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I just edited the semi-protected article " eHarmony." Is the fact that I was allowed to do this a bug? 69.143.80.200
I was looking up an article on google and it gave me a link to an article in wikipedia. However, when I clicked on the link the page had been deleted. Why would this be the case, and where would I be able to retrieve the information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shunafish ( talk • contribs) 00:03:10, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
Wikipedia--
I just wrote an article entitled "Roads and Transit", which details a ballot measure that Washington state voters in Snohomish, King, and Pierce counties will be voting on this November.
My question: When I put "roads and transit" in the search field, nothing related to my article comes up. However, when I search "Roads and Transit" (with caps) the article I wrote comes up. Is there any way for the search to include no-CAPS on roads and transit?
Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zztup ( talk • contribs) 00:38:06, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
I have provided sourcesin regards to my contribution on , Siosaia Tupou (Namoa), Tu'iKanokupolu, 1830-45. I still being requested to provide references/ sources. How can I resolve this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anacrossan ( talk • contribs) 00:41:08, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
How do I change the page title of: "Joseph Krysiak"buffalo
The title should be: Joseph Krysiak
-- Zrants 01:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Zrants
I've noticed that sometimes long URLs in the references section will expand the page width. I'm wondering if it's acceptable to use a TinyURL instead of allowing these long URLs to disrupt page formatting. Are there any policies or guidelines on this? -- Wolf530 ( talk) 01:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks everyone. -- Wolf530 ( talk) 20:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
If you remove/rename the default skin to something else after a MediaWiki installation already has users, how can you ensure that no one has changed their preferences since then? I see at http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1000 that Rob Church believes it's possible, but he doesn't specify... -- nae' blis 02:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add Sagara (娑伽羅) to the disambiguation page because it doesn't sound like a Vedic king (it is in fact one of the Hachidai Ryuuou). However, I don't know much about Sagara at all (or, more importantly, I know of no reliable sources about it), so I don't think I should be the one to create the English article about it. Instead, I would like to link to the Japanese article about the Hachidai Ryuuou. The title of the article about the Ryuuou on the Japanese-language Wikipedia is "八大竜王" (I would make that a link, but I don't know how to).
I have tried to link to the Japanese page by using the full URL, but when I tried, it gave me an "エラー" (an error in Japanese that told me that I was linking from the wrong language or something to that effect).
For now I have just put in some English red links, but those are just temporary. How do I link to the page on the Japanese wikipedia from the disambiguation page for "Sagara"?
- - ジリー 03:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Why do the Sydney suburban articles have no contents boxes when other ones do for example Bankstown, New South Wales does not have one, but this one does Cronulla Sand Dune System and how can this be fixed.-- [email protected]. 05:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there something wrong with my question-- [email protected]. 10:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, For a quite long time I'm trying to remind me of the password of my account ( User:Simon), but in vain. Can someone of the Admins help me? I haven't written anything with the account yet. — That you don't only have an IP from me, I'm also here and there. Thanks, Simon 62.203.222.53 07:51, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I am writing an article on Elizabeth Bishop. Can I put examples of her work in the article ? Can I put a full poem or poems ?
Tovojolo 08:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if there's a more appropriate desk for this... Would someone be able to have a look at my talk page? I've found that when I click on an [edit section] button, it goes to edit the section below it... which makes for frustrating editing. Is there any faulty coding in there? It never used to do this... Help would be appreciated :) Cheers- CattleGirl talk 08:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
You have deleted the 'National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools' page from your files. The person who deleted it said that it was an advertisement from an employee with no documentation. That is simply not true. I created it awhile ago because I attended a school that belongs to that association and I felt it deserved to be in the general body of knowledge, so I created the article. I also had documentation cited - its been written about extensively and I gave newspaper links. I think maybe people with a more intimate knowledge of the Association added info to the article, but why delete my whole article? How stupid. I'm not happy that some renegade editor just threw it out. Stuff like that makes Wikipedia very unreliable and when you throw out legitimate information you defeat your whole purpose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhettniel ( talk • contribs) 09:46:40, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
Hi,
I have been searching Wikipedia unsuccessfully for a section that explains exactly how Wikipedia uses the curly brace characters { and } both singly and in pairs.
Shouldn't Wikipedia:Curly bracket make some reference to Wikipedia's editorial use of the curly brace --? Something like:
"For the use of curly braces as markup characters in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:CurlyBraces."
--similar to the reference to Wikipedia templates at the top of Wikipedia:Template?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Brad 10:39, 19 August 2007 (UTC)InBalance
Hello
I just wanted to add and expand request on an article,and looked on help to find the tag, but got totally caught up in stubs, templates, and tags, and found no information to assist me to edit the article to add the tag "expand".I wonder if you could assist me to find the format to do so. For example is it <expand/>? or {{ expand}}. When does one use the<> notation, and when does one use {{ }}. If you could direct me to pages which will assist me to edit using correct formats in general, I would be so pleased. I did by the way, look at the how to edit page with no luck.
Hope you can help
Carol.
Do you know where the past articles in "Did you know" goes? (I cant find an article about a certain tower in "did you know" which was the first article in "did you know" on 08/17/07) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.1.73.71 ( talk) 12:52:24, August 19, 2007 (UTC)
Jester, if you've deleted pages relating to Evan Drake Savoie, can you please put them back up so people will know about his background, the planning of his kill and the trail? If you do, I'll be respecting you for years to come. I'm not a Savoie sockpuppet. The True Truth 13:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the best way to move my pictures to Commons without having to retype all the tags? I remember someone mentioned about some kind of third-party software to do this? I am an admin at en:wiki, so deletion of redundant images should not be a problem. -- Asterion talk 13:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Egyptian Political Party is used on a number of pages - but doesn't work. And hasn't since at least Nov 2006 when a comment was left on its talk page. Can anyone sort it out? Rmhermen 13:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I seem to remember having seen a cite template for YouTube, but my searches fail me. Does anyone know if this exists? Or am I losing it? Lara ♥Love 13:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
{{
YouTube|id|title}}
. Remember, though, that YouTube isn't generally considered a
reliable source.
Hersfold (
t/
a/
c)
13:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)I want to put pictures of Kings Of Leon onto their member pages but I don't know how...can you help? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Catherinemunday ( talk • contribs) 14:33:48, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
What I do about copyvio's? I've deleted the edit, and left a note to that effect on the article talk page, what else should I do? Gatoclass 19:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I've started Happyslip, but I can't find enough info on the Web, so I'm considering inteviewing her via e-mail. Is it OK to ask her to license via GFDL the content of her response email? Then where do I put it, is it ok Talk/src and referencing to there in the main article? What else can I do? -- Outspan 19:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
How does a person become an Administrator on Wikipedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ICarriere ( talk • contribs) 21:40:55, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
I would like to make a separate statement on the subject of oversteer because the existing entry is misleading and I don't see how I can do this by editing. The basic steering characteristics of a car are apparent, in a turn, without any sliding taking place, and I would like to explain the parameters involved. Fdudley 22:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
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I just edited the semi-protected article " eHarmony." Is the fact that I was allowed to do this a bug? 69.143.80.200
I was looking up an article on google and it gave me a link to an article in wikipedia. However, when I clicked on the link the page had been deleted. Why would this be the case, and where would I be able to retrieve the information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shunafish ( talk • contribs) 00:03:10, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
Wikipedia--
I just wrote an article entitled "Roads and Transit", which details a ballot measure that Washington state voters in Snohomish, King, and Pierce counties will be voting on this November.
My question: When I put "roads and transit" in the search field, nothing related to my article comes up. However, when I search "Roads and Transit" (with caps) the article I wrote comes up. Is there any way for the search to include no-CAPS on roads and transit?
Thank you —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zztup ( talk • contribs) 00:38:06, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
I have provided sourcesin regards to my contribution on , Siosaia Tupou (Namoa), Tu'iKanokupolu, 1830-45. I still being requested to provide references/ sources. How can I resolve this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anacrossan ( talk • contribs) 00:41:08, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
How do I change the page title of: "Joseph Krysiak"buffalo
The title should be: Joseph Krysiak
-- Zrants 01:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Zrants
I've noticed that sometimes long URLs in the references section will expand the page width. I'm wondering if it's acceptable to use a TinyURL instead of allowing these long URLs to disrupt page formatting. Are there any policies or guidelines on this? -- Wolf530 ( talk) 01:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks everyone. -- Wolf530 ( talk) 20:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
If you remove/rename the default skin to something else after a MediaWiki installation already has users, how can you ensure that no one has changed their preferences since then? I see at http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1000 that Rob Church believes it's possible, but he doesn't specify... -- nae' blis 02:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to add Sagara (娑伽羅) to the disambiguation page because it doesn't sound like a Vedic king (it is in fact one of the Hachidai Ryuuou). However, I don't know much about Sagara at all (or, more importantly, I know of no reliable sources about it), so I don't think I should be the one to create the English article about it. Instead, I would like to link to the Japanese article about the Hachidai Ryuuou. The title of the article about the Ryuuou on the Japanese-language Wikipedia is "八大竜王" (I would make that a link, but I don't know how to).
I have tried to link to the Japanese page by using the full URL, but when I tried, it gave me an "エラー" (an error in Japanese that told me that I was linking from the wrong language or something to that effect).
For now I have just put in some English red links, but those are just temporary. How do I link to the page on the Japanese wikipedia from the disambiguation page for "Sagara"?
- - ジリー 03:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Why do the Sydney suburban articles have no contents boxes when other ones do for example Bankstown, New South Wales does not have one, but this one does Cronulla Sand Dune System and how can this be fixed.-- [email protected]. 05:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there something wrong with my question-- [email protected]. 10:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, For a quite long time I'm trying to remind me of the password of my account ( User:Simon), but in vain. Can someone of the Admins help me? I haven't written anything with the account yet. — That you don't only have an IP from me, I'm also here and there. Thanks, Simon 62.203.222.53 07:51, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I am writing an article on Elizabeth Bishop. Can I put examples of her work in the article ? Can I put a full poem or poems ?
Tovojolo 08:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if there's a more appropriate desk for this... Would someone be able to have a look at my talk page? I've found that when I click on an [edit section] button, it goes to edit the section below it... which makes for frustrating editing. Is there any faulty coding in there? It never used to do this... Help would be appreciated :) Cheers- CattleGirl talk 08:36, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
You have deleted the 'National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools' page from your files. The person who deleted it said that it was an advertisement from an employee with no documentation. That is simply not true. I created it awhile ago because I attended a school that belongs to that association and I felt it deserved to be in the general body of knowledge, so I created the article. I also had documentation cited - its been written about extensively and I gave newspaper links. I think maybe people with a more intimate knowledge of the Association added info to the article, but why delete my whole article? How stupid. I'm not happy that some renegade editor just threw it out. Stuff like that makes Wikipedia very unreliable and when you throw out legitimate information you defeat your whole purpose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhettniel ( talk • contribs) 09:46:40, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
Hi,
I have been searching Wikipedia unsuccessfully for a section that explains exactly how Wikipedia uses the curly brace characters { and } both singly and in pairs.
Shouldn't Wikipedia:Curly bracket make some reference to Wikipedia's editorial use of the curly brace --? Something like:
"For the use of curly braces as markup characters in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:CurlyBraces."
--similar to the reference to Wikipedia templates at the top of Wikipedia:Template?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Brad 10:39, 19 August 2007 (UTC)InBalance
Hello
I just wanted to add and expand request on an article,and looked on help to find the tag, but got totally caught up in stubs, templates, and tags, and found no information to assist me to edit the article to add the tag "expand".I wonder if you could assist me to find the format to do so. For example is it <expand/>? or {{ expand}}. When does one use the<> notation, and when does one use {{ }}. If you could direct me to pages which will assist me to edit using correct formats in general, I would be so pleased. I did by the way, look at the how to edit page with no luck.
Hope you can help
Carol.
Do you know where the past articles in "Did you know" goes? (I cant find an article about a certain tower in "did you know" which was the first article in "did you know" on 08/17/07) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.1.73.71 ( talk) 12:52:24, August 19, 2007 (UTC)
Jester, if you've deleted pages relating to Evan Drake Savoie, can you please put them back up so people will know about his background, the planning of his kill and the trail? If you do, I'll be respecting you for years to come. I'm not a Savoie sockpuppet. The True Truth 13:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the best way to move my pictures to Commons without having to retype all the tags? I remember someone mentioned about some kind of third-party software to do this? I am an admin at en:wiki, so deletion of redundant images should not be a problem. -- Asterion talk 13:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Egyptian Political Party is used on a number of pages - but doesn't work. And hasn't since at least Nov 2006 when a comment was left on its talk page. Can anyone sort it out? Rmhermen 13:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I seem to remember having seen a cite template for YouTube, but my searches fail me. Does anyone know if this exists? Or am I losing it? Lara ♥Love 13:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
{{
YouTube|id|title}}
. Remember, though, that YouTube isn't generally considered a
reliable source.
Hersfold (
t/
a/
c)
13:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)I want to put pictures of Kings Of Leon onto their member pages but I don't know how...can you help? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Catherinemunday ( talk • contribs) 14:33:48, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
What I do about copyvio's? I've deleted the edit, and left a note to that effect on the article talk page, what else should I do? Gatoclass 19:29, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I've started Happyslip, but I can't find enough info on the Web, so I'm considering inteviewing her via e-mail. Is it OK to ask her to license via GFDL the content of her response email? Then where do I put it, is it ok Talk/src and referencing to there in the main article? What else can I do? -- Outspan 19:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
How does a person become an Administrator on Wikipedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ICarriere ( talk • contribs) 21:40:55, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
I would like to make a separate statement on the subject of oversteer because the existing entry is misleading and I don't see how I can do this by editing. The basic steering characteristics of a car are apparent, in a turn, without any sliding taking place, and I would like to explain the parameters involved. Fdudley 22:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)