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See "reference" #3 at bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodaabe
Link pointed to http://iws.ccccd.edu/mbailey/wodaabe.pdf which is broken -- apparently ccccd.edu has been changed to collin.edu.
I edited link to point to http://iws.collin.edu/mbailey/wodaabe.pdf -- which I've verified is a valid link, and goes to the proper .pdf file.
Still, the link on the page points to ccccd.edu.
Why?
I know the edit "stuck" because when I look at history, the edit is there, and when I compare versions my edit shows the proper URL...
So why does the "read" page - even after reload - still point to the wrong place?
Thanks!
DD Dedicated Dad ( talk) 07:10, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
i am working with an IT company which is private limited. and i just want to know the possibility to create company page or want to create company profile on Wikipedia.
if its possible then please let me know "how". if its not possible then please let me know "why". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.172.28.16 ( talk • contribs) 07:18, 18 February 2011
Good day help desk, I have a question. With your high standards would this website’s poll count as a Wikipedia approved reference? Here’s a link to it.
I noticed Wikipedia at least uses behindthevoiceactors.com to cite what roles an actor did.
But, would such sensitive material truly be acceptable? I already contacted BTVA and they confirmed that the current poll results are accurate.
But, they also said that a forum on another website did a campaign to bolster votes for a particular actor. Would that also affect its usability?
Thank you for your time, help desk. Viceroy kai ( talk) 07:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The link below is having a font problem. The font is no longer used while Zay Gyi (font name) is now being used by the whole Burmese user. I would like to volunteer to fix it. May I know how.
http://my.wikipedia.org/wik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyflightable ( talk • contribs) 08:50, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I changed my mind now. I will not fix it having the respect to the original authors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyflightable ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been the Admin for KyleXY.wikia.com for a while, enough to have made changes in the website format, including introducing a large number of screen shots. I am asking about migrating the content from wikia.com to wikipedia. That would entail uploading many images and adding pages for characters, which do not now exist. All images include the abc logo as copyright notice, because I put it there. Please go to Tom Foss to see what I do and would consider doing here, and let me know before I take time that might be wasted. - Thumlyly ( talk) Feb. 18, 2011
The information you have entered abouth Mother Teresa been born in Kosovo now known Skopje Macedonia is not correct, you can check your self in the history books. Skpje Macedonia have never been Kosovo or Albania.I will advise you to check the information before you publish it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.93.234 ( talk • contribs) 13:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
[[Mother Teresa]]
. Also this is not the right place to discuss this, instead use the talk page, for example
Talk:Mother Teresa.--
♫Greatorangepumpkin♫
T
13:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Hi Would it be possible to select random articles with a particular topic(s)?
e.g. you might be interested in one or a few topics and would like to just get random articles from a limited range rather than "everything" Cheers John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.240.186 ( talk)
Could somebody transwikify simple:Penetrometer to Penetrometer? I've tried reading meta:Help:Transwiki but it wasn't particularly helpful! Then I tried using Special:Import but it doesn't support transfer from the simple wiki AFAICT. Thanks SmartSE ( talk) 16:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
We have a vandal at the talk page of September 11 attacks. [1] We have enough people watching the page so I'm not worried about the vandalism. I'm sure somebody will revert the vandalism and block the editor. But I was wondering if there's an easy way for me to undue multiple edits. As I type this, the vandal has made 6 consecutive edits. The revistion history page has undo links on a per edit basis. I don't want to have to click on them one at a time. Instead, I'd like to revert back to the last good edit. How do I do that in one step? A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have a program to look at web pages and print them out in PDF format, however when I do this page a blank page is automatically added to the end. I didn't put anything in the coding to make it do that and it does not happen on other Wiki pages. I think it is probably a problem with the program itself but maybe someone knew otherwise? Abraham Schulte ( talk) 17:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
How many vandalism reverts are made every second? Bot337 ( talk) 17:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I noticed when I clicked on the movie Front of the Class, it takes me to a link about the character the movie is based on, not the actual movie, like other Hallmark Hall of Fame movies that come after it do.
How do I change this, so I can create a page/link, just for the movie itself? I have a link from The Futon Critic that I can use for some information, since it's been a few years since I've watched it. Thanks! http://www.thefutoncritic.com/moviewatch/front-of-the-class/ GiantTiger001 ( talk) 19:11, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
How do if I know if Wikipedia:Notability (films) is satisfied and how to I change the article? That's what I need help with. GiantTiger001 ( talk) 05:04, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Well I think I found the right place to change the title, since I'm not really sure what I'm doing, with anything on here. Even the steps you gave me I don't really understand. GiantTiger001 ( talk) 06:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
For the last few days, I've been having an issue with the edit tools diappearing and the edit window having some minor bugs (like the way the scroll bar shows up), image is available here. At first, I thought this might be due to some old code in my monobook.js, but after a bit of tinkering, I haven't been able to fix it. Also, I have noticed a grey bar that appeared where a sitenotice would a few weeks ago, and that some of my gadgets are slow to load (like the clock in the upper corner and replacing "new section" with a "+"), and now I'm wondering if they are related to a MediaWiki update or something. I'm running IE7 on Windows XP. Are there any suggestions? bahamut0013 words deeds 19:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have seen that many wikiprojects have a "Collaboration of the month" section, where they choose some important undeveloped article, and try to improve it to good or featured status. I work for Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina, but I realize that such a section would not work, at least not under the current conditions: there is a very limited number of active users, and the global quality of related articles is really low (most are still stubs). So, I thought it would be more feasible to select an article from Category:Stub-Class Argentine articles, and improve it to B-class.
The problem is that the "Collaboration of the month" sections I have seen so far work with a system of article nominations and selection, meaning, it is done manually. Is there some automatic way to arrange that some article is randomly selected from a category and linked somewhere, staying for a certain time and then replaced by a new one? MBelgrano ( talk) 20:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The article for monoboarding was deleted. I think it's an important part of snowsport history. There should be a legit monoboarding page. (PS. I'm not the one qualified to write it.)
We are trying to get our High School Mascot Artwork on our school page. Not having this image is causing great confusion on FaceBook because there is no image showing our Mascot which is being confused with another "Cordova High School". I have tried to figure out how to add our image which is copyright free! Anyone has the right to use this image. We are desperate to get our schools mascot image on our page. Can you please help.
Our school is Cordova High School (Rancho Cordova, California). It is being confused with another Cordova High School in Tennessee!!! HELP! WE NEED OUR MASCOT IMAGE ON OUR PAGE TOO! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgotcha ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Just a note, in a way, Wikipedia does control the content of some Facebook pages; Facebook uses Wikipedia for some of its "likes" pages (and I'm not talking about people copy-pasting info onto their Facebook fan pages, but actual database dumps into Facebook. --- c y m r u . l a s s (talk me, stalk me) 00:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
@Tgotcha, I suspect that by "mascot" you mean "logo"; so I uploaded the school logo to File:Cordova HS CA logo.gif and added it to the infobox of Cordova High School (Rancho Cordova, California). Is that what you wanted? (The previous logo was deleted in January 2009, probably because it lacked a {{ non-free logo}} tag.) — teb728 t c 10:36, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The material presented under this subject is only Bicycle Facilities Engineering. I suggest that this article be retitled. Bicycle Transportation Engineering considers the wider field of bicycle transportation, facilities and including range and speed of travel, effect of hills, skills required, traffic laws controlling bicycling, effects of different urban designs, accident analysis countermeasures, and such. For reference see my Bicycle Transportation, 1994, The MIT Press, John Forester. 69.227.95.208 ( talk) 22:15, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
You have a site that lists the oldest known great grand mothers. I made GGM status at age 50. I would like to be placed on that list.
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See "reference" #3 at bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodaabe
Link pointed to http://iws.ccccd.edu/mbailey/wodaabe.pdf which is broken -- apparently ccccd.edu has been changed to collin.edu.
I edited link to point to http://iws.collin.edu/mbailey/wodaabe.pdf -- which I've verified is a valid link, and goes to the proper .pdf file.
Still, the link on the page points to ccccd.edu.
Why?
I know the edit "stuck" because when I look at history, the edit is there, and when I compare versions my edit shows the proper URL...
So why does the "read" page - even after reload - still point to the wrong place?
Thanks!
DD Dedicated Dad ( talk) 07:10, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
i am working with an IT company which is private limited. and i just want to know the possibility to create company page or want to create company profile on Wikipedia.
if its possible then please let me know "how". if its not possible then please let me know "why". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.172.28.16 ( talk • contribs) 07:18, 18 February 2011
Good day help desk, I have a question. With your high standards would this website’s poll count as a Wikipedia approved reference? Here’s a link to it.
I noticed Wikipedia at least uses behindthevoiceactors.com to cite what roles an actor did.
But, would such sensitive material truly be acceptable? I already contacted BTVA and they confirmed that the current poll results are accurate.
But, they also said that a forum on another website did a campaign to bolster votes for a particular actor. Would that also affect its usability?
Thank you for your time, help desk. Viceroy kai ( talk) 07:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The link below is having a font problem. The font is no longer used while Zay Gyi (font name) is now being used by the whole Burmese user. I would like to volunteer to fix it. May I know how.
http://my.wikipedia.org/wik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyflightable ( talk • contribs) 08:50, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I changed my mind now. I will not fix it having the respect to the original authors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyflightable ( talk • contribs) 11:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have been the Admin for KyleXY.wikia.com for a while, enough to have made changes in the website format, including introducing a large number of screen shots. I am asking about migrating the content from wikia.com to wikipedia. That would entail uploading many images and adding pages for characters, which do not now exist. All images include the abc logo as copyright notice, because I put it there. Please go to Tom Foss to see what I do and would consider doing here, and let me know before I take time that might be wasted. - Thumlyly ( talk) Feb. 18, 2011
The information you have entered abouth Mother Teresa been born in Kosovo now known Skopje Macedonia is not correct, you can check your self in the history books. Skpje Macedonia have never been Kosovo or Albania.I will advise you to check the information before you publish it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.93.234 ( talk • contribs) 13:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
[[Mother Teresa]]
. Also this is not the right place to discuss this, instead use the talk page, for example
Talk:Mother Teresa.--
♫Greatorangepumpkin♫
T
13:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)Hi Would it be possible to select random articles with a particular topic(s)?
e.g. you might be interested in one or a few topics and would like to just get random articles from a limited range rather than "everything" Cheers John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.240.186 ( talk)
Could somebody transwikify simple:Penetrometer to Penetrometer? I've tried reading meta:Help:Transwiki but it wasn't particularly helpful! Then I tried using Special:Import but it doesn't support transfer from the simple wiki AFAICT. Thanks SmartSE ( talk) 16:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
We have a vandal at the talk page of September 11 attacks. [1] We have enough people watching the page so I'm not worried about the vandalism. I'm sure somebody will revert the vandalism and block the editor. But I was wondering if there's an easy way for me to undue multiple edits. As I type this, the vandal has made 6 consecutive edits. The revistion history page has undo links on a per edit basis. I don't want to have to click on them one at a time. Instead, I'd like to revert back to the last good edit. How do I do that in one step? A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have a program to look at web pages and print them out in PDF format, however when I do this page a blank page is automatically added to the end. I didn't put anything in the coding to make it do that and it does not happen on other Wiki pages. I think it is probably a problem with the program itself but maybe someone knew otherwise? Abraham Schulte ( talk) 17:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
How many vandalism reverts are made every second? Bot337 ( talk) 17:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I noticed when I clicked on the movie Front of the Class, it takes me to a link about the character the movie is based on, not the actual movie, like other Hallmark Hall of Fame movies that come after it do.
How do I change this, so I can create a page/link, just for the movie itself? I have a link from The Futon Critic that I can use for some information, since it's been a few years since I've watched it. Thanks! http://www.thefutoncritic.com/moviewatch/front-of-the-class/ GiantTiger001 ( talk) 19:11, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
How do if I know if Wikipedia:Notability (films) is satisfied and how to I change the article? That's what I need help with. GiantTiger001 ( talk) 05:04, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Well I think I found the right place to change the title, since I'm not really sure what I'm doing, with anything on here. Even the steps you gave me I don't really understand. GiantTiger001 ( talk) 06:38, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
For the last few days, I've been having an issue with the edit tools diappearing and the edit window having some minor bugs (like the way the scroll bar shows up), image is available here. At first, I thought this might be due to some old code in my monobook.js, but after a bit of tinkering, I haven't been able to fix it. Also, I have noticed a grey bar that appeared where a sitenotice would a few weeks ago, and that some of my gadgets are slow to load (like the clock in the upper corner and replacing "new section" with a "+"), and now I'm wondering if they are related to a MediaWiki update or something. I'm running IE7 on Windows XP. Are there any suggestions? bahamut0013 words deeds 19:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I have seen that many wikiprojects have a "Collaboration of the month" section, where they choose some important undeveloped article, and try to improve it to good or featured status. I work for Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina, but I realize that such a section would not work, at least not under the current conditions: there is a very limited number of active users, and the global quality of related articles is really low (most are still stubs). So, I thought it would be more feasible to select an article from Category:Stub-Class Argentine articles, and improve it to B-class.
The problem is that the "Collaboration of the month" sections I have seen so far work with a system of article nominations and selection, meaning, it is done manually. Is there some automatic way to arrange that some article is randomly selected from a category and linked somewhere, staying for a certain time and then replaced by a new one? MBelgrano ( talk) 20:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The article for monoboarding was deleted. I think it's an important part of snowsport history. There should be a legit monoboarding page. (PS. I'm not the one qualified to write it.)
We are trying to get our High School Mascot Artwork on our school page. Not having this image is causing great confusion on FaceBook because there is no image showing our Mascot which is being confused with another "Cordova High School". I have tried to figure out how to add our image which is copyright free! Anyone has the right to use this image. We are desperate to get our schools mascot image on our page. Can you please help.
Our school is Cordova High School (Rancho Cordova, California). It is being confused with another Cordova High School in Tennessee!!! HELP! WE NEED OUR MASCOT IMAGE ON OUR PAGE TOO! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgotcha ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
Just a note, in a way, Wikipedia does control the content of some Facebook pages; Facebook uses Wikipedia for some of its "likes" pages (and I'm not talking about people copy-pasting info onto their Facebook fan pages, but actual database dumps into Facebook. --- c y m r u . l a s s (talk me, stalk me) 00:59, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
@Tgotcha, I suspect that by "mascot" you mean "logo"; so I uploaded the school logo to File:Cordova HS CA logo.gif and added it to the infobox of Cordova High School (Rancho Cordova, California). Is that what you wanted? (The previous logo was deleted in January 2009, probably because it lacked a {{ non-free logo}} tag.) — teb728 t c 10:36, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The material presented under this subject is only Bicycle Facilities Engineering. I suggest that this article be retitled. Bicycle Transportation Engineering considers the wider field of bicycle transportation, facilities and including range and speed of travel, effect of hills, skills required, traffic laws controlling bicycling, effects of different urban designs, accident analysis countermeasures, and such. For reference see my Bicycle Transportation, 1994, The MIT Press, John Forester. 69.227.95.208 ( talk) 22:15, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
You have a site that lists the oldest known great grand mothers. I made GGM status at age 50. I would like to be placed on that list.