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I've drafted a revision to two sections of the Occidental Petroleum article. The talk page isn't very active (still), so I'm coming back here for asking for assistance (again). Due to a potential COI, I'm seeking feedback from the community before making this addition. The draft of my suggested revisions can be found here.
If you have any feedback, please leave it on the proposal talk page (my comments are there as well), or if you think it's good enough to add to the article, feel free to make these changes.
Thanks in advance! -- CBuiltother ( talk) 03:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I was entering the 2010 winners of The Morris Trophy and the preview looked fine, but the saved edits were not. There is a problem with the table and I am unable to figure out how to solve it. The 2010 winner on offense, Tyron Smith, appears in a separate column that runs the length of the entire article yet it did not appear thus in the preview.
I goofed, somehow.
Thanks, RevDrTraci ( talk) 04:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
<ref>
tag in front of the
section heading on the same line. That stopped Wikipedia from recognizing the section you edited as a distinct section. You may be confused about how to provide sources here. See
WP:RS,
WP:CITE, and
WP:FOOT.|}
when you added a new row to the table. Since you were probably editing in one section, rather than the whole page, the preview did not show what effect that would have on following sections. Deleting the table-closing characters caused the table you edited to "eat" everything after it, until the next table-closing characters. (This is a common problem on Wikipedia, or in any markup or programming language that uses paired delimiters - mismatched delimiters can cause bizarre, wide-ranging "damage".)Could you tell me how to find out who owned the land in 1792 in NY, NY when the NYSE aquired it? I am trying to find the complete history of this land. Thank you Marie Baldree <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.19.119.54 ( talk) 06:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I unintentionally created a global SUL account for myself. Now I have blank accounts on 3 other wikis that I do not want. Is there any way to delete the global SUL account and the accounts on the other wikis (de:, it:, ten:)? I only want to continue using my en: account for now. Thanks, Cheng ( talk) 07:08, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
File:Bold textBig text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.197.164.246 ( talk) 08:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I have two accounts. User:thisisftg and this account User:darkskynet. The "Thisisftg" account was made while i was in high school. (Thisisftg was my online identity at the time). The old account has a creation date of January, 2007 and the new account that i currently i am using has a creation date of 2009. Is there anyways a Admin could make the creation date on User:Darkskynet to be the date for the old account and simply delete the old account. The old account has no edits so it would not mess with the database. I just would really like the old date. This would make my century. Cheers, -- Darkskynet ( talk) 12:30, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to create a citation template similar to template:Butt-Stations for Wheeler's seminal work on the drainage of the English Fens. I have half a mind to call it template:Wheeler1896 as I only have the second edition of the book. [1]
Any comments on the naming? Any hoops I am expected to jump through first?
Any suggestions on categorisation?
The book is currently available as a facsimile of the first edition only, [2]. Should I incorporate that information into the template? It won't have the same page numbers, for a start. Since I will be using cite book, how do I refer to the facsimile?
References
-- Robert EA Harvey ( talk) 13:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Done Created that.
Template:Wheeler1896. Put it in
Category:Specific-source templates at the top level, which seems rather full but will have to do, until someone else changes it.--
Robert EA Harvey (
talk)
11:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
I have an account already - but lost my username and the password. Is there any way to avoid creating a new user account and retrieve the old one? Thanks 143.239.170.74 ( talk) 13:44, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Over the past day or two, the titles on any Wikipedia page I call up are in a foreign language. The rest of the text is English, it's just certain titles that aren't. How can I fix this? Thanks. Brooksidebill ( talk) 14:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
the introductory blocks of wikipedia entries do not have edit buttons. why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.53.223.223 ( talk) 15:34, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Error in the age in the infobox. Confused. Kittybrewster ☎ 16:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
[1] is this a bug??? -- Perseus, Son of Zeus 18:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, It is a shame that Wikipedia shows the Cuban per capita income US$5,000 per month. And the PPP is US$9,000. Actually it is below US$20. Cuba and Korea N. are the poorest places on earth. Wikipedia is supposed to be SERIOUS! details removed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba “GDP (PPP) 2009 estimate - Total $111.1 billion[6] (62nd) - Per capita $9,700 (86th)” “GDP (nominal) 2009 estimate - Total $67.26 billion[5] (62nd) - Per capita $5,984 (78th)” —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.228.237 ( talk) 19:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
can you give me name adress of medical sight like MAY CLINIC
Unsubstantiated claim:
"Another tenet of Sudbury schools is giving students the power to choose what to do with their time: individual freedom, freedom of choice, and learning through experience. There are no required classes, and usually there is no requirement to take classes at all. Students are free to choose an activity that they desire, or feel the need to do. They are free to continue activities for as long or short a time as they see fit. In this way, they learn self-discipline, self-regulated learning and self-initiation. They also learn faster and retain more knowledge, thanks to the engagement in activities that they are passionate about. The students at these schools are responsible for and empowered to direct their own education from a very young age. All this is facilitated, supported and managed by the school's democratic framework."
Do they really learn faster and retain more knowledge? I doubt that has ever been shown, or proven.
please change or delete as you see fit.
ed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.161.177 ( talk) 20:50, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< January 22 | << Dec | January | Feb >> | January 24 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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I've drafted a revision to two sections of the Occidental Petroleum article. The talk page isn't very active (still), so I'm coming back here for asking for assistance (again). Due to a potential COI, I'm seeking feedback from the community before making this addition. The draft of my suggested revisions can be found here.
If you have any feedback, please leave it on the proposal talk page (my comments are there as well), or if you think it's good enough to add to the article, feel free to make these changes.
Thanks in advance! -- CBuiltother ( talk) 03:12, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I was entering the 2010 winners of The Morris Trophy and the preview looked fine, but the saved edits were not. There is a problem with the table and I am unable to figure out how to solve it. The 2010 winner on offense, Tyron Smith, appears in a separate column that runs the length of the entire article yet it did not appear thus in the preview.
I goofed, somehow.
Thanks, RevDrTraci ( talk) 04:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
<ref>
tag in front of the
section heading on the same line. That stopped Wikipedia from recognizing the section you edited as a distinct section. You may be confused about how to provide sources here. See
WP:RS,
WP:CITE, and
WP:FOOT.|}
when you added a new row to the table. Since you were probably editing in one section, rather than the whole page, the preview did not show what effect that would have on following sections. Deleting the table-closing characters caused the table you edited to "eat" everything after it, until the next table-closing characters. (This is a common problem on Wikipedia, or in any markup or programming language that uses paired delimiters - mismatched delimiters can cause bizarre, wide-ranging "damage".)Could you tell me how to find out who owned the land in 1792 in NY, NY when the NYSE aquired it? I am trying to find the complete history of this land. Thank you Marie Baldree <email removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.19.119.54 ( talk) 06:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I unintentionally created a global SUL account for myself. Now I have blank accounts on 3 other wikis that I do not want. Is there any way to delete the global SUL account and the accounts on the other wikis (de:, it:, ten:)? I only want to continue using my en: account for now. Thanks, Cheng ( talk) 07:08, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
File:Bold textBig text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.197.164.246 ( talk) 08:03, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I have two accounts. User:thisisftg and this account User:darkskynet. The "Thisisftg" account was made while i was in high school. (Thisisftg was my online identity at the time). The old account has a creation date of January, 2007 and the new account that i currently i am using has a creation date of 2009. Is there anyways a Admin could make the creation date on User:Darkskynet to be the date for the old account and simply delete the old account. The old account has no edits so it would not mess with the database. I just would really like the old date. This would make my century. Cheers, -- Darkskynet ( talk) 12:30, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to create a citation template similar to template:Butt-Stations for Wheeler's seminal work on the drainage of the English Fens. I have half a mind to call it template:Wheeler1896 as I only have the second edition of the book. [1]
Any comments on the naming? Any hoops I am expected to jump through first?
Any suggestions on categorisation?
The book is currently available as a facsimile of the first edition only, [2]. Should I incorporate that information into the template? It won't have the same page numbers, for a start. Since I will be using cite book, how do I refer to the facsimile?
References
-- Robert EA Harvey ( talk) 13:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Done Created that.
Template:Wheeler1896. Put it in
Category:Specific-source templates at the top level, which seems rather full but will have to do, until someone else changes it.--
Robert EA Harvey (
talk)
11:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
I have an account already - but lost my username and the password. Is there any way to avoid creating a new user account and retrieve the old one? Thanks 143.239.170.74 ( talk) 13:44, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Over the past day or two, the titles on any Wikipedia page I call up are in a foreign language. The rest of the text is English, it's just certain titles that aren't. How can I fix this? Thanks. Brooksidebill ( talk) 14:32, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
the introductory blocks of wikipedia entries do not have edit buttons. why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.53.223.223 ( talk) 15:34, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Error in the age in the infobox. Confused. Kittybrewster ☎ 16:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
[1] is this a bug??? -- Perseus, Son of Zeus 18:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, It is a shame that Wikipedia shows the Cuban per capita income US$5,000 per month. And the PPP is US$9,000. Actually it is below US$20. Cuba and Korea N. are the poorest places on earth. Wikipedia is supposed to be SERIOUS! details removed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba “GDP (PPP) 2009 estimate - Total $111.1 billion[6] (62nd) - Per capita $9,700 (86th)” “GDP (nominal) 2009 estimate - Total $67.26 billion[5] (62nd) - Per capita $5,984 (78th)” —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.208.228.237 ( talk) 19:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
can you give me name adress of medical sight like MAY CLINIC
Unsubstantiated claim:
"Another tenet of Sudbury schools is giving students the power to choose what to do with their time: individual freedom, freedom of choice, and learning through experience. There are no required classes, and usually there is no requirement to take classes at all. Students are free to choose an activity that they desire, or feel the need to do. They are free to continue activities for as long or short a time as they see fit. In this way, they learn self-discipline, self-regulated learning and self-initiation. They also learn faster and retain more knowledge, thanks to the engagement in activities that they are passionate about. The students at these schools are responsible for and empowered to direct their own education from a very young age. All this is facilitated, supported and managed by the school's democratic framework."
Do they really learn faster and retain more knowledge? I doubt that has ever been shown, or proven.
please change or delete as you see fit.
ed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.161.177 ( talk) 20:50, 23 January 2011 (UTC)