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What article is a featured article in the most languages? Albacore ( talk) 00:42, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Is there anyway to whistleblow on Wikipedia policy breakers anonymously? My experience today (see diff) is that anonymous whistleblowers are not taken seriously and their edits are erased, but I'm afraid to speak out under a username for fear of retaliation/harassment by potentially offended editors. 128.253.26.82 ( talk) 01:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Can anyone explain to me how List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans (USA) can be a copyright violation of List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans, of which it is an identical copy, when the latter is another article on the same Wikipedia and not itself a copyright violation? And why is it not even allowed to replace the former with a redirect to the latter? JIP | Talk 06:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if someone could edit the Alexandra Powers page. I found this article online that talk about her personal life: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308844,00.html Would it be ok to use this article as a reference? Thanks! Neptunekh2 ( talk) 06:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I use my smartphone about 90% of the time for browsing and research. I'm using an HTC-HD2 Cell phone with TMobile as my carrier. the OLD Wiki page layout style that would display on my phone say about 6 months ago and earlier LOOKED better, UPLOADED FASTER, and EASIER TO READ WITHOUT having to SCROLL ALL OVER THE PLACE like the "NEWER" FORMAT LAYOUT of say 2 months ago.
Am I missing something? In other words, is there a page layout similar to the "old" one that's specifically designed for the approx. 3" x 6" smartphone screen? I understand the "new" layout provides a great deal of info that, perhaps the "old" style did not. Personally, I liked the OLD one BETTER.
Please advise. Joel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.5.147 ( talk) 11:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I irregularly edit on other language wikis (usually adding photos, bibliographic citations, etc. nothing heavy requiring linguistic skills). I have a unified account under my user name "Quartermaster" that covers almost all of the wiki universe. The exceptions are for the German and Finnish wikipedias. I.e., there were pre-existing users named "Quartermaster" on both of those. My question is specific to the German wikipedia - it appears that there is no one inhabiting the "Quartermaster" user name on that wiki and I don't know how to usurp it. What's odd also is that all of the edits by that user name were ones that I did while originally logged in as "Quartermaster" on the English language wikipedia. It appears that the German "Quartermaster" has never made an edit (but appears to get credit for my English wikipedia edits). Is there any way you can point me in the direction or assist me in usurping the German "Quartermaster" name so I can include it in my unified ID? The Finnish one is more problematic since there appears to be a real user "Quartermaster" but their last edit was in 2008, and they only did 84 total edits over a period of a couple of weeks. Nothing earth shattering or time sensitive here, I'm just anal retentive enough to want to have a REAL unified account. -- Quartermaster ( talk) 13:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Kazuhiko currently redirects to an astoroid, but there are several people with that name. Shoudn't a disambiguation point to them (and the astoroid)? -- 88.130.134.32 ( talk) 15:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I've change Kazuhiko to a disambig, and made a start on it. (Please, of course, feel free to improve it). Chzz ► 10:41, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
We would like to ask more information about the process to transfer ownership of some pages on Wikipedia.These pages originally belong to our company and have been created by our former employee. However, this employee is not with our company anymore and we do not have username and password to log in to these pages for editing and updating. So we need to ask you the process to transfer the current ownership(username, password and all other related information) to one else'name
We really appreciate your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 18:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, It is not our point. we all that our previous employee had already set these pages semi protected. SO now we want to know how to update, change information on these pages. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 20:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
These pages are Tarique Mustafa,nexTier Networks, and 4th Generation Data Leak Prevention. Can you tell me more detail about the process to set up protected pages?My Wiki Username is nextiernetworks. Thanks a lot for your help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 16:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I have prepared a paper on the cause of the Permian extinction. This occured 240 milion years ago when most of the marine live was killed. I have exhibits that explain my position and are included as figures in the paper. I am a retired geologist and currentlly do not belong to any to any geological society, consequently I thought of publishing it on Wikipedia. Please advise.19:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyenstone ( talk • contribs)
Hello. I asked a question about featured topics, and a user kindly replied mentioning a certain consensus on treating featured topics and their subtopics as a tree. I am looking for the specific page on which said consensus was reached, can anyone help me out? Thank you very much. Leptictidium ( mt) 20:15, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
hello,
which transliteration system should I use to romanize the Russian cyryllic alphabet; is it ISO 9?-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 20:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I originally started to use SUL on 30 December last year, and found out that my username was already taken on two WikiMedia projects: the Danish Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia. So I left a SUL usurpation request at both. The Russian Wikipedia soon accepted the usurpation, but the Danish Wikipedia has so far done exactly diddly-squat. I have left a message both at the SUL usurpation page (in Swedish, as I was told Danes understand it) and on the Danish user's talk page (in Danish, from a ready-made template), but nothing has ever become of it. The Danish Wikipedia is the only WikiMedia project where the account "JIP" belongs to someone else than me. And the user there doesn't even have any edits ever. What can I do to usurp this account? JIP | Talk 21:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I created three pages in January but don't see them visible. I spent some time on these so am concerned. Can you tell me where they might be? They were for Camp Edmo, Camp EdTech and Edventure More. Thanks.------------ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtsegal ( talk • contribs) 22:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I have put in for technical help but want to make sure I'm not doing something wrong. I'm a new user. I am working on an article in a sub-page. The initial article was saved. However, over the last two days, when I make edits, preview and hit the save button, all seems well in preview. However, when I try to save and exit, I receive a warning that if I exit the page I will lose all my changes. Saving it doesn't resolve the problem, so in order to exit, I just have to lose all my edits. Saving a page shouldn't be a big deal, but it has become one for me.
Please advise. I can't even leave a message in "My Talk" without the same problem. Cmckibben ( talk) 22:39, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
It says: "Are you sure you want to leave this page? Leaving the page may cause you to lose changes made. Press OK or Cancel to stay on the page." Cmckibben ( talk) 22:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, you wanted to know what happens when I hit save. It just seems to be saving and then leaves me where I was. If I try to leave the page, I get the message above. Cmckibben ( talk) 22:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I went to my regular file that I'm editing. I three words to it and saved it. It took me back to the preview page which showed the change. Then, THIS TIME, when I went back to talk to you, I didn't get the message. But I wanted to go back in and see if it saved the edit. Is it possible that the file can only take very few edits at one time? Am I trying to edit too much? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm a new user and not very adept at working in Wikipedia. What do you mean "link" to the file? Which file? Iowa? Mine? Not sure what you want me to do. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
File is [[Andrea Michaels]]. I started on the practice page, and then another editor helped me and moved it to a sub-page User Cmckibben:Andrea Michaels. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, it's User:Cmckibben/Andrea Michaels. Can you find it? It's not live. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I went back to my contribution page above and tried to edit the paragraph. Same thing happened. I made my edits and then hit the save button. Instead of showing the preview page as it should, I get the message, I described above warning that I will lost my changes if I leave the page. Am I supposed to do something besides hit the save page button? Is it possible the page is corrupted and I need to copy and paste the entire entry into a new page? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Mabdul, I made a couple of small changes yesterday, but I also did 5 hours worth of work where none of it would save. Same thing today. I deleted material, edited up a storm for two hours and nothing would save. When I hit the save, it wouldn't go to the preview page to indicate it was saved. When I tried to leave the page, I kept getting a warning that if I chose to leave the page none of my work would be saved. It says: "Are you sure you want to leave this page? Leaving the page may cause you to lose changes made. Press OK or Cancel to stay on the page." I clearly can see that the edits I am making are not being saved. That's the problem. Any ideas? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry. Have to go to appointment. If anyone has ideas, please let me know. I'll check back in later.Thanks for helping! Cmckibben ( talk) 23:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
PrimeHunter: The problem, I believe, is that the page is not saving when I click the "Save Page" button below the edit box. That's the one I've been clicking. What happens is thatI'm still seeing the edit box, not the saved page with no edit box. I don't get an error message. I'll go back through it all again, but the problem is that I don't get an error message explaining why it isn't saved. Cmckibben ( talk) 03:27, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
How do I upload a photo to the Wiki entry on me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetlit ( talk • contribs) 22:47, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I am barraged with non-applicable information. It is very discouraging for a first time user. I am looking/can't find a button to re-edit my page of info. Feel like giving up all together....:( Where to even click to enter this????????? Confused for sure!@ I am not stupid! This is NOT user friendly! WHERE DO I ENTER THIS????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopoco ( talk • contribs) 22:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
My company is producing a document on the effects of pile driving on fish for the Federal Highway Administration, our client. The document will organize and present the current best available science on this topic. The document is to be publicly available once completed. The client also wishes it to be a living document, meaning update-able by experts. We are producing the document for FHWA and they want it globabally available and to evolve as new information is learned. The document would probably be a few hundered printed pages, but organized by chapters. I was wondering is this compatible with Wikipedia and your policies. Is this something we could do, take the document and enter it on to wikipedia.
Thank you for your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.223.21.100 ( talk) 23:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
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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. |
What article is a featured article in the most languages? Albacore ( talk) 00:42, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Is there anyway to whistleblow on Wikipedia policy breakers anonymously? My experience today (see diff) is that anonymous whistleblowers are not taken seriously and their edits are erased, but I'm afraid to speak out under a username for fear of retaliation/harassment by potentially offended editors. 128.253.26.82 ( talk) 01:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Can anyone explain to me how List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans (USA) can be a copyright violation of List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans, of which it is an identical copy, when the latter is another article on the same Wikipedia and not itself a copyright violation? And why is it not even allowed to replace the former with a redirect to the latter? JIP | Talk 06:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if someone could edit the Alexandra Powers page. I found this article online that talk about her personal life: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308844,00.html Would it be ok to use this article as a reference? Thanks! Neptunekh2 ( talk) 06:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I use my smartphone about 90% of the time for browsing and research. I'm using an HTC-HD2 Cell phone with TMobile as my carrier. the OLD Wiki page layout style that would display on my phone say about 6 months ago and earlier LOOKED better, UPLOADED FASTER, and EASIER TO READ WITHOUT having to SCROLL ALL OVER THE PLACE like the "NEWER" FORMAT LAYOUT of say 2 months ago.
Am I missing something? In other words, is there a page layout similar to the "old" one that's specifically designed for the approx. 3" x 6" smartphone screen? I understand the "new" layout provides a great deal of info that, perhaps the "old" style did not. Personally, I liked the OLD one BETTER.
Please advise. Joel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.5.147 ( talk) 11:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I irregularly edit on other language wikis (usually adding photos, bibliographic citations, etc. nothing heavy requiring linguistic skills). I have a unified account under my user name "Quartermaster" that covers almost all of the wiki universe. The exceptions are for the German and Finnish wikipedias. I.e., there were pre-existing users named "Quartermaster" on both of those. My question is specific to the German wikipedia - it appears that there is no one inhabiting the "Quartermaster" user name on that wiki and I don't know how to usurp it. What's odd also is that all of the edits by that user name were ones that I did while originally logged in as "Quartermaster" on the English language wikipedia. It appears that the German "Quartermaster" has never made an edit (but appears to get credit for my English wikipedia edits). Is there any way you can point me in the direction or assist me in usurping the German "Quartermaster" name so I can include it in my unified ID? The Finnish one is more problematic since there appears to be a real user "Quartermaster" but their last edit was in 2008, and they only did 84 total edits over a period of a couple of weeks. Nothing earth shattering or time sensitive here, I'm just anal retentive enough to want to have a REAL unified account. -- Quartermaster ( talk) 13:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Kazuhiko currently redirects to an astoroid, but there are several people with that name. Shoudn't a disambiguation point to them (and the astoroid)? -- 88.130.134.32 ( talk) 15:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I've change Kazuhiko to a disambig, and made a start on it. (Please, of course, feel free to improve it). Chzz ► 10:41, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
We would like to ask more information about the process to transfer ownership of some pages on Wikipedia.These pages originally belong to our company and have been created by our former employee. However, this employee is not with our company anymore and we do not have username and password to log in to these pages for editing and updating. So we need to ask you the process to transfer the current ownership(username, password and all other related information) to one else'name
We really appreciate your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 18:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, It is not our point. we all that our previous employee had already set these pages semi protected. SO now we want to know how to update, change information on these pages. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 20:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
These pages are Tarique Mustafa,nexTier Networks, and 4th Generation Data Leak Prevention. Can you tell me more detail about the process to set up protected pages?My Wiki Username is nextiernetworks. Thanks a lot for your help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.6.14.2 ( talk) 16:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I have prepared a paper on the cause of the Permian extinction. This occured 240 milion years ago when most of the marine live was killed. I have exhibits that explain my position and are included as figures in the paper. I am a retired geologist and currentlly do not belong to any to any geological society, consequently I thought of publishing it on Wikipedia. Please advise.19:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyenstone ( talk • contribs)
Hello. I asked a question about featured topics, and a user kindly replied mentioning a certain consensus on treating featured topics and their subtopics as a tree. I am looking for the specific page on which said consensus was reached, can anyone help me out? Thank you very much. Leptictidium ( mt) 20:15, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
hello,
which transliteration system should I use to romanize the Russian cyryllic alphabet; is it ISO 9?-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 20:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I originally started to use SUL on 30 December last year, and found out that my username was already taken on two WikiMedia projects: the Danish Wikipedia and the Russian Wikipedia. So I left a SUL usurpation request at both. The Russian Wikipedia soon accepted the usurpation, but the Danish Wikipedia has so far done exactly diddly-squat. I have left a message both at the SUL usurpation page (in Swedish, as I was told Danes understand it) and on the Danish user's talk page (in Danish, from a ready-made template), but nothing has ever become of it. The Danish Wikipedia is the only WikiMedia project where the account "JIP" belongs to someone else than me. And the user there doesn't even have any edits ever. What can I do to usurp this account? JIP | Talk 21:01, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I created three pages in January but don't see them visible. I spent some time on these so am concerned. Can you tell me where they might be? They were for Camp Edmo, Camp EdTech and Edventure More. Thanks.------------ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtsegal ( talk • contribs) 22:38, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I have put in for technical help but want to make sure I'm not doing something wrong. I'm a new user. I am working on an article in a sub-page. The initial article was saved. However, over the last two days, when I make edits, preview and hit the save button, all seems well in preview. However, when I try to save and exit, I receive a warning that if I exit the page I will lose all my changes. Saving it doesn't resolve the problem, so in order to exit, I just have to lose all my edits. Saving a page shouldn't be a big deal, but it has become one for me.
Please advise. I can't even leave a message in "My Talk" without the same problem. Cmckibben ( talk) 22:39, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
It says: "Are you sure you want to leave this page? Leaving the page may cause you to lose changes made. Press OK or Cancel to stay on the page." Cmckibben ( talk) 22:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, you wanted to know what happens when I hit save. It just seems to be saving and then leaves me where I was. If I try to leave the page, I get the message above. Cmckibben ( talk) 22:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I went to my regular file that I'm editing. I three words to it and saved it. It took me back to the preview page which showed the change. Then, THIS TIME, when I went back to talk to you, I didn't get the message. But I wanted to go back in and see if it saved the edit. Is it possible that the file can only take very few edits at one time? Am I trying to edit too much? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm a new user and not very adept at working in Wikipedia. What do you mean "link" to the file? Which file? Iowa? Mine? Not sure what you want me to do. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:19, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
File is [[Andrea Michaels]]. I started on the practice page, and then another editor helped me and moved it to a sub-page User Cmckibben:Andrea Michaels. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, it's User:Cmckibben/Andrea Michaels. Can you find it? It's not live. Cmckibben ( talk) 23:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I went back to my contribution page above and tried to edit the paragraph. Same thing happened. I made my edits and then hit the save button. Instead of showing the preview page as it should, I get the message, I described above warning that I will lost my changes if I leave the page. Am I supposed to do something besides hit the save page button? Is it possible the page is corrupted and I need to copy and paste the entire entry into a new page? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Mabdul, I made a couple of small changes yesterday, but I also did 5 hours worth of work where none of it would save. Same thing today. I deleted material, edited up a storm for two hours and nothing would save. When I hit the save, it wouldn't go to the preview page to indicate it was saved. When I tried to leave the page, I kept getting a warning that if I chose to leave the page none of my work would be saved. It says: "Are you sure you want to leave this page? Leaving the page may cause you to lose changes made. Press OK or Cancel to stay on the page." I clearly can see that the edits I am making are not being saved. That's the problem. Any ideas? Cmckibben ( talk) 23:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Sorry. Have to go to appointment. If anyone has ideas, please let me know. I'll check back in later.Thanks for helping! Cmckibben ( talk) 23:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
PrimeHunter: The problem, I believe, is that the page is not saving when I click the "Save Page" button below the edit box. That's the one I've been clicking. What happens is thatI'm still seeing the edit box, not the saved page with no edit box. I don't get an error message. I'll go back through it all again, but the problem is that I don't get an error message explaining why it isn't saved. Cmckibben ( talk) 03:27, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
How do I upload a photo to the Wiki entry on me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetlit ( talk • contribs) 22:47, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
I am barraged with non-applicable information. It is very discouraging for a first time user. I am looking/can't find a button to re-edit my page of info. Feel like giving up all together....:( Where to even click to enter this????????? Confused for sure!@ I am not stupid! This is NOT user friendly! WHERE DO I ENTER THIS????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopoco ( talk • contribs) 22:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
My company is producing a document on the effects of pile driving on fish for the Federal Highway Administration, our client. The document will organize and present the current best available science on this topic. The document is to be publicly available once completed. The client also wishes it to be a living document, meaning update-able by experts. We are producing the document for FHWA and they want it globabally available and to evolve as new information is learned. The document would probably be a few hundered printed pages, but organized by chapters. I was wondering is this compatible with Wikipedia and your policies. Is this something we could do, take the document and enter it on to wikipedia.
Thank you for your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.223.21.100 ( talk) 23:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC)