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If there is only one page in a given category, is it possible to link directly to that page, even if you do not know what that page is, but you know what category it is in? Intelligent sium review 00:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys,
I was wondering if this qualified as an edit war.
i've never been involved in one so i wouldn't know.
Thanks
Tim1357 ( talk) 02:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
i have a coffee/chocolate pot i picked up at a garage sale in the late 60's. i've since discovered an engraving on the bottom which says: "Reed & Barton Silver Sodered 3610 USN C 838". I'm just curious if anyone can tell me a little about it. I do believe it's actually solid peuter with a cherry wood handle. i do have pictures and hoping to be able to attach to this inquiry. otherwise, feel free to email me and i'll send pictures to you. Thank you. details removed Greg Greggaspar ( talk) 03:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I have acquired at an auction what seems to be a very old spinning wheel. From the online research that I have done, it seems to be from the 1800's, if not earlier. The wheel is a little over 41 inches in diameter. What it is mounted to is about the same, 41 inches. It has only 3 legs. Only 1 crossbar btween the 2 legs that are close to each other. I just noticed something very interesting. On 1 end of the main part that sits on the 3 legs, there is a name that was put on there(on the edge). It says Browns Mill. The inscription definitely looks original. Can you help and find out any more info? I would greatly appreciate a responce.
Sincerely, Rene Quintanilla —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.130.80.191 ( talk) 03:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I uploaded the file 'Gyantse with Kumbum & fort - Edited.jpg'
today after editing the original, completely forgetting that I had already uploaded it a long time ago without editing as 'Gyantse with Kumbum & fort .JPG'
As this version is much clearer and brighter could some kind knowledgeable person out there please replace the earlier version with this one as I don't know how to do it? Also, would you be able to put it on Wikimedia Commons? Many, many thanks, John Hill ( talk) 06:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much to you all for your kind help. I do think the edited version is far easier to see. It's great to have it correctly listed - and really wonderful discovering others are enjoying it. Best wishes to you all, John Hill ( talk) 02:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Over at Sustainability we have a large number of badly formatted cites, some just to the raw http address. It would take quite a bit of time to fix by hand. Is there a bot that fixes refs? For example, for the internet refs, can a bot go out and verify it exists, grab the author, page name and organization name, and fill in the web cite template with those appropriate values? Seems like such a bot would be very useful, and so should exist. LK ( talk) 07:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I report violations? There's an article with numerous policy violations, and I can't repair it:
U.S. military response during the September 11 attacks
I have tried to clean up this article, but there is someone there who is guarding it in its current form. (Edit warring?) There is almost no discussion on the discussion page beyond the other editor and me (though there's plenty of that), so no consensus is happening. I have asked for help from the WikiProject but haven't gotten a response from them yet. This is an article related to 9/11, so it's highly charged and vulnerable to fringe ideas and conspiracy theories.
I think these violations need attention. How do I report this? What else should I do? Dcs002 ( talk) 08:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
i add links and every time i have to enter a code word! then when i try to fix my links it says editing too fast anti spam measure blah blah blah. dont the slow idiots like it when people edit too fast? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 11:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
As an anti-spam measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 11:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
sounds more like age discrimination. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 13:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm trying to get the gothic letter in HTML form. Any ideas? ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 12:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Given all the discussion thus far; I'll explain why I ask my original question and then that will lead to another question. I'm going through mathematics articles trying to clean them up. There's a lot of articles with in-line LaTeX which messes around with the spacings and can really end up looking like a mess when displayed on certain web-browsers given certain settings. The manual of style recommends using HTML (or unicode) for the in-line mathematics and keeping LaTeX for those special display-line occasions. Given that so many people are having problems viewing the Gothic X, would it be better to keep the LaTeX in place of the unicode 𝖃? ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 17:09, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Stana Katic: You have her birth date as April 31. THERE IS NOT 31 DAYS IN APRIL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.1.129 ( talk) 12:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I become an admin? Accdude92 ( talk) ( sign) 13:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi help desk. When is it ok for a other Editor to change one's Talk Page Sir Floyd ( talk) 14:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I see you have already asked User:DIREKTOR more than once to stop posting on your talkpage here and he continued to post, here this edit is interesting edit summary of "hiding my harrasment"? Off2riorob ( talk) 22:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I have article which has an error in the title (partial name)...can it be changed by the user or must I delete the article and recreate it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbcard1 ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I need to print this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bill_Sizemore&action=edit§ion=4
showing the entire editing window to use as an exhibit in a legal matter. I'm using Firefox. When I hit print preview, only the first paragraph of the original article shows in the editing window; it's the second paragraph I'm most interested in.
Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gelasticjew ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to print the section I need showing the editing information?-- Gelasticjew ( talk) 17:08, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to rename an Image file? Bubba73 (talk), 17:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
rename media|new name}}
and it will get moved by a bot. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
17:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)I would like to know if anyone can create a new page in Wikipedia? If so, what is the procedure?
Thanks. Cabbasse ( talk) 20:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
I apologize but I have accidentally created documents which need deleting. I should not have clicked the save button (and will not do it again :-) until I am ready to go live) Can I delete my pages I have created so I do not inconvenience others by having to delete them? I can't seem to find this answer.
Many Thanks,
Trish Ritzer —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrishRitzer ( talk • contribs) 21:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
The purpose of this question is to propose a series of changes to two articles -- Biomonitoring and Biomonitoring (chemistry) -- of some interest to an organization, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), with which I have a financial relationship through my employer. I believe these articles are confusingly named, and at least one is very much inadequate. I have done the most work on the latter article, as I will describe in detail below. The research and writing is my own, but ACC is supportive of what I have done here; it is a subject they would like to see represented in a clear and comprehensible manner. Because of this potential conflict of interest, I have created these new pages in my user subspace prior to seeking input here. The three new articles, detailed below, can be found here, or each may be directly accessed as such:
As you may have guessed, the term is shared by two separate concepts: One about measurement of ecological health via aquatic organisms, and one about measurement of chemical substances in humans. Currently, the article Biomonitoring refers to the subject in aquatic ecology, and an article titled Biomonitoring (chemistry) refers to the human variety. I propose replacing these pages with the two above and disambiguation page for the following reasons:
I am very interested in obtaining feedback about this, and to see if other editors here agree that replacing the current Biomonitoring articles with the ones I propose is indeed reasonable. Please feel free to move them if you think they are worthwhile and I have made the case for them or, if you prefer, let me know if there is any objection to my moving these articles instead. I realize this is quite a lot of material to digest so I have no problem waiting a decent interval for feedback on this question. Cheers, NMS Bill ( talk) 22:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
The purpose of my question is to ask how to become an administrator, any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
CEALIV ( talk) 22:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
If, after this, you still want to be an administrator, edit in all areas of Wikipedia for a few years, familiarize yourself with policy, then put yourself up at RfA. By that time, though, you probably won't want to be an admin anymore. Cheers, Intelligent sium review 23:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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If there is only one page in a given category, is it possible to link directly to that page, even if you do not know what that page is, but you know what category it is in? Intelligent sium review 00:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys,
I was wondering if this qualified as an edit war.
i've never been involved in one so i wouldn't know.
Thanks
Tim1357 ( talk) 02:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
i have a coffee/chocolate pot i picked up at a garage sale in the late 60's. i've since discovered an engraving on the bottom which says: "Reed & Barton Silver Sodered 3610 USN C 838". I'm just curious if anyone can tell me a little about it. I do believe it's actually solid peuter with a cherry wood handle. i do have pictures and hoping to be able to attach to this inquiry. otherwise, feel free to email me and i'll send pictures to you. Thank you. details removed Greg Greggaspar ( talk) 03:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I have acquired at an auction what seems to be a very old spinning wheel. From the online research that I have done, it seems to be from the 1800's, if not earlier. The wheel is a little over 41 inches in diameter. What it is mounted to is about the same, 41 inches. It has only 3 legs. Only 1 crossbar btween the 2 legs that are close to each other. I just noticed something very interesting. On 1 end of the main part that sits on the 3 legs, there is a name that was put on there(on the edge). It says Browns Mill. The inscription definitely looks original. Can you help and find out any more info? I would greatly appreciate a responce.
Sincerely, Rene Quintanilla —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.130.80.191 ( talk) 03:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I uploaded the file 'Gyantse with Kumbum & fort - Edited.jpg'
today after editing the original, completely forgetting that I had already uploaded it a long time ago without editing as 'Gyantse with Kumbum & fort .JPG'
As this version is much clearer and brighter could some kind knowledgeable person out there please replace the earlier version with this one as I don't know how to do it? Also, would you be able to put it on Wikimedia Commons? Many, many thanks, John Hill ( talk) 06:32, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much to you all for your kind help. I do think the edited version is far easier to see. It's great to have it correctly listed - and really wonderful discovering others are enjoying it. Best wishes to you all, John Hill ( talk) 02:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Over at Sustainability we have a large number of badly formatted cites, some just to the raw http address. It would take quite a bit of time to fix by hand. Is there a bot that fixes refs? For example, for the internet refs, can a bot go out and verify it exists, grab the author, page name and organization name, and fill in the web cite template with those appropriate values? Seems like such a bot would be very useful, and so should exist. LK ( talk) 07:11, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I report violations? There's an article with numerous policy violations, and I can't repair it:
U.S. military response during the September 11 attacks
I have tried to clean up this article, but there is someone there who is guarding it in its current form. (Edit warring?) There is almost no discussion on the discussion page beyond the other editor and me (though there's plenty of that), so no consensus is happening. I have asked for help from the WikiProject but haven't gotten a response from them yet. This is an article related to 9/11, so it's highly charged and vulnerable to fringe ideas and conspiracy theories.
I think these violations need attention. How do I report this? What else should I do? Dcs002 ( talk) 08:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
i add links and every time i have to enter a code word! then when i try to fix my links it says editing too fast anti spam measure blah blah blah. dont the slow idiots like it when people edit too fast? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 11:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
As an anti-spam measure, you are limited from performing this action too many times in a short space of time, and you have exceeded this limit. Please try again in a few minutes —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 11:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
sounds more like age discrimination. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lorson ( talk • contribs) 13:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm trying to get the gothic letter in HTML form. Any ideas? ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 12:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Given all the discussion thus far; I'll explain why I ask my original question and then that will lead to another question. I'm going through mathematics articles trying to clean them up. There's a lot of articles with in-line LaTeX which messes around with the spacings and can really end up looking like a mess when displayed on certain web-browsers given certain settings. The manual of style recommends using HTML (or unicode) for the in-line mathematics and keeping LaTeX for those special display-line occasions. Given that so many people are having problems viewing the Gothic X, would it be better to keep the LaTeX in place of the unicode 𝖃? ~~ Dr Dec ( Talk) ~~ 17:09, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Stana Katic: You have her birth date as April 31. THERE IS NOT 31 DAYS IN APRIL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.1.129 ( talk) 12:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I become an admin? Accdude92 ( talk) ( sign) 13:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi help desk. When is it ok for a other Editor to change one's Talk Page Sir Floyd ( talk) 14:00, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I see you have already asked User:DIREKTOR more than once to stop posting on your talkpage here and he continued to post, here this edit is interesting edit summary of "hiding my harrasment"? Off2riorob ( talk) 22:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I have article which has an error in the title (partial name)...can it be changed by the user or must I delete the article and recreate it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbcard1 ( talk • contribs) 14:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
I need to print this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bill_Sizemore&action=edit§ion=4
showing the entire editing window to use as an exhibit in a legal matter. I'm using Firefox. When I hit print preview, only the first paragraph of the original article shows in the editing window; it's the second paragraph I'm most interested in.
Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gelasticjew ( talk • contribs) 16:35, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to print the section I need showing the editing information?-- Gelasticjew ( talk) 17:08, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to rename an Image file? Bubba73 (talk), 17:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
rename media|new name}}
and it will get moved by a bot. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
17:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)I would like to know if anyone can create a new page in Wikipedia? If so, what is the procedure?
Thanks. Cabbasse ( talk) 20:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
I apologize but I have accidentally created documents which need deleting. I should not have clicked the save button (and will not do it again :-) until I am ready to go live) Can I delete my pages I have created so I do not inconvenience others by having to delete them? I can't seem to find this answer.
Many Thanks,
Trish Ritzer —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrishRitzer ( talk • contribs) 21:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
The purpose of this question is to propose a series of changes to two articles -- Biomonitoring and Biomonitoring (chemistry) -- of some interest to an organization, the American Chemistry Council (ACC), with which I have a financial relationship through my employer. I believe these articles are confusingly named, and at least one is very much inadequate. I have done the most work on the latter article, as I will describe in detail below. The research and writing is my own, but ACC is supportive of what I have done here; it is a subject they would like to see represented in a clear and comprehensible manner. Because of this potential conflict of interest, I have created these new pages in my user subspace prior to seeking input here. The three new articles, detailed below, can be found here, or each may be directly accessed as such:
As you may have guessed, the term is shared by two separate concepts: One about measurement of ecological health via aquatic organisms, and one about measurement of chemical substances in humans. Currently, the article Biomonitoring refers to the subject in aquatic ecology, and an article titled Biomonitoring (chemistry) refers to the human variety. I propose replacing these pages with the two above and disambiguation page for the following reasons:
I am very interested in obtaining feedback about this, and to see if other editors here agree that replacing the current Biomonitoring articles with the ones I propose is indeed reasonable. Please feel free to move them if you think they are worthwhile and I have made the case for them or, if you prefer, let me know if there is any objection to my moving these articles instead. I realize this is quite a lot of material to digest so I have no problem waiting a decent interval for feedback on this question. Cheers, NMS Bill ( talk) 22:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
The purpose of my question is to ask how to become an administrator, any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
CEALIV ( talk) 22:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
If, after this, you still want to be an administrator, edit in all areas of Wikipedia for a few years, familiarize yourself with policy, then put yourself up at RfA. By that time, though, you probably won't want to be an admin anymore. Cheers, Intelligent sium review 23:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)