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while I did create an account, and perhaps cannot remember my password or even loginname, your help site for resolving such issues is incomprehensible and unusable. Short of attempting to create a new account, how can you help me resolve this? ALSO, you should not make it so easy to create an account without telling people how difficult it will be to login later! Randy Bedore, Shorewood (Milwaukee) Wisconsin <email removed> EDIT: even the submission of this help page in incomprehensible!!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.210.142.59 ( talk) 00:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any offical place where I can get people to help code a new signature for me? I'm kinda bored of this one. BonesBrigade 03:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
[[User:BonesBrigade|]]([[User talk:BonesBrigade|Talk]])
I found a Wikipedia article that needs a lot of clean-up, and the only editing I’d done before was correcting grammar and spelling, so I’m not exactly sure what to do. I don’t know how to place clean-up messages and if all the relevant ones should be placed in it. The article is "Inventive Spelling". It is biased nearly throughout in favor of inventive spelling, for instance, “[Traditional spelling] instruction does not tend to improve students' spelling on any words except those on the test,” is unsubstantiated and absurd. (My classmates and I learned it this way and developed excellent spelling skills in general.) I did add one item to the list of costs, though. It has two weasel-word phrases, “some research has shown”and “many educators argue.”Several sentences require citation. The references given are bare URLs, one of which is a broken link. I don’t have enough experience yet or good enough writing skills to overhaul an article. So, what should I do?
What should we do when we see (assumedly unintentional) inappropriate use of templates? I'm thinking of situations like Talk:Andrew Harris (musician)#Continual Reverts of Off-topic & unencyclopedic entries. Talk pages should not be categorized as guidelines, right? Libcub ( talk) 04:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What about User pages, such as User:Cuyler91093/The Abridged Guide to Wikipedia. Is that an appropriate use of the Template:Guideline? Libcub ( talk) 04:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
There is some dispute over whether to use height/weight coversion templates in wrestlers articles. The template does not use them, but some people insist on using them because some other infoboxes on Wikipedia use them. One of the problems I have with weight coversion template is that it adds their weight in Stones. Stones is a weight measurement that is no longer officially used. There are some people in Commonwealth countries who unofficially still use it, but using it would be like using other abandoned measurements like Koku. Any comments or suggestions? TJ Spyke 05:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
convert}}
template which will show just kg and pounds.
—
Noah
06:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)How do i align sentences? See here: Template:Malaysian general election, 2008. If u see under "National Front" there are a number of parties under this banner which have been indented. Then comes "United Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Sabah", which is too long, and takes up two lines. The second line is not indented. How do i indent this? I tried reading {{ indent}}, but its impossible to understand. kawaputra torque 07:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
, which is not the best method, since it only indents the first line in a table cell if the cell contents end up wrapping. I can't think of a good answer immediately. --
Teratornis (
talk)
07:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Why is an article protected when there is a dispute involving its subject? 124.181.45.149 ( talk) 07:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
So I looked up the article on Pancreas and got the following: This. Not sure what to do with it, so I thought I'd start here :). -- Silvaran ( talk) 08:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to filtre recent changes? For example, I can view only the recent changes on terrorism related articles? Or only the recent changes on United States related articles? Is it possible? Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 08:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
The status of Pakistan is shown as "not free" which is ridiculous. Recently democratic elections took place and a new government is ruling so please update. Pakistan is a democratic country and is FREE. I am a borned citizen as to confirm this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.240.67 ( talk) 10:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear sir/madam
I found so many vulgar words in Chennai Tamil portal. Kindly delete that kind of words. Because it will affect our Tamil Language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 11:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Sir What i am saying is, You just enter the wikipedia search box as "Chennai Tamil", and the chennai tamil portal will open and you can see the chennai tamil language in table. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 03:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Moderator
Reg. vulgarism in the article "Chennai Tamil"
Vulgar in the sense that the article uses more derogatory and vulgar terms referring to sexual intercourse and genitalia. Not all people in Chennai speaks like this only the slums and fishermen do...Please refer to the word "thevdia paya"'s example...Tamil is a divine language and as Tamilians we strongly object this article. Contact any Tamil moderator and delete the vulgarism in this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 12:44, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Moderator
or else pls change the title as "Vulgar words in Tamil"! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 12:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
The following images should be removed due to racist nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maome.jpg#file
Pictures of Prophets are not ALLOWED and are RACIST!
Islam does not allow images of Holy people to be recreated in any matter form or way. These images and possibly others should be removed immidiantly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by -N34 ( talk • contribs) 11:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe it's just me, but some of the text colours used in <source> listings are almost invisible against the grey background. Here's an example:
void foo()
{
s.cyan = 0;
s.text = 0;
s.is = 0;
s.almost = 0;
s.impossible = 0;
s.to = 0;
s.see = 0;
}
If the cyan text looks OK to you, then perhaps this rendering might illustrate the problem a bit better.
Would it be possible to change these colours so that they stand out from the background a bit more reliably? Or is there any way I can set up a custom stylesheet to change the settings in my own browser? -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 13:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Never mind — I added this to my monobook.css file and things look a lot better now.
.source-cpp .me1 { color:#499; }
.source-cpp .me2 { color:#499; }
(Although I still think it would be a good idea to change the default colours) -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 14:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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File:Kanzibonobbbbo.jpg Kanzi of the Bonobos | |
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Why are some parameters not showing up, and why are we getting all those extra curly brackets at the end? I've been scratching my head about this all morning.....-- The Fat Man Who Never Came Back ( talk) 15:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
We are trying to add references/footnotes to an article. We hit the <ref/ref> button which did add the reference number (ie. [1]) but when we added the link url within the designated area (something like add footnote text here) and then saved the page, the footnote numbers appear but not the actual links below the Wikipedia text. Nor are the footnote numbers clickable. How do we get the reference/footnote numbers to link to the actual footnote/reference below? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mass Animal Rights Coalition ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
==References==
{{reflist}}
Does wikipedia provide access to an electronic database? More specifically, I am looking for a database, preferably in Excel, of a database of colleges and universities in every country except the USA. I require only limited field - Country/collegeor university name/ city or town. If I could also get the province, that would be ideal but not necessary.
Thanks for any help/advice you can provide.
Peter PfdBoston ( talk) 16:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I presume not, and databases would usually be access files anyway. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help and assistance 17:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I believe you can do this. See WP:DUMP. SpinningSpark 18:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I have written some text that could be added to the Ottowa page on wikipedia on my website:
Could I use it on Wikipedia? Regards, -- PUuoYeviGannoGreveN ( talk) 17:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I SERIOUSLY ADVISE USERS not TO CLICK THE ABOVE LINK! Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help and assistance 19:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if someone could tell me where to find a userscript or something that would let me control the colours of different kinds of links, specifially to make links I've previously visited show up in a bolder colour. When doing disambiguation link repair, I need to find the previously-visited link which is the disambiguation page, and I find it hard to spot because it's a purple which looks to me a lot like either the plain black text or like ordinary blue links. I'd like to be able to set it to red or something just while doing disambiguation. I'm using the browser Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12. Thanks. -- Coppertwig ( talk) 18:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
a:visited { color: #777;}
. This will make all visited links gray. You can adjust the #777 to whatever color you like. -
SigmaEpsilon →
Σ
Ε
18:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Family duty counsel exists in Canada as well as criminal. We assist unrepresented parties in the courts with legal informations, forms and advice on family law matters for free if the clent is low-income. We can appear in court on uncontested or consent matters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.70.237.13 ( talk) 19:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the best thing to do when the majority of editors of a wikipedia page are in a conflict of interest over their power to control the content of the page?
In this case the editors in control of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church page are:
I am not an antagonist of their church. I am just fed up with certain users of wikipedia with a clear conflict of interest taking control over a page to ensure that their organization is promoted, as well as removing and ignoring objective information that they do not like. 24.83.90.35 ( talk) 20:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help guys. Yes I do have an account on my home computer. I will try to work things out with those guys. I think that it is terrible for people to use wikipedia to promote any kind of propoganda. 209.121.155.196 ( talk) 11:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to edit the contents of the box at the top right of the article on the Nuclear program of Iran. It's a bulleted collection of links, but there does not appear to be any corresponding text in the article when I click "edit this page." I'd like to add some links and delete others. NPguy ( talk) 20:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any difference between the tags <br>, <br/>, and <br /> (with a space)? Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 22:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< February 22 | << Jan | February | Mar >> | February 24 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current Help Desk pages. |
while I did create an account, and perhaps cannot remember my password or even loginname, your help site for resolving such issues is incomprehensible and unusable. Short of attempting to create a new account, how can you help me resolve this? ALSO, you should not make it so easy to create an account without telling people how difficult it will be to login later! Randy Bedore, Shorewood (Milwaukee) Wisconsin <email removed> EDIT: even the submission of this help page in incomprehensible!!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.210.142.59 ( talk) 00:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any offical place where I can get people to help code a new signature for me? I'm kinda bored of this one. BonesBrigade 03:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
[[User:BonesBrigade|]]([[User talk:BonesBrigade|Talk]])
I found a Wikipedia article that needs a lot of clean-up, and the only editing I’d done before was correcting grammar and spelling, so I’m not exactly sure what to do. I don’t know how to place clean-up messages and if all the relevant ones should be placed in it. The article is "Inventive Spelling". It is biased nearly throughout in favor of inventive spelling, for instance, “[Traditional spelling] instruction does not tend to improve students' spelling on any words except those on the test,” is unsubstantiated and absurd. (My classmates and I learned it this way and developed excellent spelling skills in general.) I did add one item to the list of costs, though. It has two weasel-word phrases, “some research has shown”and “many educators argue.”Several sentences require citation. The references given are bare URLs, one of which is a broken link. I don’t have enough experience yet or good enough writing skills to overhaul an article. So, what should I do?
What should we do when we see (assumedly unintentional) inappropriate use of templates? I'm thinking of situations like Talk:Andrew Harris (musician)#Continual Reverts of Off-topic & unencyclopedic entries. Talk pages should not be categorized as guidelines, right? Libcub ( talk) 04:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What about User pages, such as User:Cuyler91093/The Abridged Guide to Wikipedia. Is that an appropriate use of the Template:Guideline? Libcub ( talk) 04:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
There is some dispute over whether to use height/weight coversion templates in wrestlers articles. The template does not use them, but some people insist on using them because some other infoboxes on Wikipedia use them. One of the problems I have with weight coversion template is that it adds their weight in Stones. Stones is a weight measurement that is no longer officially used. There are some people in Commonwealth countries who unofficially still use it, but using it would be like using other abandoned measurements like Koku. Any comments or suggestions? TJ Spyke 05:53, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
convert}}
template which will show just kg and pounds.
—
Noah
06:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)How do i align sentences? See here: Template:Malaysian general election, 2008. If u see under "National Front" there are a number of parties under this banner which have been indented. Then comes "United Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Sabah", which is too long, and takes up two lines. The second line is not indented. How do i indent this? I tried reading {{ indent}}, but its impossible to understand. kawaputra torque 07:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
, which is not the best method, since it only indents the first line in a table cell if the cell contents end up wrapping. I can't think of a good answer immediately. --
Teratornis (
talk)
07:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Why is an article protected when there is a dispute involving its subject? 124.181.45.149 ( talk) 07:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
So I looked up the article on Pancreas and got the following: This. Not sure what to do with it, so I thought I'd start here :). -- Silvaran ( talk) 08:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to filtre recent changes? For example, I can view only the recent changes on terrorism related articles? Or only the recent changes on United States related articles? Is it possible? Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 08:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
The status of Pakistan is shown as "not free" which is ridiculous. Recently democratic elections took place and a new government is ruling so please update. Pakistan is a democratic country and is FREE. I am a borned citizen as to confirm this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.188.240.67 ( talk) 10:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear sir/madam
I found so many vulgar words in Chennai Tamil portal. Kindly delete that kind of words. Because it will affect our Tamil Language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 11:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Sir What i am saying is, You just enter the wikipedia search box as "Chennai Tamil", and the chennai tamil portal will open and you can see the chennai tamil language in table. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 03:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Moderator
Reg. vulgarism in the article "Chennai Tamil"
Vulgar in the sense that the article uses more derogatory and vulgar terms referring to sexual intercourse and genitalia. Not all people in Chennai speaks like this only the slums and fishermen do...Please refer to the word "thevdia paya"'s example...Tamil is a divine language and as Tamilians we strongly object this article. Contact any Tamil moderator and delete the vulgarism in this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 12:44, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Moderator
or else pls change the title as "Vulgar words in Tamil"! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.145.125.100 ( talk) 12:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
The following images should be removed due to racist nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maome.jpg#file
Pictures of Prophets are not ALLOWED and are RACIST!
Islam does not allow images of Holy people to be recreated in any matter form or way. These images and possibly others should be removed immidiantly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by -N34 ( talk • contribs) 11:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe it's just me, but some of the text colours used in <source> listings are almost invisible against the grey background. Here's an example:
void foo()
{
s.cyan = 0;
s.text = 0;
s.is = 0;
s.almost = 0;
s.impossible = 0;
s.to = 0;
s.see = 0;
}
If the cyan text looks OK to you, then perhaps this rendering might illustrate the problem a bit better.
Would it be possible to change these colours so that they stand out from the background a bit more reliably? Or is there any way I can set up a custom stylesheet to change the settings in my own browser? -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 13:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Never mind — I added this to my monobook.css file and things look a lot better now.
.source-cpp .me1 { color:#499; }
.source-cpp .me2 { color:#499; }
(Although I still think it would be a good idea to change the default colours) -- Sakurambo 桜ん坊 14:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Kanzi | |
---|---|
File:Kanzibonobbbbo.jpg Kanzi of the Bonobos | |
Born |
Why are some parameters not showing up, and why are we getting all those extra curly brackets at the end? I've been scratching my head about this all morning.....-- The Fat Man Who Never Came Back ( talk) 15:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
We are trying to add references/footnotes to an article. We hit the <ref/ref> button which did add the reference number (ie. [1]) but when we added the link url within the designated area (something like add footnote text here) and then saved the page, the footnote numbers appear but not the actual links below the Wikipedia text. Nor are the footnote numbers clickable. How do we get the reference/footnote numbers to link to the actual footnote/reference below? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mass Animal Rights Coalition ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
==References==
{{reflist}}
Does wikipedia provide access to an electronic database? More specifically, I am looking for a database, preferably in Excel, of a database of colleges and universities in every country except the USA. I require only limited field - Country/collegeor university name/ city or town. If I could also get the province, that would be ideal but not necessary.
Thanks for any help/advice you can provide.
Peter PfdBoston ( talk) 16:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I presume not, and databases would usually be access files anyway. Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help and assistance 17:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I believe you can do this. See WP:DUMP. SpinningSpark 18:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I have written some text that could be added to the Ottowa page on wikipedia on my website:
Could I use it on Wikipedia? Regards, -- PUuoYeviGannoGreveN ( talk) 17:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I SERIOUSLY ADVISE USERS not TO CLICK THE ABOVE LINK! Thanks, George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help and assistance 19:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if someone could tell me where to find a userscript or something that would let me control the colours of different kinds of links, specifially to make links I've previously visited show up in a bolder colour. When doing disambiguation link repair, I need to find the previously-visited link which is the disambiguation page, and I find it hard to spot because it's a purple which looks to me a lot like either the plain black text or like ordinary blue links. I'd like to be able to set it to red or something just while doing disambiguation. I'm using the browser Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12. Thanks. -- Coppertwig ( talk) 18:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
a:visited { color: #777;}
. This will make all visited links gray. You can adjust the #777 to whatever color you like. -
SigmaEpsilon →
Σ
Ε
18:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Family duty counsel exists in Canada as well as criminal. We assist unrepresented parties in the courts with legal informations, forms and advice on family law matters for free if the clent is low-income. We can appear in court on uncontested or consent matters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.70.237.13 ( talk) 19:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the best thing to do when the majority of editors of a wikipedia page are in a conflict of interest over their power to control the content of the page?
In this case the editors in control of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church page are:
I am not an antagonist of their church. I am just fed up with certain users of wikipedia with a clear conflict of interest taking control over a page to ensure that their organization is promoted, as well as removing and ignoring objective information that they do not like. 24.83.90.35 ( talk) 20:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help guys. Yes I do have an account on my home computer. I will try to work things out with those guys. I think that it is terrible for people to use wikipedia to promote any kind of propoganda. 209.121.155.196 ( talk) 11:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to edit the contents of the box at the top right of the article on the Nuclear program of Iran. It's a bulleted collection of links, but there does not appear to be any corresponding text in the article when I click "edit this page." I'd like to add some links and delete others. NPguy ( talk) 20:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any difference between the tags <br>, <br/>, and <br /> (with a space)? Thanks, Reywas92 Talk 22:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)