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Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ourstoriesfilms ( talk • contribs) 00:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
I'm not going to take a lot of anyones time here because I can taste ground enamel in the back of my mouth so I'll get strait to the point:
I had begun to use the Book Creator to gather research rather that my previous approach of just squirting it into Acrobat and editing offline. Not pretty, but it worked. Book Creator seems to have worked alright, so I made the decision to forge ahead undaunted. I am still getting strait to the point - those are just some fun facts to know and tell.
I just spent over four hours preparing handouts and lecture notes, and as one who more or less charges (or at least is paid) by the hour, I was impressed. As I began to finish, adding some bibliography so I could download the work and take it to the next stage of slides and lecture and study guide, your server blew a socket. traceback through the TCP log indicates that is all that is was, one minute it was there, the next, the little Delete This Page from your book (owtte) red thingy was gone, and I was there looking at a nice picture of a Greek bust and coming summarily unglued. If anybody has any ideas about how one deals with this, that would be dandy. If not, the next question will be along the lines of how my Foundation gets its donation back.
I will just sit here, having thanked you all in advance for your sage advice and refrain from my remarking on my recent study about Wikipedia.
With hopes somebody knows where all that work went, I do most certainly remain,
With Best Regards
WikiMinstrel ( talk) 01:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't know where else to ask this, but sometimes I have self-edit-conflicts. Why is that? A person who has been editing Wikipedia since October 28, 2010. ( talk) 04:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Why is it other than what may be perceived as political correctness and erring on the side of caution that no mention of this word ‘gentiles’ appears in the wiki explanation on maggots? It is certainly the word frequently used in Europe when purchasing these items in bait shops for fishing. The word is actually 'GENTIL' but becomes 'Gentiles' in plural form. I would hate to think that this fact is omitted for no other reason than the same one for changing the words to popular nursery rhymes. Even if this fact was included with an explanation as to why it is no longer commonly used would make wiki a more comprehensive reference don't you think? Michael Shea. [1] [2]
Can I post a completed article to get feedback here? Just want to make sure that the article is Wiki correct and that it does not get deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadirhasan ( talk • contribs) 04:38, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the Feedback Adrian.
Nadirhasan ( talk) 02:19, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I would like to use Template:Fmbox on my personal wiki. Problem is I have no how to do so, everything seem to break when I try to import templates because of their dependency on other templates. 74.33.120.35 ( talk) 06:05, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday I updated one entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invenio but unfortunately the updated version is available only to me.
Other users (and myself with another PC) still see the previous version.
I have updated entries before and never had such an issue.
What is the problem?
Thanks in advance (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.141.28.51 ( talk) 06:36, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, it works now! Just for info, I had done the first update at midday with Firefox on Ubuntu(Linux) and then last night saved again (the updates would appear in Edit mode...) with IE and Windows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fcosta23 ( talk • contribs) 07:20, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
Please note that the following paragraph on Dechra Pharmaceuticals is incorrect and should be removed. The information does not relate to Dechra.
An 'elite' division held in a secret, tropical location strive for continued success under strengthened management simply known as Q, L and S. This location has recently held an awards ceremony to showcase the most innovative advances in AI analyts. This site has become renowned for its automated systems and concise, clearcut decisions that have created overwhelming success in this part of the world throughout the 23rd Century.
95.177.27.204 ( talk) 08:30, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I have been having on-going discussions in various places regarding how 'quarter-final' should be written on this site. The format varies on different pages & in some cases, it varies on the same page. Having done some research & received replies from others who have researched this, it appears that 'quarterfinal' is the American English version whereas 'quarter-final' is the English version (although Collins, an English dictionary, appears to prefer 'quarterfinal'). I want to try to come up with a standard for this site but I realise this is both a) picky and b) a pain to maintain for the administrators. HOWEVER, if I was to edit pages myself to change the format to 'quarter-final', would I be in the wrong? I have tried doing this a number of times on the Wimbledon Championships pages but my edits were reverted. Not knowing the rules, I undid the revert a number of times & was politely (and correctly) put in my place.
Therefore, my question is: Am I allowed to change 'quarterfinal' to 'quarter-final' on pages without my changes being undone? Obviously this also applies to 'semifinal' vs 'semi-final'. This probably seems like extreme pedantry to most people but it is something that I am passionate about!!
Any comments would be very gratefully received. Thank you. FingersLily ( talk) 08:31, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
What happens to Wikipedia:New_contributors'_help_page? Why is there a redlink? I answered a question in IRC a few minutes ago and get this link saying that the page doesn't exist. Either remove that box, or change the link to an existing page! mabdul 09:53, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there anyway i could get yall a better profile pic for middletons black and mild.better than a black an mild in a shit ash tray with electrical cords an a empty box in the back ground.it just seems a little cheap as if only poor ppl smoke them.it just seems there has to be a more artistic pic out there or i could take a better one an send it to wikimedia.
I think the soundness of Wikipedia's content is being severely damaged. Many place sites are written by real estate brokers and travel guides. I can barely figure out how to post here let alone edit elsewhere, I'm just wondering what is being done. I try and look up information about a place in Thailand and all it talks about is what a great place it is for Westerners to retire and how the housing there is a hot commodity and the locals are known for their friendliness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.252.210.19 ( talk) 10:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
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encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. |
I notice that when someone is discussed at a public forum like ANI, it seems to be the thing to do that the subject is notified on his/her talk page. Just for my curiosity, is there a guideline on such notification? — teb728 t c 11:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Can you please specify equalent amps for 1RMS Amp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.171.17.108 ( talk) 11:56, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a rather prolific, famous, current artist in South Africa named Portchie. Seems like a good Wikipedia subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.211.98.199 ( talk) 12:26, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
what is Cherophobia (fear of fun) ? you dont have any information about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.246.46 ( talk) 13:33, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I put a Electric tester in a socket's neutral,it shows zero voltage.we know that Alternating current is a sinusoidal.i.e.,for positive cycle it travels in one direction and for negative half cycle it travel in opposite direction.according to this,is phase and neutral reverses for every cycle in a socket or not? if not how electrons flow in a conductor for A.C. Also in d.c. vsnkumar ( talk) 14:13, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I think uncyclopedia is guilty of copyright infringement for having pages like wikipedias. It looks just like an article from wikipedia, but it is full of blatant nonsense. It may be helping to give wikipedia a bad reputation. You should file a lawsuit against them. Thanks, have a nice day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.52.99 ( talk) 14:54, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
A category, Category:African American Women, was recently created. I can't put my finger on it but it seems wrong to me for some reason. Besides the fact that it should be "women" and not "Women". Like if this cat were needed, then we'd have it already. Additionally, there is no Category:African American men. So before I put this up for CFD, does anyone else know of a guideline or policy that this goes against? I've poked around but couldn't find anything that really stuck out as being good enough a reason to put it up for CFD. Dismas| (talk) 14:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, have tried nominating this page but is still online. Still appears in google: File:Bart_hendrikx.jpg Please delete this page. No Wiki page attached.
Sorry if this question has been asked before ; couldn't find the answer.
I wish to create an article on 'Random art' which I have researched somewhat ; but some description of random art (albeit dated) already exists under "applications of randomness". I guess I could add to the latter but isn't it rather long already ? I feel that an extended article is less user friendly. Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.197.135.35 ( talk • contribs)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
Perhaps I am missing it, but is there a way to watchlist the contents of a category? For example, I've recently decided to start adding photos to articles that are near me. Now unless I go to the category page and review the list, I don't know which ones are new requests and which ones are stale, when a new photo request comes in, or a request for a photo gets satisfied. If this is a technical limitation of Wikipedia, I'll head over to the Idea Pump to propose this as an improvement. Thank you for your time Hasteur ( talk) 15:33, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:ais523/catwatch.js');
Then create the page
User:Hasteur/WatchedCategories.js. Place therevar WatchedCategories=new Array( // Place categories in this list. There should be a comma in all rows // but the last; make sure the names start with a capital letter, have // the correct case for all other letters, and don't have Category: // before them. This watchlist cannot be kept private (that is, other // users will be able to tell which categories you are watching). // // After editing this list (either for the first time or if you change // it later on) you will need to bypass your cache. "Name of category (do not prefix "category")", "Next category name", "Last category name has no comma" );
I'm trying to make a table on one of my sandbox pages and I'm using the sortable table in Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel as my starting model since it's very close to what I need. Most of it is acting the way I expect, but I'm not sure what to do if I don't want an item red-linked. For example in the Aurealis table "Dirk Strasser" and "Equinox" are red-links. How would I write that same little bit of wiki code if I didn't want them to be links at all? Cloveapple ( talk) 15:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I am the same author or copy writer for my website and my new Wikipedia page John Shoemaker Tulsa Photographer it only makes sense that I would use some of the same information, is that a copyright infringement on your self ? Please help Best Regards John Shoemaker Photomakers Photomakers ( talk) 16:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to do some recruiting for a revived translation Wikiproject. I have currently gathered the names of around 600 users that have affirmatively signed up in the past for various Spanish translation efforts, plus there are thousands of spanish-speaking users as indicated by userboxes. I'd like to send notifications only to active users to decrease spam, but it would be too much work to manually click on the contributions for each user to see when each last edited. Is there any automated way to do this, or am I out of luck? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Would this be doable? I'm not sure what volume of users would fit the criteria. The criteria could be made more stringent if they generate too many hits. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:35, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
This newbie wants to follow protocol, so I raised a question about the CenterPoint Energy article on it's talk page and am also posting this message about a recently posted edit under the Hurricane Ike Power Outage section of the CenterPoint Energy page. Specifically the paragraph reading "Currently, Center Point Energy employs rogue agencies and companies to force conversion to their energy providing service, without consent from the consumer. The company will continue the harassment after the consumer has switched back to their chosen provider." If I understand this claim, it is factually incorrect (and in fact impossible). In the deregulated Texas electric market, CenterPoint Energy is an electric Transmission and Distribution Service Provider (TDSP), which owns the power lines and poles, reads meters, and restores power when it goes out, but does NOT sell electricity. CNP delivers electricity on behalf of dozens of Retail Electric Providers (REPs), from which Houston-area consumers can freely choose. So no matter which REP sells electricity to a consumer, CenterPoint Energy delivers it. Consumers can change REPs whenever they like, but CenterPoint Energy is the sole TDSP in the Houston area. It makes sense for TDSPs to remain regulated monopolies since it would be impractical (and unsightly) to have dozens of sets of powerlines and poles. As an employee of CenterPoint Energy, I don't want to unilaterally remove that paragraph, but as I've noted, it is not only incorrect, but impossible, in addition to being uncited and not neutral in tone.
You can find a map of TDSPs (or TDUs - Transmission and Distribution Utilities) in Texas at http://www.puc.state.tx.us/industry/maps/maps/tdumap.pdf, which shows CenterPoint Eneryg's electricity delivery service area around Houston.
CNPsteve ( talk) 17:03, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Can I reupload a picture that has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnaeymir ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Wales:
I have edited more than once the article about Genetic History of the Iberian Peninsula. In my genealogy I have two grandparents from Iberia; my educational background includes History and Anthropology.
I edited the article more than once, because the information is not scientific and it is racist. For example, the article implies that Iberians are 99% African, this is not true; before my editing the article had sections, where the Iberians were described as being 1%> African. I consider this racist harassment of Iberian people.
Racist people like members of Nazi/Arian organization want to limit membership in groups; the case of Nazi Germany comes to mind, where the Christian German said that they were the only Europeans. If Wikipedia wants to declare the Iberian people none European, please let me know.
I am writing to the founder of Wikipedia, in a rational way. If Mr. Wales would like to answer this message, I will discuss my point of view rationaly.
Jack Email: (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.85.152 ( talk) 21:27, 6 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Robert-Smart ( talk • contribs) 21:30, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ourstoriesfilms ( talk • contribs) 00:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
I'm not going to take a lot of anyones time here because I can taste ground enamel in the back of my mouth so I'll get strait to the point:
I had begun to use the Book Creator to gather research rather that my previous approach of just squirting it into Acrobat and editing offline. Not pretty, but it worked. Book Creator seems to have worked alright, so I made the decision to forge ahead undaunted. I am still getting strait to the point - those are just some fun facts to know and tell.
I just spent over four hours preparing handouts and lecture notes, and as one who more or less charges (or at least is paid) by the hour, I was impressed. As I began to finish, adding some bibliography so I could download the work and take it to the next stage of slides and lecture and study guide, your server blew a socket. traceback through the TCP log indicates that is all that is was, one minute it was there, the next, the little Delete This Page from your book (owtte) red thingy was gone, and I was there looking at a nice picture of a Greek bust and coming summarily unglued. If anybody has any ideas about how one deals with this, that would be dandy. If not, the next question will be along the lines of how my Foundation gets its donation back.
I will just sit here, having thanked you all in advance for your sage advice and refrain from my remarking on my recent study about Wikipedia.
With hopes somebody knows where all that work went, I do most certainly remain,
With Best Regards
WikiMinstrel ( talk) 01:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I don't know where else to ask this, but sometimes I have self-edit-conflicts. Why is that? A person who has been editing Wikipedia since October 28, 2010. ( talk) 04:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Why is it other than what may be perceived as political correctness and erring on the side of caution that no mention of this word ‘gentiles’ appears in the wiki explanation on maggots? It is certainly the word frequently used in Europe when purchasing these items in bait shops for fishing. The word is actually 'GENTIL' but becomes 'Gentiles' in plural form. I would hate to think that this fact is omitted for no other reason than the same one for changing the words to popular nursery rhymes. Even if this fact was included with an explanation as to why it is no longer commonly used would make wiki a more comprehensive reference don't you think? Michael Shea. [1] [2]
Can I post a completed article to get feedback here? Just want to make sure that the article is Wiki correct and that it does not get deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadirhasan ( talk • contribs) 04:38, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the Feedback Adrian.
Nadirhasan ( talk) 02:19, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I would like to use Template:Fmbox on my personal wiki. Problem is I have no how to do so, everything seem to break when I try to import templates because of their dependency on other templates. 74.33.120.35 ( talk) 06:05, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday I updated one entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invenio but unfortunately the updated version is available only to me.
Other users (and myself with another PC) still see the previous version.
I have updated entries before and never had such an issue.
What is the problem?
Thanks in advance (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.141.28.51 ( talk) 06:36, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, it works now! Just for info, I had done the first update at midday with Firefox on Ubuntu(Linux) and then last night saved again (the updates would appear in Edit mode...) with IE and Windows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fcosta23 ( talk • contribs) 07:20, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
Please note that the following paragraph on Dechra Pharmaceuticals is incorrect and should be removed. The information does not relate to Dechra.
An 'elite' division held in a secret, tropical location strive for continued success under strengthened management simply known as Q, L and S. This location has recently held an awards ceremony to showcase the most innovative advances in AI analyts. This site has become renowned for its automated systems and concise, clearcut decisions that have created overwhelming success in this part of the world throughout the 23rd Century.
95.177.27.204 ( talk) 08:30, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I have been having on-going discussions in various places regarding how 'quarter-final' should be written on this site. The format varies on different pages & in some cases, it varies on the same page. Having done some research & received replies from others who have researched this, it appears that 'quarterfinal' is the American English version whereas 'quarter-final' is the English version (although Collins, an English dictionary, appears to prefer 'quarterfinal'). I want to try to come up with a standard for this site but I realise this is both a) picky and b) a pain to maintain for the administrators. HOWEVER, if I was to edit pages myself to change the format to 'quarter-final', would I be in the wrong? I have tried doing this a number of times on the Wimbledon Championships pages but my edits were reverted. Not knowing the rules, I undid the revert a number of times & was politely (and correctly) put in my place.
Therefore, my question is: Am I allowed to change 'quarterfinal' to 'quarter-final' on pages without my changes being undone? Obviously this also applies to 'semifinal' vs 'semi-final'. This probably seems like extreme pedantry to most people but it is something that I am passionate about!!
Any comments would be very gratefully received. Thank you. FingersLily ( talk) 08:31, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
What happens to Wikipedia:New_contributors'_help_page? Why is there a redlink? I answered a question in IRC a few minutes ago and get this link saying that the page doesn't exist. Either remove that box, or change the link to an existing page! mabdul 09:53, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there anyway i could get yall a better profile pic for middletons black and mild.better than a black an mild in a shit ash tray with electrical cords an a empty box in the back ground.it just seems a little cheap as if only poor ppl smoke them.it just seems there has to be a more artistic pic out there or i could take a better one an send it to wikimedia.
I think the soundness of Wikipedia's content is being severely damaged. Many place sites are written by real estate brokers and travel guides. I can barely figure out how to post here let alone edit elsewhere, I'm just wondering what is being done. I try and look up information about a place in Thailand and all it talks about is what a great place it is for Westerners to retire and how the housing there is a hot commodity and the locals are known for their friendliness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.252.210.19 ( talk) 10:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
![]() | This article's tone or style may not reflect the
encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. |
I notice that when someone is discussed at a public forum like ANI, it seems to be the thing to do that the subject is notified on his/her talk page. Just for my curiosity, is there a guideline on such notification? — teb728 t c 11:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Can you please specify equalent amps for 1RMS Amp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.171.17.108 ( talk) 11:56, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a rather prolific, famous, current artist in South Africa named Portchie. Seems like a good Wikipedia subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.211.98.199 ( talk) 12:26, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
what is Cherophobia (fear of fun) ? you dont have any information about it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.246.46 ( talk) 13:33, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I put a Electric tester in a socket's neutral,it shows zero voltage.we know that Alternating current is a sinusoidal.i.e.,for positive cycle it travels in one direction and for negative half cycle it travel in opposite direction.according to this,is phase and neutral reverses for every cycle in a socket or not? if not how electrons flow in a conductor for A.C. Also in d.c. vsnkumar ( talk) 14:13, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I think uncyclopedia is guilty of copyright infringement for having pages like wikipedias. It looks just like an article from wikipedia, but it is full of blatant nonsense. It may be helping to give wikipedia a bad reputation. You should file a lawsuit against them. Thanks, have a nice day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.18.52.99 ( talk) 14:54, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
A category, Category:African American Women, was recently created. I can't put my finger on it but it seems wrong to me for some reason. Besides the fact that it should be "women" and not "Women". Like if this cat were needed, then we'd have it already. Additionally, there is no Category:African American men. So before I put this up for CFD, does anyone else know of a guideline or policy that this goes against? I've poked around but couldn't find anything that really stuck out as being good enough a reason to put it up for CFD. Dismas| (talk) 14:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, have tried nominating this page but is still online. Still appears in google: File:Bart_hendrikx.jpg Please delete this page. No Wiki page attached.
Sorry if this question has been asked before ; couldn't find the answer.
I wish to create an article on 'Random art' which I have researched somewhat ; but some description of random art (albeit dated) already exists under "applications of randomness". I guess I could add to the latter but isn't it rather long already ? I feel that an extended article is less user friendly. Thank you.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.197.135.35 ( talk • contribs)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
Perhaps I am missing it, but is there a way to watchlist the contents of a category? For example, I've recently decided to start adding photos to articles that are near me. Now unless I go to the category page and review the list, I don't know which ones are new requests and which ones are stale, when a new photo request comes in, or a request for a photo gets satisfied. If this is a technical limitation of Wikipedia, I'll head over to the Idea Pump to propose this as an improvement. Thank you for your time Hasteur ( talk) 15:33, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:ais523/catwatch.js');
Then create the page
User:Hasteur/WatchedCategories.js. Place therevar WatchedCategories=new Array( // Place categories in this list. There should be a comma in all rows // but the last; make sure the names start with a capital letter, have // the correct case for all other letters, and don't have Category: // before them. This watchlist cannot be kept private (that is, other // users will be able to tell which categories you are watching). // // After editing this list (either for the first time or if you change // it later on) you will need to bypass your cache. "Name of category (do not prefix "category")", "Next category name", "Last category name has no comma" );
I'm trying to make a table on one of my sandbox pages and I'm using the sortable table in Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel as my starting model since it's very close to what I need. Most of it is acting the way I expect, but I'm not sure what to do if I don't want an item red-linked. For example in the Aurealis table "Dirk Strasser" and "Equinox" are red-links. How would I write that same little bit of wiki code if I didn't want them to be links at all? Cloveapple ( talk) 15:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I am the same author or copy writer for my website and my new Wikipedia page John Shoemaker Tulsa Photographer it only makes sense that I would use some of the same information, is that a copyright infringement on your self ? Please help Best Regards John Shoemaker Photomakers Photomakers ( talk) 16:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to do some recruiting for a revived translation Wikiproject. I have currently gathered the names of around 600 users that have affirmatively signed up in the past for various Spanish translation efforts, plus there are thousands of spanish-speaking users as indicated by userboxes. I'd like to send notifications only to active users to decrease spam, but it would be too much work to manually click on the contributions for each user to see when each last edited. Is there any automated way to do this, or am I out of luck? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 17:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Would this be doable? I'm not sure what volume of users would fit the criteria. The criteria could be made more stringent if they generate too many hits. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 18:35, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
This newbie wants to follow protocol, so I raised a question about the CenterPoint Energy article on it's talk page and am also posting this message about a recently posted edit under the Hurricane Ike Power Outage section of the CenterPoint Energy page. Specifically the paragraph reading "Currently, Center Point Energy employs rogue agencies and companies to force conversion to their energy providing service, without consent from the consumer. The company will continue the harassment after the consumer has switched back to their chosen provider." If I understand this claim, it is factually incorrect (and in fact impossible). In the deregulated Texas electric market, CenterPoint Energy is an electric Transmission and Distribution Service Provider (TDSP), which owns the power lines and poles, reads meters, and restores power when it goes out, but does NOT sell electricity. CNP delivers electricity on behalf of dozens of Retail Electric Providers (REPs), from which Houston-area consumers can freely choose. So no matter which REP sells electricity to a consumer, CenterPoint Energy delivers it. Consumers can change REPs whenever they like, but CenterPoint Energy is the sole TDSP in the Houston area. It makes sense for TDSPs to remain regulated monopolies since it would be impractical (and unsightly) to have dozens of sets of powerlines and poles. As an employee of CenterPoint Energy, I don't want to unilaterally remove that paragraph, but as I've noted, it is not only incorrect, but impossible, in addition to being uncited and not neutral in tone.
You can find a map of TDSPs (or TDUs - Transmission and Distribution Utilities) in Texas at http://www.puc.state.tx.us/industry/maps/maps/tdumap.pdf, which shows CenterPoint Eneryg's electricity delivery service area around Houston.
CNPsteve ( talk) 17:03, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Can I reupload a picture that has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mnaeymir ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Wales:
I have edited more than once the article about Genetic History of the Iberian Peninsula. In my genealogy I have two grandparents from Iberia; my educational background includes History and Anthropology.
I edited the article more than once, because the information is not scientific and it is racist. For example, the article implies that Iberians are 99% African, this is not true; before my editing the article had sections, where the Iberians were described as being 1%> African. I consider this racist harassment of Iberian people.
Racist people like members of Nazi/Arian organization want to limit membership in groups; the case of Nazi Germany comes to mind, where the Christian German said that they were the only Europeans. If Wikipedia wants to declare the Iberian people none European, please let me know.
I am writing to the founder of Wikipedia, in a rational way. If Mr. Wales would like to answer this message, I will discuss my point of view rationaly.
Jack Email: (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.85.152 ( talk) 21:27, 6 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack Robert-Smart ( talk • contribs) 21:30, 6 July 2011 (UTC)