I am doing a paper on social class and I somehow stumbled upon this awesome website. Kudos to the editor! I have tried numerous times to find the editor's name and the author of the article I read on social class (www.wordiq.com/definition/Upper_class) Could someone please assist me with this? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Christina
I was wondering if there was an easier way to find the sound files on Wikipedia than stumbling upon them? Is there a list of them available? thanks -- Roisterer 02:21, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
How can I clean up old search topics that come up in the SEARCH input field?
On Wikipedia's first page is the input field for the search string. When I click this, all old search item I have ever looked for come up. Some are out dated, some annoying, some just clutter the picture. Sometimes I would like to delete the all.
Is there any way to erase them all or edit this list?
If there isn't any, I strongly recommend to add an option "clear history". How many decades and centuries do you want to let these data accumulate into data graveyards? Obviously they become less and less useful over time if you cannot clear or edit these lists.
If such an option is there, it is very well hidden. I doubt that it exists.
Thanks, Karl Scherer
Wikipedia urgently needs a cleanup of all articles that have upper/lower case wrong and/or plural in the title where there should be singular.
Two examples:
Apart from the (correct) article with title
there are also two other articles on the same topic called
As far as I understand Wikipedias, they both should not exist at all and be replaced by reference to "Mechanical puzzle" (maybe some of the text can be salvaged and integrated).
Similarly, apart from the (correct) article with title
there are also two other articles on the same topic called
The more unclean titles exist, the more Wikipedia guarantees that the information can NOT be find.
Obviously there is no mechanism to avoid these wrongdoings, so I uggest maybe someone writes a computer program to check for such plural-containing article titles.
Also, even when only one article exists on a topic and its title is a plural for no good reason, this should be changed into a singular.
Also, unnecessary Upper Case Words in titles should be eliminated for consistency. But of course the first complaint is the most important, because it stops people from finding information in Wikipedia, and I suppose we all agree that this is to be avoided.
Cheers, Karl Scherer
I keep on getting the "you have messages" message when I am not logged in (like right now). I go to check it out and there is nothing there. how do I get rid of it? Carole.a (my logged in name)
Why on some pages do the tabs move? That is, the "edit this page," "watch" and so forth move from being in a horizontal row to a more-or-less vertical column when I bring my mouse over a tab. Thanks. Maurreen 00:00, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Ooops... I think this was for the Reference Desk... And now I do not know how to delete it. Can somebody delete this for me, please?
I think Ferrari is cited not correctly here, but I do not know, where the mistake has been made.
On
Italic text http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html
they cited him correctly, I think...
Does anybody see the mistake quickly (I would need at least several days, because: I am not so good in mathematics)...
-Arne
Hello,
Could someone move Totie Fields on the Category: US comedians page? She is listed under T. She should go under F since "Totie" is her first name and "Fields" is her last name. Thank you. C Adams
I'm known as "User:Shannon" on several wikipedias, and would like to keep this name when editing in the english version as well. But the user name is already in use. Unfortunately, User:Shannon never made any edits, and has no user & discussion page as well, so I cannot reach him. I would like to take over his account, since he obviously does not use his, but how?
Maybe some admin / developer can help me. My "home" Wikipedia is the german, please leave a message on [1].
Thanks!!
I want to add pictures to The Irish Times and Irish Independent. I have both newspapers - how should I add them? Scan just the masthead? The whole front page? Is this fair use? JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 16:04, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I know that the {{ns:3}} template tag produces a User talk substitution, but is there an easier way to get a Talk link in a signature, like with ~~~~? I'm using the rather convoluted [[{{ns:3}}:Alphax|(talk)]] at the moment - Alphax (talk) 10:28, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
This way there's no chance of forgetting which ns code it was. Calling it User_talk actually makes sense, so it's easier to remember.
Hope that helps, if not, drop a note on my talk page :) [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 21:28, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
A few hours ago I registered at wikipedia. I edited a few pages and added some to my watchlist. I checked my watchlist and my contributions and they did show up. After that I logged out. When I came here again, I wanted too see if there were any changed made on pages that are on my watchlist or my contributions. But when I open my watchlist or my contributions it says there are no items on them. -- Mixcoatl 12:25, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just to note that I had this problem the other day - I was being served an out-of-date watchlist, as though the last few hours hadn't happened; rather spooky, really. I suspect it was just the side-effect of either maintenance or excessive load on the server. Annoying, but temporary. - IMSoP 23:18, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I could have sworn that I posted this question earlier, but then I came back and couldn't find it anymore.
How do you know how many edits you have made without actually sitting there and counting every one on your "My Contributions" page? I am assuming there is an easier way to do this.-- ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 02:18, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Obviously, with writers from around the world, there are various "dialects" of English used here at Wikipedia, and I was wondering which was correct. That is, is it color or colour? Do quotation marks go inside or outside punctuation?
Thanks. Vague Rant 05:01, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
Your search engine is temporarily out of order, and when I reached the Meetup definition page via Yahoo, I made a startling discovery: In the second sentence of the very first paragraph, which is uneditable, the words "such as" are use twice, back-to-back, duplicating them unecessarily. As that segment isn't editable, and I can't find an "errors and ommissions" tab, I am sending this comment to you in the hopes that this grammatical error can be corrected. After all, an encyclopedia, like a dictionary, should have correct spelling and grammar.
I hope my time and effort is not wasted.
Thank you,
James Taylor
PS. If you wish to respond, or I can help in any way, you can get my email address from Meetup. The name is "Melior", and I am the organizer for the "Capitalist Party Meetup" in Vancouver, BC, Canada. If you had an errors and ommissions page that was not publicized, I would have given you my email adress directly.
Short question: Is it possible to obtain statistics about individual articles? - Logariasmo 07:12, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
i am creating an article for an author and wanted to add a link to a book he wrote for a synopsos ex: toxin when i add the link it directs to a page about the word toxin. how can i fix this??
I would like to post a screenshot of my customized stylesheet on my userpage. Is this acceptable and how exactly do I go about doing this? -- Will2k 18:09, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Yes it's acceptable. To do it save the screenshop in .png format, with a sensible name (e.g. Will2k's stylsheet screenshot) then hit the "upload file" and put a copyright template in the summary ( e.g. {{GNDL}}). Once it's uploaded go to you user page an put it in in the form[[Image:Will2k's stylsheet screenshot.png|thumb|200px|This is my customized stylesheet pretty cool eh?]] . Let me know if you have any trouble but it's all pretty easy. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 18:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
No mater wat I type in standard.js it dus apsulutly nuthing in the page! I try downloading the raw JS file it try to load, and it downloaded a blank file. I try reload/refresh and it still not work. Wat rong with this? -- zzo38 19:24, 2004 Oct 1 (UTC)
Hi, just created a table at the Netball World Championships page, and the external link section after it seems to be wrapping around the right hand side. How do I make it stop? Ziggurat 02:56, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
align="left"
in the table.
Goplat 03:16, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ziggurat 03:22, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My Watchlist appears to have stopped updating. Anyone else having that problem? - Ta bu shi da yu 15:19, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I borrowed my css style from User:Fredrik (see User:Rdsmith4/monobook.css), and I'd like to enable the external link icon and the icon in front of my username at the top of every page. I found what I thought was the css to include the icons commented out, and I uncommented it, but now I simply have a blank space where the icon should be after every external link. Any suggestions? Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 16:25, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
When I do a accented character, the edit text for the character always shows as regular text if I put something after the accented character. How can I stop this?
The table on USS Lynx (AK-100) appears after the text and not to the right of it. I used the Wikiproject table set up by others and didn't change it, so I'm not sure why it's doing this. I'm off to read the table faqs again, but if someone has a quick fix, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. [[User:Gamaliel|Gamaliel File:Watchmensmiley20.gif]] 18:39, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is it O.K. to use text governed by this license:
PERMISSION IS GRANTED TO USE OR REPRODUCE THIS ESSAY PROVIDED THAT PROPER CREDIT IS GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: Hratch Tchilingirian, The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church (www.sain.org) 1996. Copyright 1996.
As attribution of credits is part of GNU-FDL, I'd guess it is O.K. but IANAL. -- Pjacobi 00:33, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there a way of merging the contribution history designated to my IP address (done while not logged on) with my named user history? Dainamo 11:22, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there a policy on what is and is not appropriate content for user pages? I've recently discovered one that has questionable elements. Tregoweth 17:23, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
What is
User:Unhelpful user, and how would it end up on my watchlist without me placing it there? --[[User:Eequor|
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I just created Category:Planetary engineering on my user page User:Viriditas/sandbox and now I can't delete my user page from the category. What did I do wrong, and how can I prevent this from happening in the future? Thanks. -- Viriditas 02:34, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I found both a stub Juan Luis Vives and a good article Juan Luís Vives. Where to report doubles in the future? Please look also at ca:Joan Lluis Vives i Marc. Wath name should be used? Gangleri 03:23, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
Seanieboy92 moved the article on Jacques-Yves Cousteau to the page Document1 - Microsoft Windows I am not sure where this should be reported but I made a mistake I copied content from Document1 - Microsoft Windows and moved it to Jacques-Yves Cousteau which means the edit history is in Document1 - Microsoft Windows. Please make amends.
Second thing - can anyone tell me how to find where to report problems like this.
And finally - why are Help Desk and Village Pump not being archived anymore? -- Ankur 04:16, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I set on my preferences to underline links and do not justify paragraphs. But, for some reason, I'm oftenly getting links without underlines and with the paragraphs justified.
When I go check again the peferences, everything is normal, so I guess they're not working for some reason.
Is this some sort of bug, or perhaps an ongoing problem? — Kieff | Talk 05:09, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is an existing policy on where the "main" article of a category should be indexed. I've seen a "blank" index: like [[Category:History| ]], a * index [[Category:History|*]] and just a normal index [[Category:History]], and I'm not sure which is the best. — siro χ o 05:16, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
There are some attempts on categories modelling an "is-a" relation. For such cases the main article about the topic shouldn't be categorited into this category at all, you should use "See also" to link it. -- Pjacobi 21:32, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I attempted to put Thesis Parade on VfD but somehow I've got things a bit confused. The boiler plate shows up on Thesis Parade, and if I follow "This pages entry" I find my vote for deletion, but when I look on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion there is no mention of Thesis Parade. Could explain why nobody else has voted!
I'm a relative newby and I'm gradually finding my way around. I now realise that the best solution to the original problem is to make the Thesis Parade page a redirect to Reed College since that's where the material really belongs.
So how do I tidy up here, or do I need a Sys-Op's help?
-- Cje 20:29, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions about how to make my Wikipedia pages better. How do you find the Unicode equivalent of Chinese characters? I am trying to add the Chinese station names to the List of Hong Kong MTR stations page, but I keep getting ?? marks unless I add Unicode notation.
Second question, how do you create the tables that have a list of articles an an Icon, such as the Countries in the Commonwealth, or Nations in North America. Thank you! PZFUN 05:24, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
How do I recover my password without my e-mail on file?
Username: Mistress
-Ami Hughes
After having a welcome message - I put up the following:
"Thank you for the welcome after I put up Hardangerfjord which I discovered was not covered yet while searching for it. Hope there is no problem in having a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 setup for the photos. Have quite a number of original photos I can share with Wikipedia if that is no problems."
Got the following answer from
Meelar
"Actually, there might be an issue with the "non-commercial" bit. We try to avoid non-commercial images, because it will prevent their being reused by the sites that mirror us, and this is not compliant with the GFDL (see Wikipedia:Copyrights for more). I'd recommend you raise the question on Wikipedia:Help desk--my grasp of the copyright law here is slippery, and I wouldn't rely on me for a clear statement of your options.
I do hope that you keep contributing, especially images; they're a crucial resource for an encyclopedia, and we're woefully short."
So to the issue itself, as seen from my side (-:
As said, I have thousands of images - especially from Norway and Egypt. Being a professional artist, originally in the area of fine art paintings - I have now added the use of camera to my profession. As I also work with consultancy and tour planning for travellers who need tailor made travels - I highly depend on these photos to be able to both show and explain destinations and to use these as highly needed images to my articles.
When photos in addition is purchased by other commercial publications (online as offline), these photos have both become part of a needed resource for income - and a images I don't want let other start to tweak without my permission (the last is mostly the artist in me I guess).
I have no problems in giving a free licence even to commercial entities when related to the work or mirroring of Wikipedia - but the problem is to have photos in Wikipedia for a totally free use when I on the other side have sold and will sell same or similar to commercial media.
If there is a way for me to protect my back and at the same time share my photos with Wikipedia and mirrors - then I will be the first to say "hey, that's great"
I'm getting a weird bug. I can't seem to create a link called C+C Music Factory. Obviously the plus sign is the offender. Any suggestions? -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:25, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
There is a certain user from San Diego who periodically adds sneaky vandalism to various cartoon-related pages on Wikipedia. Previously, User:Morwen and I, along with other users, were recording appearances, etc, on User:Morwen/Cartoon. However, it appears that Morwen may be gone for some extended/unknown period of time, and the vandal is still active. I've put a similar subpage under my own name, but I was wondering it is appropriate to redirect another user's subpage to one's own, provided that it's for the same cause, etc? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 00:59, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Check out this:
In Opera, the framed version messes up on the bottom for some reason, as if the images was squeezed to 64x62.
I checked the Pixel art article under IE here and the images were squeezed a lot more.
Not sure what's going on here... — Kieff | Talk 09:14, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am new to Wikipedia and don't know who I should contact. I found in Wikipedia a definition of a lambda convex function which I would like to seek a clarification. I thought the best would be to consult the author of the definition. I would appreciate if you could help me to find who the author is and how I could get in touch with him/her.
Your help is much appreciated
Krzysztof Krakowski
My email address is kris@mcs.une.edu.au
Assuming this is the apropos place to do so, I'd like to request two history merges for pages that were inappropriately cut-and-pasted by others:
Thanks. :-) – radiojon 07:15, 2004 Oct 11 (UTC)
I attempted to correct an error in Renormalized-vertex.png, and the corrected version seems to have uploaded fine, but Wikipedia insists on linking to the earliest version of the image as the current one. Re-uploading didn't fix the problem, nor did reverting to the first corrected version. (To make absolutely sure it wasn't just a problem with my browser cache that was somehow resistant to explicit flushing, I even looked at the page in a different browser that had never visited the page before.)
I'm obviously at the point of thrashing about like a fool. Is this just a bug, or some sort of anti-image-vandalism safeguard, or is there something obvious that I'm missing (quite likely)? -- Matt McIrvin 15:18, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello sir, I need your help regarding firing system used in marine gas tubine. First of all i would like to know which type of firing system are used in marine gas turbine. If i have one model of gas turbine, can i guess this perticular firing system is used in this model?
Hoping for your kind positive response. Best regards, Rajesh Mehta.
( William M. Connolley 09:01, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)) I have reason to suspect that there used to be a page on the George C. Marshall Institute (or, err, some variation thereof). Probably a year ago, no idea when it disappeared. Is there any way to go back and search when it was deleted and why (if it ever existed of course).
Is there a snytax to make a link to user:IP address 64.32.180.82 so that I can link on [[User:Rye1967}} to the very first changes I made when I didn't have a user-id
-- User:Rye1967
Category:GFDL images needs breaking down into sub cats. Too big a job for one person and I'd need guidance on the best way of sub-categorising images before being confident enough to do it myself. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:54, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
Hey all, I would like to make a table that looks like the table on the right. How would I do this in wiki-markup? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:45, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
first header | exclamation mark | makes it bold |
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first entry | second entry | third entry |
vert bar | hyphen | starts a new line |
cells | start with a vert bar | or a double bar if on the same line |
Look at the source of this one:
first header | exclamation mark | makes it bold |
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first entry | second entry | third entry |
vert bar | hyphen | starts a new line |
cells | start with a vert bar | or a double bar if on the same line |
Pjacobi 23:25, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There appears to be a space between the cells... what causes this? Also, how do I make a vertical line down one column. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:52, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The spaces are because there is a separate border at the bottom of each cell, and there's a gap between the cells. This probably delivers what you want, but is complex. [[User:Noisy| Noisy | Talk]] 17:50, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
"cellspacing=0" gets rid of the gaps between the cells! [[User:Noisy| Noisy | Talk]] 10:18, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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makes it bold | |||||||||
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Dear Wikipedia,
I just googled "pork barrel politic" and got directed as one of the first hits to an excellent Wikipedia article. When i searched for the very same term in Wikipedia directly, it didn't produce a result. Could you please explain to me how I should use the search function?
Many thanks, Silje
Hi everybody. I just reverted some vandalism in the Homosexuality article, and it seems to be broken now. It shows this error message:
Does anybody know how to restore it? Thanks. Sietse 14:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I've been doing some work on some of the articles covering non-commissioned officer ranks in the U.S. military, and I've run into something I don't know how to edit.
The object is a chart showing the rank structure of the four services, and is referenced in the wiki code as "{{US_enlisted_ranks}}." There doesn't seem to be any way to edit it on the article, nor an I find a location to edit the object itself.
The correction that needs to be made, fyi, is that the abbreviation "SMOMC" under the Marine Corps listing currently points to the Master Gunnery Sergeant article, and needs to be pointed at the Sergeant Major article, instead. Fox1 15:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, a new user ( User:Raj2004) asked me for help with contacting a website or some such in regards to quotations. They might very well be fair use for all I know. Any help is appreciated. Here is a link to his request on my talk: User_talk:Sam_Spade#Dvaita_and_Visatadvaita. I will direct him here, and a couple other places (like Wikipedia:Fair use and Boilerplate_request_for_permission). Cheers, Sam [ Spade] 18:11, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm not a newcomer though don't know how to do this. How do you edit those tag on messages such as- {{ English_Northern_Premier_League_teams}} found at the bottom of the page English northern premier league? I have discovered a error in it I wish to correct though do not know how to access it to do so. Can someone who knows please leave a reply on my talk.
Aloha. I originally posted a similar problem in Help with category. I'm having the same problem this time, except with my edits. The last two edits I've made have not shown up, and I'm wondering if that's normal when the server is busy. The status page says "slow", and I'm wondering exactly what that means. Does that mean it takes an hour for my edits to show up? I can see my edits when I go to my contributions page, or when I try and edit the page I updated, but I still can't view my edits on the actual article page. Can you see my edit on this page? I haven't had this happen before, (except with the short lag time removing a category) so I would be interested in any comments. And no, it's not my cache. -- Viriditas 10:21, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Could someone please check out my account, as yesterday I got a message saying my editing was blocked because of a dispute between two users who I have never heard of. I couldn't edit yesterday, and today I seem to be able to edit but the edits don't show up. Thank you. TonyClarke 15:17, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
(moved from top of page)
I have made several edits to Periodic table and History of the periodic table, yet my contributions list remains blank. Also, on the cont. list, the link to my talk page is red, yet I have made edits to my talk page ( User talk:Honeycake). Obviously I want my edits to show up, so please email me or elave a message on my talk page. Thanks-- Honeycake 15:47, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) PS: I added my talk page to my watchlist, when I go to my talk page the tab now says 'Unwatch' but my watchlist remains empty. PLEASE HELP. Thanks.
In the course of writing an article, I'd like to set up a "hot spot" on a word that, when clicked, will popup or display a small block of text, such as the definition of the word clicked. I had hoped that msg would have done that, but I found it does not correspond to msgbox or alert in javascript, as I had hoped.
The type of functionality I'm referring to can be found in most Windows applications Help systems; they work similarly to a tooltip (that might be produced by putting text in the TITLE attribute of an HTML element).
Can this be done some way in Wiki?
rbiggs@myfamilyinc.com
-ron
PS --- things I tried: [javascript:alert('test') Test This] --- code was not interpreted as [http://gosomewhere.com Test This], rendered Test This.
I lost old account. Can't remember it. How to find it? And...If I don't use this for somedays. is this deleted?? How to delete my old account?? Agoago 23:19, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering where to alert other users about the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshwane_university_of_technology It needs some kind of work on it: for instance, it's quotations may be of copyrighted material and it includes the second person pronoun "we": I'm sure other problems are easy to spot too. Where should I post about this page? dpen2000 00:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm adding a "search Wikipedia" link to my home page and would like to mark it with a Wikipedia logo, just as Google lets me do. Is this allowed, and is there a standard logo I can download for this purpose as opposed to making my own?
How does one edit a box indicated by this code : {{NS Uni}}, for example? I guess it must be easy, but I have no idea where to find help on this.
Peregrine981 09:35, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
The article International Organisation for Migration should be a REDIRECT to International Organization for Migration and not vice versa. International Organization for Migration is the correct spelling of this organization. Can a sysop do this please. -- ALE! 14:20, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The Non-linear_editing_system page seems to talk a lot about video editing software. I wanted to create a new page on video editing software but it seems that such a page already exists and automatically redirects. How can I stop the redirect? (So I can move software content over to the video editing software page where I can expand on it)
I am doing a paper on social class and I somehow stumbled upon this awesome website. Kudos to the editor! I have tried numerous times to find the editor's name and the author of the article I read on social class (www.wordiq.com/definition/Upper_class) Could someone please assist me with this? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Christina
I was wondering if there was an easier way to find the sound files on Wikipedia than stumbling upon them? Is there a list of them available? thanks -- Roisterer 02:21, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
How can I clean up old search topics that come up in the SEARCH input field?
On Wikipedia's first page is the input field for the search string. When I click this, all old search item I have ever looked for come up. Some are out dated, some annoying, some just clutter the picture. Sometimes I would like to delete the all.
Is there any way to erase them all or edit this list?
If there isn't any, I strongly recommend to add an option "clear history". How many decades and centuries do you want to let these data accumulate into data graveyards? Obviously they become less and less useful over time if you cannot clear or edit these lists.
If such an option is there, it is very well hidden. I doubt that it exists.
Thanks, Karl Scherer
Wikipedia urgently needs a cleanup of all articles that have upper/lower case wrong and/or plural in the title where there should be singular.
Two examples:
Apart from the (correct) article with title
there are also two other articles on the same topic called
As far as I understand Wikipedias, they both should not exist at all and be replaced by reference to "Mechanical puzzle" (maybe some of the text can be salvaged and integrated).
Similarly, apart from the (correct) article with title
there are also two other articles on the same topic called
The more unclean titles exist, the more Wikipedia guarantees that the information can NOT be find.
Obviously there is no mechanism to avoid these wrongdoings, so I uggest maybe someone writes a computer program to check for such plural-containing article titles.
Also, even when only one article exists on a topic and its title is a plural for no good reason, this should be changed into a singular.
Also, unnecessary Upper Case Words in titles should be eliminated for consistency. But of course the first complaint is the most important, because it stops people from finding information in Wikipedia, and I suppose we all agree that this is to be avoided.
Cheers, Karl Scherer
I keep on getting the "you have messages" message when I am not logged in (like right now). I go to check it out and there is nothing there. how do I get rid of it? Carole.a (my logged in name)
Why on some pages do the tabs move? That is, the "edit this page," "watch" and so forth move from being in a horizontal row to a more-or-less vertical column when I bring my mouse over a tab. Thanks. Maurreen 00:00, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Ooops... I think this was for the Reference Desk... And now I do not know how to delete it. Can somebody delete this for me, please?
I think Ferrari is cited not correctly here, but I do not know, where the mistake has been made.
On
Italic text http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html
they cited him correctly, I think...
Does anybody see the mistake quickly (I would need at least several days, because: I am not so good in mathematics)...
-Arne
Hello,
Could someone move Totie Fields on the Category: US comedians page? She is listed under T. She should go under F since "Totie" is her first name and "Fields" is her last name. Thank you. C Adams
I'm known as "User:Shannon" on several wikipedias, and would like to keep this name when editing in the english version as well. But the user name is already in use. Unfortunately, User:Shannon never made any edits, and has no user & discussion page as well, so I cannot reach him. I would like to take over his account, since he obviously does not use his, but how?
Maybe some admin / developer can help me. My "home" Wikipedia is the german, please leave a message on [1].
Thanks!!
I want to add pictures to The Irish Times and Irish Independent. I have both newspapers - how should I add them? Scan just the masthead? The whole front page? Is this fair use? JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 16:04, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I know that the {{ns:3}} template tag produces a User talk substitution, but is there an easier way to get a Talk link in a signature, like with ~~~~? I'm using the rather convoluted [[{{ns:3}}:Alphax|(talk)]] at the moment - Alphax (talk) 10:28, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
This way there's no chance of forgetting which ns code it was. Calling it User_talk actually makes sense, so it's easier to remember.
Hope that helps, if not, drop a note on my talk page :) [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 21:28, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
A few hours ago I registered at wikipedia. I edited a few pages and added some to my watchlist. I checked my watchlist and my contributions and they did show up. After that I logged out. When I came here again, I wanted too see if there were any changed made on pages that are on my watchlist or my contributions. But when I open my watchlist or my contributions it says there are no items on them. -- Mixcoatl 12:25, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just to note that I had this problem the other day - I was being served an out-of-date watchlist, as though the last few hours hadn't happened; rather spooky, really. I suspect it was just the side-effect of either maintenance or excessive load on the server. Annoying, but temporary. - IMSoP 23:18, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I could have sworn that I posted this question earlier, but then I came back and couldn't find it anymore.
How do you know how many edits you have made without actually sitting there and counting every one on your "My Contributions" page? I am assuming there is an easier way to do this.-- ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 02:18, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Obviously, with writers from around the world, there are various "dialects" of English used here at Wikipedia, and I was wondering which was correct. That is, is it color or colour? Do quotation marks go inside or outside punctuation?
Thanks. Vague Rant 05:01, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
Your search engine is temporarily out of order, and when I reached the Meetup definition page via Yahoo, I made a startling discovery: In the second sentence of the very first paragraph, which is uneditable, the words "such as" are use twice, back-to-back, duplicating them unecessarily. As that segment isn't editable, and I can't find an "errors and ommissions" tab, I am sending this comment to you in the hopes that this grammatical error can be corrected. After all, an encyclopedia, like a dictionary, should have correct spelling and grammar.
I hope my time and effort is not wasted.
Thank you,
James Taylor
PS. If you wish to respond, or I can help in any way, you can get my email address from Meetup. The name is "Melior", and I am the organizer for the "Capitalist Party Meetup" in Vancouver, BC, Canada. If you had an errors and ommissions page that was not publicized, I would have given you my email adress directly.
Short question: Is it possible to obtain statistics about individual articles? - Logariasmo 07:12, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
i am creating an article for an author and wanted to add a link to a book he wrote for a synopsos ex: toxin when i add the link it directs to a page about the word toxin. how can i fix this??
I would like to post a screenshot of my customized stylesheet on my userpage. Is this acceptable and how exactly do I go about doing this? -- Will2k 18:09, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Yes it's acceptable. To do it save the screenshop in .png format, with a sensible name (e.g. Will2k's stylsheet screenshot) then hit the "upload file" and put a copyright template in the summary ( e.g. {{GNDL}}). Once it's uploaded go to you user page an put it in in the form[[Image:Will2k's stylsheet screenshot.png|thumb|200px|This is my customized stylesheet pretty cool eh?]] . Let me know if you have any trouble but it's all pretty easy. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 18:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
No mater wat I type in standard.js it dus apsulutly nuthing in the page! I try downloading the raw JS file it try to load, and it downloaded a blank file. I try reload/refresh and it still not work. Wat rong with this? -- zzo38 19:24, 2004 Oct 1 (UTC)
Hi, just created a table at the Netball World Championships page, and the external link section after it seems to be wrapping around the right hand side. How do I make it stop? Ziggurat 02:56, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
align="left"
in the table.
Goplat 03:16, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ziggurat 03:22, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My Watchlist appears to have stopped updating. Anyone else having that problem? - Ta bu shi da yu 15:19, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I borrowed my css style from User:Fredrik (see User:Rdsmith4/monobook.css), and I'd like to enable the external link icon and the icon in front of my username at the top of every page. I found what I thought was the css to include the icons commented out, and I uncommented it, but now I simply have a blank space where the icon should be after every external link. Any suggestions? Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 16:25, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
When I do a accented character, the edit text for the character always shows as regular text if I put something after the accented character. How can I stop this?
The table on USS Lynx (AK-100) appears after the text and not to the right of it. I used the Wikiproject table set up by others and didn't change it, so I'm not sure why it's doing this. I'm off to read the table faqs again, but if someone has a quick fix, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. [[User:Gamaliel|Gamaliel File:Watchmensmiley20.gif]] 18:39, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is it O.K. to use text governed by this license:
PERMISSION IS GRANTED TO USE OR REPRODUCE THIS ESSAY PROVIDED THAT PROPER CREDIT IS GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: Hratch Tchilingirian, The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church (www.sain.org) 1996. Copyright 1996.
As attribution of credits is part of GNU-FDL, I'd guess it is O.K. but IANAL. -- Pjacobi 00:33, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there a way of merging the contribution history designated to my IP address (done while not logged on) with my named user history? Dainamo 11:22, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there a policy on what is and is not appropriate content for user pages? I've recently discovered one that has questionable elements. Tregoweth 17:23, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
What is
User:Unhelpful user, and how would it end up on my watchlist without me placing it there? --[[User:Eequor|
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I just created Category:Planetary engineering on my user page User:Viriditas/sandbox and now I can't delete my user page from the category. What did I do wrong, and how can I prevent this from happening in the future? Thanks. -- Viriditas 02:34, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I found both a stub Juan Luis Vives and a good article Juan Luís Vives. Where to report doubles in the future? Please look also at ca:Joan Lluis Vives i Marc. Wath name should be used? Gangleri 03:23, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
Seanieboy92 moved the article on Jacques-Yves Cousteau to the page Document1 - Microsoft Windows I am not sure where this should be reported but I made a mistake I copied content from Document1 - Microsoft Windows and moved it to Jacques-Yves Cousteau which means the edit history is in Document1 - Microsoft Windows. Please make amends.
Second thing - can anyone tell me how to find where to report problems like this.
And finally - why are Help Desk and Village Pump not being archived anymore? -- Ankur 04:16, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I set on my preferences to underline links and do not justify paragraphs. But, for some reason, I'm oftenly getting links without underlines and with the paragraphs justified.
When I go check again the peferences, everything is normal, so I guess they're not working for some reason.
Is this some sort of bug, or perhaps an ongoing problem? — Kieff | Talk 05:09, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is an existing policy on where the "main" article of a category should be indexed. I've seen a "blank" index: like [[Category:History| ]], a * index [[Category:History|*]] and just a normal index [[Category:History]], and I'm not sure which is the best. — siro χ o 05:16, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
There are some attempts on categories modelling an "is-a" relation. For such cases the main article about the topic shouldn't be categorited into this category at all, you should use "See also" to link it. -- Pjacobi 21:32, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I attempted to put Thesis Parade on VfD but somehow I've got things a bit confused. The boiler plate shows up on Thesis Parade, and if I follow "This pages entry" I find my vote for deletion, but when I look on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion there is no mention of Thesis Parade. Could explain why nobody else has voted!
I'm a relative newby and I'm gradually finding my way around. I now realise that the best solution to the original problem is to make the Thesis Parade page a redirect to Reed College since that's where the material really belongs.
So how do I tidy up here, or do I need a Sys-Op's help?
-- Cje 20:29, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions about how to make my Wikipedia pages better. How do you find the Unicode equivalent of Chinese characters? I am trying to add the Chinese station names to the List of Hong Kong MTR stations page, but I keep getting ?? marks unless I add Unicode notation.
Second question, how do you create the tables that have a list of articles an an Icon, such as the Countries in the Commonwealth, or Nations in North America. Thank you! PZFUN 05:24, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
How do I recover my password without my e-mail on file?
Username: Mistress
-Ami Hughes
After having a welcome message - I put up the following:
"Thank you for the welcome after I put up Hardangerfjord which I discovered was not covered yet while searching for it. Hope there is no problem in having a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 setup for the photos. Have quite a number of original photos I can share with Wikipedia if that is no problems."
Got the following answer from
Meelar
"Actually, there might be an issue with the "non-commercial" bit. We try to avoid non-commercial images, because it will prevent their being reused by the sites that mirror us, and this is not compliant with the GFDL (see Wikipedia:Copyrights for more). I'd recommend you raise the question on Wikipedia:Help desk--my grasp of the copyright law here is slippery, and I wouldn't rely on me for a clear statement of your options.
I do hope that you keep contributing, especially images; they're a crucial resource for an encyclopedia, and we're woefully short."
So to the issue itself, as seen from my side (-:
As said, I have thousands of images - especially from Norway and Egypt. Being a professional artist, originally in the area of fine art paintings - I have now added the use of camera to my profession. As I also work with consultancy and tour planning for travellers who need tailor made travels - I highly depend on these photos to be able to both show and explain destinations and to use these as highly needed images to my articles.
When photos in addition is purchased by other commercial publications (online as offline), these photos have both become part of a needed resource for income - and a images I don't want let other start to tweak without my permission (the last is mostly the artist in me I guess).
I have no problems in giving a free licence even to commercial entities when related to the work or mirroring of Wikipedia - but the problem is to have photos in Wikipedia for a totally free use when I on the other side have sold and will sell same or similar to commercial media.
If there is a way for me to protect my back and at the same time share my photos with Wikipedia and mirrors - then I will be the first to say "hey, that's great"
I'm getting a weird bug. I can't seem to create a link called C+C Music Factory. Obviously the plus sign is the offender. Any suggestions? -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 18:25, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
There is a certain user from San Diego who periodically adds sneaky vandalism to various cartoon-related pages on Wikipedia. Previously, User:Morwen and I, along with other users, were recording appearances, etc, on User:Morwen/Cartoon. However, it appears that Morwen may be gone for some extended/unknown period of time, and the vandal is still active. I've put a similar subpage under my own name, but I was wondering it is appropriate to redirect another user's subpage to one's own, provided that it's for the same cause, etc? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 00:59, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Check out this:
In Opera, the framed version messes up on the bottom for some reason, as if the images was squeezed to 64x62.
I checked the Pixel art article under IE here and the images were squeezed a lot more.
Not sure what's going on here... — Kieff | Talk 09:14, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am new to Wikipedia and don't know who I should contact. I found in Wikipedia a definition of a lambda convex function which I would like to seek a clarification. I thought the best would be to consult the author of the definition. I would appreciate if you could help me to find who the author is and how I could get in touch with him/her.
Your help is much appreciated
Krzysztof Krakowski
My email address is kris@mcs.une.edu.au
Assuming this is the apropos place to do so, I'd like to request two history merges for pages that were inappropriately cut-and-pasted by others:
Thanks. :-) – radiojon 07:15, 2004 Oct 11 (UTC)
I attempted to correct an error in Renormalized-vertex.png, and the corrected version seems to have uploaded fine, but Wikipedia insists on linking to the earliest version of the image as the current one. Re-uploading didn't fix the problem, nor did reverting to the first corrected version. (To make absolutely sure it wasn't just a problem with my browser cache that was somehow resistant to explicit flushing, I even looked at the page in a different browser that had never visited the page before.)
I'm obviously at the point of thrashing about like a fool. Is this just a bug, or some sort of anti-image-vandalism safeguard, or is there something obvious that I'm missing (quite likely)? -- Matt McIrvin 15:18, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello sir, I need your help regarding firing system used in marine gas tubine. First of all i would like to know which type of firing system are used in marine gas turbine. If i have one model of gas turbine, can i guess this perticular firing system is used in this model?
Hoping for your kind positive response. Best regards, Rajesh Mehta.
( William M. Connolley 09:01, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)) I have reason to suspect that there used to be a page on the George C. Marshall Institute (or, err, some variation thereof). Probably a year ago, no idea when it disappeared. Is there any way to go back and search when it was deleted and why (if it ever existed of course).
Is there a snytax to make a link to user:IP address 64.32.180.82 so that I can link on [[User:Rye1967}} to the very first changes I made when I didn't have a user-id
-- User:Rye1967
Category:GFDL images needs breaking down into sub cats. Too big a job for one person and I'd need guidance on the best way of sub-categorising images before being confident enough to do it myself. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:54, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
Hey all, I would like to make a table that looks like the table on the right. How would I do this in wiki-markup? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:45, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
first header | exclamation mark | makes it bold |
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first entry | second entry | third entry |
vert bar | hyphen | starts a new line |
cells | start with a vert bar | or a double bar if on the same line |
Look at the source of this one:
first header | exclamation mark | makes it bold |
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first entry | second entry | third entry |
vert bar | hyphen | starts a new line |
cells | start with a vert bar | or a double bar if on the same line |
Pjacobi 23:25, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There appears to be a space between the cells... what causes this? Also, how do I make a vertical line down one column. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:52, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The spaces are because there is a separate border at the bottom of each cell, and there's a gap between the cells. This probably delivers what you want, but is complex. [[User:Noisy| Noisy | Talk]] 17:50, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
"cellspacing=0" gets rid of the gaps between the cells! [[User:Noisy| Noisy | Talk]] 10:18, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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Dear Wikipedia,
I just googled "pork barrel politic" and got directed as one of the first hits to an excellent Wikipedia article. When i searched for the very same term in Wikipedia directly, it didn't produce a result. Could you please explain to me how I should use the search function?
Many thanks, Silje
Hi everybody. I just reverted some vandalism in the Homosexuality article, and it seems to be broken now. It shows this error message:
Does anybody know how to restore it? Thanks. Sietse 14:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I've been doing some work on some of the articles covering non-commissioned officer ranks in the U.S. military, and I've run into something I don't know how to edit.
The object is a chart showing the rank structure of the four services, and is referenced in the wiki code as "{{US_enlisted_ranks}}." There doesn't seem to be any way to edit it on the article, nor an I find a location to edit the object itself.
The correction that needs to be made, fyi, is that the abbreviation "SMOMC" under the Marine Corps listing currently points to the Master Gunnery Sergeant article, and needs to be pointed at the Sergeant Major article, instead. Fox1 15:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, a new user ( User:Raj2004) asked me for help with contacting a website or some such in regards to quotations. They might very well be fair use for all I know. Any help is appreciated. Here is a link to his request on my talk: User_talk:Sam_Spade#Dvaita_and_Visatadvaita. I will direct him here, and a couple other places (like Wikipedia:Fair use and Boilerplate_request_for_permission). Cheers, Sam [ Spade] 18:11, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm not a newcomer though don't know how to do this. How do you edit those tag on messages such as- {{ English_Northern_Premier_League_teams}} found at the bottom of the page English northern premier league? I have discovered a error in it I wish to correct though do not know how to access it to do so. Can someone who knows please leave a reply on my talk.
Aloha. I originally posted a similar problem in Help with category. I'm having the same problem this time, except with my edits. The last two edits I've made have not shown up, and I'm wondering if that's normal when the server is busy. The status page says "slow", and I'm wondering exactly what that means. Does that mean it takes an hour for my edits to show up? I can see my edits when I go to my contributions page, or when I try and edit the page I updated, but I still can't view my edits on the actual article page. Can you see my edit on this page? I haven't had this happen before, (except with the short lag time removing a category) so I would be interested in any comments. And no, it's not my cache. -- Viriditas 10:21, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Could someone please check out my account, as yesterday I got a message saying my editing was blocked because of a dispute between two users who I have never heard of. I couldn't edit yesterday, and today I seem to be able to edit but the edits don't show up. Thank you. TonyClarke 15:17, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
(moved from top of page)
I have made several edits to Periodic table and History of the periodic table, yet my contributions list remains blank. Also, on the cont. list, the link to my talk page is red, yet I have made edits to my talk page ( User talk:Honeycake). Obviously I want my edits to show up, so please email me or elave a message on my talk page. Thanks-- Honeycake 15:47, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) PS: I added my talk page to my watchlist, when I go to my talk page the tab now says 'Unwatch' but my watchlist remains empty. PLEASE HELP. Thanks.
In the course of writing an article, I'd like to set up a "hot spot" on a word that, when clicked, will popup or display a small block of text, such as the definition of the word clicked. I had hoped that msg would have done that, but I found it does not correspond to msgbox or alert in javascript, as I had hoped.
The type of functionality I'm referring to can be found in most Windows applications Help systems; they work similarly to a tooltip (that might be produced by putting text in the TITLE attribute of an HTML element).
Can this be done some way in Wiki?
rbiggs@myfamilyinc.com
-ron
PS --- things I tried: [javascript:alert('test') Test This] --- code was not interpreted as [http://gosomewhere.com Test This], rendered Test This.
I lost old account. Can't remember it. How to find it? And...If I don't use this for somedays. is this deleted?? How to delete my old account?? Agoago 23:19, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering where to alert other users about the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshwane_university_of_technology It needs some kind of work on it: for instance, it's quotations may be of copyrighted material and it includes the second person pronoun "we": I'm sure other problems are easy to spot too. Where should I post about this page? dpen2000 00:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm adding a "search Wikipedia" link to my home page and would like to mark it with a Wikipedia logo, just as Google lets me do. Is this allowed, and is there a standard logo I can download for this purpose as opposed to making my own?
How does one edit a box indicated by this code : {{NS Uni}}, for example? I guess it must be easy, but I have no idea where to find help on this.
Peregrine981 09:35, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
The article International Organisation for Migration should be a REDIRECT to International Organization for Migration and not vice versa. International Organization for Migration is the correct spelling of this organization. Can a sysop do this please. -- ALE! 14:20, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The Non-linear_editing_system page seems to talk a lot about video editing software. I wanted to create a new page on video editing software but it seems that such a page already exists and automatically redirects. How can I stop the redirect? (So I can move software content over to the video editing software page where I can expand on it)