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I would like to make a referral or reference or wiki-link to a specific section within a wikipedia article. How do I do that? — Ayapota ( talk) 00:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Greg DePaul. I'm a screenwriter and the original writer of BRIDE WARS, an upcoming movie starring Kate Hudson. The writing credits on the movie as listed on your site are incorrect. The Writers Guild of America is the sole determiner for screen credits for this movie. The Guild recently ruled that the screen credits for screenwriting shall read:
Story by Greg DePaul Screenplay by Greg DePaul and Casey Wilson & June Diane Raphael.
It may take some time for the credits to be changed on other websites, such as IMDB, but they will change.
And the movie poster will list the credits as I just did above.
You can confirm credits by contacting the WGA(west).
Sincerely,
Greg DePaul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.225.31.122 ( talk) 02:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I am in the early stages of developing a new (commercial) product that will include questions and answers. I would like to use Wikipedia as a research tool to help me gather this information (which I would then validate with additional verifiable sources). I would not be reproducing any part of any article.
Is there any copyright issue with my plan? Is there any legal or ethical reason that I should not do this?
FranMC ( talk) 07:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Fran
I have asked twice to getmy password replaced and I have received no email.Please can you email me: <removed>
Thankyou, Rod —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.159.84 ( talk) 07:50, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I know there are various Wikipedia projects and groups who try to de-orphan articles, or add references to them, or fix broken links, but where do I go to report articles with (seemingly random) large amounts of white space in them? See here, for example. Or, alternatively, how do I fix those sorts of problems myself? Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here ( talk) 09:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Looking at Note 22 ("Ellis 2005, pp. 106–111") at Degrassi: The Next Generation, when you click on the "Ellis 2005" link you get jumped down the page and you see the correct reference highlighted in blue. How does this work? Although I am familiar with <ref>s I can not work out how the note is associated with the book.-- Commander Keane ( talk) 09:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Starting a few minutes ago, I cannot save any page that I edit. I get a red warning message "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in." I have logged out and back in, and get the same result. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks. Truthanado ( talk) 14:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. There are quite a few pages with two different tracks of footnotes due to multiple reference styles. E.g. Woodstock Festival. The ones I have noticed will have one series of citations using the "ref" tag, mixed in with a different series of citations using a pair of single brackets "[]" with a url. This results in an unsightly and confusing system, where one footnote number will yield two completely different results.
In other words, you can click footnote number 1 on the Woodstock page, and you will get a citation in the references section at the bottom of the page; you can click on a different footnote number 1, with a completely different subject matter and reference, and be forwarded to a non-Wikipedia web page.
(Although I see only one overlap on the Woodstock page, I have seen pages where there are a lot of them.)
First question: Should these be cleaned up?
Second: Is there an easier way to clean these up than going through the entire article, identifying each use of single brackets, and adding "ref" tags instead?
Third: Is there a way to prevent this systematically, perhaps by not numbering the single bracket references?
TYAI Apollo ( talk) 15:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
tags so they get properly numbered. The footnotes in the Woodstock article use
citation templates, so the links should be updated. --——
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk -
15:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
#bodyContent a.external { color: #008000 }
. The code is from
User:Barek. The code turns all external links green, which will let you distinguish reference links from external links. Here is a link about this sort of thing
Help:User_style.
Silverfish (
talk)
16:28, 7 September 2008 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process gives me the error below. Shift-reloading the page does not help :-( Other pages load fine.
Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.
You may be able to get further information in the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
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PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Skin.php line 1622: Call to a member function escapeFullURL() on a non-object
-- Masatran ( talk) 16:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Are you able to view the article, or do you too get the error message? Please let me know. -- Masatran ( talk) 16:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys! I'm trying to create an account on the English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface. I entered in all of the information, clicked the second checkbox, skipped the signature box, and hit submit. I got something that looked like:
"Query failed: INSERT INTO acc_user (user_name, user_email, user_pass, user_level, user_onwikiname, user_secure, user_welcome, user_welcome_sig, user_welcome_template) VALUES ('NuclearWarfare', 'EMAIL WAS HERE BUT I REMOVED IT', 'HASH WAS HERE BUT I REMOVED IT', 'New', 'NuclearWarfare', '0', '0', , 'welcome-personal'); ERROR: Unknown column 'user_secure' in 'field list' "
Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I've read Wikipedia:Request an account/Guide over and I can't see what's wrong. Thanks for your help! NuclearWarfare contact me My work 16:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello I just finished school and I am looking for a job . I live in New Zealand but I can work on Wikipedia or Wikiversity. I can be a professer on Wikiversity or an admin on Wikipedia. I am looking for around $300 NZD an hour for 6 hours a day? Pleae get in touch and I will send you my CV. Many thanks. Trevor Beltsford. -- WellingtonUnemployed ( talk) 16:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I was curious as to whether information about crime and rent prices are appropriate for Wikipedia articles about cities. A few editors in the Perth article have disagreed about the appropriateness of including such information. Black-Velvet 17:20, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I want to create a timeline in a "List of (Band) band members" article, as in List of Oasis band members, List of Slipknot band members and List of Dream Theater band members, but do not know how to start it. When I copy the basic outline from these articles, it malfunctions as I change the information. Help on this, please? Andre666 ( talk) 21:39, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, is there any way in the Featured Pictures section either here or on the Commons to have it only display such images that are in black and white/greyscale/other non-color variant scheme? Alternately, to only display images of a certain age? Thanks, 199.89.180.65 ( talk) 22:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to add a navbox to a template where the navbox will appear at the bottom of the page using the template? Or are navboxes usually added on a page-by-page basis? Louis Waweru Talk 23:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
EEK HELP! DOUBLE REDIRECTS! I just merged five pages into asphalt (concrete, asphalt concrete, tarmac, sidewalk, and pavement (a disambig page) - concrete alone has over 500 double redirects, no way i can fix all of those, would take year,s any idea how to mass fix them?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrqwerty987 ( talk • contribs) 23:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< September 1 | << Aug | September | Oct >> | September 3 > |
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 would like to make a referral or reference or wiki-link to a specific section within a wikipedia article. How do I do that? — Ayapota ( talk) 00:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, My name is Greg DePaul. I'm a screenwriter and the original writer of BRIDE WARS, an upcoming movie starring Kate Hudson. The writing credits on the movie as listed on your site are incorrect. The Writers Guild of America is the sole determiner for screen credits for this movie. The Guild recently ruled that the screen credits for screenwriting shall read:
Story by Greg DePaul Screenplay by Greg DePaul and Casey Wilson & June Diane Raphael.
It may take some time for the credits to be changed on other websites, such as IMDB, but they will change.
And the movie poster will list the credits as I just did above.
You can confirm credits by contacting the WGA(west).
Sincerely,
Greg DePaul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.225.31.122 ( talk) 02:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I am in the early stages of developing a new (commercial) product that will include questions and answers. I would like to use Wikipedia as a research tool to help me gather this information (which I would then validate with additional verifiable sources). I would not be reproducing any part of any article.
Is there any copyright issue with my plan? Is there any legal or ethical reason that I should not do this?
FranMC ( talk) 07:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Fran
I have asked twice to getmy password replaced and I have received no email.Please can you email me: <removed>
Thankyou, Rod —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.159.84 ( talk) 07:50, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I know there are various Wikipedia projects and groups who try to de-orphan articles, or add references to them, or fix broken links, but where do I go to report articles with (seemingly random) large amounts of white space in them? See here, for example. Or, alternatively, how do I fix those sorts of problems myself? Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here ( talk) 09:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Looking at Note 22 ("Ellis 2005, pp. 106–111") at Degrassi: The Next Generation, when you click on the "Ellis 2005" link you get jumped down the page and you see the correct reference highlighted in blue. How does this work? Although I am familiar with <ref>s I can not work out how the note is associated with the book.-- Commander Keane ( talk) 09:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Starting a few minutes ago, I cannot save any page that I edit. I get a red warning message "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in." I have logged out and back in, and get the same result. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks. Truthanado ( talk) 14:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. There are quite a few pages with two different tracks of footnotes due to multiple reference styles. E.g. Woodstock Festival. The ones I have noticed will have one series of citations using the "ref" tag, mixed in with a different series of citations using a pair of single brackets "[]" with a url. This results in an unsightly and confusing system, where one footnote number will yield two completely different results.
In other words, you can click footnote number 1 on the Woodstock page, and you will get a citation in the references section at the bottom of the page; you can click on a different footnote number 1, with a completely different subject matter and reference, and be forwarded to a non-Wikipedia web page.
(Although I see only one overlap on the Woodstock page, I have seen pages where there are a lot of them.)
First question: Should these be cleaned up?
Second: Is there an easier way to clean these up than going through the entire article, identifying each use of single brackets, and adding "ref" tags instead?
Third: Is there a way to prevent this systematically, perhaps by not numbering the single bracket references?
TYAI Apollo ( talk) 15:18, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
tags so they get properly numbered. The footnotes in the Woodstock article use
citation templates, so the links should be updated. --——
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk -
15:25, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
#bodyContent a.external { color: #008000 }
. The code is from
User:Barek. The code turns all external links green, which will let you distinguish reference links from external links. Here is a link about this sort of thing
Help:User_style.
Silverfish (
talk)
16:28, 7 September 2008 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process gives me the error below. Shift-reloading the page does not help :-( Other pages load fine.
Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.
You may be able to get further information in the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.
PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/includes/Skin.php line 1622: Call to a member function escapeFullURL() on a non-object
-- Masatran ( talk) 16:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Are you able to view the article, or do you too get the error message? Please let me know. -- Masatran ( talk) 16:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys! I'm trying to create an account on the English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface. I entered in all of the information, clicked the second checkbox, skipped the signature box, and hit submit. I got something that looked like:
"Query failed: INSERT INTO acc_user (user_name, user_email, user_pass, user_level, user_onwikiname, user_secure, user_welcome, user_welcome_sig, user_welcome_template) VALUES ('NuclearWarfare', 'EMAIL WAS HERE BUT I REMOVED IT', 'HASH WAS HERE BUT I REMOVED IT', 'New', 'NuclearWarfare', '0', '0', , 'welcome-personal'); ERROR: Unknown column 'user_secure' in 'field list' "
Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I've read Wikipedia:Request an account/Guide over and I can't see what's wrong. Thanks for your help! NuclearWarfare contact me My work 16:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello I just finished school and I am looking for a job . I live in New Zealand but I can work on Wikipedia or Wikiversity. I can be a professer on Wikiversity or an admin on Wikipedia. I am looking for around $300 NZD an hour for 6 hours a day? Pleae get in touch and I will send you my CV. Many thanks. Trevor Beltsford. -- WellingtonUnemployed ( talk) 16:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I was curious as to whether information about crime and rent prices are appropriate for Wikipedia articles about cities. A few editors in the Perth article have disagreed about the appropriateness of including such information. Black-Velvet 17:20, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I want to create a timeline in a "List of (Band) band members" article, as in List of Oasis band members, List of Slipknot band members and List of Dream Theater band members, but do not know how to start it. When I copy the basic outline from these articles, it malfunctions as I change the information. Help on this, please? Andre666 ( talk) 21:39, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, is there any way in the Featured Pictures section either here or on the Commons to have it only display such images that are in black and white/greyscale/other non-color variant scheme? Alternately, to only display images of a certain age? Thanks, 199.89.180.65 ( talk) 22:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to add a navbox to a template where the navbox will appear at the bottom of the page using the template? Or are navboxes usually added on a page-by-page basis? Louis Waweru Talk 23:04, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
EEK HELP! DOUBLE REDIRECTS! I just merged five pages into asphalt (concrete, asphalt concrete, tarmac, sidewalk, and pavement (a disambig page) - concrete alone has over 500 double redirects, no way i can fix all of those, would take year,s any idea how to mass fix them?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrqwerty987 ( talk • contribs) 23:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)