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I've just added to a page. I would like the text to have a link to a page on wikipedia like the other text. How do I do that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neon6419 ( talk • contribs) 00:14, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit a factual error in an article but there is not 'edit' hyperlink to take me to the edit screen for that section of the article. Why is this and how do I go about editing that section?
Thanks Samson-RN ( talk) 00:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samson-RN ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, Thanks I've edited it using the edit page tab now (I'd not seen it earlier). Thanks for your help. Samson-RN ( talk) 00:41, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
while looking through your site on random topics i came across a magazine that i subscribed to for almost 3 years. i have finally found an error in your site :) im kinda proud since dang near everything you guys post is correct. the playboy special editions - specifically the PBOL (playboy book of lingerie) - is not issued 2x a month...its published 1 time every 2 months jan/feb, mar/apr, may/june, july/aug, sept/oct, and nov/dec. 6 issues a year in total ..not 24 as you have indicated. hope you can correct soon so that your reputation for extremely crediatable info remains in tact.
-necromosh
Playboy Special Editions (formerly known as flats, then Newsstand Specials[1]) are a spinoff series of Playboy magazine devoted entirely to softcore nude photographs of the Playboy models that are found sporadically scattered in the monthly Playboy magazine.
Unlike the monthly magazine, which features a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works of fiction, the only texts found in the Special Editions are captions of the photographs and readers' letters. Approximately two issues are published each month —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.135.167 ( talk) 00:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Jennette McCurdy's entry has been vandalized. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.249.215 ( talk) 01:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 03:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)have i been blocked
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 04:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC):i have used wikipedia:your first article:and studyed to wright the article but the create this article selection is not available can you pleas give me a step by step thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorbrassstone ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 04:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)thinks :the page is one wave at a time isbn 978-1-60145-300-6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorbrassstone ( talk • contribs) 04:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Lawrence K. Groh, Jr. First Selectman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.194.139 ( talk) 03:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
76.118.247.91 ( talk) 02:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi
I have a website called UnderFunded.com
When I search your site for UnderFunded it shows a movie. How do I add a second meaning?
Peter Munro —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.197.160.192 ( talk) 04:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to test reformating Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders so that the three sets of three tables appear side by side. I have tried with the |valign="top"| command, but this is not working in the table environment the same way I have used it at Barry_Bonds#Watchlists to lay things out in side by side columns. See the problem at Talk:Lists_of_Michigan_Wolverines_football_receiving_leaders#Testing another reformating. Can you make any suggestion that might work.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 04:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
What exactly is the policy for using images from a CITY website for an article on a city department, specifically a police department?
I remembered seeing something specifically on Federal govt sources but didn't notice anything in the fair use page that talked about this area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.137.64.173 ( talk) 05:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
The article Composer must have been subject to a failed move at some point or something. It’s somehow shares a talk page with List of composers. I’m not sure how this can be fixed. -- S.dedalus ( talk) 08:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Last time before I was trying to enter and login back into my account in Wikipedia but the website said:
I don't understand. Why and how would I have my cookies disabled and how could I enable them again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.166.182 ( talk) 10:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to login to the "Spanish" wikipedia, but my user id is not recognized in it. What is wrong? Thesr should not be a need to create another account, nor I'm willing to do so. Can this be solved? Thanks DPdH ( talk) 14:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
How do I make the "percent native hawaiian" and "percent other races" visible on these user boxes? Just entering those figures into the table did not make them visible. This is the HTML I used, using California's 5th congressional district as an example:
{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
|state = California
|district number = 5
|image name = United States House of Representatives, California District 5.png
|english area = 157
|metric area = 387
|percent urban = 99.7
|percent rural = 0.3
|population = 639,088
|population year = 2000
|median income = 36,719
|percent white = 50.8
|percent black = 14.5
|percent native american = 1.3
|percent native hawaiian = 0.7
|percent asian = 15.2
|percent hispanic = 20.8
|percent other race = 10.3
|percent more than one race = 7.2
|percent blue collar =
|percent white collar =
|percent gray collar =
|cpvi = D+14
}}
Socal gal at heart ( talk) 14:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
If we believe our Government then we only eperienced a rather benign inflation rate of 2.67% per year, on average,during the years between 2001 and 2007, or a total of 14.2%. This then makes the US dollar worth about 87 cents as of 1-1-2007. Yet looking at the actual out-of-pocked expenses, this might not be the actual story. My investigation revealed, that the true rate of inflation seemed to be related to the rate of increase in the US public debt which increased from $ 5.8 trillion in 2001 to $ 8.5 trillion at the end of 2006. This is an increase of 46.5%.At the same time, the Euro inceased by 30% in value, the S&P stock index by 30% and the commodity index by 40.5%. Based on these indicators we seemed to have had a real inflation of about 6.6% per year , or 37.7% over the five year period. This is about 1.3% less than the 7.9% average increase in the US public debt. The difference of 1.3% could be due to the average 1.3% increase per year in the US population. It can be argued the this population increase contributes a like amount to GDP, therefore cancels some of the US debt.
Hans D. Baumann, Ph.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.216.215 ( talk) 15:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Evasive Action describes something other than what I would have expected. However, the common meaning of the phrase would be just a dictdef, and therefore not worth an article, and there don't appear to be any other meanings, so a dab page is not in order either. Yet nearly every Wikipedia Ghit I've checked refers to the more usual meaning. Any ideas? Clarityfiend ( talk) 16:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- Evasive Action has several meanings.
- An evasive action is...(dicdef)
-
Evasive Action is a webcomic.
Hi. I would like to ask how you can hide the title of an article as done on the main page. Thanks in advance. 86.138.2.136 ( talk) 18:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to link all articles within the scope of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force|Esperanto task force]] to their respective categories (found within [[Category:Esperanto task force articles]]). However, I have not been able to register all of the tagged articles into their proper categories. I believe there is a problem with the template, which is found at [[Template:WP conlangs]]. The new Esperanto task force (ETF) portion of it (which is the specific part that is experiencing these difficulties) is based on the USA/Canada task force of WikiProject Football, if that information is of any help to you. Also, the ETF tag can be added to talk pages and displays without any trouble; the only problem is that it doesn't link those articles into the [[Category:Esperanto task force articles]]. I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks! TFCforever ( talk) 19:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Somebody deleted my contributions to the article Psychological resilience. He/She gave no reasons, why he did this. What can i do now? http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Psychological_resilience&diff=177589865&oldid=177589739 -- Resilienzi ( talk) 20:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. He/she did not chose a name and IPs change all the time. So i have no place where i can ask him for his reasons. May be i'll ask on the discussion page. Is there an easy way<to add the material back or do i have to copy and paste (that would be quite complicated in this case)?-- Resilienzi ( talk) 20:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! I asked him on the talk page, why he deleted my contributions. If he does nort answer i am probably going to put them back in by "copy and paste"-- Resilienzi ( talk) 21:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Chiar eu ( talk) 22:26, 16 December 2007 (UTC)how can i copy and print an article from wiki?
In Brookside Gardens I added 3 photos to the 2 already in the existing <gallery></gallery> construct. The captions showed up but not the photos themselves. I thought this might be because these 3 are horizontal and the first 2 are vertical format, so I split it into 2 galleries. The photos showed up when I previewed the page, but when I saved it they were gone! Can you help? Hgrosser ( talk) 22:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid I found myself caught up in an "edit war" regarding an entry for a Disney character. I apologize for that and I'm trying to stay out of the "combat zone", even though another person is adding edits that not only do not have factual basis but seem to be expressing a personal bias. I had removed the comments he made but replaced them, since I don't intend to keep that page a battleground any longer (unfortunately, my own signature probably shows on it now). However, I've written to this person and very politely requested that he remember the Wikipedia etiquette rules and keep his edits neutral. I'm hoping he'll pay attention and do this; but if not, I'm wondering if that page can be "locked"? This is a character I like very much and I'm frankly offended at the speculations the editor is writing. Were the comments based on fact, there would be no problem. This is not a case of a mere disagreement; it's a matter of personal bias being presented as fact. EthelG ( talk) 22:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, it was very helpful. I've tagged some of the editor's comments using the "npov2" template, though I hope I used it right. So far, he hasn't removed his comments. May I go ahead and edit, then place the article under protection? EthelG ( talk) 17:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)EthelG
Hi How long does it take after editing a page for the page to be updated Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.73.109 ( talk) 22:50, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I am wanting to submit an RfA (again...) and I want to know how many edits I've made so that I won't fail again (as miserably). Under my contributions, it only shows what edits I've made, not how many. Where can I find this? ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ 23:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I contributed a small piece about Wolf Mankowitz being part owner of The Pickwick Club in the 1960s. It has been incorporated, therefore I am. But now I can't remember the username I gave at registration. Can you tell me? Does it matter? Shall I just register another 'username' and add something to another Wikipedia entry? Michael Young - <e-mail removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.33.91 ( talk) 23:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Ok. I'm having some problems with my confirmation email. I put in my email address into the My Preferences page more that 3 weeks ago, clicked the "resend confirmation email" button quite a few times since then, and still, no confirmation email. What's the problem? My email is flaminglawyer(at)aim(dot)com (yes that actually deters spambots). ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ 23:24, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
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I've just added to a page. I would like the text to have a link to a page on wikipedia like the other text. How do I do that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neon6419 ( talk • contribs) 00:14, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit a factual error in an article but there is not 'edit' hyperlink to take me to the edit screen for that section of the article. Why is this and how do I go about editing that section?
Thanks Samson-RN ( talk) 00:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samson-RN ( talk • contribs) 00:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, Thanks I've edited it using the edit page tab now (I'd not seen it earlier). Thanks for your help. Samson-RN ( talk) 00:41, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
while looking through your site on random topics i came across a magazine that i subscribed to for almost 3 years. i have finally found an error in your site :) im kinda proud since dang near everything you guys post is correct. the playboy special editions - specifically the PBOL (playboy book of lingerie) - is not issued 2x a month...its published 1 time every 2 months jan/feb, mar/apr, may/june, july/aug, sept/oct, and nov/dec. 6 issues a year in total ..not 24 as you have indicated. hope you can correct soon so that your reputation for extremely crediatable info remains in tact.
-necromosh
Playboy Special Editions (formerly known as flats, then Newsstand Specials[1]) are a spinoff series of Playboy magazine devoted entirely to softcore nude photographs of the Playboy models that are found sporadically scattered in the monthly Playboy magazine.
Unlike the monthly magazine, which features a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works of fiction, the only texts found in the Special Editions are captions of the photographs and readers' letters. Approximately two issues are published each month —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.135.167 ( talk) 00:53, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Jennette McCurdy's entry has been vandalized. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.249.215 ( talk) 01:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 03:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)have i been blocked
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 04:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC):i have used wikipedia:your first article:and studyed to wright the article but the create this article selection is not available can you pleas give me a step by step thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorbrassstone ( talk • contribs) 04:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Docterbrassstone ( talk) 04:21, 16 December 2007 (UTC)thinks :the page is one wave at a time isbn 978-1-60145-300-6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorbrassstone ( talk • contribs) 04:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Lawrence K. Groh, Jr. First Selectman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.194.139 ( talk) 03:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
76.118.247.91 ( talk) 02:11, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi
I have a website called UnderFunded.com
When I search your site for UnderFunded it shows a movie. How do I add a second meaning?
Peter Munro —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.197.160.192 ( talk) 04:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to test reformating Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders so that the three sets of three tables appear side by side. I have tried with the |valign="top"| command, but this is not working in the table environment the same way I have used it at Barry_Bonds#Watchlists to lay things out in side by side columns. See the problem at Talk:Lists_of_Michigan_Wolverines_football_receiving_leaders#Testing another reformating. Can you make any suggestion that might work.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 04:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
What exactly is the policy for using images from a CITY website for an article on a city department, specifically a police department?
I remembered seeing something specifically on Federal govt sources but didn't notice anything in the fair use page that talked about this area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.137.64.173 ( talk) 05:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
The article Composer must have been subject to a failed move at some point or something. It’s somehow shares a talk page with List of composers. I’m not sure how this can be fixed. -- S.dedalus ( talk) 08:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Last time before I was trying to enter and login back into my account in Wikipedia but the website said:
I don't understand. Why and how would I have my cookies disabled and how could I enable them again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.166.182 ( talk) 10:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to login to the "Spanish" wikipedia, but my user id is not recognized in it. What is wrong? Thesr should not be a need to create another account, nor I'm willing to do so. Can this be solved? Thanks DPdH ( talk) 14:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
How do I make the "percent native hawaiian" and "percent other races" visible on these user boxes? Just entering those figures into the table did not make them visible. This is the HTML I used, using California's 5th congressional district as an example:
{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
|state = California
|district number = 5
|image name = United States House of Representatives, California District 5.png
|english area = 157
|metric area = 387
|percent urban = 99.7
|percent rural = 0.3
|population = 639,088
|population year = 2000
|median income = 36,719
|percent white = 50.8
|percent black = 14.5
|percent native american = 1.3
|percent native hawaiian = 0.7
|percent asian = 15.2
|percent hispanic = 20.8
|percent other race = 10.3
|percent more than one race = 7.2
|percent blue collar =
|percent white collar =
|percent gray collar =
|cpvi = D+14
}}
Socal gal at heart ( talk) 14:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
If we believe our Government then we only eperienced a rather benign inflation rate of 2.67% per year, on average,during the years between 2001 and 2007, or a total of 14.2%. This then makes the US dollar worth about 87 cents as of 1-1-2007. Yet looking at the actual out-of-pocked expenses, this might not be the actual story. My investigation revealed, that the true rate of inflation seemed to be related to the rate of increase in the US public debt which increased from $ 5.8 trillion in 2001 to $ 8.5 trillion at the end of 2006. This is an increase of 46.5%.At the same time, the Euro inceased by 30% in value, the S&P stock index by 30% and the commodity index by 40.5%. Based on these indicators we seemed to have had a real inflation of about 6.6% per year , or 37.7% over the five year period. This is about 1.3% less than the 7.9% average increase in the US public debt. The difference of 1.3% could be due to the average 1.3% increase per year in the US population. It can be argued the this population increase contributes a like amount to GDP, therefore cancels some of the US debt.
Hans D. Baumann, Ph.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.216.215 ( talk) 15:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Evasive Action describes something other than what I would have expected. However, the common meaning of the phrase would be just a dictdef, and therefore not worth an article, and there don't appear to be any other meanings, so a dab page is not in order either. Yet nearly every Wikipedia Ghit I've checked refers to the more usual meaning. Any ideas? Clarityfiend ( talk) 16:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- Evasive Action has several meanings.
- An evasive action is...(dicdef)
-
Evasive Action is a webcomic.
Hi. I would like to ask how you can hide the title of an article as done on the main page. Thanks in advance. 86.138.2.136 ( talk) 18:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been trying to link all articles within the scope of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force|Esperanto task force]] to their respective categories (found within [[Category:Esperanto task force articles]]). However, I have not been able to register all of the tagged articles into their proper categories. I believe there is a problem with the template, which is found at [[Template:WP conlangs]]. The new Esperanto task force (ETF) portion of it (which is the specific part that is experiencing these difficulties) is based on the USA/Canada task force of WikiProject Football, if that information is of any help to you. Also, the ETF tag can be added to talk pages and displays without any trouble; the only problem is that it doesn't link those articles into the [[Category:Esperanto task force articles]]. I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks! TFCforever ( talk) 19:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Somebody deleted my contributions to the article Psychological resilience. He/She gave no reasons, why he did this. What can i do now? http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Psychological_resilience&diff=177589865&oldid=177589739 -- Resilienzi ( talk) 20:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. He/she did not chose a name and IPs change all the time. So i have no place where i can ask him for his reasons. May be i'll ask on the discussion page. Is there an easy way<to add the material back or do i have to copy and paste (that would be quite complicated in this case)?-- Resilienzi ( talk) 20:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you! I asked him on the talk page, why he deleted my contributions. If he does nort answer i am probably going to put them back in by "copy and paste"-- Resilienzi ( talk) 21:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Chiar eu ( talk) 22:26, 16 December 2007 (UTC)how can i copy and print an article from wiki?
In Brookside Gardens I added 3 photos to the 2 already in the existing <gallery></gallery> construct. The captions showed up but not the photos themselves. I thought this might be because these 3 are horizontal and the first 2 are vertical format, so I split it into 2 galleries. The photos showed up when I previewed the page, but when I saved it they were gone! Can you help? Hgrosser ( talk) 22:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid I found myself caught up in an "edit war" regarding an entry for a Disney character. I apologize for that and I'm trying to stay out of the "combat zone", even though another person is adding edits that not only do not have factual basis but seem to be expressing a personal bias. I had removed the comments he made but replaced them, since I don't intend to keep that page a battleground any longer (unfortunately, my own signature probably shows on it now). However, I've written to this person and very politely requested that he remember the Wikipedia etiquette rules and keep his edits neutral. I'm hoping he'll pay attention and do this; but if not, I'm wondering if that page can be "locked"? This is a character I like very much and I'm frankly offended at the speculations the editor is writing. Were the comments based on fact, there would be no problem. This is not a case of a mere disagreement; it's a matter of personal bias being presented as fact. EthelG ( talk) 22:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, it was very helpful. I've tagged some of the editor's comments using the "npov2" template, though I hope I used it right. So far, he hasn't removed his comments. May I go ahead and edit, then place the article under protection? EthelG ( talk) 17:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)EthelG
Hi How long does it take after editing a page for the page to be updated Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.73.109 ( talk) 22:50, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I am wanting to submit an RfA (again...) and I want to know how many edits I've made so that I won't fail again (as miserably). Under my contributions, it only shows what edits I've made, not how many. Where can I find this? ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ 23:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I contributed a small piece about Wolf Mankowitz being part owner of The Pickwick Club in the 1960s. It has been incorporated, therefore I am. But now I can't remember the username I gave at registration. Can you tell me? Does it matter? Shall I just register another 'username' and add something to another Wikipedia entry? Michael Young - <e-mail removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.33.91 ( talk) 23:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Ok. I'm having some problems with my confirmation email. I put in my email address into the My Preferences page more that 3 weeks ago, clicked the "resend confirmation email" button quite a few times since then, and still, no confirmation email. What's the problem? My email is flaminglawyer(at)aim(dot)com (yes that actually deters spambots). ♠ ♦ ♣ ♥ 23:24, 16 December 2007 (UTC)