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Where can I find out how the PDF version tool of the toolbox works. I would like to explore using something like it on my own website. — teb728 t c 00:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
WP policy is understandably very strict about not downloading copyrighted pictures to illustrate articles.
However, what is policy concerning adding a link to a published copyrighted picture, and listing it in the External links section and referring to it as a "Recent photo"? If this is OK, what a great solution to the problem!
Here's one that caught my eye Gavin Lambert. Check it out. JohnClarknew ( talk) 01:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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I'm trying to dab many pages from newton
to newton (unit)
following a page move. What links here is returning numerous railway articles which do not have the term which is making the job more difficult. An example of a page found is
British Rail Class 03. Obviously, it's got to be a template transcluding inside these class of articles (I guess either {{
British Rail Locomotives}} or {{
Infobox Locomotive}}, but looking at the underlying templates hasn't revealed where the culprit is. If I could just find the underlying template and dab its link(s) to Newton, I could get rid of all the what-links-here false positives. Any help appreciated.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
05:32, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to create a table with a image as background. The only code; I've found was:
<span style="opacity:0.6;filter:alpha(opacity=20)">[[image:Beach_of_Cyprus.JPG|center|300px]]</span> <span style="font-family:lucida handwriting;line-height:1.5em;color:darkblue;font-size:12pt;position:relative;left:300px;top:-225px">[http://www.youtube.com/v/gJswbSZgXrg&hl=fr&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b La mer] <br \> Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs<br \> A des reflets d'argent<br \> La mer<br \> Des reflets changeants<br \> Sous la pluie</span>
La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
But unfortunately it works only with plein text, not with tables! Have anyone an idea? -- jlorenz1 ( talk) 07:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Line | Text |
---|---|
1 | Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs |
2 | A des reflets d'argent |
3 | La mer |
4 | Des reflets changeants |
5 | Sous la pluie |
152.91.9.190 ( talk) 07:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been unfortunate with wanting to discuss certain things people have said but dont because it doesnt answer the OP's question. There is a lot of people that wish to discuss that are told to go elsewere as this is not a forum ECT... I would rather they stayed here! to that end would it not be better to say something like if you wish to take part in a discussion please go here>>>>><<<<<<<< This is not what wikepedia is about i know and the reference desk is exactly that a refrence desk. but it would make common sense to have a wikipedia forum/discussion desk were debate ECT can happen. following the wikepedia rules of niceness ECT... Would this or could this be a possibility on wikipedia as it would add another dimention; to this fantiastic site Chromagnum ( talk) 07:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
no probs thanks steven :) Chromagnum ( talk) 04:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
BOTH of my attempts to contact you via e-mail addresses, as given in your help pages, were reteurned as non-existent. Therfore, I am copying the message to this board, in the hope of being able to talk to a real human being .....
Originally an e-mail to:'info-en-t@wikimedia.org' See below... And also bounced from...
e-mail to wikimedia
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From: G. Tingey & R. Neil <removed> Sent: 15 September 2009 22:04 To: 'unblock-en-llists@wikimedia.org' Subject: Blocking of an re-edit (as my first entry was incorrect) Dear Sirs, I am told that after making an (incorrect) edit on a Wikipedia page, my account is blocked. I am told that the relevant IP address is: 79.72.171.156 Which appears to be my correct home IP address, operating through server: 212.74.102.16 The reason given, apparently emanating from Peter Symonds, was “Block Evasion” – whatever that is. My original, incorrect addition, to the page on the “Third Wave”, was as follows. An account of the experiment also appeared in the (last?) edition of the "Whole Earth Catalog". It SHOULD have read … “A full account was given by Ron Jones in the 1980 edition of “The Next Whole Earth Catalog” on pp. 374-377.” I know this to be correct, as I have just unearthed my ancient copy of said volume, and checked the original article. I would appreciate it if you could: 1] Correct my entry to the second sentence, as written above. 2] Unblock my access. 3] Explain what “Block Evasion” is?
G. N. G. Tingey. London, England. |
ADDITION: PLEASE e-mail me directly, if at all possible. Thank you. G. T. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.61.177 ( talk) 08:38, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
REPLY:
The pages, as viewed, appear to have CHANGED since I last looked at them.
For instance, I NOW appear to be able to contact Peter Symonds - this could not be found earlier .... The web-address given was COPIED from your pages, so I suspect someone is playing silly games.
Thanks. I will now try to re-edit my contribution to the "Third Wave" page to give a more correct account.
please i would like to know more about microbiology of tissue paper(toilet roll) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onyilofie ( talk • contribs) 11:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm part of a small task force, Wikipedia:Wikiproject European History/Sub-Roman Britain task force. Most of the articles within our purview are pretty bad, and I'm hoping to raise our profile a bit. I gather that task forces can't have their own talk page banners, and in any case I'd like us to be able to take advantage of Wikipedia:Article alerts. I gather from looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces that the template of the European History wikiproject could be modified to accomplish this, but I don't have the skills to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 13:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Using Huggle, I warned a user - and they were given a stage 4 warning. As they had not received any prior warnings, I'm not sure why this was issued - but checking their edit, I saw that I was incorrect to revert their edit and issue the warning. I have reverted the article to the way it was, but how do I remove the warning?
This hasn't happened with any of my warnings (levels 1 through 4 have been issued correctly). I don't want to risk the user being banned if they get "warned" again, as they shouldn't have any warnings there at all! -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 13:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm totally new at this. I read most ot the instructions but am confused on a basic item.
Where is the place to create and develop a complete article (over a few weeks) before posting it?
Sandbox mode eems to be just small temporary scratch paper which is routinely automatically erased.
Actual putting it up during development would subject it to review/remove before it is done.
Thanks in advance for your answer —Preceding unsigned comment added by North8000 ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to write an article about one of my father's favourite bands, Agents, because it didn't appear the English Wikipedia had one. But when I started writing it, I found out that it had had one, a very short, badly written substub written three years ago, and deleted because of lack of notability after one minute. Now, it happens that Agents is one of Finland's most famous bands, and has been active for almost three decades, so it's definitely notable. Now, my question is, should I undelete the original substub as well, to merge the article history? After all, regardless of how badly written the original substub was, it's still about the same band. JIP | Talk 17:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Can someone please tell me how I can access the (presumably) now closed discussion that occurred surrounding the proposed "speedy delete" of the Nina_Assimakopoulos article? I presume the dicussion must have closed, btw, because the SD template was removed from the page. Thanks! Ohiostandard ( talk) 17:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
how do I make a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.7.77.123 ( talk) 19:49, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
how to mth in the wiki[edia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.148.74.233 ( talk) 19:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, On my college's wiki page, our logo was there since I uploaded the file Einstein_Logo_wtagline_low.jpg I called this image use |image_name = Einstein_Logo_wtagline_low.jpg It showed up before, but now it is just a link to the file. I don't understand why this happened since the image file still exists in wiki.
Fangisu ( talk) 20:11, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Would you please block User:Philbox17 account, he keeps deleting cited information from the article Réseau de Résistance du Québécois. This person is practicing article ownership, which can be confirmed by reading the editors user talk page User talk:Philbox17 and the lengthy problems this editor has had with this article. I believe this editor is a member of Réseau de Résistance du Québécois and lacks a NPOV. Thank you. 76.64.152.111 ( talk) 20:53, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Can I hide the redirect message on my userpage? (I'm talking about the one that says (redirected from ARTICLE)) Redsoxcool ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
DCmacnut asked me for help coding a template, but unfortunately for him, I don't know how to fulfill the request. I've copied the request below; would someone please take up the question? Nyttend ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if you could help me, but I'm working a couple of Census citation templates in my sandbox. I had originally created Template:American Factfinder and Template:Cite American Factfinder to allow for direct links to detailed demographic information about geographical places such as cities, towns, townships, counties, etc, rather than a general link to the main factfinder page. My two new templates would replace these existing templates with simplified code. The original templates required three separate templates for general, social, and economic data. The new one I'm working on will call a PDF from http://censtats.census.gov/ that includes all three, so you don't need separate citations. The templates seem to work just fine, and with a few minor changes to the handful of articles that currently call "Cite American Factfinder" there shouldn't be any broken links. I had to add a "ifeq" paramater to continue allowing for "Age and Sex" demographic table (males per 100 females data, etc) since that table is not included in the censtats PDF. The templates in question are User:Dcmacnut/DCTemplates2 (main URL generator) and User:Dcmacnut/DCTemplates3 (citation template)
Both templates work as expected and are a lot simpler. For example for Bismarck, North Dakota you'd get the following.
U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Bismarck, North Dakota" (PDF). CenStats Databases. < http://censtats.census.gov/data/>. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
{{ cite web}}
: External link in( help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)
|work=
U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Bismarck, North Dakota" (PDF). CenStats Databases. < http://censtats.census.gov/data/>. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
{{ cite web}}
: External link in( help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)
|work=
However, I am unable to manually pipe the URLs by putting [] brackets around the URL template, similar to how you use Template:Gnis3. Instead I get this: [3]. I could force the brackets into the main template, but then it would break the URL/title display in the cite template, or I could make Age and Sex it's own template, but that defeats the purpose of simplification. Any suggestions or know of someone well verse in template syntax that could help me? DCmacnut <> 20:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
removing request. I think I was able to figure out the problem, and the templates work properly now. Thanks for taking the time to consider this. DCmacnut <> 01:48, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I got this far but couldn't find how to add a name to the list.
Thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseleafpeartree ( talk • contribs) 22:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
*[[Name of person]] - Brief description of person
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Where can I find out how the PDF version tool of the toolbox works. I would like to explore using something like it on my own website. — teb728 t c 00:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
WP policy is understandably very strict about not downloading copyrighted pictures to illustrate articles.
However, what is policy concerning adding a link to a published copyrighted picture, and listing it in the External links section and referring to it as a "Recent photo"? If this is OK, what a great solution to the problem!
Here's one that caught my eye Gavin Lambert. Check it out. JohnClarknew ( talk) 01:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
External image | |
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![]() |
I'm trying to dab many pages from newton
to newton (unit)
following a page move. What links here is returning numerous railway articles which do not have the term which is making the job more difficult. An example of a page found is
British Rail Class 03. Obviously, it's got to be a template transcluding inside these class of articles (I guess either {{
British Rail Locomotives}} or {{
Infobox Locomotive}}, but looking at the underlying templates hasn't revealed where the culprit is. If I could just find the underlying template and dab its link(s) to Newton, I could get rid of all the what-links-here false positives. Any help appreciated.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
05:32, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I want to create a table with a image as background. The only code; I've found was:
<span style="opacity:0.6;filter:alpha(opacity=20)">[[image:Beach_of_Cyprus.JPG|center|300px]]</span> <span style="font-family:lucida handwriting;line-height:1.5em;color:darkblue;font-size:12pt;position:relative;left:300px;top:-225px">[http://www.youtube.com/v/gJswbSZgXrg&hl=fr&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b La mer] <br \> Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs<br \> A des reflets d'argent<br \> La mer<br \> Des reflets changeants<br \> Sous la pluie</span>
La mer
Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs
A des reflets d'argent
La mer
Des reflets changeants
Sous la pluie
But unfortunately it works only with plein text, not with tables! Have anyone an idea? -- jlorenz1 ( talk) 07:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Line | Text |
---|---|
1 | Qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs |
2 | A des reflets d'argent |
3 | La mer |
4 | Des reflets changeants |
5 | Sous la pluie |
152.91.9.190 ( talk) 07:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been unfortunate with wanting to discuss certain things people have said but dont because it doesnt answer the OP's question. There is a lot of people that wish to discuss that are told to go elsewere as this is not a forum ECT... I would rather they stayed here! to that end would it not be better to say something like if you wish to take part in a discussion please go here>>>>><<<<<<<< This is not what wikepedia is about i know and the reference desk is exactly that a refrence desk. but it would make common sense to have a wikipedia forum/discussion desk were debate ECT can happen. following the wikepedia rules of niceness ECT... Would this or could this be a possibility on wikipedia as it would add another dimention; to this fantiastic site Chromagnum ( talk) 07:15, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
no probs thanks steven :) Chromagnum ( talk) 04:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
BOTH of my attempts to contact you via e-mail addresses, as given in your help pages, were reteurned as non-existent. Therfore, I am copying the message to this board, in the hope of being able to talk to a real human being .....
Originally an e-mail to:'info-en-t@wikimedia.org' See below... And also bounced from...
e-mail to wikimedia
|
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From: G. Tingey & R. Neil <removed> Sent: 15 September 2009 22:04 To: 'unblock-en-llists@wikimedia.org' Subject: Blocking of an re-edit (as my first entry was incorrect) Dear Sirs, I am told that after making an (incorrect) edit on a Wikipedia page, my account is blocked. I am told that the relevant IP address is: 79.72.171.156 Which appears to be my correct home IP address, operating through server: 212.74.102.16 The reason given, apparently emanating from Peter Symonds, was “Block Evasion” – whatever that is. My original, incorrect addition, to the page on the “Third Wave”, was as follows. An account of the experiment also appeared in the (last?) edition of the "Whole Earth Catalog". It SHOULD have read … “A full account was given by Ron Jones in the 1980 edition of “The Next Whole Earth Catalog” on pp. 374-377.” I know this to be correct, as I have just unearthed my ancient copy of said volume, and checked the original article. I would appreciate it if you could: 1] Correct my entry to the second sentence, as written above. 2] Unblock my access. 3] Explain what “Block Evasion” is?
G. N. G. Tingey. London, England. |
ADDITION: PLEASE e-mail me directly, if at all possible. Thank you. G. T. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.61.177 ( talk) 08:38, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
REPLY:
The pages, as viewed, appear to have CHANGED since I last looked at them.
For instance, I NOW appear to be able to contact Peter Symonds - this could not be found earlier .... The web-address given was COPIED from your pages, so I suspect someone is playing silly games.
Thanks. I will now try to re-edit my contribution to the "Third Wave" page to give a more correct account.
please i would like to know more about microbiology of tissue paper(toilet roll) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onyilofie ( talk • contribs) 11:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm part of a small task force, Wikipedia:Wikiproject European History/Sub-Roman Britain task force. Most of the articles within our purview are pretty bad, and I'm hoping to raise our profile a bit. I gather that task forces can't have their own talk page banners, and in any case I'd like us to be able to take advantage of Wikipedia:Article alerts. I gather from looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces that the template of the European History wikiproject could be modified to accomplish this, but I don't have the skills to do it. Can anyone help? Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 13:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Using Huggle, I warned a user - and they were given a stage 4 warning. As they had not received any prior warnings, I'm not sure why this was issued - but checking their edit, I saw that I was incorrect to revert their edit and issue the warning. I have reverted the article to the way it was, but how do I remove the warning?
This hasn't happened with any of my warnings (levels 1 through 4 have been issued correctly). I don't want to risk the user being banned if they get "warned" again, as they shouldn't have any warnings there at all! -- PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 13:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm totally new at this. I read most ot the instructions but am confused on a basic item.
Where is the place to create and develop a complete article (over a few weeks) before posting it?
Sandbox mode eems to be just small temporary scratch paper which is routinely automatically erased.
Actual putting it up during development would subject it to review/remove before it is done.
Thanks in advance for your answer —Preceding unsigned comment added by North8000 ( talk • contribs) 15:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to write an article about one of my father's favourite bands, Agents, because it didn't appear the English Wikipedia had one. But when I started writing it, I found out that it had had one, a very short, badly written substub written three years ago, and deleted because of lack of notability after one minute. Now, it happens that Agents is one of Finland's most famous bands, and has been active for almost three decades, so it's definitely notable. Now, my question is, should I undelete the original substub as well, to merge the article history? After all, regardless of how badly written the original substub was, it's still about the same band. JIP | Talk 17:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Can someone please tell me how I can access the (presumably) now closed discussion that occurred surrounding the proposed "speedy delete" of the Nina_Assimakopoulos article? I presume the dicussion must have closed, btw, because the SD template was removed from the page. Thanks! Ohiostandard ( talk) 17:54, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
how do I make a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.7.77.123 ( talk) 19:49, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
how to mth in the wiki[edia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.148.74.233 ( talk) 19:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, On my college's wiki page, our logo was there since I uploaded the file Einstein_Logo_wtagline_low.jpg I called this image use |image_name = Einstein_Logo_wtagline_low.jpg It showed up before, but now it is just a link to the file. I don't understand why this happened since the image file still exists in wiki.
Fangisu ( talk) 20:11, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Would you please block User:Philbox17 account, he keeps deleting cited information from the article Réseau de Résistance du Québécois. This person is practicing article ownership, which can be confirmed by reading the editors user talk page User talk:Philbox17 and the lengthy problems this editor has had with this article. I believe this editor is a member of Réseau de Résistance du Québécois and lacks a NPOV. Thank you. 76.64.152.111 ( talk) 20:53, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Can I hide the redirect message on my userpage? (I'm talking about the one that says (redirected from ARTICLE)) Redsoxcool ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
DCmacnut asked me for help coding a template, but unfortunately for him, I don't know how to fulfill the request. I've copied the request below; would someone please take up the question? Nyttend ( talk) 21:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if you could help me, but I'm working a couple of Census citation templates in my sandbox. I had originally created Template:American Factfinder and Template:Cite American Factfinder to allow for direct links to detailed demographic information about geographical places such as cities, towns, townships, counties, etc, rather than a general link to the main factfinder page. My two new templates would replace these existing templates with simplified code. The original templates required three separate templates for general, social, and economic data. The new one I'm working on will call a PDF from http://censtats.census.gov/ that includes all three, so you don't need separate citations. The templates seem to work just fine, and with a few minor changes to the handful of articles that currently call "Cite American Factfinder" there shouldn't be any broken links. I had to add a "ifeq" paramater to continue allowing for "Age and Sex" demographic table (males per 100 females data, etc) since that table is not included in the censtats PDF. The templates in question are User:Dcmacnut/DCTemplates2 (main URL generator) and User:Dcmacnut/DCTemplates3 (citation template)
Both templates work as expected and are a lot simpler. For example for Bismarck, North Dakota you'd get the following.
U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Bismarck, North Dakota" (PDF). CenStats Databases. < http://censtats.census.gov/data/>. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
{{ cite web}}
: External link in( help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)
|work=
U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Bismarck, North Dakota" (PDF). CenStats Databases. < http://censtats.census.gov/data/>. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
{{ cite web}}
: External link in( help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)
|work=
However, I am unable to manually pipe the URLs by putting [] brackets around the URL template, similar to how you use Template:Gnis3. Instead I get this: [3]. I could force the brackets into the main template, but then it would break the URL/title display in the cite template, or I could make Age and Sex it's own template, but that defeats the purpose of simplification. Any suggestions or know of someone well verse in template syntax that could help me? DCmacnut <> 20:12, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
removing request. I think I was able to figure out the problem, and the templates work properly now. Thanks for taking the time to consider this. DCmacnut <> 01:48, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I got this far but couldn't find how to add a name to the list.
Thanks for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roseleafpeartree ( talk • contribs) 22:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
*[[Name of person]] - Brief description of person