gradient correction which would take a minute or so from download to upload.
How can I help?
Regards; Chris
Hello;
It's Chris the Newbie again. I don't know; something is wonky.
For the entry on Thomas Alva Edison, I edited and uploaded three grayscale images several days ago. One updated image sometimes appears, sometimes not. One shows the notation of my update on the File History but still has the old image. One shows no record of my upload.
I reloaded several times, over several days, using different browsers (Safari, IE, Firefox).
Is this hit and miss scenario to be expected? Shall I try uploading again?
Regards; Chris
Hello; It's Chris again with an update. Now it seems to work. Thanks for your help. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to use the Signature and Date stamp. Regards; Chris
Hello (it's Chris again); I've been meerily uploading improved images and It's been working fine when I use the same image name. Now, one image has a different file extension (jpg in lieu of the original gif). I can't figure out how to delete the original image.
TTFN, it's suppertime. Chris
I'm curious what sort of policy or cultural norm governs cases where Wikipedia contains reference information on a topic, but a more specific wiki also contains the same reference info on the same topic. Continuing to maintain both sources seems wasteful and contrary to the spirit of Wiki (from what I've observed during my short time here).
Perhaps an example will make my point clearer. dKosopedia is a decidedly non-NPOV wiki focusing on US politics. It happened to contain some reference information that I was seeking, specifically the names of incumbents in the Massachusetts Legislature. I pasted this info back into the Massachusetts General Court article here -- I infer despite being "current events" that this is appropriate to Wikipedia's scope? -- but I also wondered if there's any way to keep the two pages in synch.
I can envision both a technical solution and an administrative one. The former would be to synch up the pages periodically; the latter would be to agree to develop one site only for this reference material, but link it from the other. At any rate, this situation must be fairly common so I'm curious how the community treats it.
Thanks in advance! -- PhilipR 17:53, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
When I log in and get the "Login Successful" page and click a link to go somewhere else, it is as if I had never logged in. The only way to maintain my login is to wait to be automatically redirected (which happens in about 10 seconds). - Why does this happen?
P.A.
Hello, I am searching for information on the JFK child that was disposed of in 1953. Raised as the son of JFK at the Kennedy home, and later disposed of through an orchestrated coverup by Joseph Kennedy. If anyone is able to contact Seymour Hersh, please forward the following Email to him. Indepenrn@yahoo.com. Thank you
There are only two towns listed for Dixie County, Florida - they are shown as Cross City and Horseshoe Beach
Old Town is also a town in Dixie County and Dixie County goes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, so I am fairly certain that Suwannee (or Suwannee Key) is also part of Dixie County.
I tried to add those two places to the Wikipedia with "edit this page" and it gave me a whole bunch of other stuff instead of that particular page.
Thanks Rob Bowers Old Town, Florida
I noticed the Genovese Crime Family article is redirected to Vincent Gigante and I was wondering if shouldn't it be redirected to the Genovese Family article (or vice versa ?). Not wanting to make any sudden changes I left a message to the author(s) on the article's discussion page on April 7 haven't recieved a responce. 209.213.71.78 19:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
After a article has been featured on the Main Page, can it be featured again later? -- ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:16, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Need to be retrained in meditaion, meditative states , can you help. Email address: rrunner@si.rr.com
Hi. I can't seem to find how the css works for image thumbnails. It generally looks something like:
<div class="thumb tright"> <div style="width:###px;"><a href="URL" class="internal" title="CAPTION"> <img src="IMAGE URL" alt="CAPTION" width="###" height="###" longdesc="URL" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> CAPTION </div> </div> </div>
Now my question is, what exactly are the CSS definitions for the classes "thumb tright", "internal", and "thumbcaption"? I ask because many chess-related articles have begun to use the template:chess position, instead of images (see template talk:chess position). Ideally, however, it would be possible to set up a template so that the chess position tables could appear the same way as image thumbnails with captions. So if someone could figure out what the padding, text size, border width/color, etc., or explain how to find them, that would be awesome. You can see what I'm talking about on the page The Game of the Century, for example. Also, would it be better to set up such thumbnail lookalikes using html <div> elements, or using wiki-syntax tables? Thanks. -- jacobolus (t) 00:49, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
The page on Puzzle shows many categories of puzzles. Clicking one such category takes you to a sub-category, where you might find further sub-sub-categories and so on. Each sub-category or sub-sub-category has examples or associated real games or computer games. So far, so good.
However, totally independent of this structure and without proper structuring someone has created pages on Category:Puzzle games and Category:Puzzle computer and video games. I suggest these two pages should be deleted and the games which are quoted in them moved to the proper sub-categories and sub-sub-categories associated with the "Puzzle" page.
I cannot do this because the pages Category:Puzzle games and Category:Puzzle computer and video games cannot be edited, since the subcategories do not show up when the 'edit this page button' has been clicked.
Cheers, Karl Scherer
The category:puzzles page is not logically structured. I have done my best in the puzzle page to order the subject in proper subcategories, but the category:puzzles seems to be independent of that. Can someone please properly reconsicle the two in a professional way? Why are examples and articles quated in the category:puzzles page when these articles belong only to sub-categories?
Thanks, Karl
The weird miz of examples with sub-categories make these pages quite unreadable. I suggest to use my clearly structured pages instead. Please let us care for a better structure. Cheers, Karl Scherer
Thousand thanks! The misunderstanding was clearly on my side; I didi not really know what categories in Wikipedia are. I have read the info pages on it, and you writing helped a lot, too. Thanks for all the very clear answers! ....still on a learning curve here after two years... ;-)) Karlscherer3 22:33, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
I'm new to editing Wikipedia (spurred by TiddlyWiki, yay!), and I'm somehow missing something that must be obvious.
I've been reading WP for some time and I've read most everything on guidelines and standards, but I'm just this random geek with no particular expertise. My intent was to alternate between (1) general grammatical/spelling/editorial cleanup work and (2) expanding stubs - I can't do much harm to something that's not there. However, I haven't found any method for viewing a list of stubs or searching only stubs. I have seen users talking about sorting and converting them, so I'm sure there must be a way.
If anyone can point me to the method for viewing all stubs or searching only stubs, I can be on my way!
I was reviewing the Skinhead article History page and clicked a "last" compare link for the most recent change. After examining the comparison, I scrolled down to the Current Revision. Deciding to edit the same section, I noticed an [edit] link beside it and believed this to be an alternative to returning to the article page before editing, so I clicked it.
To my surprise, my edit replaced the most recent change on the History page, rather than being recorded as an additional edit. While it was my intention to replace the changed text anyway, I did not mean to destroy its edit history. As far as I can see, there is now no evidence that the previous most recent change was ever made at all.
This function of the Wikimedia software seems to me to be a serious problem. I don't want to speculate on the resulting state of the History page if I had been reviewing an early revision, rather than the latest one.
Unfortunately, I can't give much help on recovering the lost edit history. It was made around May 20th by a user with no account, but I don't remember the IP address. The inserted text was something close to "also used by traditional skinheads because the laces look good." Nevertheless, nothing substantive has been lost from the article itself, only the history. Unconventional 17:30, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
--Never mind!-- When I went back to the Skinhead history, all was well. There is a bug of some kind in the history page generation after taking my route to editing. I clearly remember seeing a history page that omitted the edit by user 69.138.58.230, and the [last] link for my edit compared it to the revision from edits by user Cmdrjameson (which is currently third on the page), but the inaccuracy seems to go away if one comes in "from the top".
I have uploaded some images, but I'm not sure what copyright tags were used. All the images are my original works. Do I need to add the appropriate tags, or by rule they must be GNU? Also, I have uploaded a photo of myself for my userpage, and I don't mind if people use the image, but I don't want anybody to use it to insult me in anyway. Lastly, how does one know if an image is vandelized, verses simply being "altered". Does vandelism only apply to pacific pages like articles? You can see one of my images in Empathy. In that article, I tried to shrink the picture, but it would not work, so I made it a thumbnail. Was I doing someting wrong? Thank you. -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 02:20, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
i think it would be nice if at the bottom of each page you had the MLA format of citing it for a bibliography, since citing web pages is always rather confusing. thanks!
By "vandelized", I worry that somebody might put devil horns or something on my picture. Also, I used typed the right text [[Image:pic name.jpg|200px]], for example, but nothing changed, and this image is much larger than 200 pixels wide. -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 03:00, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
Please do respond immdtly this is urgent and of utmost need, i need to have some information from this telugu newspaper dated august 14th 2002, please if u could help me in this....will be very greatful.the page im looking out for is our landlord hd published an add regarding the property papers being lost i wnt tht page pls.............
thnks
jennie
My mail id jennie.joseph@gmail.com
My question is about anon talk pages. If an IP #'s talk page has several warnings over a period of months, but is not marked with a tag that says "AOL uses this IP" or something of that sort, am I safe in assuming that one individual was responsible for getting all the messages on that talk page? Thanks, Meelar (talk) 20:42, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
I've looked for the rules but can't seem to find them. Maybe I overlooked them. What is allowed to be posted and what isn't? Is information about websites allowed here? Are you allowed to post about local area music bands? What about "small time" playwrights, stuff like that? Please, all info is appreciated. Thanks
Hi, I need to know the syntax for getting a page to forward to another page - I need "Ima Sokoni Iru Boku" (japanese title) to forward to "Now and then, here and there" (english title). I'd rather someone posts how to do it here rather than simply doing it -I need to learn sometime, you see.
More info is available at Wikipedia:Redirect. Mgm| (talk) 15:10, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help!
I want to build a questioneries form in my website. Would you please advise me how I can build such questionerie form to be able to do this? I am using Frontpage. Thank you
I noticed class="plainlinks" and class="plainlinksneverexpand" in some Templates. What do those do and/or where are such things documented? Haven't had any luck with searches nor have I found which nook of the Wikis to traverse. ( SEWilco 04:11, 25 May 2005 (UTC))
Are critical reviews of artistic material, like movies and books, appropriate on wikipedia? I've seen people post stuff like "I liked this movie" on talk pages, and I was wondering whether there is or should be a more appropriate, more "official" mechanism for reviewing material. Not sure if it belongs on the wikipedia of course, so I'm just asking. Wouter Lievens 08:53, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
There are many articles with no Spanish version (often, the most complete and interesting ones). Everytime I find one of them, I want to translate it and add a link in the left language-list. How can I do it?
I recently inserted some information about Sea Warrior, the U.S. Navy's newest total force approach to human resources. I happen to be in the Navy and work at Task Force Warrior, West as the Informatio Manager. My post was edited and the information that replaced my information was severly outdated. How can I fix that? How can I prevent that?
Thank you, IT2(AW) Patricia Stowell
The page boardgame puzzle needs to have its name corrected to board game puzzle. Can someone please do that? When I tried to create a new page with the correct name board game puzzle, the system flagged a list of errors. Karlscherer3 22:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
I used the wikimedia software to upload some images, but I never figured out where they went, or if they really uploaded. Can anybody help me find out? -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 04:50, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just found two copies of an article for the baseball player Jose Reyes ( Jose Reyes and José Reyes). I merged the content in both articles so that they are the same. I request that someone delete Jose Reyes and keep the other one because it has diacritics in the article title. And for future reference, besides merging content, what process should I take when finding identical articles such as these?-- Sophitus 11:49, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
One of the things, IMHO, that most helps to contribute to the attractiveness of the Wikipedia is the inclusion in articles, whenever possible, of one or two apt and well-chosen images.
One of the most frustrating things to me about the Wikipedia, however, is that every time I think, when reading an article, "Oh, I took a picture of just that the other week", I am stirred once again to try and find out how on earth one gets to attempt to donate a pertinent image from one's photographic efforts to the Wikipaedic community -- and every time I get lost once again in a maze of, to me, uncomprehensive, not to say uncomprehensible, cross-references.
The impression given is that "those who can, do" (the advice proffered seems to be along the lines of "when you're doing X, which of course you're quite capable of, just remember detail Y"), while those of us who can't... well, we really ought to just bugger off.
I was wondering if some kind soul might contribute a step-by-step guide for techno-ignoramuses like me, because what always ends up driving me to despair is stuf like the following:
What is "Wikiformat"? I can't find any article on that in Wikipedia.
The "shorter technical document" -- not that much shorter actually! -- is about layout, really, which is not what I'm looking for.
Oh, I see, though that "also" is a bit cheeky since the present article has so far said nothing at all about uploading... Hang on a minute, though:
Hmm: "image description page". What's that then? Better have a look. Just before I do, though: something wrong here, surely? I've added images to articles before now without doing any of those things -- just added it from another article... If we're talking about a new image how can anyone an image description page that doesn't yet exist. My brain is already beginning to hurt.
Go to
Plough through all of that. No, nothing here about how to upload an image.
Try following the link uploaded file. Oops, now we've been redirected to Wikipedia:Multimedia and everything's getting more technical by the second... and it's not long before we're back at Wikipedia:Image description page, very little the wiser (sigh!)
Would some kind soul consider contributing a step-by-step guide on how to upload images for use in the Wikipedia. Please... -- Picapica 21:21, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
A million thanks, Hermione. Someone should now put those easy-to-follow instructions somewhere prominent! Key was your reference to the special upload page (btw, in my version "browse" sems to have been replaced by "choose", but the effect is the same) -- now why couldn't I find that page before (none of the other "uploading images" pages seemed to mention it)? Many thanks, once again. -- Picapica 11:40, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Why does Wikipedia post the IP addresses of anonymous users? Isn't it possible that a hacker could use this information to try to hack into someone's computer?
I am 99% sure that I registered as a user with Wikipedia, probably over a year ago, but I can neither remember my login info -- since I have not used it for a very long time -- nor can I find it on my computer.
I have a guess as to what username I chose, but since I can't supply any other info for that username (which exists, but whosever it is -- mine or someone else's -- did not supply an e-mail address).
Since I'd prefer to recover my original username, etc., I would like to know how this might be possible.
(Note: If I did register and include an e-mail address, it would've been dazatwelldotcom, or asimovatmsridotorg, or dasimovatarthlinkdotnet, or the now-defunct address asimovdataoldotcom. The only username I can guess I may have used is Daz -- who apparently did not supply and e-mail address . . . much as I might have done.)
Thanks for your help.
Please respond to dasimovatearthlinkdotnet if possible.
I added a photo of some novice monks to the Buddhism page, which is really long, and now when I look at the page, the article has become cut off. Have I deleted the article? Can something be done? Sputnik
I've just noticed that this User:Chantin' Fox has vandalised many pages. What should I do? -- Ghakko
How does one change the effect of writing 4 tildes down? I've noticed that some users have customized it so that it is not the default - it seems pretty neat too. Where can I read up on this? -- HappyCamper 16:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I want to upload some book covers under fair use, but when I go to the upload page I have to tick a box marked "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the Wikipedia copyright."
But the copyright holder hasn't actually agreed, as such...so what do I do? Orange Goblin 10:28, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I wish the text in Wikipedia was in small-width columns as is found in newspapers. Columns are easier to read IMHO.
Copy this text to your monobook.css file (original poster, yours would be at User:64.169.92.168/monobook.css, although we'd prefer that you create an account before customizing your user styles):
/*Display content in a narrower column for easier reading*/ div#bodyContent { width: 50%; line-height: 105%; }
After saving, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes applied to other pages. For Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), for Internet Explorer: press Ctrl-F5, and for Opera: press F5.
Check the result, and adjust the "width" and "line-height" percentages as desired to make the page most readable for you.
Note that this formats the content into a single long, narrow column -- it's probably possible, but horrendously complicated to format it into multiple side-by-side newspaper-style columns. Also, this may have unpredictable and ugly effects on images and tables included in articles; that's just the price to be paid for using this option.
As suggested, Thryduulf, I've added this snippet to meta:Help:User style. Hope that helps! — Catherine\ talk 01:04, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
I can't see the images for WIkimania, Admiral Piett, etc. or any other images. There is a box but no image inside or in the case of the Imperial Stormtroopers I can't see the image in between the header and the info box. I can't see the images in Firefox but I can in IE (which I would rather not use). Anyone know how to fix this? I think it's my settings somewhere. It's just Wikipedia, not anywhere else.
Thanks I fixed it, to do this you go to options > web features > exceptions
In the last couple of days, I've been losing stuff annoyingly frequently when I try to save. I get this message:
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Parser::replaceLinkHolders". MySQL returned error "1053: Server shutdown in progress (10.0.0.2)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_bar" (or whatever article title I'm at)
Is this a problem on my end? I have no idea what it's telling me. -- Mothperson 22:47, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
There has been an administrator making controversial edits to a "controversial" article. These sort of edits include things that they should know better than to do (and may have even demonstrated or lectured on in the past). Though some of this may seem like hearsay, these include:
The practices of this administrator seem shady. I would like to know what the proper way of reporting such behavior is for both administrator and normal users. I wish to keep it anonymous since I am a regular contributor to this particular page. To me, it seems that this administrator is not being a role model for the Wikipedian community. Thank you for any assistance you can offer. =) -- Random Wikipedian 04:30, 30 May 2005 (EST)
How do you take snapshots of web pages and upload them onto Wikipedia? - ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:52, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Why is it that most times I come on here it is slow? Sometimes it takes a good three minutes for a page to load or it won't load at all. I thought Wikipedia had been provided with new servers and I am sure the donations have helped to buy new equipment. • Thorpe • 21:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
I have edited and corrected a few things in the page on Carib languages. I would like to change its title to Cariban languages (Cariban is technically speaking better than Carib, since the latter is also the name of a specific language in this family), but I don't know how to do it. Is there an easy way to alter the name/title of a page?
I'd like to add some pseudocode to a page, but if I insert a blank line, I get two separate boxes, like this:
public static void main (....) { // Put some stuff here } public static void anotherFunction { //See? There are two outlined boxes now. }
Is there a way to make it so that both code fragments are within the same box? Thanks for your help! HappyCamper 04:23, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I know that I can change the skin that Wikipedia uses via the preferences link. Can I choose another skin that is not on the list or create a skin of my own? All of the skins on the list have bright, almost white backgrounds which hurt my eyes after staring at the screen long enough. I'd like to invert the colors so that the backgrounds are dark and the fonts are light. – Matt 07:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
#ns-0 { background: #000; color: #fff; }
Greetings all, just wondering what the issue was with the Infobox's used for movies. One minute it's a grey colour, then it's a blue colour. Why does this keep changing?-- Matt von Furrie 08:04, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I know it is possible to link to a section of another page by nameofpage#nameofsection, but is it possible to link to a sub-section of another page?
I have tried nameofpage#nameofsection#nameofsub-section but this failed.
Ianblair23 13:06, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
This lag is killing me. For some pages it takes ages for the history to get updated and it makes RC patrolling harder than it should be. Are the developers looking into this? Mgm| (talk) 18:10, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
To quote myself, on this page, six headings up:
-- Cyrius| ✎ 00:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a "page view" counter statistic tucked away somewhere?
It would seem to be a very useful stat to see how many page views an article is receiving.
Is this feature currently available? Is some person/committee working on it?
Dear Sirs, Just to inform you that the page on Taiwan has obscenities at the end of the page that makes up about 75% of the "information".
Dear Help desk,
I have just had my internet installed - Saturday May 28th - and one of the first thing I did was to turn to your page. It was functioning all right for about 24 hours, but since Sunday May 29th I have not been able to update on the main page - that is - I have not been able to see any changes in the Wikipedia as such, but I am still able to go to "recent changes" and watch the latest development.
What is my problem? Can you help me?
Please send me a mail: frankrasmussen@dbnet.dk
Regards Frank Rasmussen Denmark
I have made a major edit of the wiki entry for Judge Roy Bean and would like someone in authority to review the entry. I used as reference a web site http://www.qsl.net/w5www/texas.htm but did not credit the owner of the web site or ask his permission. Should I have? Welcome all comments/criticisms.
Xtrump
Is there any way I can simply delete all changes I made to an article today (i.e. restore the entire article text to the point before I started making edits) before I understood exactly how they were supposed to be done? I've got changes to one article without any Edit Summaries that are listed in Recent Changes with my IP address. I've since registered and would like to start from scratch so a) I can explain the changes I have suggested/made and b) do so under a registered name.
[Yea, I know this was an idiot way to start, but I read about this site recently and kind of jumped in precipitously. Believe it or not, I do know quite a bit about the subject of the article I edited -- just am kind of lame-brained in learning techie things.]
Hey all... I've been trying to write articles about a few towns in France and Italy, and would like to use the images that are used in the articles on the foreign language pages (for example, a French language article about a French town). I'm presuming this is fine copyvio wise, since permission must already have been granted for the image to be used on Wikipedia. I can't seem to find anyway of including those images though. Surely it's not very sensible for me to have to download the image, and upload it again to the English wiki. Is there a better way? UkPaolo 21:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just installed MediaWiki, and I'd like to change the default picture of the flower in square brackets to another picture. Could someone guide me through this, or provide a link to something that I can read up on? Many thanks! :)
Wikipedians,
I am relatively new to Wikipedia but I think it is fantastic. I have used it several times to help my daughter with her school projects.
I have just made my first edit, but feel that it may be against the spirt of Wikipedia, and that it should perhaps be removed. If the concensus is that I should then I will.
The logic puzzle Sudoku that has swept Britain this year has just found its way Down-Under. I built my self a little tool to remove the pain of various crossings out, careless errors and restarts on a new piece of paper. Then I thought about sharing my tool with anyone else who might want it, and asking them if they like it, to send me $5-00 (which of course they may all choose not to do). So I built myself a little WebSite, www.sudoku-help.com to do this.
Then I did a bit more research on Sudoku and found the best information available on the Web was right here on Wikipedia. I saw the External Links entries and based on the entries already there, I thought it was reasonable to put a link to my WebSite there.
Although it attempts to add something of value to the discussion on Sudoku, my WebSite essentially encourages visitors to download my tool, and if they like it to send me a nominal payment. Therefore my entry in Wikipedia could be construed as nothing more than a cheap advertisement.
Should I remove it?
Regards Greg
Is there any way to change the default settings of the my watchlist page, rather than having to click on the "display last ??? hours" each time? I can't see it in the preferences. MyNameIsClare talk 15:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice everybody. I shall bookmark the page I want. MyNameIsClare talk 09:11, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I am a newbie who would like to join the Cleanup Team. I know I need to create a desk by making a subpage of my User Page but I cannot find any instructions on how to do this.
Thanks, Jekoko
How do I site a Wikipedia article in a research paper bibliography (MLA stile is preferred)? I'm not sure to site it as an encyclopedia or a webpage.
Hello, newbie here -- I must've missed it somewhere or I just didn't type in the right search term, but how do I add a date and time stamp to my comments without manually doing it? The tilde thing only adds the username so...thanks! StopTheFiling June 2 2005
When I try to log in with my password as User:Tempshill, I'm told the password I typed was incorrect. (I'm quite sure I'm typing it correctly after my 10,000,000 Wikipedia edits.) I tried clicking "mail me my password", and it claims there's no e-mail address stored on the account, which I believe is also wrong. Help! Tempshill2 00:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This won't help you, but you're not the only one to have password trouble recently, although the two of us were able to have new passwords e-mailed to us. See User talk:Raul654#Urgent! Help!. Good luck! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that http://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page has been hacked and I'm not sure how to restore it. Is there someone more familiar with it who could fix this?
I've fixed it. It's not hard - see Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. -- SPUI ( talk) 04:00, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Deare Wikipedia,
Why don't you translate the Civil War history pages into Korean, as well as the many other languages you do have?
Thanks for your response.
Jean Quinn Adult ESL teacher 4350 South Country Trail Even Start, Charlestown, RI 02813
Details on your history on the above football club are incorrect
As the Historian of the club can I send you corrections
Kind Regards
Neil Kaufman neilkaufman@tiscali.co.za
I can't help wondering, though, why Orient's historian lives in South Africa (shouldn't he call them Leyton Occident?). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 23:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Earlier this week I found a great page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX, but now it's gone -- I get the infamous "The page cannot be displayed" error in Internet Explorer. It doesn't look to me like it was purposely deleted; anybody know what's up?
Thanks. Still no go. But it's something crazy on my end -- seems to be happening with multiple wikipedia pages to me -- I look at one, next thing I know I try again and I can't. Just happened with the MainPage. Very strange. Guess I'll try from the wife's computer later on -- thanks for the help...
I should be able to figure this out myself, but I can't. The Science Museum of Minnesota has indicated I can use their images on Wikipedia by the following:
The images on the Name That Candybar site may be used for educational, not-for-profit uses. The attribution should read to the affect of "Copyright 1995 Science Museum of Minnesota". Please let me know if you need anything else. Glad we could help!
-Morgan L'Argent Webmaster Science Museum of Minnesota
I have, maybe, narrowed it down to the category of "General non-free non-commercial" but is it "Provided that" or,"Copyrighted not-for-profit use provided that" or something else? I am at a loss. -- Mothperson 21:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) Also, just out of curiosity, how did that blue box appear above?
I'm just wondering if Wikipedians could talk briefly here about useful commands on Wikipedia that they use to help make their editing lives easier. For example, I noticed that there was the {{ prettytable}} template which could be used to make tables look really nice. Are there neat commands that people are using which they could share? -- HappyCamper 15:53, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Good idea. I have no commands to contribute, but I'd like to learn some new ones. Howabout1 Talk to me! 17:08, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm new to this and my article has /Temp next to the name. I have finally finished editing it but I don't know how to get the /Temp off? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks :)
Hi, I have made further changes (I must say wiki's copyright laws pertaining to the US are 10 times more stringent than Australia's). Should the page now meet the necessary guidelines? Thanks :)
Hi, I tried reading through the copyright pages. The last photo I tagged with a promotional copyright tag as directed in the help page. the one above, although listed on the construction sa page is not owned by them as the owners of the property take the photos themselves for the public (being the national trust of sa - which i can add on now that i have found out who they are - once again, promotional). the top photo is a scan of the original from sa archives which has no copyright on it as under australian law the person who took the photo (who would hold the copyright) will be long dead and the subject too is long dead (unless of course the copyright was sold or given to someone still alive and who is still paying for the copyright every ten years).
we do prohibit the copying of text BUT it is only a breach if the ORIGINAL author IF known isnt cited. if the original owner isnt known or cant feasibly be attributed (and the webpage i looked at even though they copyright their text isnt the legal copyright owner of the writen word as it has too been lifted from elsewhere - note the lack of citation on their website) then there is no breach of copyright under australian law. this is why most people in australia will request that if someone knows the copyright holder (current) then acknowledgement will be given or royalties paid in accordance with the copyright laws. copyright in australia does not mean trademark (which has it's own seperate laws). australia also has varying limitations to ownership on the internet with recent high court rulings highlighting the so called inadequacy of australian copyright laws and also the inability for other countries laws to impinge on australians within the internet domain.
Can someone point out if anything is still wrong and how do I fix it (it is rather disconcerting for newbies to be ripped apart for trying to contribute)? these things take time to learn! :) (George Strickland Kingston/Temp)
I created an article on Wikipedia about a controversial topic that I regret and I am extremely uncomfortable having it attached to my user account. I know I can request a speedy deletion by placing a tag on the article but I am worried it might draw unwanted attention. Three other users have edited it, but I would consider them all minor edits, so I'm not sure I qualify as the articles "single editor" anymore. What I would like is if a sysop can contact me so I can give them the name of the article, and for the sysop to tell me if it qualifies for speedy deletion. Thanks. Q0 22:07, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks anyway. Since my question has been answered, would be appropriate if I were to delete my own comments here? (I only intend to delete my comments, not my replies). Q0 22:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I updated an article on myself (Robert Cailliau' biography) about an hour ago, and I noticed that there seems to be no standard for writing dates, times and displaying calendars. I did spend some time trying to find a FAQ or other notice about this, but admit that I gave up.
My reason for this comment is that <begin of gripe> I personally get very irritated by US-centric date/time/calendars: using the sequence month-day-year is in itself already inconsistent (no order of small-to-large or large-to-small), "10 p.m." can be confusing and uses more characters than 22:00, and finally the Sunday belongs to the week's end, not its start. <end of gripe>
Whatever my own irritations are, and unless I have overlooked something, in which case I apologise, there is a problem with Wikipedia date/time conventions.
There are two ways of dealing with this problem:
(1) adopt ISO standards (and see also the recommendations of the W3C), tell people about them, enforce them, end of story.
(2) allow readers to set a preference which matches their traditions.
Solution (1) is simple and I would of course greatly prefer it, solution (2) requires some programming and you would still have to use (1) as the default.
Once again, sorry if this has been addressed before and I did not find references. If there are, I'd like to know of them.
Best wishes, and keep up the great work! Robert Cailliau
Does Wiki have a policy on it? I figured it was frowned upon, so the database doesnt get full of crappy redirects. This process makes wikilinks work that shouldnt and can prepetuate incorrect usage. And in the future when partial searches can be done searching through wiki it will bring up so many false possitives from all the spelling error redirects in the database, and we will have to spend weeks sifting through it cleaning up the thousand of entries. - UnlimitedAccess 22:29, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I mean an encyclopedia of English content.
So everybody can search offline. If he want to edit, he can log on and do that online.
By the way, I think the image and multimedia content don't need to appeared in the downloadable version, making the file size downloadable. -- Anon
Hi there.
How do I wikify these HTML bullets?
No matter what I do with Wiki markup. I can't get the "baz" to be part of the "foo" bullet!
My thanks in advance. — 83.216.199.98 13:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This gives the horizontal spacing, but gets the vertical a bit wonky:
Any good? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 14:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Maybe I don't understand the question, but is this what you are looking for?
I've put my user page into a redirect to my talk page, and I don't want it anymore. However, I can't edit it because it redirects me! 68.198.20.94 19:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I am confused as to how I site a source. Because I didn't know where to put it or anything and I didn't know how, so I waited a day till I found out and that site has a warning on it. I didn't mean to take the info, I was trying to find out how to from a friend.
I'm currently working on updating Military technology and equipment, but I'm expecting to find (or create) lists of various things in this section that would also be appropriate to put in the section itself (such as a list of assault rifles, the contents of which would also go under the "assault rifle" heading). Is there a way to do this so that there is only a single list, which could then be included in this article?
Or, as another method, would it be appropriate to create a "List of assault rifles", remove all the links from under the assault rifle heading that go to specific assault rifles, and replace them with a single link to "List of assault rifles"?
(update): it seems like the page I'm talking about is, in itself, a list. Right now, I think they should all be added to that list instead of making a new one (and adding a redirect). Thoughts?
Hi there! I've just submitted an article on Lake Taimyr, but it looks kinda weird. There's no "category" written next to the Lakes of Russia category. Is it my browser, or just a post-maintenance issue? KNewman 19:11, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
When I want to make a wikilink that says something other than the name of the link, using a pipe, I always forget whether to make the name of the link come first, before the pipe, or second, after the pipe. I'm always getting it wrong. I wonder if there is some helpful mnemonic or something to help me remember. I'm sick of looking it up everytime, or previewing my edit. Is it [[disconnected|connected space]] or is it [[connected space|disconnected]]? - Lethe | Talk 00:11, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
[[connected space|disconnected]]
in HTML, it would look like this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_space">disconnected</a>. Hope that helps. Or, if you're always getting it wrong, think about what you think it should be, and do the opposite. —
Knowledge Seeker
দ 03:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)I had to reinstall Internet Explorer 6.0, and now articles don't display. The browser gives me a blank page, and displays a "Done" message in that status bar. I even added *.wikipedia.org to my list of trusted web sites. Yet, Wikipedia works fine in FireFox. I think there could be a problem with XML support in my IE 6 browser. How can I get Wikipedia to work in IE again? 70.32.82.74 04:23, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) Drawing a Blank
Dear Sir i need information on this material and how it is fix and also maintain sk tan suankuan.tan@ascendas.com
Hello, just a simple question regarding article edits. I have contributed a few edits recently and have been pleased to see the results appear straight away. By contrast, I have noticed on a few occasions that by clicking "history" on an article it is apparent that the most recent edits (not my own) are not visible on the main article page. This remains the case even if I load it and click Refresh or F5. Wait a few days, however, and the edits magically appear! Is this an issue that relates to how Wikipedia works, or it something to do with my ISP's cache or something? Not a big problem either way, but I am curious.
I remember reading an extensive article about Robert Ryman, but now it's not here (even a stub) and there seems to be no record of it getting deleted. Any way to find out when/why/how it had gone?
I am sorry to say this but your article on Paul of Tarsus is woefully tendentious.THe article finishes about the Christian Saint perhaps the second most important person in the History of Christianity with a completely unfounded allusion to him being a homosexual
I am sure this has been answered before, but I want to get rid of an article I just started that is redundant. The topic was red-linked somewhere, I forgot about case-sensitivity of titles, and just blundered on. No one has added to it, as it's only a few minutes old. What's the procedure for deleting?????????????????? -- Mothperson 16:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you both. There's so little in it, I'd rather get rid of it and add the stuff to the existing article. Yet another entry for my list of things never to do again. -- Mothperson 17:07, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you search for ADHD, you are redirected to an old and wrong version of the "Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder" page. It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD even though it says at the top that it was redirected from there. If you click on that "redirected from ADHD" and then click on the link next to the "Redirect" hooked arrow, you get the updated version of the page. You can recognise the difference quickly as the new version has an entry in the contents: "3.2 Hunter-versus-farmer and other evolutionary hypotheses"
If you search Wikipedia for "attention deficit" you get the updated version of the page.
The difference persists even when I refresh-page. Surprisingly, both pages have the same revision history.
Do you know how to fix this please?
in this case its Whitewater. I put some random if you kill yourself its not our fault thing at the top but is there a specific policy when it comes to topics like this?
I tried to figure this out from Wikipedia's various pages about copyrights, etc. but was unable to. Would using a screencap or single frame from a Film be considered a copyright violation? Are images from films Fair Use?
Thank you
Benco0008
On your webpage for 'Mumbai' someone has added rude text. I tried to edit the page and try to remove it, but can't identify how to go about it.
There is a disturbing and OFFENSIVE picture at the bottom of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal
I don't know how to remove it, but PLEASE, can someone take care of it???
No. It was crude, sexually abusive, and very disturbing. Whoever deleted was fast - thank you!!!
A teacher would like to use an image/photo found on your site on a hotlist they are creating? I can't find any mention of use of images. As long as we give you credit can we use the photos found here?
A table was added to International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia but it looks bad because the empty cells are not created leaving a uneven appearance. Is there some invisible character that could be added to each currently empty cell to force the cell border or is the table not correctly formated? Rmhermen 15:21, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
What do I need to be able to listen to audio files within Wikipedia? I hasten to add, that I'm sort of computer retarded... Thanks!
~bobby
Hello --
When I look up a city name, or a river name, for instance, I would expect to obtain easily, at least one or two simple line maps locating nearest political boundaries, largest neighboring city, etc. I don't seem to be able to find a direct link to that in your geographical entries.
Any pointers? Please answer privately as well as publicly as I may never find this page again.
Thanks, Mark Shulgasser shulgas@bellsouth.net
(I haven't mailed him) Wikipedia is a work in progress and it's entirely possible for an entry not to have a map yet. Still, there are people working on it and you could provide some yourself if you know how to make them. Mgm| (talk) 21:26, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Dear sir,
In the air oxygen and nitrogen are present, how we are taking only oxgen for breating. pls explain.
my e.mail.id nagarajan64@sancharnet.in
check out lungs and diffusion-- 65.24.68.237 20:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I had added a small, but what I considered important, paragraph to the article under the sub-heading "Debate on unemployment". Subsequently I registered as a user. How can the original contribution now be linked to me as a user?
I am a newcomer to Wikipedia. I am trying to find a history of Egypt. How do I do that?
I used to use this link [9] but now it's not there anymore. What effective alternatives are out there? -- HappyCamper 15:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
How do I go about coding a plus sign in something like Travel + Leisure? Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Garcia where I spent a couple of edits trying to add T+L and couldn't get it. I tried adding a plus sign then the + format and both came up as Travel + Leisure on the final page (with the brackets and not the link).
Thanks.
I've recently turned two food stubs into articles, and I would like to get their titles listed on the page "Category:Food and Drink" under "Articles in category "Food and drink"", but I have not a clue what the process might be. The list does not allow for ordinary editing as far as I can tell. -- Mothperson 14:08, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I had no problem getting my password reset emailed to me from wikiquote, but I'm still not getting it from wikipedia. Can someone help? Or am I missing something obvious? Twice I've used "Mail me my password" from the login screen.
Thanks. Username = CatEllen
I have the same problem. I can't log in, and mail my password doesn't seem to work. Are there people who can manually reset passwords? username = gcanyon.
Same here. Only my thought was that, improbable as it seems, the email I registered may be one that I've since discarded. Al-khowarizmi.
I'm confident there are only two email addresses that I might have used within the last few years, and both are active. In any case, is there a procedure where an admin can manually reset my password? gcanyon. Peter posted contact info, so I will as well: gcanyon@inspiredlogic.com. I don't think it will do any good, though, as this plea for assistance has gone unanswered for weeks. I see gcanyon2 in my future <sigh>
I am also having the same problem. I have requested a new password several times but no e-mails have shown up. My username is Peter McGinley. A Wikipedia admin or sysop or whoever can reset passwords may e-mail me at peter@petermcginley.com. This is the e-mail address I have on my account (or at least I think so). It is annoying not being able to log in. - Peter McGinley ( 202.173.180.85 12:02, 23 May 2005 (UTC))
Last week I accidentally hit "reset password" instead of "login". The porblem here is when creating the account I did not enter an email adress, because that was optional. Now I have no idea where the new password is. It got sent to limbo I guess. Any idea how I can successfully log back in? Skeeter08865
I have finally regained access to my account again. It turned out to be an issue with the e-mail going to my blog (TypePad - which I had CNAME'd my domain to) instead of to my Gmail inbox. I remove the CNAME record and the e-mail showed up. Peter McGinley 10:15, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
How do you make a template? Do you just create an article called template:title? Howabout1 19:40, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am a professor at a community college. I would like to create a "Private" educational wikipedia for use only by students in my classes. My idea is to post a topic, and let them develop the topic, exactly the way Wikipedia does. The general public would not have access to the students' contributions. Is this possible?
I go to Help:Contents, and it has a link to "How to upload a file"; all that has is a piped link to Special:Upload, which doesn't really tell me how to upload. How do you specify what name you want for your upload? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 02:19, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
Why does the English Wikipedia have underlined links, while no other language Wikipedia, Wikimedia project, or any Wiki site has them? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 04:50, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just created a category Category:Tournament systems, and put four articles in it.
Now, when I use my usual browser I see that for instance Swiss system tournament is redlinked to that category, and clicking that link brings me to the editing page. however, when I used an alternate browser I saw the category bluelinked like it should be, so I hope that is what everyone else is seeing.
What's going on? Sjakkalle 13:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sometimes, a line break is inserted in front of a template. It seems to depend on some weird, distant context. See Help talk:Template for details.
Could someone please take a look? I posted my problem there a couple of days ago, but nobody noticed. Thanks! — Sebastian ( T) 17:36, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Protection policy states "There is no need to protect personal css and js pages like user/monobook.css or user/cologneblue.js. Only the account associated with these pages is able to edit them." However, I was able to edit another user's monobook.js (with her permission, of course). Is this because I am an administrator? — Knowledge Seeker দ 19:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I want to make a cover page for a report. To make it more dramatic I want to place a picture on it. I do not want to change it nor spread it to other sites. After my report the picture is going to be destroyed. Do I need permission?
Is this a technical question about Wikipedia or rather a general question about copyright? In the latter case you want to post your question at Wikipedia:Reference desk. Sebastian (talk) 19:54, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
What is the HTML character code for the "section" marker (the one that looks like two interlocked capital S characters)? -- John Fader ( talk | contribs) 22:43, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
After spending quite a bit of time as a Wikipedia lurker, I've finally registered and begun to do some editing in my areas of expertise. I notice that there are articles for quite a few authors here, and I'm a writer myself. Would it be appropriate to list my books on my user page or create a regular article, or are those just for the famous "big name" authors? I'm not a famous author by any means, but I do have over 20,000 books in print through mainstream publishers. I'm not looking to create a vanity page (I already have my own site), but if authors are going to have Wikipedia entries, I'd just as soon write mine myself. -- Gary D Robson 01:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could whoever is in charge of this:
{{Uspresidents}}
Please fix it so that it directs to Franklin D. Roosevelt and not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the article has now been moved? Adam 03:57, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I see that the template has changed, but when I go to here, I see all the Presidents still redirecting from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Do you know why this is? Adam 08:28, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. I was hoping to avoid having to do that. :( Adam 00:09, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I seem to have remembered someone using a dollar sign ($) in a template to supress an unused parameter from showing a red link. Naturally, I can't find it now I want to document it for later use. Can anyone help? Mgm| (talk) 09:45, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
Just came across this page Dremel, it looks like a blatant POV adverterising to me. But I can't say I know much about the Dremel drill myself. Were would I bring this to the attention of other wikipedians? I know I could put it on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion but I'm not sure it shopuld be deleted I just want to know what other people think.-- JK the unwise 13:29, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
I want to add 4 photos of mine of a location to a page here about that location
I put the filename in the "Filename:" box
What goes in the "Summary:" box?
I added info about the photos
How long does this take to upload a photo?
Do I get notification when it's done? Thank you
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UPDATE : May 2 Tried again (several times) Waited 10 minutes - nothing happens (using DSL)
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I'm doing a project to calculate character frequencies/probabilities in different languages, so I need loads of source text. So what's the best place to get plain text from Wikipedia, Wikibooks or Wikisource ans what's the best way to extract the text and remove all the html formating?
Where can I find the articles which have been spoken verbally? I remember seeing a page where it says an audio version of this article is available (or something similar).
• Thorpe • 20:36, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I copied several paragraphs from a court affidavit to post an article. (The article solely consisted of these paragraphs, plus a few links to other wikopedia articles. When I came back to the article a few minutes later the words Wikipedia:Copyright problems#April 28 appeared.
Looking through "The Public domain by Stephan Fishman" page 14/19 I found a section "Is Court Testimony in the Public Domain". His answer "there is no clear answer to this question." He says some copyright experts believe these should be PD, but no ones ever tested it in court. He also says court testimony is often copied and distributed in many different including websites. And that the fair use doctrine almost certantily applies in these uses.
so my question is how to deal with this? (see article Joyce Wiley)
I made a note under the articles discussion/talk Joyce Wiley but I then went to Wikipedia:Copyright problems and could not find the article name there.
Hey folks. Is there a list anywhere of all the templates that are used as article tags (cleanup, npov, factual dispute, stub, etc)? A friend was asking, and I don't know offhand. Isomorphic 15:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What's the character encoding of the database downloads? Is it UTF-8?
I have written an article and it says I must wikify it. I thought I had done that, but apparently not, and I must admit to being totally lost. I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do at this point, and I'm lost in the help section. Is there someone who can help? Thank you. I can be reached by email at rebmor at gmail dot com.
Why does your article titled "Viet Cong" say the National Football League had something to do with opposing the South Vietnamese government?
thanks.
I want to start a new page which I don't think has been mentioned on any other article and I don't really know how. Just so you know the article will be on the Nintendo Offcicial Magazine.
Please can you help me?
I want to link to a picture listed on Wikipedia Commons. What tag do I use? Also, the image and its description are in French, so I don't know the restrictions on linking to it. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Palmyre_Vue_Generale.jpg Yuber 15:00, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
In the slide rule article, we're having a problem with the photo near the top overlapping with the table of contents. It's kind of complicated, because the problem appears to occur inconsistently, perhaps depending on the browser and/or size of the user's screen (or browser window). Currently, we have the image formatted as: "Image:pocket_slide_rule.jpg|frame|none|A slide rule being used to multiply by 2. Each number on the D scale is double the number above it on the C scale." This works for me in Firefox on my own size of browser window. However, another user (see the article's talk page) has reported that this formatting causes the image to overlap with the toc. When he changes the formatting to "...|frame|right|A slide rule ...," it looks right on his machine, but it overlaps with the TOC on *my* machine! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this? TIA! -- Bcrowell 17:10, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I was setting up my new account and inadvertantly hit the wrong key so that only my name was registered...not my password or my email. Now I'm unsure about how to correct it! Please help! Thank you!
Is theer any way I could add javascript to a wikipage.
I wanted to add a counter on of my wikipages. Is there any way I can do that.
I have seen websites, such as www.mysic.org, that are affiliated with wikipedia where you can search for a topic and the wikipedia result comes up. How can you sign up to affiliate?
I was wondering if I could have permission to post some of the articles from wikipedia on my website.
THERE IS A SUN CITY IN SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR HILTON HEAD ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF INTERSATE 95 IN SC. SAVANNAH GEORGA IS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF IT.
If you look at the varibables listed in Help:Variable#Varying_with_time you'll see that {{CURRENTMONTH}} produces 07, a 2-digit number, but {{CURRENTDAY}} produces 21, a 1-digit number. Is there a 2-digit alternative? Will there be in Mediawiki 1.5? Thanks, Alphax τ ε χ 06:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Is there any download to have wikipedia on my toolbar so it's present at all times on my browser?
Or. if you're using a Mac OS your "Bookmark Bar" might look like this: File:Wikipedia Bookmark.jpg hydnjo talk 19:07, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
What does it mean to "purge the Main Page cache"? How is that related to the featured article? -- Tony Jin | (talk) 21:21, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
Does the number of "true" articles stated in the special page "statistics" contain also redirects? If not, can someone state this there? Thanks. -- Eleassar777 22:36, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
i just created an account, but i have a few edits from before i was a person of account indexed under my ip (all during the past few weeks) - can i get these attached to my new account?
- SFWarlock
I'm afraid not – see above [now moved to archive 18] — Sebastian (talk) 00:49, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
meh. well, thanks for your answer. 67.169.151.167 02:06, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
oops, wasn't logged in. SFWarlock 02:07, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
If anyone knows how to make this spin as in real life, please replace this static beachball with a spinning version. I give up. Thanks to whoever comes to the rescue. hydnjo talk 02:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
How do I post comments/queries on the discussion pages for a specific article?
Ta,
Malangthon malangthon@xtra.co.nz
Hello, I have a question about abuse/defense. My older brother has abused me off and on my whole life but most of the time we are actually friends. But now that I work with him he is constantly risking my safety by pointing a nail gun at me while the safety gaurd is off. Throws rocks off of the roof and near my head. A couple of months ago he "accidentally" hit me in the mouth with a role of duck tape. when I was 15 he kicked me as hard as he could in my face. Now I am emotionally and physically able to stand up for myself. Now I know tirst thing you might say is stay away from him and to that I say that he is always around myhe f family and life long friends (not to mention I don't want to giveup my job ) and he'll just find a different time to threaten my life. Second thing people will say is call the cops but, if I do that he'll find another way for me to have an "accident" he's very intelligent and will find a way not to be liable for what ever happens to me. I tried to talk to him and some times I dont think he even understands or laughs at me. If I defend myself physically will it be considered self defense? it sure ought to be. Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated
Thanks Ted
Hi, I'm sure you have a problem, but wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The help desk is for questions about wikipedia, not your personal life. If you have a question or want to join wikipedia, this is the place to do it. Howabout1 02:32, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
This is really the wrong place to be asking, because you have no idea who is answering. You need to find someone you can trust and tell about this. A family member would be ideal. Failing that a close friend, one older than you. If you belong to a church, someone there. As a last resort someone at work, a counselling service or a telephone helpline. Get help from a real person. As for fighting back, don't do more than you need to to keep yourself safe. DJ Clayworth 04:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I had the following message "This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. Please remove this notice once this has been done,"that was left on the Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family page of the US political families pages at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%2C_Hoar_%26_Sherman_family
When I went to the Talk Page I was met with this message, "Do we really need all of this detail here? That's what the main articles are for. RickK 00:34, May 3, 2005 (UTC)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Baldwin%2C_Hoar_%26_Sherman_family
Which seem to contradict other messages that I have received. Could you please let me know the Wikipedia position?
Aaron Baldwin
No, I don't. I checked my talk and the message keeps coming. I never had any previous problems with the message on this machine. Can anyone remind me how to get rid of it? Mgm| (talk) 11:47, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
It just happened again. Howabout1 00:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC) What has worked for me is just pressing Ctrl+F5 to clear the cache.-- Fito 03:36, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
How can I create a template? Do I need to be an admin or obtain someone's permission in order to do so? I am referring to a template that links a few articles together, not something like {{cleanup}}. Thanks for your help in advance. Ultimate Star Wars Freak 17:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Can someone remind me how I set the monobook style of my logged-in view to see the paragraphs with proper spacing? I was told how long ago by an admin, but I cannot remember the information they gave me. If it's in the style guides, I'd like to bookmark the page explaining this as well. I would like to know this so I can tell others new to wikipedia among people I know how to view these pages with proper spacing between paragraphs even though they'll have to get an account to see it. — Emerman
Can I use XHTML for editing Wikipages. If yes could anyone please tell me where I could find a tutorial for doing the same.
I want to start an article about what has variously been called rising inflection/intonation, Antipodean (rising) inflection/intonation and, on one page, Antipodean posterior rising intonation syndrome (probably someone not being funny). Basically, people sounding like they're asking a question when they're actually making a statement. My problem is I don't know the proper name for this, shall we say, phenomenon. For all I know there's already an article about it, though I've done some searching and come up with nothing. Can anybody help me? I'm sure there's an 'official' term in linguistics to describe this. ZephyrAnycon 21:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Yeah thanks for that I'll make some redirects for the terms I came across.
Ecce my loving Wikipediation (all redirects):
17:07, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean rising intonation (top)
17:06, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean rising inflection (top)
17:05, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean inflection (top)
17:04, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean intonation (top)
17:04, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Antipodean posterior rising intonation syndrome (top)
17:03, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) APRIS (top)
17:02, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Rising intonation (top)
17:01, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Rising inflection (top)
16:47, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Australian Questioning Intonation (top)
16:47, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Upspeak (top)
16:46, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) Australian questioning intonation (top)
16:45, 4 May 2005 (hist) (New) AQI (top)
ZephyrAnycon
17:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
I could not figure out to create a category called Rivers in Nature Page for uploading images
arvindps70@yahoo.com
dear sir,
my requesst might sound very strange and non automobile related. but i am try to trace a person who migrated to Canada in the year 1970 from india. he was in touch with us till 1975 but we lost contact after that.
i would be grateful if you let mi know how to trace the person. is there any website for the immigration office in canada. if so wat is it.
pl help.
regards ashwin
I wrote the article on "Bari" currently in discussion section. I would like to place it as an article on its own, so that it can be expanded. How do I do that?
Thanks -- Loro LoLaja Kujjo 17:01, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Could anyone please explain why it is better for society to have the market, and not governments, determine prices of the goods we buy. If the government was running the market, how would you see marketing of goods and services differ than if society has the market?
Thanks, ``Sugar1 2May.05
Is there any way to change my username? -- Carolaman 02:29, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
The other day i found some sneaky vandalism by a user who has a page full of contributions. Since i wasn't sure if any of the older ones contained undetected vandalism i went backwards through his latest contributions and created a list on his homepage User:205.188.117.130 to keep track of which edits have been checked. But this was more effort than i would want to put in in similar cases in the future. What's the best way to deal with this? Do we just leave the edits and hope that some day someone might spot them in the text? This might take a long time, since they may be well disguised. I added him to the hall of shame, but i'm not sure if anyone cared.
Now my dream would be that all his changes got marked (e.g. with a slightly colored background) until someone checks it, so this information does not get lost in the big heap of history. But back to reality: What do we do to to mitigate such possible damage? — Sebastian (talk) 05:30, 2005 May 5 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:205.188.117.130 User:205.188.117.130
Thanks, everybody, for your replies! It was actually not about this specific user. (Your replies were valid and valuable, though. I now agree with Fred that in this case there were good reasons for good faith; if this is just a general cache for an AOL proxy then it's possible that there were just a number of independent clumsy new users. To Mgm: I have reverted many obvious cases of vandalism without asking the user first. If this were required policy i would stop watching out for vandalism. (To be honest, i have become bored of it and i'm doing much less watch duty now than earlier this year.) I am also not convinced that it helps in all cases: People who want attention won't stop their behaviour once they see it earns them attention.)
But back to my question about how to handle (real) sneaky vandals. I hope the dogma "assume good faith" doesn't blind us to the fact that there are malicious editors out there.
At Wikipedia, we love to cite the experiment of a newspaper according to which bad edits were reverted after 5 minutes. This may be the average of all acts of vandalism, given that most take place on a few closely monitored pages. However, from my experience i'd expect utterly different times once you look at the average of pages. I have seen vandalism remain for weeks, including cases where such misedits passed the scrutiny of several registered editors in a row. I am very concerned about this: We get a lot of flak for unreliability in the outside world, and justly so.
Wouldn't it be valuable to provide some way to make it easier for editors to identify and communicate malicious edits so that, once we found a bad apple, we can (and will) rapidly purge the others? My table may have been overkill for the case at hand, but i think it's at least an idea for a solution. Do we have any other solution or does Wikipedia just not care about this problem? Sebastian (talk) 04:16, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
I'm working on List of foods named after people, which is - um - kind of large, and getting larger. I recently had it brought to my attention that vast quantities of stuff are not wikified, but to do so would be to result in a near-solid mass of underlining. Is there a way I can get dispensation for not underlining everything, or perhaps a simplified rule for lists? Also, when do lists get so large they need to be split into two pages? -- Mothperson 16:27, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi there... I'm a journalist writing about Wikipedia. Does someone out there know what the first Wikipedia entry was?
Many thanks... j
Sure thing... the article will appear on www.continental.com/magazine in July (and beyond). Thanks for the help, j
- Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima - NOTE: The coordinates listed in the article at the time of this posting,( 24.78°N, 141.32°E ), are not correct ones. (example: 78 minutes, versus a max of 60 minutes available) - Would somebody with the correct cordinates, data please correct the error(s) - Thanks -
I just created an account for myself, since I finally realized that was the only way to flag edits as minor. Anyway, I have lots of edits that I did from an anonymous account. Is there a means whereby I can get those to be tagged as being against my new account.
An example would be http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Four_horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse&action=history I'm 47.248.0.43.
Thanks, jeffr
I have rewritten an article which I want copyedited by another user. How to send the same to the other user or where to find his email address?
My instructor requested that my citations of a wikipedia article (publicly funded medicine) cite the original author rather than just the page itself. How do I find the author of a page or even a specific section ("parallel public/private systems" and "role of the free market")?
How can I include "Picture of the Day" featured on "Commons" in a user page on "Wikipedia"? How can I include the English version of it and how the Slovenian one? Thanks. -- Eleassar777 16:08, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
I didn't mean how to include the pic of the day from Wikipedia in my user page, but the pic of the day from Commons. That's a different thing. -- Eleassar777 21:32, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
under the GFDL is it permissible to translate a (say) german wikipedia entry for use also in the english wikipedia without crediting the source?
Hi May you please tell me how to put writing from 2 languages in the one article. My user name is 220.233.64.218 thanks Wikipedia
Greetings - I have two videos from a USN site that I believe are worth including in Wikipedia. One is of a NATO Sea Sparrow launching, and the other is of a Phalanx CIWS mount firing. I tried to find references indicating acceptance/non-acceptance of videos on Wikipedia, but only found references to sound files, not video files. Going with the "be bold" philosophy, I figured I'd try to upload them and include them in the appropriate articles. Both files are .avi, and wikipedia told me that .avi files are not a recommended format.
So, Question 1: Are video files allowed? Question 2: If so, what format should they be in? Question 3: Does anyone know of a free, decent converter of .avi files to the format in Q2 above? -- Durin 02:57, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Yes, video files are allowed, as long as they are uploaded in a free format. It is highly recommended that you use Ogg Theora format. For more information on converting etc., see Wikipedia:Media and Wikipedia:Media help. -- Eleassar777 07:58, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
I've just created the template Template:Infobox Monarch - sorely needed in my opinion - but I'm not a programmer. How do I make the infobox more flexible? For instance, the word 'queen', will sometimes have to be substituted with 'queens', or 'prince consort'. Can anybody help me with this? Eixo 08:48, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
This is a great site for information but please be more careful in who you allow to edit pages. The following link was edited by someone obvious immature and thus we need some kind of check to make sure thses type of people no longer have access.
Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Physical_Characteristics
I made the correct changes to this page.
Someone had changed the word snail to poop and crap all through the page. It is really disheartening to see access abused like this.
If I did not get them all, I apologize.
Hi,
I'm planning to use a wiki in a class. I have a couple of concerns.
1. There seem to be too many help pages. I would like to be able to refer students to a single page which will tell them how to do the basic wiki things, including basic formatting.
2. I'd like a reference to some of the more sophisticated things, but without having to know the jargon before I find my answers. For example, How can I change the contents of the left side bars? I don't know how to find out how to do that.
Thanks
Russ.Abbott@GMail.com
I started a topic for the musician Vedran (his first name) Smailovic, and then realized that I had it listed last name first -- against the wikipedia convention!
I don't know how to change it. Does the article have to be deleted and a new one started?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smailovic%2C_Vedran
I started a topic for the musician Vedran (his first name) Smailovic, and then realized that I had it listed last name first -- against the wikipedia convention!
I don't know how to change it. Does the article have to be deleted and a new one started?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smailovic%2C_Vedran
i need to find my friend and i lost her e-mail when i swiched my screen name how do i get her e-mail back?
I just noticed that EricI234 ("Erici234") has been created, with a user name that appears on most/all wikipedia pages to be identical to my username ("Ericl234" -> "EricL234"). This user's contribution history ( [3]) consists of two recent edits ( [4], [5]) to the Stanford University page, which is one of the pages I frequently edit myself. Both of these edits were vandalism (changing "Stanford" to "Stanfurd" repeatedly), and one had the change summary "revert vandalism" (which it clearly wasn't), and so I posted a message to this user's talk page ( [6]) basically requesting that they cease and desist (although in kinder words). My question is that if this user continues to make similar edits (or even if not...), how do I go about getting that username blocked? I looked through all of the relevant help pages that I could find, and found nothing on how non-admin users, like myself, go about getting a vandal's username blocked, assuming no mediation or the like is necessary. Any thoughts? Thanks. -- ericl234 talk 05:14, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
How does Wikipedia assign hotkeys to tabs, and more importantly, how do I change them or turn them off? They're conflicting with my browser's interface. JRM · Talk 13:01, 2005 May 8 (UTC)
I have recently put up a Draft article. What is the safe procedure to withdraw/erase it?
Hi, my name is Lorna Nogueira and someone recently told me that I was included in Wikipedia. I checked the entry and there are some minor errors - I directed 'the Innocents' and the short story 'Turn of the Screw' was written by Henry James not James Joyce. Also, if the editors of this site would like to delete this article that would be okay with me. I didn't post it and while I appreciate the mention, I don't feel I belong in Wikipedia. Thanks.
Why come everytime I go to this site I get these messages threatening to delete my account? It is not just here, when I am at school I look up articles for my homework and I get some error message saying that I am violating rules. I think that you should only let users edit a page and have people log in to do so. Your filters suck! You do not know whose IP Adress us whose.
I want to create an article about Plan B operating system. But now article with name "Plan B" redirects me to some other article (unrelated with operating systems). What should I do?
I've told Wikipedia to remember my password across sessions, but sometimes when I go to refresh my watchlist, it shows me a screen with my IP address saying I have no pages on my watchlist and I have to sign in again. What's up with that?
And for some reason, I can't click inside the edit box. Whenever I do, it won't let me type. I've tried turning off my ZoneAlarm program, and that didn't help. I'm running IE 5.5, if that's helpful. Anybody know what's going on with that? Hermione1980 23:53, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
As for the edit box, I'm clueless. However wikipedia sometimes makes you log in every once in a while. It happens to me every 2 to 3 weeks. Howabout1 00:47, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
On the mainpage, today's feature article is about Samantha Smith. When I clicked on the Samantha Smith link...well, it doesn't seem quite right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith
I assume this is a mistake?
I can login fine but my account stays logged in for no more than 2 links, and always logs out if I try to edit a page. I've adjusted the settings on my browser (Opera) to allow all cookies, and I see that the ones in place don't expire till, say, 2009 or some such. I have the same problem using Internet Explorer. Any ideas why the cookies aren't sticking? (Signed, Mashford)
Metadata is an disambiguation page. Many articles link there. All that i checked actually refer to metadata (computing). Is there any way to change them that's faster than going into each article, finding the line, changing and saving it? Ideally, i'm dreaming of a list with checkmarks like this:
change | article | from | to |
---|---|---|---|
□ | Foo | text before [[old link]] text after | text before [[new link]] text after |
□ | Bar | yada yada [[old link]] yada yada | yada yada [[new link]] yada yada |
If there is a way to do something like this with admin privilege, could i ask someone to do this, please? Thanks! — Sebastian (talk) 07:21, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
I have found two pages with similar names, similar (but not identical) content about the same subject. What should be done?
Hi,
I looked around but could not find anyone with a section on how to deal with someone who deletes contributions. The Norman Conquest page was shy on a lot of stuff so I went to a lot of highly regarded works in Medieval history and began adding synoptic overviews. Lots of this stuff is on the booksheves now and some are out of print classics. I came back later and someone had torn it all out with the rationale that theories other than their own were the only allowable viewpoints. What is the solution? Put the text back in and hope that person gets the message. Please see my comments under Malangthon in the discussion page for that section.
Ta,
presumably latex is no good and they have to be done in .html?
I am extremely new to Wikipedia, and am having trouble with the language in explanantions of how to post a new subcategory, and how to add another example to an already existant subcategory? i.e. I am interested in creating a subcategory under Songs: listed by Album: Death Certificate, as well as adding another Album: listed by Artist: Ice Cube albums. I have written the content, it is sitting in my contributions file, but I can't list it under any sort of categorization. What am I missing?
I think Wikidea is a great idea and was wondering what I can do to help implement it.
What is Wikidea?
Wikidea is a future extension to Wikipedia that uses Wiki technology to allow individuals to share their own ideas and theories regarding how the world works. Until now, unique insights like those found at hedweb.com were spread out over the internet with little reader input or collaboration between individuals. Like Wikipedia, Wikidea will serve as a large free repository of ideas, theories and works of fiction collaborated on by people from around the world.
What kind of articles will visitors be able to post, revise and edit on Wikidea?
The articles found on Wikidea can deal with a wide range of topic and can be written for a wide number of purposes. Because users aren’t limited to posting only well accepted theories and facts as in Wikipedia, Wikidea serves to encourage creative thinking and will serve in part to compile insights into how the world works, how people think, and why people do the things they do, based on anecdotal observations and personal insights. Wikidea will also serve as a repository of statistics and data that may give credence to certain viewpoints or point out key areas of injustice, waste and abuse of the current system. Wikidea may even be used by political campaigns to get collective input and suggestions from their constituents.
Insights can simply serve to expand upon well accepted ideas, they may attempt to explain current events, or they may offer a distinctly unique or even a humorous new perspective with which to approach a topic. Users are free to post ideas for everything from new devices and innovative ways to use current technology, to ideas for television shows and other works of fiction that users can collaborate on to produce a detailed coherent plot with interesting scenarios, characters and dialogue. Users are free to post a compilation of free resources online regarding specific issues and policies that readers may add to or revise. Users are also free to post observed trends in politics and economics that offer insight into future trends, or users can share their unique life experiences, perspectives, philosophies, thought processes or insights on a political issue and can even propose their own compromise to an area of concern that other users can either expand on, or post a critique of. For example, individuals can post their specific concerns about the current drug policy or post suggestions to improve the current antidrug campaign that other readers can elaborate on or offer up criticisms of.
Why Wikidea?
While Wikidea will be used for a wide range of purposes including some that probably haven’t yet been conceived, it was primarily created to serve as a giant public policy think tank to which all individuals can contribute for the betterment of humanity. A significant portion of what drives our private sector economy is fresh new ideas. By giving private citizens and statisticians a venue through which to share their data and insights, as well as a venue to share fresh new ideas for political policies, Wikidea serves as a means through which the public sector can achieve the same increases in productivity and efficiency that the private sector continuously experiences. By giving all individuals the ability to edit and contribute to these ideas, readers are free to bring up challenges a policy may face as well as offer up suggestions in which a policy can be improved upon or made easier to implement.
Currently, there are numerous lobbies that serve to represent specific interest groups and put forth legislative reforms that help their specific constituents. There are also various media organizations that are at least in part motivated by a desire for more ratings. Yet there are very few organizations to which policy makers can turn that serve to accommodate and accumulate the collected knowledge and concerns of all individuals. Thus Wikidea like Wikipedia, serves to empower individuals not just in public policy but in all aspects of life.
Will there be any type of copyright protection offered to individual who submit ideas that could be used for commercial purposes?
That is an aspect of Wikidea that is still largely unexplored. Separating out the fiction aspect of Wikidea into a separate entity called Wikifiction where individuals can collaborate to create large, detailed, works of fiction and be credited for their contributions, is being considered. However, that still wouldn’t address articles dealing with ways to improve upon or new ways to utilize current technologies, products and services however.
You can reach me at centroles@yahoo.com. Thank you very much.
OK, I'm not here to ask how to revert, but rather a method of. I've seen many reverts, but I seem to see a lot of "(Reverted edits by <someone> to last version by <other guy>)" I usually put revert on my comment, but are people really writing this or is there a way to make the system automatically write this for you? WB 00:47, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
I've wondered the same thing. I was going to post another revert question, so I think I will do it here. Is there a system to revert one edit without reverting edits after it? Does the admin's rollback function do this? Howabout1 01:05, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
I've copied this from the Reference Desk, as I think this might have been a better place to put it, and its getting worse. Another eidt has appeared on the article with an incorrect time, and I don't know what to do about it. There are now 2 edits listed as occurring before the article was created! The Page History lists them wrongly, but stepping through old versions gives them in the correct order, but still with wrong times-it appears not to be stepping through them in order, but it is, it is the times on them that are wrong. -- John 09:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
Mineirão page history is wrong. I am not sure how it happened, but somehow when an edit conflict occurred Wikipedia put my edit about 6 hours earlier than I did it (and before the article was created), so now it says I created it and I didn't. Can you just get rid of my edit, or move it to a more appropriate place (although I am not quite sure where it should be)? -- John 21:12, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Okay, this is bizarre. Yesterday, I clicked on Recent Changes, and three links at the top of the list were purportedly made on May 10, 2025. They were: an edit made by Maustrauser to his user page, an edit made by Heimdal to Talk:Germany, and an edit made by Hoary to Cam Jackson. Apparently, I am the only one that sees these edits as being made 20 years in the future; this was revealed by a conversation with Hoary at his talk page. Something is odd, and Recent Changes is effectively broken for me; it's "frozen" in time at 9:25 CST May 10, with the additional time-traveling edits at the top. Fortunately, a link also appears near the top that says: Show new changes starting from 09:25, May 10, 2005 and I can click on this link (and others like it with different times) to get the "current" Recent Changes page, although I just did that now and only got a list of a dozen or so edits... Help! android↔ talk 17:15, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Well, that fixed it. It was so bizarre I didn't even think to clear cookies, cache, etc. Thanks! android↔ talk 18:08, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
In Bible chronology the dates are based on doubling etc. and are a unique dating to the year of things that may not ever have even occured. Dates that go literally according to the text would not be unique and have a place in an encyc. Dates here are just made up 4.250.201.157 17:36, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
I have uploaded a picture. I am sure I followed the instructions correctly. I could see it ok when I uploaded it, but now I come abck to re-visit the article, I can see the thumbnail, but clicking on the link to the picutre page itself gives me the page WITHOUT the picture. I ahve tried re-uploading it again, but to no avail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:P7110224a.jpg
is the page concerned.
Hi. I hope you don't mind, but I added your question under a separate heading (actually someone else beat me to it, but I added the link to the page), so it can be more easily seen by others. Have you tried having a look at the page/picture again? It works for me. Also, it would be helpful if you signed your posts with ~~~~, which will automagically add your username and a current timestamp when you save your edit. android↔ talk 13:27, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm new to Wikipedia. I speak English, Irish and German and would like to contribute to articles in those languages. I've signed up to the en.wikipedia but cannot seem to log into the Irish or German language versions with the same username/password. I'd like to be able to make contributions to the three using the one account. Is this possible?
Damac
We have two categories that need to be merged but I'm not sure how to go about it. There is a category called [[Category:United States Department of Defense agencies]] and another one called [[Category:U.S. Dept. of Defense agencies]]. - Etoile 15:39, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
It's my first time posting here, so if there is a more appropriate forum for such things, please let me know. I am currently working on the article heim theory, and recently we added some data to the middle article with information about particle masses. However, it's not in a nice table format; only ASCII. Two things:
Thanks for your help! It's greatly appreciated! HappyCamper 15:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I am a new user and was just creating my userpage.
One of my passions is my business (which has a webpage.)
Is it appropriate to place a link to this in my userpage? It wasn't clear to me if that is allowed or not. So, for now, I'm holding off until I hear back from you.
Thanks!
John
I have discovered an incorrect link. On the recent deaths list the link takes you to a footballer pesons information but he definitly was not! How can i remove the link? thankyou
I've been steadily adding to the Velma Springstead Trophy page, and I have a sudden thought: should the years be listed ascending or descending? For instance, ascending would be:
1950
1951
1952
Whereas descending would be more like:
1952
1951
1950
The way I've done the page so far is ascending order, but I've seen at least one page where the dates were done in descending order, and I was wondering what the Wiki prefernce is.
How do I add an JPEG image to a page? I have already uploaded the image but I don't know how to add it to an existing page.
I would like to post a new event, and perhaps add a comment, but I can't, because every time I try to add an event, I am told I must verify my email address. I click on "Verify Now", and enter my email address and password, and basically, I am logged in again, in a new window, but cannot post a new event. Please fix this. Thank you.
Is there a way to create a half space between characters? Wayward 06:18, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
All sorts of things are missing. I haven't the faintest idea how to fix it or go back to an earlier form. Help! Kazuba I'm lost in space! Need some guidance!
Okay, I know this is going to sound pretty silly, but how does one make a request for comment on the fact that one's request for comment hasn't been commented upon, and therefore the matter remains in limbo? Or double limbo. I mean, I'd rather just have the first request answered, but if that isn't going to happen...it's not like the world is not going to end over the matter, but I'd still like some comment from external parties -- Mothperson 22:10, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
I was looking at the "oldest" articles of Wikipedia. What's with all the CamelCasing in the articles? I just couln't figure out why. Maybe a trend then? Hotmail was CamelCased like HoTmAiL sometime I ago I think (irrelevant). Anyway, WB 06:20, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
I looked through the site and still could not figure ot how to create an image of my own.
Let us know where you are up to. If you are still uncertain, let us know the article you are thinking about, and what kind of image you mean. Notinasnaid 13:32, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion, if you click e.g. on the edit link next to " Template:For" it'll edit "Template:Rotten" instead. This didn't happen a moment ago. Could it be because i inserted a <h5> headline further up? — Sebastian (talk) 18:27, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
I've scanned the cover of Cry, the Beloved Country for that article. I know I would use the {{bookcover}} tag to the summary when I upload it. But I don't understand the fair-use rules and such. Do I still have to get permission from the publisher before uploading? =\ -- User:Jenmoa 20:09, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Where is the "mail me my password" button?
Okay, so I messed us my account by naming it something I didn't like and now I need to get rid of it and possibly start over. How am I supposed to get rid of my account?
I have some trouble with marking links as patrolled in the Low Saxon wikipedia ( nds:. When I click on "diff" in the recent changes list, I get a diff with a link "mark as patrolled". However when an article is new, there is no diff available and hence no link to mark the new article as patrolled. How do I mark new articles as patrolled?
Kind regards, Heiko Evermann 07:56, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
An anonymous user has recreated the article Zezima when it had been previously taken through VfD: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Zezima. There's policy to undelete, but there doesn't seem to be policy on how to handle this situation. What happens if I nominate it for deletion again? Samw 11:08, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
When I upload album covers, I upload biggest and highest quality covers I could find. Could uploading gigantic pictures {eg. Renegades) potentially go out of the fair use policy? Album covers will not damage them, rather it will advertise them, but it doesn't seem to fit the size policy. WB 21:03, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that some users have a signature that doesn't just list their username (like the ~~~~ does) but also puts things like their talk page (sometimes it might display something like this - Hermione 1980). Is there some way to do that automatically, or do you just have to enter that manually every time you want it to display that way? Hermione1980 21:12, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
I have ported from[ Memory-Alpha] (a sister-wiki) and they have sigificant support for table classes (wiki-sidebar) for example, such as the picture table one puts to the right to show an example of the topic. Can that be done here?
Thanks JTMogh
Some well meaning editor just changed Template:history but inadvertently broke it. (The template ignored {{{1}}} and only displayed "history", and a link to its own history). I reverted the change, and after forced refresh it now displays correctly again. Now i just happened to visit a friend, whom i introduced to Wikipedia, and much to my surprise, when i showed him my homepage (which uses this template), it displayed broken again. I'm baffled. The content of the template is
If i enter e.g. "{{subst:history|Patty Murray}}", how can it insert anything but " Patty Murray"? — Sebastian (talk) 02:04, 2005 May 16 (UTC)
As a child, we were taught that those of the Islamic Faith were Moslems. Are they Moslems? Are they Muslims? Which is correct and what brought about the spelling change?
As a child, we were taught that the Holy Book of Islam was called the Koran. Suddenly, it seems "popular" to spell it Quran. WHEN did this change? How did it change from one spelling to another?
While doing some research on Pasteur Bizimungu, I noticed that almost the entire Wikipedia page is ripped right from this BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3728807.stm What's the correct way to deal with plagiarism on Wikipedia? I don't have the time or the desire to rework the whole thing myself.
Special:Uncategorizedpages has thousands of articles (displaying 500 doesn't even exhaust the letter A). I would like to help categorizing them. It don't want to start from letter A – crawling through the alphabet is biased and feels daunting. Is there a way to display a random page that has no category?
Variations:
Thanks, Sebastian (talk) 00:00, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
Is it possible to create user templates (looking kind of like the template for BJAODN), and how? Dralwik 01:21, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Not sure what you mean by "template for BJAODN". Yes, you can create them. Just enter e.g. "User:Dralwik/mytemplate" as a page name and then reference it as " User:Dralwik/mytemplate". But please use it sparingly, as we are currently experiencing server shortages. See also Wikipedia:Transclusion. — Sebastian (talk) 05:32, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
I have a new word in English which has entered common use. How do I enter in into your website??
Regards,
Mark Nuckols nuckols@dartmouth.edu
While trying to link a new article I am writing to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), I came across two different articles for this museum. They are MassMoca, which is incorrectly capitalized (it should be MassMoCA) and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Both articles are very short stubs and both names are essentially correct. Obviously, these two need to be merged. However, I am not sure which title should be kept and I have no idea how to accomplish this edit anyway. Any help? -- Sophitus 16:10, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. -- Sophitus 17:59, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Template messages/All and Wikipedia:Template messages/Links need to come out of Category:Companies_traded_on_NASDAQ. How do I do this? -- Michael180 17:48, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank You -- Michael180 00:00, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
I am trying to get my employment history so that i may create an accurate résumé
I've tried wiki2static and I see that there is work in progress to create a DVD based Wikipedia along with a discussion of publishing a print version. I've discovered that wiki2static no longer works with the database dumps and and that further development of the perl script has stopped.
Is anyones else creating static copies of the Wikipedia? What are you using?
Background: We deliver content we collect on 250GB hard drives to schools that have no Internet access or very limited access. Most of the hard drives we've delivered are in Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania. Some are used in Haiti and Bangladesh as well. All of the content is served as static pages - sometimes through a web server, sometimes through a share. You can read more about our project at http://www.egranary.org/.
Thanks,
Peter
I never included an email in my 'first signup' so I cant use the Email me my Password option, and I cant remember my password! Is there an admin that could add my e-mail to my account so i can get old password resent? or a new password? my user id NEWUSER, you can email me infoATislamicarchitecture.org (THANK YOU!)
From Talk:Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber
I'm not sure why the note numbers don't show up properly--they're all 1s. Can anyone help?
Hi, this (see title) is the first article I have written from scratch on the 'pedia. Since I am not a native speaker, I welcome all input about style (do you find it incorrect? obscure? Have comments about content?). Please let me know here or on the discussionpage. Thanks for your help! ;-) -- Wikipedius 10:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
When it comes to statements like:
See article xx for more details the other type of article - or even for see main article article xx
as in, for example: Biology of the Sierra Nevada, is there a fixed formatting for this? I've seen indented (as in the Bahá'í Faith for the see main article) etc. Is there a fixed way of doin this (or even a template for it?) -- Tomhab 12:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
:''For X, see Y''
Is there a way to search an article or talk page history? For example, I want to see what happened when "Foo" was mentioned in an article - Did people edit "Foo" out? Was there an edit war over "Foo"? commonbrick 17:36, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
I'm having problems with user user:128.54.213.52 posting information that is either simply not factual or very biased.
The article where he/she appears to be most active is the Carlsbad, California article. The article looks more like a real estate advertisment then an encyclopedia entry.
I have attempted numerous times to correct the article, but the user repeatedly reverts back to his/her own writing. At one point I attempted to provide focus on topics the user is so biased on while attempting to keep the article from being overly POV, but even then he/she edits the biased language back into the article. Even my most recent edit, into which I added lots of additional material, was either reverted or rewritten.
Reverting to past versions of the article will not solve anything (as the user will just revert/edit back his/her original statements), and neither will a continuing edit war.
I personally do not think it is likely that she will respond to any attempt for me contact him/her, but if anyone thinks it would be best to do so, I will.
I need input on what to do next. Any help is appreciated.
Many thanks, Short Verses 18:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello!
I'm writing a technical manual in Wiki and know how to create a so-called "index" of section and sub-sections. (I usually call this a "table of contents.") But what I would really like to do is create the kind of index you find in the back of a book, which shows links to key words and phrases.
Is there any kind of program available to mark index links of this type?
Thank you so much!
--B. Scott
hi.
i uploaded 3 maps into both wikipedia and wikimedia commons. at this time i did not know that a file in wikimedia commons could be linked to directly. so, it seems that i have added an unnecessary duplicate of each map in wikipedia.
if this is so, i think it would be good to delete the maps in wikipedia & just link to wikimedia commons.
i am correct? do you agree? if yes, then i request that this action be taken.
the images in question are
thank you very much — ishwar (SPEAK) 22:04, 2005 May 18 (UTC)
There is different categories for songs and singles. Can you place the same song in both songs and singles?
I'll Be Missing You is placed in both Category:1997 singles and Category:1997 songs. Is this allowed? • Thorpe • 16:27, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if it remains a verbatim copying, if a Wikipedia article is split up into sections as several articles. No editing would be done other than cutting the article into sections. Article titles would be the section headings. Also, do all links need to remain in the article.
Thanks.
Paulette Gibson donzacat@comcast.net
Hello;
I'm a newbie to Wikipedia.
Many of the images on your pages can benefit from simple colour and gradient correction which would take a minute or so from download to upload.
How can I help?
Regards; Chris
Hello;
It's Chris the Newbie again. I don't know; something is wonky.
For the entry on Thomas Alva Edison, I edited and uploaded three grayscale images several days ago. One updated image sometimes appears, sometimes not. One shows the notation of my update on the File History but still has the old image. One shows no record of my upload.
I reloaded several times, over several days, using different browsers (Safari, IE, Firefox).
Is this hit and miss scenario to be expected? Shall I try uploading again?
Regards; Chris
Hello; It's Chris again with an update. Now it seems to work. Thanks for your help. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to use the Signature and Date stamp. Regards; Chris
Hello (it's Chris again); I've been meerily uploading improved images and It's been working fine when I use the same image name. Now, one image has a different file extension (jpg in lieu of the original gif). I can't figure out how to delete the original image.
TTFN, it's suppertime. Chris
I'm curious what sort of policy or cultural norm governs cases where Wikipedia contains reference information on a topic, but a more specific wiki also contains the same reference info on the same topic. Continuing to maintain both sources seems wasteful and contrary to the spirit of Wiki (from what I've observed during my short time here).
Perhaps an example will make my point clearer. dKosopedia is a decidedly non-NPOV wiki focusing on US politics. It happened to contain some reference information that I was seeking, specifically the names of incumbents in the Massachusetts Legislature. I pasted this info back into the Massachusetts General Court article here -- I infer despite being "current events" that this is appropriate to Wikipedia's scope? -- but I also wondered if there's any way to keep the two pages in synch.
I can envision both a technical solution and an administrative one. The former would be to synch up the pages periodically; the latter would be to agree to develop one site only for this reference material, but link it from the other. At any rate, this situation must be fairly common so I'm curious how the community treats it.
Thanks in advance! -- PhilipR 17:53, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
When I log in and get the "Login Successful" page and click a link to go somewhere else, it is as if I had never logged in. The only way to maintain my login is to wait to be automatically redirected (which happens in about 10 seconds). - Why does this happen?
P.A.
Hello, I am searching for information on the JFK child that was disposed of in 1953. Raised as the son of JFK at the Kennedy home, and later disposed of through an orchestrated coverup by Joseph Kennedy. If anyone is able to contact Seymour Hersh, please forward the following Email to him. Indepenrn@yahoo.com. Thank you
There are only two towns listed for Dixie County, Florida - they are shown as Cross City and Horseshoe Beach
Old Town is also a town in Dixie County and Dixie County goes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, so I am fairly certain that Suwannee (or Suwannee Key) is also part of Dixie County.
I tried to add those two places to the Wikipedia with "edit this page" and it gave me a whole bunch of other stuff instead of that particular page.
Thanks Rob Bowers Old Town, Florida
I noticed the Genovese Crime Family article is redirected to Vincent Gigante and I was wondering if shouldn't it be redirected to the Genovese Family article (or vice versa ?). Not wanting to make any sudden changes I left a message to the author(s) on the article's discussion page on April 7 haven't recieved a responce. 209.213.71.78 19:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
After a article has been featured on the Main Page, can it be featured again later? -- ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:16, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Need to be retrained in meditaion, meditative states , can you help. Email address: rrunner@si.rr.com
Hi. I can't seem to find how the css works for image thumbnails. It generally looks something like:
<div class="thumb tright"> <div style="width:###px;"><a href="URL" class="internal" title="CAPTION"> <img src="IMAGE URL" alt="CAPTION" width="###" height="###" longdesc="URL" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> CAPTION </div> </div> </div>
Now my question is, what exactly are the CSS definitions for the classes "thumb tright", "internal", and "thumbcaption"? I ask because many chess-related articles have begun to use the template:chess position, instead of images (see template talk:chess position). Ideally, however, it would be possible to set up a template so that the chess position tables could appear the same way as image thumbnails with captions. So if someone could figure out what the padding, text size, border width/color, etc., or explain how to find them, that would be awesome. You can see what I'm talking about on the page The Game of the Century, for example. Also, would it be better to set up such thumbnail lookalikes using html <div> elements, or using wiki-syntax tables? Thanks. -- jacobolus (t) 00:49, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
The page on Puzzle shows many categories of puzzles. Clicking one such category takes you to a sub-category, where you might find further sub-sub-categories and so on. Each sub-category or sub-sub-category has examples or associated real games or computer games. So far, so good.
However, totally independent of this structure and without proper structuring someone has created pages on Category:Puzzle games and Category:Puzzle computer and video games. I suggest these two pages should be deleted and the games which are quoted in them moved to the proper sub-categories and sub-sub-categories associated with the "Puzzle" page.
I cannot do this because the pages Category:Puzzle games and Category:Puzzle computer and video games cannot be edited, since the subcategories do not show up when the 'edit this page button' has been clicked.
Cheers, Karl Scherer
The category:puzzles page is not logically structured. I have done my best in the puzzle page to order the subject in proper subcategories, but the category:puzzles seems to be independent of that. Can someone please properly reconsicle the two in a professional way? Why are examples and articles quated in the category:puzzles page when these articles belong only to sub-categories?
Thanks, Karl
The weird miz of examples with sub-categories make these pages quite unreadable. I suggest to use my clearly structured pages instead. Please let us care for a better structure. Cheers, Karl Scherer
Thousand thanks! The misunderstanding was clearly on my side; I didi not really know what categories in Wikipedia are. I have read the info pages on it, and you writing helped a lot, too. Thanks for all the very clear answers! ....still on a learning curve here after two years... ;-)) Karlscherer3 22:33, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
I'm new to editing Wikipedia (spurred by TiddlyWiki, yay!), and I'm somehow missing something that must be obvious.
I've been reading WP for some time and I've read most everything on guidelines and standards, but I'm just this random geek with no particular expertise. My intent was to alternate between (1) general grammatical/spelling/editorial cleanup work and (2) expanding stubs - I can't do much harm to something that's not there. However, I haven't found any method for viewing a list of stubs or searching only stubs. I have seen users talking about sorting and converting them, so I'm sure there must be a way.
If anyone can point me to the method for viewing all stubs or searching only stubs, I can be on my way!
I was reviewing the Skinhead article History page and clicked a "last" compare link for the most recent change. After examining the comparison, I scrolled down to the Current Revision. Deciding to edit the same section, I noticed an [edit] link beside it and believed this to be an alternative to returning to the article page before editing, so I clicked it.
To my surprise, my edit replaced the most recent change on the History page, rather than being recorded as an additional edit. While it was my intention to replace the changed text anyway, I did not mean to destroy its edit history. As far as I can see, there is now no evidence that the previous most recent change was ever made at all.
This function of the Wikimedia software seems to me to be a serious problem. I don't want to speculate on the resulting state of the History page if I had been reviewing an early revision, rather than the latest one.
Unfortunately, I can't give much help on recovering the lost edit history. It was made around May 20th by a user with no account, but I don't remember the IP address. The inserted text was something close to "also used by traditional skinheads because the laces look good." Nevertheless, nothing substantive has been lost from the article itself, only the history. Unconventional 17:30, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
--Never mind!-- When I went back to the Skinhead history, all was well. There is a bug of some kind in the history page generation after taking my route to editing. I clearly remember seeing a history page that omitted the edit by user 69.138.58.230, and the [last] link for my edit compared it to the revision from edits by user Cmdrjameson (which is currently third on the page), but the inaccuracy seems to go away if one comes in "from the top".
I have uploaded some images, but I'm not sure what copyright tags were used. All the images are my original works. Do I need to add the appropriate tags, or by rule they must be GNU? Also, I have uploaded a photo of myself for my userpage, and I don't mind if people use the image, but I don't want anybody to use it to insult me in anyway. Lastly, how does one know if an image is vandelized, verses simply being "altered". Does vandelism only apply to pacific pages like articles? You can see one of my images in Empathy. In that article, I tried to shrink the picture, but it would not work, so I made it a thumbnail. Was I doing someting wrong? Thank you. -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 02:20, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
i think it would be nice if at the bottom of each page you had the MLA format of citing it for a bibliography, since citing web pages is always rather confusing. thanks!
By "vandelized", I worry that somebody might put devil horns or something on my picture. Also, I used typed the right text [[Image:pic name.jpg|200px]], for example, but nothing changed, and this image is much larger than 200 pixels wide. -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 03:00, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
Please do respond immdtly this is urgent and of utmost need, i need to have some information from this telugu newspaper dated august 14th 2002, please if u could help me in this....will be very greatful.the page im looking out for is our landlord hd published an add regarding the property papers being lost i wnt tht page pls.............
thnks
jennie
My mail id jennie.joseph@gmail.com
My question is about anon talk pages. If an IP #'s talk page has several warnings over a period of months, but is not marked with a tag that says "AOL uses this IP" or something of that sort, am I safe in assuming that one individual was responsible for getting all the messages on that talk page? Thanks, Meelar (talk) 20:42, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
I've looked for the rules but can't seem to find them. Maybe I overlooked them. What is allowed to be posted and what isn't? Is information about websites allowed here? Are you allowed to post about local area music bands? What about "small time" playwrights, stuff like that? Please, all info is appreciated. Thanks
Hi, I need to know the syntax for getting a page to forward to another page - I need "Ima Sokoni Iru Boku" (japanese title) to forward to "Now and then, here and there" (english title). I'd rather someone posts how to do it here rather than simply doing it -I need to learn sometime, you see.
More info is available at Wikipedia:Redirect. Mgm| (talk) 15:10, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help!
I want to build a questioneries form in my website. Would you please advise me how I can build such questionerie form to be able to do this? I am using Frontpage. Thank you
I noticed class="plainlinks" and class="plainlinksneverexpand" in some Templates. What do those do and/or where are such things documented? Haven't had any luck with searches nor have I found which nook of the Wikis to traverse. ( SEWilco 04:11, 25 May 2005 (UTC))
Are critical reviews of artistic material, like movies and books, appropriate on wikipedia? I've seen people post stuff like "I liked this movie" on talk pages, and I was wondering whether there is or should be a more appropriate, more "official" mechanism for reviewing material. Not sure if it belongs on the wikipedia of course, so I'm just asking. Wouter Lievens 08:53, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
There are many articles with no Spanish version (often, the most complete and interesting ones). Everytime I find one of them, I want to translate it and add a link in the left language-list. How can I do it?
I recently inserted some information about Sea Warrior, the U.S. Navy's newest total force approach to human resources. I happen to be in the Navy and work at Task Force Warrior, West as the Informatio Manager. My post was edited and the information that replaced my information was severly outdated. How can I fix that? How can I prevent that?
Thank you, IT2(AW) Patricia Stowell
The page boardgame puzzle needs to have its name corrected to board game puzzle. Can someone please do that? When I tried to create a new page with the correct name board game puzzle, the system flagged a list of errors. Karlscherer3 22:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
I used the wikimedia software to upload some images, but I never figured out where they went, or if they really uploaded. Can anybody help me find out? -- Joseph Wayne Hicks 04:50, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
I just found two copies of an article for the baseball player Jose Reyes ( Jose Reyes and José Reyes). I merged the content in both articles so that they are the same. I request that someone delete Jose Reyes and keep the other one because it has diacritics in the article title. And for future reference, besides merging content, what process should I take when finding identical articles such as these?-- Sophitus 11:49, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
One of the things, IMHO, that most helps to contribute to the attractiveness of the Wikipedia is the inclusion in articles, whenever possible, of one or two apt and well-chosen images.
One of the most frustrating things to me about the Wikipedia, however, is that every time I think, when reading an article, "Oh, I took a picture of just that the other week", I am stirred once again to try and find out how on earth one gets to attempt to donate a pertinent image from one's photographic efforts to the Wikipaedic community -- and every time I get lost once again in a maze of, to me, uncomprehensive, not to say uncomprehensible, cross-references.
The impression given is that "those who can, do" (the advice proffered seems to be along the lines of "when you're doing X, which of course you're quite capable of, just remember detail Y"), while those of us who can't... well, we really ought to just bugger off.
I was wondering if some kind soul might contribute a step-by-step guide for techno-ignoramuses like me, because what always ends up driving me to despair is stuf like the following:
What is "Wikiformat"? I can't find any article on that in Wikipedia.
The "shorter technical document" -- not that much shorter actually! -- is about layout, really, which is not what I'm looking for.
Oh, I see, though that "also" is a bit cheeky since the present article has so far said nothing at all about uploading... Hang on a minute, though:
Hmm: "image description page". What's that then? Better have a look. Just before I do, though: something wrong here, surely? I've added images to articles before now without doing any of those things -- just added it from another article... If we're talking about a new image how can anyone an image description page that doesn't yet exist. My brain is already beginning to hurt.
Go to
Plough through all of that. No, nothing here about how to upload an image.
Try following the link uploaded file. Oops, now we've been redirected to Wikipedia:Multimedia and everything's getting more technical by the second... and it's not long before we're back at Wikipedia:Image description page, very little the wiser (sigh!)
Would some kind soul consider contributing a step-by-step guide on how to upload images for use in the Wikipedia. Please... -- Picapica 21:21, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
A million thanks, Hermione. Someone should now put those easy-to-follow instructions somewhere prominent! Key was your reference to the special upload page (btw, in my version "browse" sems to have been replaced by "choose", but the effect is the same) -- now why couldn't I find that page before (none of the other "uploading images" pages seemed to mention it)? Many thanks, once again. -- Picapica 11:40, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Why does Wikipedia post the IP addresses of anonymous users? Isn't it possible that a hacker could use this information to try to hack into someone's computer?
I am 99% sure that I registered as a user with Wikipedia, probably over a year ago, but I can neither remember my login info -- since I have not used it for a very long time -- nor can I find it on my computer.
I have a guess as to what username I chose, but since I can't supply any other info for that username (which exists, but whosever it is -- mine or someone else's -- did not supply an e-mail address).
Since I'd prefer to recover my original username, etc., I would like to know how this might be possible.
(Note: If I did register and include an e-mail address, it would've been dazatwelldotcom, or asimovatmsridotorg, or dasimovatarthlinkdotnet, or the now-defunct address asimovdataoldotcom. The only username I can guess I may have used is Daz -- who apparently did not supply and e-mail address . . . much as I might have done.)
Thanks for your help.
Please respond to dasimovatearthlinkdotnet if possible.
I added a photo of some novice monks to the Buddhism page, which is really long, and now when I look at the page, the article has become cut off. Have I deleted the article? Can something be done? Sputnik
I've just noticed that this User:Chantin' Fox has vandalised many pages. What should I do? -- Ghakko
How does one change the effect of writing 4 tildes down? I've noticed that some users have customized it so that it is not the default - it seems pretty neat too. Where can I read up on this? -- HappyCamper 16:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I want to upload some book covers under fair use, but when I go to the upload page I have to tick a box marked "I affirm that the copyright holder of this file agrees to license it under the terms of the Wikipedia copyright."
But the copyright holder hasn't actually agreed, as such...so what do I do? Orange Goblin 10:28, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
I wish the text in Wikipedia was in small-width columns as is found in newspapers. Columns are easier to read IMHO.
Copy this text to your monobook.css file (original poster, yours would be at User:64.169.92.168/monobook.css, although we'd prefer that you create an account before customizing your user styles):
/*Display content in a narrower column for easier reading*/ div#bodyContent { width: 50%; line-height: 105%; }
After saving, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes applied to other pages. For Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), for Internet Explorer: press Ctrl-F5, and for Opera: press F5.
Check the result, and adjust the "width" and "line-height" percentages as desired to make the page most readable for you.
Note that this formats the content into a single long, narrow column -- it's probably possible, but horrendously complicated to format it into multiple side-by-side newspaper-style columns. Also, this may have unpredictable and ugly effects on images and tables included in articles; that's just the price to be paid for using this option.
As suggested, Thryduulf, I've added this snippet to meta:Help:User style. Hope that helps! — Catherine\ talk 01:04, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
I can't see the images for WIkimania, Admiral Piett, etc. or any other images. There is a box but no image inside or in the case of the Imperial Stormtroopers I can't see the image in between the header and the info box. I can't see the images in Firefox but I can in IE (which I would rather not use). Anyone know how to fix this? I think it's my settings somewhere. It's just Wikipedia, not anywhere else.
Thanks I fixed it, to do this you go to options > web features > exceptions
In the last couple of days, I've been losing stuff annoyingly frequently when I try to save. I get this message:
Database error From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "Parser::replaceLinkHolders". MySQL returned error "1053: Server shutdown in progress (10.0.0.2)". Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_bar" (or whatever article title I'm at)
Is this a problem on my end? I have no idea what it's telling me. -- Mothperson 22:47, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
There has been an administrator making controversial edits to a "controversial" article. These sort of edits include things that they should know better than to do (and may have even demonstrated or lectured on in the past). Though some of this may seem like hearsay, these include:
The practices of this administrator seem shady. I would like to know what the proper way of reporting such behavior is for both administrator and normal users. I wish to keep it anonymous since I am a regular contributor to this particular page. To me, it seems that this administrator is not being a role model for the Wikipedian community. Thank you for any assistance you can offer. =) -- Random Wikipedian 04:30, 30 May 2005 (EST)
How do you take snapshots of web pages and upload them onto Wikipedia? - ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:52, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Why is it that most times I come on here it is slow? Sometimes it takes a good three minutes for a page to load or it won't load at all. I thought Wikipedia had been provided with new servers and I am sure the donations have helped to buy new equipment. • Thorpe • 21:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
I have edited and corrected a few things in the page on Carib languages. I would like to change its title to Cariban languages (Cariban is technically speaking better than Carib, since the latter is also the name of a specific language in this family), but I don't know how to do it. Is there an easy way to alter the name/title of a page?
I'd like to add some pseudocode to a page, but if I insert a blank line, I get two separate boxes, like this:
public static void main (....) { // Put some stuff here } public static void anotherFunction { //See? There are two outlined boxes now. }
Is there a way to make it so that both code fragments are within the same box? Thanks for your help! HappyCamper 04:23, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I know that I can change the skin that Wikipedia uses via the preferences link. Can I choose another skin that is not on the list or create a skin of my own? All of the skins on the list have bright, almost white backgrounds which hurt my eyes after staring at the screen long enough. I'd like to invert the colors so that the backgrounds are dark and the fonts are light. – Matt 07:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
#ns-0 { background: #000; color: #fff; }
Greetings all, just wondering what the issue was with the Infobox's used for movies. One minute it's a grey colour, then it's a blue colour. Why does this keep changing?-- Matt von Furrie 08:04, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
I know it is possible to link to a section of another page by nameofpage#nameofsection, but is it possible to link to a sub-section of another page?
I have tried nameofpage#nameofsection#nameofsub-section but this failed.
Ianblair23 13:06, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
This lag is killing me. For some pages it takes ages for the history to get updated and it makes RC patrolling harder than it should be. Are the developers looking into this? Mgm| (talk) 18:10, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
To quote myself, on this page, six headings up:
-- Cyrius| ✎ 00:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a "page view" counter statistic tucked away somewhere?
It would seem to be a very useful stat to see how many page views an article is receiving.
Is this feature currently available? Is some person/committee working on it?
Dear Sirs, Just to inform you that the page on Taiwan has obscenities at the end of the page that makes up about 75% of the "information".
Dear Help desk,
I have just had my internet installed - Saturday May 28th - and one of the first thing I did was to turn to your page. It was functioning all right for about 24 hours, but since Sunday May 29th I have not been able to update on the main page - that is - I have not been able to see any changes in the Wikipedia as such, but I am still able to go to "recent changes" and watch the latest development.
What is my problem? Can you help me?
Please send me a mail: frankrasmussen@dbnet.dk
Regards Frank Rasmussen Denmark
I have made a major edit of the wiki entry for Judge Roy Bean and would like someone in authority to review the entry. I used as reference a web site http://www.qsl.net/w5www/texas.htm but did not credit the owner of the web site or ask his permission. Should I have? Welcome all comments/criticisms.
Xtrump
Is there any way I can simply delete all changes I made to an article today (i.e. restore the entire article text to the point before I started making edits) before I understood exactly how they were supposed to be done? I've got changes to one article without any Edit Summaries that are listed in Recent Changes with my IP address. I've since registered and would like to start from scratch so a) I can explain the changes I have suggested/made and b) do so under a registered name.
[Yea, I know this was an idiot way to start, but I read about this site recently and kind of jumped in precipitously. Believe it or not, I do know quite a bit about the subject of the article I edited -- just am kind of lame-brained in learning techie things.]
Hey all... I've been trying to write articles about a few towns in France and Italy, and would like to use the images that are used in the articles on the foreign language pages (for example, a French language article about a French town). I'm presuming this is fine copyvio wise, since permission must already have been granted for the image to be used on Wikipedia. I can't seem to find anyway of including those images though. Surely it's not very sensible for me to have to download the image, and upload it again to the English wiki. Is there a better way? UkPaolo 21:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just installed MediaWiki, and I'd like to change the default picture of the flower in square brackets to another picture. Could someone guide me through this, or provide a link to something that I can read up on? Many thanks! :)
Wikipedians,
I am relatively new to Wikipedia but I think it is fantastic. I have used it several times to help my daughter with her school projects.
I have just made my first edit, but feel that it may be against the spirt of Wikipedia, and that it should perhaps be removed. If the concensus is that I should then I will.
The logic puzzle Sudoku that has swept Britain this year has just found its way Down-Under. I built my self a little tool to remove the pain of various crossings out, careless errors and restarts on a new piece of paper. Then I thought about sharing my tool with anyone else who might want it, and asking them if they like it, to send me $5-00 (which of course they may all choose not to do). So I built myself a little WebSite, www.sudoku-help.com to do this.
Then I did a bit more research on Sudoku and found the best information available on the Web was right here on Wikipedia. I saw the External Links entries and based on the entries already there, I thought it was reasonable to put a link to my WebSite there.
Although it attempts to add something of value to the discussion on Sudoku, my WebSite essentially encourages visitors to download my tool, and if they like it to send me a nominal payment. Therefore my entry in Wikipedia could be construed as nothing more than a cheap advertisement.
Should I remove it?
Regards Greg
Is there any way to change the default settings of the my watchlist page, rather than having to click on the "display last ??? hours" each time? I can't see it in the preferences. MyNameIsClare talk 15:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice everybody. I shall bookmark the page I want. MyNameIsClare talk 09:11, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I am a newbie who would like to join the Cleanup Team. I know I need to create a desk by making a subpage of my User Page but I cannot find any instructions on how to do this.
Thanks, Jekoko
How do I site a Wikipedia article in a research paper bibliography (MLA stile is preferred)? I'm not sure to site it as an encyclopedia or a webpage.
Hello, newbie here -- I must've missed it somewhere or I just didn't type in the right search term, but how do I add a date and time stamp to my comments without manually doing it? The tilde thing only adds the username so...thanks! StopTheFiling June 2 2005
When I try to log in with my password as User:Tempshill, I'm told the password I typed was incorrect. (I'm quite sure I'm typing it correctly after my 10,000,000 Wikipedia edits.) I tried clicking "mail me my password", and it claims there's no e-mail address stored on the account, which I believe is also wrong. Help! Tempshill2 00:01, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This won't help you, but you're not the only one to have password trouble recently, although the two of us were able to have new passwords e-mailed to us. See User talk:Raul654#Urgent! Help!. Good luck! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that http://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page has been hacked and I'm not sure how to restore it. Is there someone more familiar with it who could fix this?
I've fixed it. It's not hard - see Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. -- SPUI ( talk) 04:00, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Deare Wikipedia,
Why don't you translate the Civil War history pages into Korean, as well as the many other languages you do have?
Thanks for your response.
Jean Quinn Adult ESL teacher 4350 South Country Trail Even Start, Charlestown, RI 02813
Details on your history on the above football club are incorrect
As the Historian of the club can I send you corrections
Kind Regards
Neil Kaufman neilkaufman@tiscali.co.za
I can't help wondering, though, why Orient's historian lives in South Africa (shouldn't he call them Leyton Occident?). Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 23:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Earlier this week I found a great page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX, but now it's gone -- I get the infamous "The page cannot be displayed" error in Internet Explorer. It doesn't look to me like it was purposely deleted; anybody know what's up?
Thanks. Still no go. But it's something crazy on my end -- seems to be happening with multiple wikipedia pages to me -- I look at one, next thing I know I try again and I can't. Just happened with the MainPage. Very strange. Guess I'll try from the wife's computer later on -- thanks for the help...
I should be able to figure this out myself, but I can't. The Science Museum of Minnesota has indicated I can use their images on Wikipedia by the following:
The images on the Name That Candybar site may be used for educational, not-for-profit uses. The attribution should read to the affect of "Copyright 1995 Science Museum of Minnesota". Please let me know if you need anything else. Glad we could help!
-Morgan L'Argent Webmaster Science Museum of Minnesota
I have, maybe, narrowed it down to the category of "General non-free non-commercial" but is it "Provided that" or,"Copyrighted not-for-profit use provided that" or something else? I am at a loss. -- Mothperson 21:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) Also, just out of curiosity, how did that blue box appear above?
I'm just wondering if Wikipedians could talk briefly here about useful commands on Wikipedia that they use to help make their editing lives easier. For example, I noticed that there was the {{ prettytable}} template which could be used to make tables look really nice. Are there neat commands that people are using which they could share? -- HappyCamper 15:53, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Good idea. I have no commands to contribute, but I'd like to learn some new ones. Howabout1 Talk to me! 17:08, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'm new to this and my article has /Temp next to the name. I have finally finished editing it but I don't know how to get the /Temp off? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks :)
Hi, I have made further changes (I must say wiki's copyright laws pertaining to the US are 10 times more stringent than Australia's). Should the page now meet the necessary guidelines? Thanks :)
Hi, I tried reading through the copyright pages. The last photo I tagged with a promotional copyright tag as directed in the help page. the one above, although listed on the construction sa page is not owned by them as the owners of the property take the photos themselves for the public (being the national trust of sa - which i can add on now that i have found out who they are - once again, promotional). the top photo is a scan of the original from sa archives which has no copyright on it as under australian law the person who took the photo (who would hold the copyright) will be long dead and the subject too is long dead (unless of course the copyright was sold or given to someone still alive and who is still paying for the copyright every ten years).
we do prohibit the copying of text BUT it is only a breach if the ORIGINAL author IF known isnt cited. if the original owner isnt known or cant feasibly be attributed (and the webpage i looked at even though they copyright their text isnt the legal copyright owner of the writen word as it has too been lifted from elsewhere - note the lack of citation on their website) then there is no breach of copyright under australian law. this is why most people in australia will request that if someone knows the copyright holder (current) then acknowledgement will be given or royalties paid in accordance with the copyright laws. copyright in australia does not mean trademark (which has it's own seperate laws). australia also has varying limitations to ownership on the internet with recent high court rulings highlighting the so called inadequacy of australian copyright laws and also the inability for other countries laws to impinge on australians within the internet domain.
Can someone point out if anything is still wrong and how do I fix it (it is rather disconcerting for newbies to be ripped apart for trying to contribute)? these things take time to learn! :) (George Strickland Kingston/Temp)
I created an article on Wikipedia about a controversial topic that I regret and I am extremely uncomfortable having it attached to my user account. I know I can request a speedy deletion by placing a tag on the article but I am worried it might draw unwanted attention. Three other users have edited it, but I would consider them all minor edits, so I'm not sure I qualify as the articles "single editor" anymore. What I would like is if a sysop can contact me so I can give them the name of the article, and for the sysop to tell me if it qualifies for speedy deletion. Thanks. Q0 22:07, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks anyway. Since my question has been answered, would be appropriate if I were to delete my own comments here? (I only intend to delete my comments, not my replies). Q0 22:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I updated an article on myself (Robert Cailliau' biography) about an hour ago, and I noticed that there seems to be no standard for writing dates, times and displaying calendars. I did spend some time trying to find a FAQ or other notice about this, but admit that I gave up.
My reason for this comment is that <begin of gripe> I personally get very irritated by US-centric date/time/calendars: using the sequence month-day-year is in itself already inconsistent (no order of small-to-large or large-to-small), "10 p.m." can be confusing and uses more characters than 22:00, and finally the Sunday belongs to the week's end, not its start. <end of gripe>
Whatever my own irritations are, and unless I have overlooked something, in which case I apologise, there is a problem with Wikipedia date/time conventions.
There are two ways of dealing with this problem:
(1) adopt ISO standards (and see also the recommendations of the W3C), tell people about them, enforce them, end of story.
(2) allow readers to set a preference which matches their traditions.
Solution (1) is simple and I would of course greatly prefer it, solution (2) requires some programming and you would still have to use (1) as the default.
Once again, sorry if this has been addressed before and I did not find references. If there are, I'd like to know of them.
Best wishes, and keep up the great work! Robert Cailliau
Does Wiki have a policy on it? I figured it was frowned upon, so the database doesnt get full of crappy redirects. This process makes wikilinks work that shouldnt and can prepetuate incorrect usage. And in the future when partial searches can be done searching through wiki it will bring up so many false possitives from all the spelling error redirects in the database, and we will have to spend weeks sifting through it cleaning up the thousand of entries. - UnlimitedAccess 22:29, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I mean an encyclopedia of English content.
So everybody can search offline. If he want to edit, he can log on and do that online.
By the way, I think the image and multimedia content don't need to appeared in the downloadable version, making the file size downloadable. -- Anon
Hi there.
How do I wikify these HTML bullets?
No matter what I do with Wiki markup. I can't get the "baz" to be part of the "foo" bullet!
My thanks in advance. — 83.216.199.98 13:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This gives the horizontal spacing, but gets the vertical a bit wonky:
Any good? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 14:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Maybe I don't understand the question, but is this what you are looking for?
I've put my user page into a redirect to my talk page, and I don't want it anymore. However, I can't edit it because it redirects me! 68.198.20.94 19:14, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I am confused as to how I site a source. Because I didn't know where to put it or anything and I didn't know how, so I waited a day till I found out and that site has a warning on it. I didn't mean to take the info, I was trying to find out how to from a friend.
I'm currently working on updating Military technology and equipment, but I'm expecting to find (or create) lists of various things in this section that would also be appropriate to put in the section itself (such as a list of assault rifles, the contents of which would also go under the "assault rifle" heading). Is there a way to do this so that there is only a single list, which could then be included in this article?
Or, as another method, would it be appropriate to create a "List of assault rifles", remove all the links from under the assault rifle heading that go to specific assault rifles, and replace them with a single link to "List of assault rifles"?
(update): it seems like the page I'm talking about is, in itself, a list. Right now, I think they should all be added to that list instead of making a new one (and adding a redirect). Thoughts?
Hi there! I've just submitted an article on Lake Taimyr, but it looks kinda weird. There's no "category" written next to the Lakes of Russia category. Is it my browser, or just a post-maintenance issue? KNewman 19:11, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
When I want to make a wikilink that says something other than the name of the link, using a pipe, I always forget whether to make the name of the link come first, before the pipe, or second, after the pipe. I'm always getting it wrong. I wonder if there is some helpful mnemonic or something to help me remember. I'm sick of looking it up everytime, or previewing my edit. Is it [[disconnected|connected space]] or is it [[connected space|disconnected]]? - Lethe | Talk 00:11, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
[[connected space|disconnected]]
in HTML, it would look like this: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_space">disconnected</a>. Hope that helps. Or, if you're always getting it wrong, think about what you think it should be, and do the opposite. —
Knowledge Seeker
দ 03:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)I had to reinstall Internet Explorer 6.0, and now articles don't display. The browser gives me a blank page, and displays a "Done" message in that status bar. I even added *.wikipedia.org to my list of trusted web sites. Yet, Wikipedia works fine in FireFox. I think there could be a problem with XML support in my IE 6 browser. How can I get Wikipedia to work in IE again? 70.32.82.74 04:23, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) Drawing a Blank
Dear Sir i need information on this material and how it is fix and also maintain sk tan suankuan.tan@ascendas.com
Hello, just a simple question regarding article edits. I have contributed a few edits recently and have been pleased to see the results appear straight away. By contrast, I have noticed on a few occasions that by clicking "history" on an article it is apparent that the most recent edits (not my own) are not visible on the main article page. This remains the case even if I load it and click Refresh or F5. Wait a few days, however, and the edits magically appear! Is this an issue that relates to how Wikipedia works, or it something to do with my ISP's cache or something? Not a big problem either way, but I am curious.
I remember reading an extensive article about Robert Ryman, but now it's not here (even a stub) and there seems to be no record of it getting deleted. Any way to find out when/why/how it had gone?
I am sorry to say this but your article on Paul of Tarsus is woefully tendentious.THe article finishes about the Christian Saint perhaps the second most important person in the History of Christianity with a completely unfounded allusion to him being a homosexual
I am sure this has been answered before, but I want to get rid of an article I just started that is redundant. The topic was red-linked somewhere, I forgot about case-sensitivity of titles, and just blundered on. No one has added to it, as it's only a few minutes old. What's the procedure for deleting?????????????????? -- Mothperson 16:14, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you both. There's so little in it, I'd rather get rid of it and add the stuff to the existing article. Yet another entry for my list of things never to do again. -- Mothperson 17:07, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
If you search for ADHD, you are redirected to an old and wrong version of the "Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder" page. It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD even though it says at the top that it was redirected from there. If you click on that "redirected from ADHD" and then click on the link next to the "Redirect" hooked arrow, you get the updated version of the page. You can recognise the difference quickly as the new version has an entry in the contents: "3.2 Hunter-versus-farmer and other evolutionary hypotheses"
If you search Wikipedia for "attention deficit" you get the updated version of the page.
The difference persists even when I refresh-page. Surprisingly, both pages have the same revision history.
Do you know how to fix this please?
in this case its Whitewater. I put some random if you kill yourself its not our fault thing at the top but is there a specific policy when it comes to topics like this?
I tried to figure this out from Wikipedia's various pages about copyrights, etc. but was unable to. Would using a screencap or single frame from a Film be considered a copyright violation? Are images from films Fair Use?
Thank you
Benco0008
On your webpage for 'Mumbai' someone has added rude text. I tried to edit the page and try to remove it, but can't identify how to go about it.
There is a disturbing and OFFENSIVE picture at the bottom of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal
I don't know how to remove it, but PLEASE, can someone take care of it???
No. It was crude, sexually abusive, and very disturbing. Whoever deleted was fast - thank you!!!
A teacher would like to use an image/photo found on your site on a hotlist they are creating? I can't find any mention of use of images. As long as we give you credit can we use the photos found here?
A table was added to International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia but it looks bad because the empty cells are not created leaving a uneven appearance. Is there some invisible character that could be added to each currently empty cell to force the cell border or is the table not correctly formated? Rmhermen 15:21, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
What do I need to be able to listen to audio files within Wikipedia? I hasten to add, that I'm sort of computer retarded... Thanks!
~bobby
Hello --
When I look up a city name, or a river name, for instance, I would expect to obtain easily, at least one or two simple line maps locating nearest political boundaries, largest neighboring city, etc. I don't seem to be able to find a direct link to that in your geographical entries.
Any pointers? Please answer privately as well as publicly as I may never find this page again.
Thanks, Mark Shulgasser shulgas@bellsouth.net
(I haven't mailed him) Wikipedia is a work in progress and it's entirely possible for an entry not to have a map yet. Still, there are people working on it and you could provide some yourself if you know how to make them. Mgm| (talk) 21:26, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Dear sir,
In the air oxygen and nitrogen are present, how we are taking only oxgen for breating. pls explain.
my e.mail.id nagarajan64@sancharnet.in
check out lungs and diffusion-- 65.24.68.237 20:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I had added a small, but what I considered important, paragraph to the article under the sub-heading "Debate on unemployment". Subsequently I registered as a user. How can the original contribution now be linked to me as a user?
I am a newcomer to Wikipedia. I am trying to find a history of Egypt. How do I do that?
I used to use this link [9] but now it's not there anymore. What effective alternatives are out there? -- HappyCamper 15:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
How do I go about coding a plus sign in something like Travel + Leisure? Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Garcia where I spent a couple of edits trying to add T+L and couldn't get it. I tried adding a plus sign then the + format and both came up as Travel + Leisure on the final page (with the brackets and not the link).
Thanks.