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I am interested in writing a Wikipedia article on a not-for-profit orgaization that sponsors a self transformative event every year - for the past 17 years. There is an existing community of those who have attended this event, which is loosely connected with various other alternative communities. I would have clear copyright on all materiels. Would this be something that will be appropriate for this venue? Please advise.
Thank you,
Kenn Day. -- Kenndeigh ( talk) 00:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I cannot view any "show" or "hide" buttons. I run Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional. Thanks, – thedemonhog talk • edits 00:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
FOUR TIDES After logging on you told me to enter FOUR TIDES to display my user name ................... I do not have any TIDE(s) on my Laptop. I suggest that this TIDES thing is the figment of someone's imagination and should be done away with - it makes a bad beginning to introduce a new user with FOUR TIDES - it is an aberration. Please substitute Four Elephants or Four Monkeys!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leistina ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
3 times now I have added content to the page <XL Airways> and each time it is taken off. Just a few succint lines in the History and Incidents section. The current version of the page suggests that XL Airways stopped flying deportation charter flights out of 'sympathy' for asylum seekers. There is no mention in the History section of deportation flights that were carried out under Home Office contracts, without 'sympathy', and the subsequent protests against the airline that led to them withdrawing from the deportation charter business completely. These are minor, but essential, facts to give a balanced view of the companies activities. How do I stop my additions being constantly removed? Underbelly12 ( talk) 01:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do I change the Title of my article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Casanovafisher ( talk • contribs) 04:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear PrimeHunter
Your reply to the query by the same subject (above) was not helpful at all - everybody is here naturally to give of their time and to contribute to this project. So please take into account that MOST people have only a superficial understanding of how some of the features work.
So if there is a link to a YouTube page that I cannot see, I am presume it is concealed, why would this be so? If if it concealed, what is the purpose, seeing that noone will see it to be able to click on it. I've looked for this link in all modes, including "View Page Source", where I see all other links, but I don't see one to a YouTube page.
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 08:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
59.96.101.217 ( talk) 09:10, 31 December 2007 (UTC)how do i get info in hindi
dear sir, my orkut account always happen that it accept scrap but can't rply frm my scrap book so iwill be help ful to u i u would help me in this matter as its creacting a lot of problem —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.50.218.29 ( talk) 09:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
how do i add a page
11:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)~
sam moss
If you want to add a page follow Help:Starting a new page however if you want to add a new article proceed to Wikipedia:Your first article for further details it'll include instructions on what to do. →Yun-Yuu zhan→ 12:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi
The posts on "Wikipedia 'accuses' me of spamming refer.
The people who reply to the queries pos(t)ed here, are they some kind of uber-users with special privileges, knowledge etc, or are they NORMAL users trying to help but not always knowing what to do? If the latter, I could understand and forgive. If not, your attitude and working ethics are a great disservice to the project and I will take this up with Jimmy.
Whether I can see the links or not is immaterial,* the point is that if you are there to help, then you should be telling me how to work around the spam filter. The first person suggested that I remove the links. Someone put them there for good reason, so having to remove them to be able to edit a page is not a solution. Imagine every link having to be removed each time you have to make a small edit.
Smart-ass answers to the effect that "the links are there, I can see them" are at best puerile, at worst a great disservice and a disappointment. All that this kind of behaviour accomplishes is to annoy the contributor (unnecessarily) and make them vent out their frustration of this page for all to see - including a substantial phalange of Wikipedia detractors.
looking for text in links cannot be done on the display page, as the URL is embedded; looking for the text in edit mode with Mozilla, it does NOT search the edit template, only around it - I managed to see it them using Opera; looking for it with your eyes, I did not think of looking all the way down the page, believing that if each 'block' has an edit button, the top edit button would apply to the top block - and in the top block there aren't any links to any YouTube videos.
So, fine, I can see the links, but no-one has deigned to contribute a worthy solution.
Have a nice day
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 12:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to all who have helped or tried to. Perhaps I do/ did have the wrong idea of the people who reply here, as to the extent of their functions. I was not threatening when I said I would take this up with Jimmy, it is just that other than posting it here, and not knowing what other avenue to follow (I've seen posts about decalring disputes etc, which I feel is not necessary, nor is it the case), all I wanted was to get the feeling that someone would acknowledge that there is a problem here and resolve it, task someone with its resolution or alert the person responsible to look into it. If there is a more adequate forum to report this, then please be so kind as to enlighten me.
Also, perhaps I did not express myself clearly about the edit buttons - yes, I do know that the button refers to the section immediately below it - what I was trying to say is that I was not aware that the TOPMOST button applies to the whole page. In effect this means that unlike all other sections, the top section does not have its own dedicated edit bitton.
As for the YouTube link, I've just tested editing page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_%28Cadbury%29 which contains various external links - including a link to a YouTube video - and I had no problem saving the edits. It would not have occurred to me that such a fundamental issue such as blocking possible spam would differ from language to language in terms of policy to handle it. I'll post the issue on the Portuuese Wikipedia and see if it gets resolved.
I've until now never responded below responses to my posting in the belief (obviously wrong) that only the editors use this space to answer queries.
Best regards and have a happy, fun-filled, rewarding 2008 full of personal and professonal accomplishments.
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:26, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
You are quite right - I was immediately struck by those high IQs. They knocked me completely off-balance, such was the impact like an unexpected wave when you are standing on the rocks admiring the view!. And I knew at once they could be nothing else but High IQs because I happen to have one myself! lucky for me!
--
Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (
talk)
18:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
does 40 milligrams=20 milliliters? 13:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
i just want the diference and that is all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.19.83 ( talk) 14:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded a photo of Ralph Lauren to which I own the rights to Creative Commons. I've placed that image name and caption into the template, but neither appear on saving the page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Doc ♬ talk 15:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do i cite a PDF document? Thanks. Sunder land 06 17:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do i gain access to twinkle, it says my account is too new, although that's true but i'm not new to wikipedia, this account is my secondary account which i want to use for finding vandalism and then fix it. My first account which i tend to use for editing is Yun-Yuuzhan could someone please grant me access. →Yun-Shu no→
What do the various colors mean when viewing the works of an author? Please see the works of James Michner as an example. 216.201.210.204 ( talk) 17:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Also, where and what is the sandbox?
On "Mario Strikers Charged" page, I wanted to add a review from a gaming website. I added the review under external links. I was then going to put the link under references as well. When I went to add the reference, for some reason or another, the other references got erased. It was unintentional. Is there anyway to reboot the references that were there? And how do you add a reference without having to enter all the references that were previously there? When I clicked "edit refrences," it left me a blank page and I thought I just needed to add the reference I used and all of a sudden when I saved it, everyone elses was erased. Deasterday1 ( talk) 18:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
This is the sentence that I want to edit: 'Kinetic art are sculptures that contains moving parts.' At this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art
Hitting the edit button at the bottom of the Kinetic art section where that sentence appears takes me instead to the editing page for the section on Kinetic sculpture. Usercode9623 ( talk) 19:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I added some info that I thought was sorely missing from the Bob Eubanks page. It had to do with his famous antisemitic quote that he gave in the documentary Roger & Me. I cited the quote from IMDB, but it doesn't seem to list correctly in the references section. There is no hyperlink, and the page keeps telling me that the citations need work. Any solutions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.207.9 ( talk) 19:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank You!! —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
69.250.207.9 (
talk)
03:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I though there was a template with a name like {{ Notapoll}} to place atop deletion discussions prone to new and single-purpose accounts. Can't find it, and {{ spa}} doesn't really explain enough. / edg ☺ ☭ 19:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
O.K. where do I go to see currently on-going peer reviews. WP:PR seems to bbe revamped and I am at a loss.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 20:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The first instruction for the Username usurpation is: "Be sure the account you wish to usurp has no edits or log entries (except in the account creation log)." I wish to Usurp User:Spencer, who has only made one edit, to his userpage. That was ~5 years ago, and has not made an edit since. Before I waste my time trying to change my username, I was wondering if it would work, based on that one critea. S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ( Talk to Me) 21:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and Happy New Year,
My "thing" with Wikipedia is appending lists of source materials to articles on New Zealand place names.
Yesterday I created a fairly large list for the article "Hawera": more than 100 entries. The last section of the bibliography is headed "schools" and has from a dozen to twenty entries in it. However, instead of displaying these citations, it gives "Template:Citation" in place of each entry.
Given that these citations are formatted in the same way throughout the list - I'm stumped as to why this is happening. Is there perhaps a limit to the number of (( citation ...)) permitted per page??
TIA,
Boethius65 ( talk) 21:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Tables and divs are very difficult to use. I have a simple task I'm trying to do. If someone could help me, I'd appreciate it.
On my talk page, someone please make it so that my table of "guidelines" is on the top right, while the table of contents is on the top left. If you don't want to do it, please refer to me to someone who can. Zenwhat ( talk) 22:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Recently, there were varying opinions on whether Opeth should get links to both their MySpace and Facebook pages. I realized that number 11 of Links normally to be avoided at WP:EL states that MySpace pages should be avoided, yet several bands with featured articles (such as Slayer, Godsmack and Megadeth) all have Myspace links in their EL sections. I was just wondering what to do in this scenario; the Facebook page for Opeth is linked to on their official site, so authenticity isn't an issue. Any help would be appreciated. Master of Puppets Care to share? 23:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
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I am interested in writing a Wikipedia article on a not-for-profit orgaization that sponsors a self transformative event every year - for the past 17 years. There is an existing community of those who have attended this event, which is loosely connected with various other alternative communities. I would have clear copyright on all materiels. Would this be something that will be appropriate for this venue? Please advise.
Thank you,
Kenn Day. -- Kenndeigh ( talk) 00:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I cannot view any "show" or "hide" buttons. I run Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional. Thanks, – thedemonhog talk • edits 00:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
FOUR TIDES After logging on you told me to enter FOUR TIDES to display my user name ................... I do not have any TIDE(s) on my Laptop. I suggest that this TIDES thing is the figment of someone's imagination and should be done away with - it makes a bad beginning to introduce a new user with FOUR TIDES - it is an aberration. Please substitute Four Elephants or Four Monkeys!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leistina ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
3 times now I have added content to the page <XL Airways> and each time it is taken off. Just a few succint lines in the History and Incidents section. The current version of the page suggests that XL Airways stopped flying deportation charter flights out of 'sympathy' for asylum seekers. There is no mention in the History section of deportation flights that were carried out under Home Office contracts, without 'sympathy', and the subsequent protests against the airline that led to them withdrawing from the deportation charter business completely. These are minor, but essential, facts to give a balanced view of the companies activities. How do I stop my additions being constantly removed? Underbelly12 ( talk) 01:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do I change the Title of my article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Casanovafisher ( talk • contribs) 04:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear PrimeHunter
Your reply to the query by the same subject (above) was not helpful at all - everybody is here naturally to give of their time and to contribute to this project. So please take into account that MOST people have only a superficial understanding of how some of the features work.
So if there is a link to a YouTube page that I cannot see, I am presume it is concealed, why would this be so? If if it concealed, what is the purpose, seeing that noone will see it to be able to click on it. I've looked for this link in all modes, including "View Page Source", where I see all other links, but I don't see one to a YouTube page.
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 08:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
59.96.101.217 ( talk) 09:10, 31 December 2007 (UTC)how do i get info in hindi
dear sir, my orkut account always happen that it accept scrap but can't rply frm my scrap book so iwill be help ful to u i u would help me in this matter as its creacting a lot of problem —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.50.218.29 ( talk) 09:35, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
how do i add a page
11:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)~
sam moss
If you want to add a page follow Help:Starting a new page however if you want to add a new article proceed to Wikipedia:Your first article for further details it'll include instructions on what to do. →Yun-Yuu zhan→ 12:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi
The posts on "Wikipedia 'accuses' me of spamming refer.
The people who reply to the queries pos(t)ed here, are they some kind of uber-users with special privileges, knowledge etc, or are they NORMAL users trying to help but not always knowing what to do? If the latter, I could understand and forgive. If not, your attitude and working ethics are a great disservice to the project and I will take this up with Jimmy.
Whether I can see the links or not is immaterial,* the point is that if you are there to help, then you should be telling me how to work around the spam filter. The first person suggested that I remove the links. Someone put them there for good reason, so having to remove them to be able to edit a page is not a solution. Imagine every link having to be removed each time you have to make a small edit.
Smart-ass answers to the effect that "the links are there, I can see them" are at best puerile, at worst a great disservice and a disappointment. All that this kind of behaviour accomplishes is to annoy the contributor (unnecessarily) and make them vent out their frustration of this page for all to see - including a substantial phalange of Wikipedia detractors.
looking for text in links cannot be done on the display page, as the URL is embedded; looking for the text in edit mode with Mozilla, it does NOT search the edit template, only around it - I managed to see it them using Opera; looking for it with your eyes, I did not think of looking all the way down the page, believing that if each 'block' has an edit button, the top edit button would apply to the top block - and in the top block there aren't any links to any YouTube videos.
So, fine, I can see the links, but no-one has deigned to contribute a worthy solution.
Have a nice day
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 12:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to all who have helped or tried to. Perhaps I do/ did have the wrong idea of the people who reply here, as to the extent of their functions. I was not threatening when I said I would take this up with Jimmy, it is just that other than posting it here, and not knowing what other avenue to follow (I've seen posts about decalring disputes etc, which I feel is not necessary, nor is it the case), all I wanted was to get the feeling that someone would acknowledge that there is a problem here and resolve it, task someone with its resolution or alert the person responsible to look into it. If there is a more adequate forum to report this, then please be so kind as to enlighten me.
Also, perhaps I did not express myself clearly about the edit buttons - yes, I do know that the button refers to the section immediately below it - what I was trying to say is that I was not aware that the TOPMOST button applies to the whole page. In effect this means that unlike all other sections, the top section does not have its own dedicated edit bitton.
As for the YouTube link, I've just tested editing page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_%28Cadbury%29 which contains various external links - including a link to a YouTube video - and I had no problem saving the edits. It would not have occurred to me that such a fundamental issue such as blocking possible spam would differ from language to language in terms of policy to handle it. I'll post the issue on the Portuuese Wikipedia and see if it gets resolved.
I've until now never responded below responses to my posting in the belief (obviously wrong) that only the editors use this space to answer queries.
Best regards and have a happy, fun-filled, rewarding 2008 full of personal and professonal accomplishments.
-- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:26, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
You are quite right - I was immediately struck by those high IQs. They knocked me completely off-balance, such was the impact like an unexpected wave when you are standing on the rocks admiring the view!. And I knew at once they could be nothing else but High IQs because I happen to have one myself! lucky for me!
--
Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (
talk)
18:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
does 40 milligrams=20 milliliters? 13:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
i just want the diference and that is all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.210.19.83 ( talk) 14:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I have uploaded a photo of Ralph Lauren to which I own the rights to Creative Commons. I've placed that image name and caption into the template, but neither appear on saving the page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Doc ♬ talk 15:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do i cite a PDF document? Thanks. Sunder land 06 17:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
How do i gain access to twinkle, it says my account is too new, although that's true but i'm not new to wikipedia, this account is my secondary account which i want to use for finding vandalism and then fix it. My first account which i tend to use for editing is Yun-Yuuzhan could someone please grant me access. →Yun-Shu no→
What do the various colors mean when viewing the works of an author? Please see the works of James Michner as an example. 216.201.210.204 ( talk) 17:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Also, where and what is the sandbox?
On "Mario Strikers Charged" page, I wanted to add a review from a gaming website. I added the review under external links. I was then going to put the link under references as well. When I went to add the reference, for some reason or another, the other references got erased. It was unintentional. Is there anyway to reboot the references that were there? And how do you add a reference without having to enter all the references that were previously there? When I clicked "edit refrences," it left me a blank page and I thought I just needed to add the reference I used and all of a sudden when I saved it, everyone elses was erased. Deasterday1 ( talk) 18:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
This is the sentence that I want to edit: 'Kinetic art are sculptures that contains moving parts.' At this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art
Hitting the edit button at the bottom of the Kinetic art section where that sentence appears takes me instead to the editing page for the section on Kinetic sculpture. Usercode9623 ( talk) 19:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
I added some info that I thought was sorely missing from the Bob Eubanks page. It had to do with his famous antisemitic quote that he gave in the documentary Roger & Me. I cited the quote from IMDB, but it doesn't seem to list correctly in the references section. There is no hyperlink, and the page keeps telling me that the citations need work. Any solutions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.207.9 ( talk) 19:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank You!! —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
69.250.207.9 (
talk)
03:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I though there was a template with a name like {{ Notapoll}} to place atop deletion discussions prone to new and single-purpose accounts. Can't find it, and {{ spa}} doesn't really explain enough. / edg ☺ ☭ 19:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
O.K. where do I go to see currently on-going peer reviews. WP:PR seems to bbe revamped and I am at a loss.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 20:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The first instruction for the Username usurpation is: "Be sure the account you wish to usurp has no edits or log entries (except in the account creation log)." I wish to Usurp User:Spencer, who has only made one edit, to his userpage. That was ~5 years ago, and has not made an edit since. Before I waste my time trying to change my username, I was wondering if it would work, based on that one critea. S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ( Talk to Me) 21:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and Happy New Year,
My "thing" with Wikipedia is appending lists of source materials to articles on New Zealand place names.
Yesterday I created a fairly large list for the article "Hawera": more than 100 entries. The last section of the bibliography is headed "schools" and has from a dozen to twenty entries in it. However, instead of displaying these citations, it gives "Template:Citation" in place of each entry.
Given that these citations are formatted in the same way throughout the list - I'm stumped as to why this is happening. Is there perhaps a limit to the number of (( citation ...)) permitted per page??
TIA,
Boethius65 ( talk) 21:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Tables and divs are very difficult to use. I have a simple task I'm trying to do. If someone could help me, I'd appreciate it.
On my talk page, someone please make it so that my table of "guidelines" is on the top right, while the table of contents is on the top left. If you don't want to do it, please refer to me to someone who can. Zenwhat ( talk) 22:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Recently, there were varying opinions on whether Opeth should get links to both their MySpace and Facebook pages. I realized that number 11 of Links normally to be avoided at WP:EL states that MySpace pages should be avoided, yet several bands with featured articles (such as Slayer, Godsmack and Megadeth) all have Myspace links in their EL sections. I was just wondering what to do in this scenario; the Facebook page for Opeth is linked to on their official site, so authenticity isn't an issue. Any help would be appreciated. Master of Puppets Care to share? 23:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)