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I just uploaded an image into Wikipedia Commons and wish to insert it into an article. I thought I understood how to do this, but when I try to edit the article and hit Preview, the photo doesn't show. Just the words, Image:blah-blah-etc., show. Is it possible I need to wait four days? I just joined Wikipedia Commons to upload the photo. This is not the case with Wikipedia, because I have been a member for a couple of months. If anyone has any ideas it would ease my frustration! Thank you. Voiceperson ( talk) 01:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How do I edit Mike Huckabee? 70.234.154.58 ( talk) 02:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
What do you do if you feel an article is too long.
Chessmaster3 (
talk)
03:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I am currently in a Level 3 Chef course and have been asked to find culinary uses for fish cuts such as En Tresse, Pave, Gougons can you please direct me to a good site/page to do so thankyou 219.89.235.180 ( talk) 04:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any template we can use to indicate that a photo has been used by the media? Something similar to that used in Wikipedia, whereby an article was quoted by the media: {{ Press}}. I found this photo taken by wikimedian User:Johnleemk used in the article: here. There are also many other pictures used by media from commons. I know this question should be for Commons, so a similar question was posted at Commons:Help desk, but there was not much response. ќמшמφטтгמ torque 05:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Mainly I was wondering what the situation is when someone withdraws permission for a picture they had previously uploaded to Wikipedia, as has happened with Image:smarties2008.jpg which User:RAYBAN no longer wishes to be available for use. Is there somewhere it can be listed for deletion? Or does this not happen? (And if anybody wants to have a look over at Smarties (Nestle) and offer some advice or calm words to any of us, I would welcome it. It's calmer now, but it doesn't feel like an optimal solution.) Skittle ( talk) 11:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How business environment influences business managemnet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.199.205.25 ( talk) 12:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I a newcomer. Experimenting wikipedia community as a huge social network. Intending to get the data dumps and load them into a MySQL database.
Am wondering if someone can guid me through the simplest way.
As far as I understand the dumps are really huge. I download one but it is saved with an unknown format. I cant see its content. And have no idea how to create a database out of that data.
In the first step can any one help me on dowloading a dump (revision history pages) and see its contents. I just want to find out how different versions of an article is saved in a dump. Is it exactly the same as shown on the history page?
Highly appreciate any help
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.67.245 ( talk) 13:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way of changing the text that appears when you hover over a link in Wikipedia, like when using the title tag in html links? Free style 15:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
H:title}}
template documented
here.
—
Noah
00:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I had a warning box put on my page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Connection
saying that I hadn't cited enough sources or given enough references to be considered a noteworthy page. I believe that I've fixed that problem by now and would wonder if someone could please give me some feedback about this and what the isssue was in the first place, and remove the box, please.
Thank you,
-- Beakymouse ( talk) 15:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Will address on your talk page. Gtstricky Talk or C 15:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia's merging instructions do not provide the specific steps required for a "text dump merger," merely indicating that such a thing is possible. Could you pleas eidrect me to a listing of the steps involved in making that type of merger? Thanks! J.W. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoanWells ( talk • contribs) 16:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, we keep trying to create a page for our company, TSE Sports & Entertainment. We don’t want to advertise it and we keep referring to other companies' entries such as IBM to see how everything should be worded on our page, but it keeps getting speedily deleted. Can you please help us out so that we can make a proper page? Our account of gotse was also blocked from making any more edits because of how many times we tried to change it to make it proper. Thank you 66.11.200.227 ( talk) 17:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I apologize but I've been looking for the answer to this for an hour and can't find it. I want to upload a file written in Microsoft Office, text only, to create a new entry (my bio as a published author). I can't figure out how to put that in another format, though I see that you have an Office translator. I can scan it into tif but you only accept jpg. Help! Thank you, linjentoo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linjentoo ( talk • contribs) 19:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How do I create a "contents" box? I'm writing an article, have created sections and subsections, but cannot bring up a contents box. Help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normsch ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I need to change the title of an entry to properly reflect the name of a law firm. The law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath does not have a comma in its name, but its entry in Wikipedia is "Drinker, Biddle & Reath". I know how to edit the content of the piece, but not the title. Could you please remove the comma from the title so it reads "Drinker Biddle & Reath"?
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stfuzz ( talk • contribs) 22:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to grab the name of the last contributor to a page? For example, if I were creating a StatusBot template and wanted to list the name of the bot that last edited my status page, is there a way to do that without manually editing the template? Xenon 54 23:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am adding boxes on the pages of music albums that were number-one albums on the Billboard 200 at one time that show when that album was at the number-one spot. I am unsure whether these boxes should be at the bottom of the page or in sections about the album's sales and chart information, and I have not been able to find an answer to this question in the style manual. An example of a page with the box below sales and chart information would be 1 (album), and a page with the box at the bottom of the page would be Stadium Arcadium. Thank you.-- Classicrockfan42 ( talk) 23:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< February 26 | << Jan | February | Mar >> | February 28 > |
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. |
I just uploaded an image into Wikipedia Commons and wish to insert it into an article. I thought I understood how to do this, but when I try to edit the article and hit Preview, the photo doesn't show. Just the words, Image:blah-blah-etc., show. Is it possible I need to wait four days? I just joined Wikipedia Commons to upload the photo. This is not the case with Wikipedia, because I have been a member for a couple of months. If anyone has any ideas it would ease my frustration! Thank you. Voiceperson ( talk) 01:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How do I edit Mike Huckabee? 70.234.154.58 ( talk) 02:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
What do you do if you feel an article is too long.
Chessmaster3 (
talk)
03:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I am currently in a Level 3 Chef course and have been asked to find culinary uses for fish cuts such as En Tresse, Pave, Gougons can you please direct me to a good site/page to do so thankyou 219.89.235.180 ( talk) 04:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any template we can use to indicate that a photo has been used by the media? Something similar to that used in Wikipedia, whereby an article was quoted by the media: {{ Press}}. I found this photo taken by wikimedian User:Johnleemk used in the article: here. There are also many other pictures used by media from commons. I know this question should be for Commons, so a similar question was posted at Commons:Help desk, but there was not much response. ќמшמφטтгמ torque 05:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello. Mainly I was wondering what the situation is when someone withdraws permission for a picture they had previously uploaded to Wikipedia, as has happened with Image:smarties2008.jpg which User:RAYBAN no longer wishes to be available for use. Is there somewhere it can be listed for deletion? Or does this not happen? (And if anybody wants to have a look over at Smarties (Nestle) and offer some advice or calm words to any of us, I would welcome it. It's calmer now, but it doesn't feel like an optimal solution.) Skittle ( talk) 11:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How business environment influences business managemnet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.199.205.25 ( talk) 12:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I a newcomer. Experimenting wikipedia community as a huge social network. Intending to get the data dumps and load them into a MySQL database.
Am wondering if someone can guid me through the simplest way.
As far as I understand the dumps are really huge. I download one but it is saved with an unknown format. I cant see its content. And have no idea how to create a database out of that data.
In the first step can any one help me on dowloading a dump (revision history pages) and see its contents. I just want to find out how different versions of an article is saved in a dump. Is it exactly the same as shown on the history page?
Highly appreciate any help
Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.67.245 ( talk) 13:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way of changing the text that appears when you hover over a link in Wikipedia, like when using the title tag in html links? Free style 15:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
H:title}}
template documented
here.
—
Noah
00:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I had a warning box put on my page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Connection
saying that I hadn't cited enough sources or given enough references to be considered a noteworthy page. I believe that I've fixed that problem by now and would wonder if someone could please give me some feedback about this and what the isssue was in the first place, and remove the box, please.
Thank you,
-- Beakymouse ( talk) 15:23, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Will address on your talk page. Gtstricky Talk or C 15:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia's merging instructions do not provide the specific steps required for a "text dump merger," merely indicating that such a thing is possible. Could you pleas eidrect me to a listing of the steps involved in making that type of merger? Thanks! J.W. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoanWells ( talk • contribs) 16:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, we keep trying to create a page for our company, TSE Sports & Entertainment. We don’t want to advertise it and we keep referring to other companies' entries such as IBM to see how everything should be worded on our page, but it keeps getting speedily deleted. Can you please help us out so that we can make a proper page? Our account of gotse was also blocked from making any more edits because of how many times we tried to change it to make it proper. Thank you 66.11.200.227 ( talk) 17:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I apologize but I've been looking for the answer to this for an hour and can't find it. I want to upload a file written in Microsoft Office, text only, to create a new entry (my bio as a published author). I can't figure out how to put that in another format, though I see that you have an Office translator. I can scan it into tif but you only accept jpg. Help! Thank you, linjentoo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linjentoo ( talk • contribs) 19:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
How do I create a "contents" box? I'm writing an article, have created sections and subsections, but cannot bring up a contents box. Help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normsch ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I need to change the title of an entry to properly reflect the name of a law firm. The law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath does not have a comma in its name, but its entry in Wikipedia is "Drinker, Biddle & Reath". I know how to edit the content of the piece, but not the title. Could you please remove the comma from the title so it reads "Drinker Biddle & Reath"?
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stfuzz ( talk • contribs) 22:28, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a way to grab the name of the last contributor to a page? For example, if I were creating a StatusBot template and wanted to list the name of the bot that last edited my status page, is there a way to do that without manually editing the template? Xenon 54 23:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am adding boxes on the pages of music albums that were number-one albums on the Billboard 200 at one time that show when that album was at the number-one spot. I am unsure whether these boxes should be at the bottom of the page or in sections about the album's sales and chart information, and I have not been able to find an answer to this question in the style manual. An example of a page with the box below sales and chart information would be 1 (album), and a page with the box at the bottom of the page would be Stadium Arcadium. Thank you.-- Classicrockfan42 ( talk) 23:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)