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Yesterday I made an edit request asking to include my late brother's name.Jerry White died in 1971 at the age of 35. He was a natural Ragtime Stride Piano Artist who recorded three albums. His music is featured by Amazon, Cdbaby, and Jazz By Mail. com. Google browser features Jerry White as top Stride Piano Jazz artist. Youtube.com also ranks him as top rated providing a six minute video clip of his artistry.
Please advise me as to the status of my request.
Thank you.
Howard White —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerryragtime ( talk • contribs) 00:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am new to this and was told I could use this site to view auctions containing items I have recently inherited to find out their value, but I cannot figure out how to get there. HELP!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loafer999 ( talk • contribs) 01:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Why do administrators have to notify the foundation when government IPs such as 143.231.249.141 are blocked? GO-PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 01:43, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, is there any possible way to change the color of an internal link? ~ Bella Swan ? 01:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
<font>
is deprecated HTML. Please don't use it.
Andy Mabbett (aka Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy Mabbett;
Andy Mabbett's contributions
08:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
There are also other solutions which do not require <font> tags 207.58.235.243 ( talk) 16:29, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
When reporting and warning vandals, is it necessary to go the whole way from warning 1-4, before reporting a vandal? Some vandals, like the one who just vandalized my user page; don't seem much like they will listen to warnings. I just saw a policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules; can I use this with reporting vandals? I'm just not clear on how this works in practice. Thanks. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 02:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
The confirmation for my wikipedia expired. How do I re-register? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eswari 2 ( talk • contribs) 03:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a problem if I want to translate articles from one language into another? I haven't psoted anything yet. I am mostly interested in translating english - romanian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgeono ( talk • contribs) 07:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
how do i translate an article from one language to the other —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.163.237.37 ( talk) 07:24, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering what website should be used in screenshots of web browsers, I see many with the wikipedia page, but that has lots of problems for many reasons, self reference should be avoided, etc... so, what website whould be used? a blank page? A ramdom website that is in the public domain or under a free license? I really don't what should be used... SF007 ( talk) 07:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
For years i have had a page on one of my bands on wikipedia and i just found out it got deleted last month because as of now you say bands are of no use and should not be in wikipedia? Who are you to say if a page is relevant or not? I thought wikipedia was all about everyone in the world contributing and sharing information / knowledge on everything possible?
So if i would like to know something about a band, even if you people hate that kind of music, i would like to consult wikipedia. Obviously you people don't.
Thank you Ben —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benhume ( talk • contribs) 07:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am accused of placing inaccurate information in an already existing article but I have never updated any articles in Wikipedia, Nor to my knowledge has anyone at this ISP address. The article in question is on DTs a subject which I knew very little about before I read the article, should I be worried about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zechymahler ( talk • contribs) 09:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This can't be found. What's done in that case? -- 194.75.236.69 ( talk) 13:12, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Afternoon Helpdesk. I'm interested in helping to tidy up and unify the design of Wikipedia's pages; is there a WikiProject or somesuch already doing this? If not would it be a good idea for me to set one up? Or just go it alone on a page-by-page basis? Pretzels chatters 13:12, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
what kind of English is used in wikipedia? British (as in colour, metre, jam,jelly etc.) or American (as in color, meter, jelly,Jell-O etc.)? or can anyone contribute in whichever they wish? (eg. The Aussies found the perfect greeting-G'Day Mate!) --SuperJew ( contact me) 14:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Why is your teacakes article called Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats? They are called teacakes. The British came up with them first, not the Americans, so we should use the British name -- Teacake Martyr ( talk) 14:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Is this another Ouija-whatever ploy? The username looks suspicious and is recent. -- Teratornis ( talk) 00:08, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I object to this proposed rename and propose instead renaming it to Mallomar. (well, no I don't - the point is, it's a concept that goes beyond any single local variation). -- Random832 ( contribs) 16:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I feel quite sure that image credits (i.e. the name of the photographer) should only be placed on the image page, and not as part of a caption where the image is used in a mainspace article. Is this correct? If so, please could you tell me where to find the relevant policy/guideline? Thanks in advance! Pince Nez ( talk) 14:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I can't change to autoconfimed status even though i did every thing. I have been on long enough and have done enough edits. Thank you. Going to try and get mildly active again. Don't expect much on this page, though.
I also did some stupid things back in 2008 and 2009 and hopefully I can move past those, especially as I only want to now make Wikipedia articles I read often cleaner and neater.
I do all the online editing for a musician/band who are on here. I have been editing the articles up here as they are inaccurate. I am trying to put in external links to Myspace and Facebook which are official pages but I keep getting them removed. They are reliable and official sources as I maintain them on behalf of the band/musician. Why can't I have these links? Sorry to ask if it's really basic as I am new on here. Thanx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackqueen66 ( talk • contribs) 15:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
How exactly can I nominate This horrible and pointless article for deletion. The rules are so complex! Tutthoth-Ankhre ( talk) 15:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
How do I prevent the title of the article from being displayed in the top left corner? For example, Main Page doesn't say Main Page at the top. The only magic words I can see are _NOTOC_ and _NOEDITSECTION_, and neither of those seem to do the trick. Anyone? - 137.22.3.32 ( talk) 16:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE: }}
will work, but I don't know.
Dendodge|
Talk
Contribs
17:37, 5 September 2008 (UTC)I'm asking for another wiki I'm editing. Like Wikipedia, I'd like the main page to not have "Main Page" on it. If it's a custom CSS thing, then that's fine, and I'll just do without. - 137.22.3.32 ( talk) 18:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This is copied from my other question. The last part of it is my actual question after such. -- I've already been answered about the sandbox, and have it set up (see EXE Sandbox above), but I also want all of the help pages so that I can actually read to learn about the stuff, and have a reference...
My main problem however is that I have WOS installed (looking back WAMP seems a little easier, but heh...), and I'm not sure how to go about getting the help pages in there (I don't want the rest, just help... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyrofyr ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hoping this is still seen despite being a bit up here now. In any case, I am looking for generic wiki information/help. It's mostly for syntax and the more advanced stuff, so that I can learn at my own pace. 65.11.205.172 ( talk) 21:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thumb|Radar image of the circulation of Hurricane Gustav reaching southern Wisconsin Pretty self explanatory, really. This image won't generate a thumbnail in articles. I know that wikimedia generated one because you can see it in the file history, but somehow it isn't showing up when I place the image in articles. Any ideas? Plasticup T/ C 18:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know the CSS to change my background from that weird book thingy? I haven't found a suitable image yet, but I'd like to know the code for when I find one. Dendodge| Talk Contribs 20:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
/* replace the book in the background with something else */ body { background: Purple; }
This is per Help:User style#Samples. I have little understanding myself of these monobook matters.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 20:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
That set a solid color. This will set the background to a single Image:WikiG.png, right aligned at 50px:
#p-personal {background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/WikiG.png) right no-repeat; height:50px
--—— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 20:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I remember seeing a few days ago a Wikipedia or Help page with instructions how to archive an AfD, merge discussion or similar things, but I can't find it anymore, and my browser history contains a few thousand pages too much to look there. Could someone point me there? Admiral Norton ( talk) 20:58, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Ctrl-F
on the
Editor's index. --
Teratornis (
talk)
00:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)I uploaded an image and a few days later it had a notice on it saying I could improve the file by adding "catagories" to it. It said that catagories will make it easier for others to find the image. I followed a link on the notice but it was all very long and complicated and didn't really explain how to add catagories to an image. Can someone please explain in a simple manner? N40798 —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:47, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
[[Category:Name of category]]to the bottom of the page, just the same as for an article. By convention, categories are added after the references and any templates but before the interwiki links but it still works even if you get the order "wrong". The difficult bit is deciding what categories to put something in. If you are inexperienced with this, the best plan is to find a similar item and copy the categories from that. SpinningSpark 07:51, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
(Personal resume removed. — Noah 23:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC))
Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you wish for them to be permanently removed from the page history, email
this address.
Perfect
Proposal
00:15, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< September 4 | << Aug | September | Oct >> | September 6 > |
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. |
Yesterday I made an edit request asking to include my late brother's name.Jerry White died in 1971 at the age of 35. He was a natural Ragtime Stride Piano Artist who recorded three albums. His music is featured by Amazon, Cdbaby, and Jazz By Mail. com. Google browser features Jerry White as top Stride Piano Jazz artist. Youtube.com also ranks him as top rated providing a six minute video clip of his artistry.
Please advise me as to the status of my request.
Thank you.
Howard White —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerryragtime ( talk • contribs) 00:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am new to this and was told I could use this site to view auctions containing items I have recently inherited to find out their value, but I cannot figure out how to get there. HELP!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loafer999 ( talk • contribs) 01:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Why do administrators have to notify the foundation when government IPs such as 143.231.249.141 are blocked? GO-PCHS-NJROTC (Messages) 01:43, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Just out of curiosity, is there any possible way to change the color of an internal link? ~ Bella Swan ? 01:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
<font>
is deprecated HTML. Please don't use it.
Andy Mabbett (aka Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy Mabbett;
Andy Mabbett's contributions
08:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
There are also other solutions which do not require <font> tags 207.58.235.243 ( talk) 16:29, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
When reporting and warning vandals, is it necessary to go the whole way from warning 1-4, before reporting a vandal? Some vandals, like the one who just vandalized my user page; don't seem much like they will listen to warnings. I just saw a policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules; can I use this with reporting vandals? I'm just not clear on how this works in practice. Thanks. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 02:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
The confirmation for my wikipedia expired. How do I re-register? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eswari 2 ( talk • contribs) 03:40, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a problem if I want to translate articles from one language into another? I haven't psoted anything yet. I am mostly interested in translating english - romanian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgeono ( talk • contribs) 07:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
how do i translate an article from one language to the other —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.163.237.37 ( talk) 07:24, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I was just wondering what website should be used in screenshots of web browsers, I see many with the wikipedia page, but that has lots of problems for many reasons, self reference should be avoided, etc... so, what website whould be used? a blank page? A ramdom website that is in the public domain or under a free license? I really don't what should be used... SF007 ( talk) 07:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
For years i have had a page on one of my bands on wikipedia and i just found out it got deleted last month because as of now you say bands are of no use and should not be in wikipedia? Who are you to say if a page is relevant or not? I thought wikipedia was all about everyone in the world contributing and sharing information / knowledge on everything possible?
So if i would like to know something about a band, even if you people hate that kind of music, i would like to consult wikipedia. Obviously you people don't.
Thank you Ben —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benhume ( talk • contribs) 07:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I am accused of placing inaccurate information in an already existing article but I have never updated any articles in Wikipedia, Nor to my knowledge has anyone at this ISP address. The article in question is on DTs a subject which I knew very little about before I read the article, should I be worried about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zechymahler ( talk • contribs) 09:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This can't be found. What's done in that case? -- 194.75.236.69 ( talk) 13:12, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Afternoon Helpdesk. I'm interested in helping to tidy up and unify the design of Wikipedia's pages; is there a WikiProject or somesuch already doing this? If not would it be a good idea for me to set one up? Or just go it alone on a page-by-page basis? Pretzels chatters 13:12, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
what kind of English is used in wikipedia? British (as in colour, metre, jam,jelly etc.) or American (as in color, meter, jelly,Jell-O etc.)? or can anyone contribute in whichever they wish? (eg. The Aussies found the perfect greeting-G'Day Mate!) --SuperJew ( contact me) 14:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Why is your teacakes article called Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats? They are called teacakes. The British came up with them first, not the Americans, so we should use the British name -- Teacake Martyr ( talk) 14:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
(undent) Is this another Ouija-whatever ploy? The username looks suspicious and is recent. -- Teratornis ( talk) 00:08, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I object to this proposed rename and propose instead renaming it to Mallomar. (well, no I don't - the point is, it's a concept that goes beyond any single local variation). -- Random832 ( contribs) 16:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
I feel quite sure that image credits (i.e. the name of the photographer) should only be placed on the image page, and not as part of a caption where the image is used in a mainspace article. Is this correct? If so, please could you tell me where to find the relevant policy/guideline? Thanks in advance! Pince Nez ( talk) 14:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I can't change to autoconfimed status even though i did every thing. I have been on long enough and have done enough edits. Thank you. Going to try and get mildly active again. Don't expect much on this page, though.
I also did some stupid things back in 2008 and 2009 and hopefully I can move past those, especially as I only want to now make Wikipedia articles I read often cleaner and neater.
I do all the online editing for a musician/band who are on here. I have been editing the articles up here as they are inaccurate. I am trying to put in external links to Myspace and Facebook which are official pages but I keep getting them removed. They are reliable and official sources as I maintain them on behalf of the band/musician. Why can't I have these links? Sorry to ask if it's really basic as I am new on here. Thanx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackqueen66 ( talk • contribs) 15:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
How exactly can I nominate This horrible and pointless article for deletion. The rules are so complex! Tutthoth-Ankhre ( talk) 15:53, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
How do I prevent the title of the article from being displayed in the top left corner? For example, Main Page doesn't say Main Page at the top. The only magic words I can see are _NOTOC_ and _NOEDITSECTION_, and neither of those seem to do the trick. Anyone? - 137.22.3.32 ( talk) 16:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE: }}
will work, but I don't know.
Dendodge|
Talk
Contribs
17:37, 5 September 2008 (UTC)I'm asking for another wiki I'm editing. Like Wikipedia, I'd like the main page to not have "Main Page" on it. If it's a custom CSS thing, then that's fine, and I'll just do without. - 137.22.3.32 ( talk) 18:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
This is copied from my other question. The last part of it is my actual question after such. -- I've already been answered about the sandbox, and have it set up (see EXE Sandbox above), but I also want all of the help pages so that I can actually read to learn about the stuff, and have a reference...
My main problem however is that I have WOS installed (looking back WAMP seems a little easier, but heh...), and I'm not sure how to go about getting the help pages in there (I don't want the rest, just help... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyrofyr ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
Hoping this is still seen despite being a bit up here now. In any case, I am looking for generic wiki information/help. It's mostly for syntax and the more advanced stuff, so that I can learn at my own pace. 65.11.205.172 ( talk) 21:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thumb|Radar image of the circulation of Hurricane Gustav reaching southern Wisconsin Pretty self explanatory, really. This image won't generate a thumbnail in articles. I know that wikimedia generated one because you can see it in the file history, but somehow it isn't showing up when I place the image in articles. Any ideas? Plasticup T/ C 18:48, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know the CSS to change my background from that weird book thingy? I haven't found a suitable image yet, but I'd like to know the code for when I find one. Dendodge| Talk Contribs 20:18, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
/* replace the book in the background with something else */ body { background: Purple; }
This is per Help:User style#Samples. I have little understanding myself of these monobook matters.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 20:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
That set a solid color. This will set the background to a single Image:WikiG.png, right aligned at 50px:
#p-personal {background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/WikiG.png) right no-repeat; height:50px
--—— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 20:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
I remember seeing a few days ago a Wikipedia or Help page with instructions how to archive an AfD, merge discussion or similar things, but I can't find it anymore, and my browser history contains a few thousand pages too much to look there. Could someone point me there? Admiral Norton ( talk) 20:58, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Ctrl-F
on the
Editor's index. --
Teratornis (
talk)
00:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC)I uploaded an image and a few days later it had a notice on it saying I could improve the file by adding "catagories" to it. It said that catagories will make it easier for others to find the image. I followed a link on the notice but it was all very long and complicated and didn't really explain how to add catagories to an image. Can someone please explain in a simple manner? N40798 —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:47, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
[[Category:Name of category]]to the bottom of the page, just the same as for an article. By convention, categories are added after the references and any templates but before the interwiki links but it still works even if you get the order "wrong". The difficult bit is deciding what categories to put something in. If you are inexperienced with this, the best plan is to find a similar item and copy the categories from that. SpinningSpark 07:51, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
(Personal resume removed. — Noah 23:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC))
Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you wish for them to be permanently removed from the page history, email
this address.
Perfect
Proposal
00:15, 6 September 2008 (UTC)