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A large part of the article Tracy Edwards is a copy of this Guardian article (which is an interview with Tracy Edwards). It is cited in the Wikipedia article (and yes, the text is changed from first person to third person, great!), but it's *way* too close to be even "only" plagiarism. As the Guardian article / interview is quite interesting, it'd be unfortunate to delete everything... so I'm posting here in case you (yes, you!) feel like investing time to save worthwhile information. If not, I'm shortly going to delete all copied information (and leave an external link to the Guardian article) because unfortunately I myself do not have the time right now to rewrite the article. BTW, the topic is sailing/racing and to some extent also business in/with Qatar, if that should stimulate anyone. :o) -- Ibn Battuta ( talk) 03:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Whenever I log in, I'm automatically logged out on the next WP page I open. I doubt it's cookies, the Firefox passwords dialog lists everything correct. It's really getting on my nerves. Autoconfirmed, Mac OSX, Nicky Nouse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.155.178 ( talk) 03:17, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there everyone, I've been looking at the page Mother tongue mirroring which has a lot of bilingual/multilingual examples, but I'm not sure how to format them properly. Take this example from German:
German:
‘Handschuh’ ‘glove’, *hand shoe
‘Zahnarzt’ ‘dentist’, * tooth doctor
‘Faustregel’ ‘rule of thumb’ *fist rule
‘Lehnwort’ ‘loanword’
I'm sure that italics and quotation marks should feature in here somehow, but I'm not quite sure how. Also, there is an example from Mandarin Chinese (indentation is from the original editor):
Mandarin:
hǎo bù hǎo? 好不好? ‘Is it good?’ *Good, not good? nán bù nán? 难不难? ‘Is it difficult?’ *Difficult, not difficult?
This throws a non-latin script into the mix, making things even harder. I tried looking at the Manual of Style, but there didn't seem to be anything specific to this kind of situation. If you can tell me the proper formatting for these examples, I will be most grateful. — Mr. Stradivarius ( drop me a line) 03:25, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I have an extensive collection of photographs and would like to make submissions. While I have not officially copyrighted any of my images, the ones in question have all been shot and processed by me. Might my contributions be accepted for the site? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.108.190 ( talk) 03:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
1. Hi! Could someone do me a favor? Could someone please clean up an article about an English-author? Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Godfrey 2. Also I wonder if the Category:American_Christians should go in the Ann_Dunham article because it says she was Christian. Thanks Neptunekh2 ( talk)`
Is there a convenient way to download Wikipedia articles to a Nook? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.10.143.80 ( talk) 06:21, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Support, I am trying to find an error message going back 4 months for insurance purposes. I have gone into control panel- admin tools-event viewer- system & found error messages but they only go back 6 weeks & I have no idea how to go back further in time as I need to go back about 16 weeks. I would appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks Sherry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.220.29 ( talk) 06:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Does a "Student activities" section of an university falls under "trivia" policy which is needed to be avoided or tagged with template like "It contains a section with a list of miscellaneous information." i read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections), but still confused.-- 180.234.37.178 ( talk) 11:18, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to upload my company's logo for inclusion in an article. As "Original source" I have given: "Original material uploaded by the copyright holder", but I keep getting the error message "You must give the original source of the file, the author of the work, and a license". It's not clear to me what is required, and I can find no examples. I hope you can help, please. Olehenriksen ( talk) 12:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I have come accross several places where there is an evolutionist belief stated, such as "this creature is believed to be 300 million years old," but it does not say that the belief is according to evolutionists. I was wondering, is that being unbiased? Because not everyone who reads WP will be an evolutionists. I am not, for one.
Thank you,
Paper
fork
♠
12:58, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I am writing an individual article for a musician of a notable band. All of the members of the band have individual wikipedia pages except for one. The band in question is Panic! at the Disco and the member in question is Spencer Smith. It folllows the notability criteria for the wikipedia music page, having released multi-platinum albums, worked with other bands, been on tv/radio for a half an hour or more and has been nominated for large awards and has won the VMAs. However someone keeps removing the content written and stating that the page fails the criteria. How can I prove he is notable so that the page can stay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilime180 ( talk • contribs)
What is the main reason for Brain drain? Is it because of political instability or personal problems or own interest or anythng else. Plz post ur opinion.i wld b very glad, if u can post whether your are also a brain drainer r nt ? Sorry,for my poor english .Thx in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Santosh003 ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't know how to correct the article. I just wanted to alert someone about the section on Vinegar, the first sentence of which is:
Scetic acid comprises typically 4 to 18% of vinegar, with the percentage usually calculated by mass. are used directly as a condiment, and also —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.61.107.223 ( talk) 16:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
HOW CAN I EDIT INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM " ABOVE US THE WAVES " WITHIN WIKIPEDIA FILES .I AM A LEGITIMATE CONTRIBUTOR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babs4andbill4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed on multiple occasions that in references and inline citations, such as a newspaper reference to The New York Times, the newspaper title or other entity of the citation is linked to that article. For example, the reference would say author, date, etc., and then (usually) link The New York Times, the title of the newspaper in this example, to the article of the same name. I always thought that looked odd—to wikilink inside a reference. Is it favorable to do this or not? — Untitledmind72 ( let's talk + contribs) 17:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't appreciate that I'm at the forefront of my own style of music and you have these people on here deleting it cause I'm so called "insignificant" which is completely ridiculous. All of you can't think of anything on your own which is why you're here. I'm here to make a mark. What I would appreciate is a little help with this not being deleted: Sub Metal
Main article: Sub Metal Sub metal comes in only one form pioneered by the recording artist/composer Butterfly Molly. In it's entirety, the genre pretty much speaks for itself but can be identified with the ears honed in on heavy drum beats, hard/crunchy guitar riffs, deep bass guitars and most of all. The Sub Bass. All working together on a downtempo/half stepping groove to create one of the most powerful and engulfing sounds/music this millennial generation has heard yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unseenmusicgroup ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Usually I edit as user:Agradman, but recently I've been using WikiBreak Enforcer to lock myself out so I edit less. But I still check my talk page, and I often want to delete stuff from my talk page. Unfortunately, an anti-vandalism filter is triggered whenever I try to do so. In order to get my deletions around the filter, I have to delete stuff one line at a time.
Hence the question: Could I whitelist user_talk:Agradman from that anti-vandalism filter? In my 2 yrs of wikipedia editing, I have never drawn a single instance of vandalism, so I'm not worried about side effects.
Thanks. I suppose my identity as user:Agradman could be verified by sending an email through that WP account. 75.4.194.121 ( talk) 18:08, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
United States District Court for the Central District of California ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
An editor just added the category "Government in Orange County, California" to this article. It already had the categories "Government in Riverside County, California" and "Government of Los Angeles, California". Puting aside the issue of why LA is the only with with "of" instead of "in", what do these categories mean? Using Orange County as an example, do they mean articles about OC government, or do they mean articles involving governmental entities located in OC? I wish Wikipedia categories had real descriptions as to what the category is intended to encompass. So many times it isn't obvious, at least not to me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
getting redirected to advistising sites when looking up specific subjects when using google. ie. use of spurs click link gets redirected. not good for you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.55.181.164 ( talk) 19:22, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Subject: Gadget that easies to switch articles between only two languages. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease!
Can someone create a gadget that easies to choose between Polish and English articles (or other languages of your choice), removing all the other languages from the sidebar? I would like to have this option in my account preferences. I would love something like this. In touch phone that would be especially helpful as the screan is very small and to tap the chosen language out of list on the side is frustraiting. Im interpreter and I would find that function very useful. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by MonikaUK2007 ( talk • contribs) 23:01, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
You could put something like this in your monobook.css.
#p-lang li { display:none; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-en { display:block; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-pl { display:block; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-OTHERLANGUAGECODE { display:block; }
― cobaltcigs 07:20, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The article " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Point_Method" provides a link to the Physics portal to discuss the page. Following that link, however, it is unclear how to then contribute to a discussion about the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.127.50 ( talk) 23:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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A large part of the article Tracy Edwards is a copy of this Guardian article (which is an interview with Tracy Edwards). It is cited in the Wikipedia article (and yes, the text is changed from first person to third person, great!), but it's *way* too close to be even "only" plagiarism. As the Guardian article / interview is quite interesting, it'd be unfortunate to delete everything... so I'm posting here in case you (yes, you!) feel like investing time to save worthwhile information. If not, I'm shortly going to delete all copied information (and leave an external link to the Guardian article) because unfortunately I myself do not have the time right now to rewrite the article. BTW, the topic is sailing/racing and to some extent also business in/with Qatar, if that should stimulate anyone. :o) -- Ibn Battuta ( talk) 03:09, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Whenever I log in, I'm automatically logged out on the next WP page I open. I doubt it's cookies, the Firefox passwords dialog lists everything correct. It's really getting on my nerves. Autoconfirmed, Mac OSX, Nicky Nouse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.196.155.178 ( talk) 03:17, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there everyone, I've been looking at the page Mother tongue mirroring which has a lot of bilingual/multilingual examples, but I'm not sure how to format them properly. Take this example from German:
German:
‘Handschuh’ ‘glove’, *hand shoe
‘Zahnarzt’ ‘dentist’, * tooth doctor
‘Faustregel’ ‘rule of thumb’ *fist rule
‘Lehnwort’ ‘loanword’
I'm sure that italics and quotation marks should feature in here somehow, but I'm not quite sure how. Also, there is an example from Mandarin Chinese (indentation is from the original editor):
Mandarin:
hǎo bù hǎo? 好不好? ‘Is it good?’ *Good, not good? nán bù nán? 难不难? ‘Is it difficult?’ *Difficult, not difficult?
This throws a non-latin script into the mix, making things even harder. I tried looking at the Manual of Style, but there didn't seem to be anything specific to this kind of situation. If you can tell me the proper formatting for these examples, I will be most grateful. — Mr. Stradivarius ( drop me a line) 03:25, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I have an extensive collection of photographs and would like to make submissions. While I have not officially copyrighted any of my images, the ones in question have all been shot and processed by me. Might my contributions be accepted for the site? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.108.190 ( talk) 03:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
1. Hi! Could someone do me a favor? Could someone please clean up an article about an English-author? Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Godfrey 2. Also I wonder if the Category:American_Christians should go in the Ann_Dunham article because it says she was Christian. Thanks Neptunekh2 ( talk)`
Is there a convenient way to download Wikipedia articles to a Nook? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.10.143.80 ( talk) 06:21, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Support, I am trying to find an error message going back 4 months for insurance purposes. I have gone into control panel- admin tools-event viewer- system & found error messages but they only go back 6 weeks & I have no idea how to go back further in time as I need to go back about 16 weeks. I would appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks Sherry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.174.220.29 ( talk) 06:41, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Does a "Student activities" section of an university falls under "trivia" policy which is needed to be avoided or tagged with template like "It contains a section with a list of miscellaneous information." i read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections), but still confused.-- 180.234.37.178 ( talk) 11:18, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to upload my company's logo for inclusion in an article. As "Original source" I have given: "Original material uploaded by the copyright holder", but I keep getting the error message "You must give the original source of the file, the author of the work, and a license". It's not clear to me what is required, and I can find no examples. I hope you can help, please. Olehenriksen ( talk) 12:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I have come accross several places where there is an evolutionist belief stated, such as "this creature is believed to be 300 million years old," but it does not say that the belief is according to evolutionists. I was wondering, is that being unbiased? Because not everyone who reads WP will be an evolutionists. I am not, for one.
Thank you,
Paper
fork
♠
12:58, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I am writing an individual article for a musician of a notable band. All of the members of the band have individual wikipedia pages except for one. The band in question is Panic! at the Disco and the member in question is Spencer Smith. It folllows the notability criteria for the wikipedia music page, having released multi-platinum albums, worked with other bands, been on tv/radio for a half an hour or more and has been nominated for large awards and has won the VMAs. However someone keeps removing the content written and stating that the page fails the criteria. How can I prove he is notable so that the page can stay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilime180 ( talk • contribs)
What is the main reason for Brain drain? Is it because of political instability or personal problems or own interest or anythng else. Plz post ur opinion.i wld b very glad, if u can post whether your are also a brain drainer r nt ? Sorry,for my poor english .Thx in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Santosh003 ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't know how to correct the article. I just wanted to alert someone about the section on Vinegar, the first sentence of which is:
Scetic acid comprises typically 4 to 18% of vinegar, with the percentage usually calculated by mass. are used directly as a condiment, and also —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.61.107.223 ( talk) 16:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
HOW CAN I EDIT INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM " ABOVE US THE WAVES " WITHIN WIKIPEDIA FILES .I AM A LEGITIMATE CONTRIBUTOR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babs4andbill4 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I have noticed on multiple occasions that in references and inline citations, such as a newspaper reference to The New York Times, the newspaper title or other entity of the citation is linked to that article. For example, the reference would say author, date, etc., and then (usually) link The New York Times, the title of the newspaper in this example, to the article of the same name. I always thought that looked odd—to wikilink inside a reference. Is it favorable to do this or not? — Untitledmind72 ( let's talk + contribs) 17:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I don't appreciate that I'm at the forefront of my own style of music and you have these people on here deleting it cause I'm so called "insignificant" which is completely ridiculous. All of you can't think of anything on your own which is why you're here. I'm here to make a mark. What I would appreciate is a little help with this not being deleted: Sub Metal
Main article: Sub Metal Sub metal comes in only one form pioneered by the recording artist/composer Butterfly Molly. In it's entirety, the genre pretty much speaks for itself but can be identified with the ears honed in on heavy drum beats, hard/crunchy guitar riffs, deep bass guitars and most of all. The Sub Bass. All working together on a downtempo/half stepping groove to create one of the most powerful and engulfing sounds/music this millennial generation has heard yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unseenmusicgroup ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Usually I edit as user:Agradman, but recently I've been using WikiBreak Enforcer to lock myself out so I edit less. But I still check my talk page, and I often want to delete stuff from my talk page. Unfortunately, an anti-vandalism filter is triggered whenever I try to do so. In order to get my deletions around the filter, I have to delete stuff one line at a time.
Hence the question: Could I whitelist user_talk:Agradman from that anti-vandalism filter? In my 2 yrs of wikipedia editing, I have never drawn a single instance of vandalism, so I'm not worried about side effects.
Thanks. I suppose my identity as user:Agradman could be verified by sending an email through that WP account. 75.4.194.121 ( talk) 18:08, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
United States District Court for the Central District of California ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
An editor just added the category "Government in Orange County, California" to this article. It already had the categories "Government in Riverside County, California" and "Government of Los Angeles, California". Puting aside the issue of why LA is the only with with "of" instead of "in", what do these categories mean? Using Orange County as an example, do they mean articles about OC government, or do they mean articles involving governmental entities located in OC? I wish Wikipedia categories had real descriptions as to what the category is intended to encompass. So many times it isn't obvious, at least not to me.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:49, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
getting redirected to advistising sites when looking up specific subjects when using google. ie. use of spurs click link gets redirected. not good for you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.55.181.164 ( talk) 19:22, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Subject: Gadget that easies to switch articles between only two languages. Pleeeeeeeeeeeease!
Can someone create a gadget that easies to choose between Polish and English articles (or other languages of your choice), removing all the other languages from the sidebar? I would like to have this option in my account preferences. I would love something like this. In touch phone that would be especially helpful as the screan is very small and to tap the chosen language out of list on the side is frustraiting. Im interpreter and I would find that function very useful. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by MonikaUK2007 ( talk • contribs) 23:01, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
You could put something like this in your monobook.css.
#p-lang li { display:none; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-en { display:block; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-pl { display:block; }
#p-lang li.interwiki-OTHERLANGUAGECODE { display:block; }
― cobaltcigs 07:20, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The article " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Point_Method" provides a link to the Physics portal to discuss the page. Following that link, however, it is unclear how to then contribute to a discussion about the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.127.50 ( talk) 23:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)