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The merge box at the top of this article ( Talk:Stephen_Colbert_(character)) contains a link to Stelephant Colbert which appears to be an invalid redirect. I am sure this is wrong and I don't know how to fix it. Didn't someone take a vote that decided that Stephen Colbert is no longer allowed to edit here? Jarhed ( talk) 01:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm curious: What would happen if someone tried to move a page to "#"? (Not that I'm planning on doing it, of course.) -- Intelligent sium 02:36, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
E.g. consider the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vietnamese_diaspora category page. Over there article Vietnamese people in Japan is listed under the letter J whereas article Vietnamese Student Association is listed under letter V. How does the wiki engine decide which letter to list it under? 76.24.104.52 ( talk) 03:21, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This question has been floating around my head for some time. Most, if not all artilces on wiki have links to other articles within sentences. What justifies a link to an article? Some words have an article associated with definition/information but are not linked and others are. I see that you only link a word once, if it is repeated the link is not repeated. What stops linking every word in every article with the wiki mark up if there is a page associated with it? Is there a rule to follow that I cannot find?
Thanks
Ivtv ( talk) 04:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I figured there was an article I missed.
Ivtv ( talk) 01:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
how od i change the text size, the writing is all small —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.155.51.150 ( talk) 05:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
At my editor review it was suggested I worked in renaming images with better names. However there has been confusion on IRC if what user rights I require etc. Can someone please set me in the right direction? Thanks -- Sk8er5000 ( talk) 08:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
What's the Difference between these two templates:
1. Template:Pp-template 2. Template:Permprot
I suppose that one is for the template page and the other for the talk page? Should every permanently protected template have both of this? -- Siddhant ( talk) 09:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I've made a few edits and added genuine sources for reference and have saved fine. When I check back a while later, they've completely disappeared.
What am I doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiger greeneyes ( talk • contribs) 14:12, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I am new to editing on Wiki. I found an article that I felt was not well written, confusing and somewhat biased. It was speaking about a specific religious artifact, and included much circular logic, like: "the object disappeared in the 13th century and hasn't been seen since, but because it wasn't reported destroyed, its likely it still exists," Much of the article is like this, without reliable sources quoted.
I researched the subject and then edited the article, hoping to provide some clarity and other perspectives, including quoting and referencing from experts in this field of study (religion and religious art). However, the original writer of the article keeps removing my edits, as if he doesn't want clarity or truth to be presented.
How should I best deal with this, so my changes can be accepted?
Regards, David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.228.221.127 ( talk) 14:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I understand WP:OWN, but I once saw a template that, in effect, says that a certain editor has volunteered as a focal point for supporting the article; something like, "EditorX is a major contributor to this article...". Can anyone find the template I'm talking about? It is used on article talk pages. -- 76.4.35.246 ( talk) 15:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I have looked at my own new pages at Special:New Pages and see that two articles and a disambiguation page have been patrolled, and two have not. I went on to look at Philadelphia Inquirer Open near the end of the list, and added two templates (Golf and no footnotes) to that article.
When and how do articles switch from yellow highlighting (not patrolled) to white? For example, when would the Philadelphia Inquirer Open article by User:Hokeman be switched to patrolled? Or maybe what I did does not count as being patrolled? I am still learning the details of Wikipedia, so explain the new articles process for me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hello, i have finished my page about Vieta... here [ [3]] Is there somebody kind enough to read it, correct it if necessary, directly or in the page 'discussion' ? Two probems : my english looks like "pidgin" (i think so) and Vieta is a difficult suject. This is quite a translationof the new page from WP france. Are you agree for the changes ? What can i do to make it better ? Thanks for answer and help. Jean de Parthenay ( talk) 17:57, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
As i noted, some of the urls linking to Wikipedia on the section above the "discussion button" does not use relativ linking, so people using Wikipedia over https can not correctly use the https-version -- 213.168.120.68 ( talk) 18:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Can review sites be used as references?
I want to use this site: http://animeworld.com/reviews/ghostintheshell.html
To support this statement: "For the Ghost in the Shell movie, Oshii elected to leave out most of the humor and character banter of Masamune Shirow's manga." From the Mamoru Oshii article.-- Stepusual ( talk) 18:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hi, just a quick note...i work for sherwood valley tribe, and i was trying to put together a short (BRIEF) history of the tribe to edit the intro to our personnel policies. thought i'd check out what you had in here. PLEASE change the county cited. Sherwood Valley IS and always has been in Mendocino County, NOT Sonoma County
thank you
judy fisch willits, ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kawliga55 ( talk • contribs) 20:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I am unsure of merging procedure re-GFDL etc. and was wondering a) if someone could confirm that something about Republic of South Carolina and South Carolina in the American Civil War needs to be changed and b) advise me how to, or just, do it. The latter was essentially copied from the former, but it's far more in line with others. Either one could/should be a redirect, but there's just a little separate content in the lead. Thanks, - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 21:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Figured out the answer to my own question |
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What is the template that is used to collapse an off topic talk page section not related to article improvement? -- PigFlu Oink ( talk) 21:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello, I have a question on WP:CSD#F3 and WP:CSD#F9. I believe I may be confusing myself but, the way I understand it, CSD#F3 can only be applied when a free license (i.e. {{ GFDL}}) is applied to an image which is obviously not any sort of free image (e.g. a book cover, movie screenshot). CSD#F9, on the other hand, is applied only when there is obvious copyright infringement on images which do not have a Wikipedia compatible license (e.g. Getty Images photos) but are claimed to have been released under free licenses (i.e. {{ PD-self}}, {{ cc-by-sa-3.0}}). Could someone please help clarify these for me? Much Appreciated - Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 21:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
What should the Infobox be for a person who is both a Comics creator and Film director?
EDIT: I'm also wondering why the color of the Comics Creator Infoxbox changes. In some articles its color is a light purple ( Hiroaki Samura), while in others it's a dark blue ( Jack Kirby)-- Stepusual ( talk) 22:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
manga = y
in
Hiroaki Samura changes the color style.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
23:20, 13 June 2009 (UTC)I want to archive Now.. or to set the bot to one hour to clean my talk page and it is not working, please have a look ( Off2riorob ( talk) 23:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC))
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The merge box at the top of this article ( Talk:Stephen_Colbert_(character)) contains a link to Stelephant Colbert which appears to be an invalid redirect. I am sure this is wrong and I don't know how to fix it. Didn't someone take a vote that decided that Stephen Colbert is no longer allowed to edit here? Jarhed ( talk) 01:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm curious: What would happen if someone tried to move a page to "#"? (Not that I'm planning on doing it, of course.) -- Intelligent sium 02:36, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
E.g. consider the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vietnamese_diaspora category page. Over there article Vietnamese people in Japan is listed under the letter J whereas article Vietnamese Student Association is listed under letter V. How does the wiki engine decide which letter to list it under? 76.24.104.52 ( talk) 03:21, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
This question has been floating around my head for some time. Most, if not all artilces on wiki have links to other articles within sentences. What justifies a link to an article? Some words have an article associated with definition/information but are not linked and others are. I see that you only link a word once, if it is repeated the link is not repeated. What stops linking every word in every article with the wiki mark up if there is a page associated with it? Is there a rule to follow that I cannot find?
Thanks
Ivtv ( talk) 04:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I figured there was an article I missed.
Ivtv ( talk) 01:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
how od i change the text size, the writing is all small —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.155.51.150 ( talk) 05:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
At my editor review it was suggested I worked in renaming images with better names. However there has been confusion on IRC if what user rights I require etc. Can someone please set me in the right direction? Thanks -- Sk8er5000 ( talk) 08:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
What's the Difference between these two templates:
1. Template:Pp-template 2. Template:Permprot
I suppose that one is for the template page and the other for the talk page? Should every permanently protected template have both of this? -- Siddhant ( talk) 09:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I've made a few edits and added genuine sources for reference and have saved fine. When I check back a while later, they've completely disappeared.
What am I doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiger greeneyes ( talk • contribs) 14:12, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I am new to editing on Wiki. I found an article that I felt was not well written, confusing and somewhat biased. It was speaking about a specific religious artifact, and included much circular logic, like: "the object disappeared in the 13th century and hasn't been seen since, but because it wasn't reported destroyed, its likely it still exists," Much of the article is like this, without reliable sources quoted.
I researched the subject and then edited the article, hoping to provide some clarity and other perspectives, including quoting and referencing from experts in this field of study (religion and religious art). However, the original writer of the article keeps removing my edits, as if he doesn't want clarity or truth to be presented.
How should I best deal with this, so my changes can be accepted?
Regards, David —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.228.221.127 ( talk) 14:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I understand WP:OWN, but I once saw a template that, in effect, says that a certain editor has volunteered as a focal point for supporting the article; something like, "EditorX is a major contributor to this article...". Can anyone find the template I'm talking about? It is used on article talk pages. -- 76.4.35.246 ( talk) 15:32, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I have looked at my own new pages at Special:New Pages and see that two articles and a disambiguation page have been patrolled, and two have not. I went on to look at Philadelphia Inquirer Open near the end of the list, and added two templates (Golf and no footnotes) to that article.
When and how do articles switch from yellow highlighting (not patrolled) to white? For example, when would the Philadelphia Inquirer Open article by User:Hokeman be switched to patrolled? Or maybe what I did does not count as being patrolled? I am still learning the details of Wikipedia, so explain the new articles process for me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hello, i have finished my page about Vieta... here [ [3]] Is there somebody kind enough to read it, correct it if necessary, directly or in the page 'discussion' ? Two probems : my english looks like "pidgin" (i think so) and Vieta is a difficult suject. This is quite a translationof the new page from WP france. Are you agree for the changes ? What can i do to make it better ? Thanks for answer and help. Jean de Parthenay ( talk) 17:57, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
As i noted, some of the urls linking to Wikipedia on the section above the "discussion button" does not use relativ linking, so people using Wikipedia over https can not correctly use the https-version -- 213.168.120.68 ( talk) 18:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Can review sites be used as references?
I want to use this site: http://animeworld.com/reviews/ghostintheshell.html
To support this statement: "For the Ghost in the Shell movie, Oshii elected to leave out most of the humor and character banter of Masamune Shirow's manga." From the Mamoru Oshii article.-- Stepusual ( talk) 18:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
hi, just a quick note...i work for sherwood valley tribe, and i was trying to put together a short (BRIEF) history of the tribe to edit the intro to our personnel policies. thought i'd check out what you had in here. PLEASE change the county cited. Sherwood Valley IS and always has been in Mendocino County, NOT Sonoma County
thank you
judy fisch willits, ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kawliga55 ( talk • contribs) 20:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I am unsure of merging procedure re-GFDL etc. and was wondering a) if someone could confirm that something about Republic of South Carolina and South Carolina in the American Civil War needs to be changed and b) advise me how to, or just, do it. The latter was essentially copied from the former, but it's far more in line with others. Either one could/should be a redirect, but there's just a little separate content in the lead. Thanks, - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 21:30, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Figured out the answer to my own question |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
What is the template that is used to collapse an off topic talk page section not related to article improvement? -- PigFlu Oink ( talk) 21:41, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
|
Hello, I have a question on WP:CSD#F3 and WP:CSD#F9. I believe I may be confusing myself but, the way I understand it, CSD#F3 can only be applied when a free license (i.e. {{ GFDL}}) is applied to an image which is obviously not any sort of free image (e.g. a book cover, movie screenshot). CSD#F9, on the other hand, is applied only when there is obvious copyright infringement on images which do not have a Wikipedia compatible license (e.g. Getty Images photos) but are claimed to have been released under free licenses (i.e. {{ PD-self}}, {{ cc-by-sa-3.0}}). Could someone please help clarify these for me? Much Appreciated - Thanks, FASTILY (TALK) 21:44, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
What should the Infobox be for a person who is both a Comics creator and Film director?
EDIT: I'm also wondering why the color of the Comics Creator Infoxbox changes. In some articles its color is a light purple ( Hiroaki Samura), while in others it's a dark blue ( Jack Kirby)-- Stepusual ( talk) 22:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
manga = y
in
Hiroaki Samura changes the color style.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
23:20, 13 June 2009 (UTC)I want to archive Now.. or to set the bot to one hour to clean my talk page and it is not working, please have a look ( Off2riorob ( talk) 23:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC))