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what happens when u are sentenced to more than 2 years for the first time and what are u aloud to bring in with you and how do u do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.10.210 ( talk) 00:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
on the page wikipedia - John Milne - an unwanted image appeared from nowhere - how can it be removed - it is situated over edit links - preventing access Patrick.nott ( talk) 01:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Shall the ref be put after a space or without any space? Which of the following is correct?
The problem is that I have found in some well written articles the use of first type. Thank you. Vanischenu m Talk 03:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC) modified on 03:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much. This has got perfectly resolved. I will mark it as resolved then,
Vanischenu m Talk 01:20, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, its me again. I have just found out that on clicking
Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Help_desk, we are going to a new article project page, which is a sub article of the real page. But in the url it is in Special namespace. However it looks outside as if it was in an article project namespace. The cool thing is that it has got a talkpage and it goes to the talk page of main one. The same phenomenon occurs for talk page too! Is this only for me? Shall we report it?
Vanischenu
m
Talk
03:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Exactly. This was what I had been trying to explain. Thank you. (I am sorry for giving you misleading info). I just wondered why only what links here looked like that. Vanischenu m Talk 08:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I work for a non-profit organization and the organization has planned to create manuals using mediawiki. Should we need a GNU free license to create the manuals? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beesfamily ( talk • contribs) 10:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello world,
I recently created and uploaded this SVG image to Wiki Commons and used it in this Wikipedia article.
After some additional editing of the SVG image - including a change of aspect ratio - I updated it at Wiki Commons, where it is being display properly. However on the preview page Wikipedia obviously still preserves the old aspect ratio and so shows the SVG image distorted: click me - actually the HTML defines the image size as width="800" height="566" while it should be 800*381.
Any idea on how to get the aspect ratio right? Is this a permanent bug or will a batchjob realize the change in aspect ratio as some point?
Thanks
-- Cvdr ( talk) 10:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
This statement as mentioned by the Writer Mr. Casper Luiramo is misleading and does not speak well of the person. "He then entered business, exporting cocoa, after making money during the height of the Solomon Islands conflicts by acting at a middleman for compensation claimants" He was never a middle man for compensation claimants as mentioned here. Infact he was a victim himself. He started off his businness before the ethnic tension, and his business picked up after he won a loan contract to buy off a small shipping service.He then expanded from there and venture into other businness opportunities and eventually into politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.151.20.118 ( talk) 12:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Do we have a copyright tag for manga covers? We have a rationale template ( Template:Non-free use rationale manga cover), but is there also a copyright tag? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
The page for Jordan Anderson has his now-famous letter both in image form (which I believe is public domain, due to age) and as a transcript, which I believe may be a copy vio. Can anyone check it out and confirm?-- Chimino ( talk) 14:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was abused by a user at IP address 142.134.46.255. You can see the slander here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Altonbr#PTBO_Picture. I've deleted the info in my profile, but a record still exists. For privacy reasons, I'd like this user blocked and the history of my User page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Altonbr) erased. Please help. Altonbr ( talk) 14:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I have two questions to ask.
1. The citation tool only provides for websites, newspapers, books and journals. How do you cite TV and radio programmes?
2. Can citations be ammended once inserted, where, for example, a page number, or other detail has been inadvertantly ommited? If so, how? Populotradit ( talk) 14:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am not computer savvy, so all this edit and all stuff confuses me greatly. I use ya'll lots for checking things out and I noticed that in the Article on "Ohio" that under the history dealing with the statehood, Eisenhower was listed as doing it, in 1803, Eisenhower was born, not much of a politician at that point, I think you may mean the guy in the picture to the right of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janismarie26 ( talk • contribs) 15:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Recently, I noticed that my custom CSS that bolds/colors unread items on my Watchlist stopped working or taking effect - I then tried to add it to my vector css code, but it still didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks! Theopolisme TALK 15:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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span.updatedmarker {
background-color: transparent;
color: #006400;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-changeslist-line-watched .mw-title {
font-weight: bold;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist #mw-watchlist-resetbutton {
display: inline;
}
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My page isn't being created because I don't have enough references siting my information. I have tons of reference websites supporting my work, but I also worked with the parent of the person I'm creating the page for, so I'm wondering how do I site a personal reference? Do I just put her mother's name or how? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HelloStranger24 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Yesterday I open an account and a page, but I can't find the page. What is the problem? How can I see it? The name of the page is Arcangeles
Arcangeles ( talk) 16:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I cant get my computer to run except in safemode. Even when it gives you a choice of 3 different safemodes to start in & RUN WINDOWS NORMAL, I can click on run windows normal and it still boots in safemode & is very slow. Although it will perform in every program except play my music or let me view my pics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.61.126.182 ( talk) 19:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I just found that hovering over a footnote inside the article text triggers the display of a Reference tooltip. When had this been enabled? Did the activation of this feature result from this discussion? Where was a consensus reached to enable this by default for all users? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Well, at least I found out how to disable it
My preferences/Gadgets/Browsing (the bottom checkbox at that section)
Just in case this is useful for someone else who happens to stumble over this section. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I had created an article on shawlsmith london, it is the only company to internationally produce and distribute scarves in the city of raleigh and the entire state of north carolina. The article was speedily deleted citing A7. THe facts that I have mentioned already signify the importance of shawlsmith london to the city and state of raleigh and were not included in the article. Their designs mix british sophistication with southern charm which also does not exists in any brand in the world. Each year they recruit many new interns from the south who are able to use their platform to become better leaders. None of this aformentioned information was in the original article. And I ask what more significance would the article need for it to be undeleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik ( talk) 20:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
How about #9, its from celebritycafe.com if that's not third party what is? and numerous others which fall under "the first 30 hits" which are just online retailers which carry the brand. And the second page also falling within the first 30 hits is yacoubian your statement seems a bit biased because there are many other hits that are from thrid party companies that are not shawlsmith london. How about the notable fact that it is putting a small southern city on the map with accounts in major retail stores such as Neiman Marcus, Barney's etc. How much more notable does it have to be? Please advise as I have read the policies and spent a lot of time and effort on this article to be completely dismissed. For a person to learn about the city of Raleigh is this not something of notable value to them? In fact two separate publication sources thecharlotteobserver and wakeliving had published about shawlsmithlondon but those sources where not given because the material was either not used or was in print and not online source. I happen to know of the ceo becuase of his involvement in my surrounding community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik ( talk) 22:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Karenjc for that simple yet informative answer. The company had articles written about it in a couple news affiliates that are in print and I was not able to get their information which is why I did not use them as a source. I will rewrite this article when I do. Thanks once more for the best answer I had gotten yet.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) — Uamalik ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
I was on spin along in the 60s with my youth club how do I see a programe at that time please ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.3.23 ( talk) 21:43, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about NRHP articles and another question for references. I've done a fair amount of poking around Wikipdeia, and I've discovered the "edit", "history", and other buttons and places and policies like the "manual of style", but it seems like the manual of style is a general guideline, and doesn't have many specifics for the topic I want to write about, NRHP. How should that type of article be designed / written? My second question is how do references work and how should they be used? I clicked the edit section button for a references section on an article, and all it had was "
" - but the main article edit button shows things within the same type of that match the references, between ref tags formatted like HTML. Can this be explained? Thanks TheSilentJay ( talk) 21:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
Edit refs}}
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Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
22:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I've always been able use the pronunciation button to hear how a word is pronouced. But now it has stopped working? Its not a sound card problem. I'm running Win XP. Can you tell me why this isn't working anymore? And what I can do to get it back working? Thanks John Hailey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.117.148.58 ( talk) 22:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if Wikipedia had plans in the works to facilitate the sorting of articles on my watchlist. For example, I would like to see them sorted by "date added," "category/genre," and other possible configurations, besides the standard alphabetization. Omnispo ( talk) 22:38, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Omnispo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnispo ( talk • contribs) 22:37, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was trying to find out some information on a product called Kand/ice distributed in Boise,ID. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.197.217.113 ( talk) 22:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madame,
I fear that my name and identity has been stated in a Wiki entry, which was deleted in 2008, yet is still visible and reference by your logs and by "wikigrains". What is the process to get this false information permanently deleted?
Thank you, M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erika C 57 ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Veilleux
and all associated logs should be deleted — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Erika C 57 (
talk •
contribs)
23:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
-- 2.97.77.60 ( talk) 23:15, 17 July 2012 (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 happens when u are sentenced to more than 2 years for the first time and what are u aloud to bring in with you and how do u do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.10.210 ( talk) 00:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
on the page wikipedia - John Milne - an unwanted image appeared from nowhere - how can it be removed - it is situated over edit links - preventing access Patrick.nott ( talk) 01:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Shall the ref be put after a space or without any space? Which of the following is correct?
The problem is that I have found in some well written articles the use of first type. Thank you. Vanischenu m Talk 03:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC) modified on 03:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much. This has got perfectly resolved. I will mark it as resolved then,
Vanischenu m Talk 01:20, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, its me again. I have just found out that on clicking
Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Help_desk, we are going to a new article project page, which is a sub article of the real page. But in the url it is in Special namespace. However it looks outside as if it was in an article project namespace. The cool thing is that it has got a talkpage and it goes to the talk page of main one. The same phenomenon occurs for talk page too! Is this only for me? Shall we report it?
Vanischenu
m
Talk
03:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Exactly. This was what I had been trying to explain. Thank you. (I am sorry for giving you misleading info). I just wondered why only what links here looked like that. Vanischenu m Talk 08:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I work for a non-profit organization and the organization has planned to create manuals using mediawiki. Should we need a GNU free license to create the manuals? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beesfamily ( talk • contribs) 10:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello world,
I recently created and uploaded this SVG image to Wiki Commons and used it in this Wikipedia article.
After some additional editing of the SVG image - including a change of aspect ratio - I updated it at Wiki Commons, where it is being display properly. However on the preview page Wikipedia obviously still preserves the old aspect ratio and so shows the SVG image distorted: click me - actually the HTML defines the image size as width="800" height="566" while it should be 800*381.
Any idea on how to get the aspect ratio right? Is this a permanent bug or will a batchjob realize the change in aspect ratio as some point?
Thanks
-- Cvdr ( talk) 10:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
This statement as mentioned by the Writer Mr. Casper Luiramo is misleading and does not speak well of the person. "He then entered business, exporting cocoa, after making money during the height of the Solomon Islands conflicts by acting at a middleman for compensation claimants" He was never a middle man for compensation claimants as mentioned here. Infact he was a victim himself. He started off his businness before the ethnic tension, and his business picked up after he won a loan contract to buy off a small shipping service.He then expanded from there and venture into other businness opportunities and eventually into politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.151.20.118 ( talk) 12:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Do we have a copyright tag for manga covers? We have a rationale template ( Template:Non-free use rationale manga cover), but is there also a copyright tag? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
The page for Jordan Anderson has his now-famous letter both in image form (which I believe is public domain, due to age) and as a transcript, which I believe may be a copy vio. Can anyone check it out and confirm?-- Chimino ( talk) 14:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was abused by a user at IP address 142.134.46.255. You can see the slander here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Altonbr#PTBO_Picture. I've deleted the info in my profile, but a record still exists. For privacy reasons, I'd like this user blocked and the history of my User page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Altonbr) erased. Please help. Altonbr ( talk) 14:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I have two questions to ask.
1. The citation tool only provides for websites, newspapers, books and journals. How do you cite TV and radio programmes?
2. Can citations be ammended once inserted, where, for example, a page number, or other detail has been inadvertantly ommited? If so, how? Populotradit ( talk) 14:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am not computer savvy, so all this edit and all stuff confuses me greatly. I use ya'll lots for checking things out and I noticed that in the Article on "Ohio" that under the history dealing with the statehood, Eisenhower was listed as doing it, in 1803, Eisenhower was born, not much of a politician at that point, I think you may mean the guy in the picture to the right of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janismarie26 ( talk • contribs) 15:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Recently, I noticed that my custom CSS that bolds/colors unread items on my Watchlist stopped working or taking effect - I then tried to add it to my vector css code, but it still didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks! Theopolisme TALK 15:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Code
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span.updatedmarker {
background-color: transparent;
color: #006400;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-changeslist-line-watched .mw-title {
font-weight: bold;
}
.mw-special-Watchlist #mw-watchlist-resetbutton {
display: inline;
}
|
My page isn't being created because I don't have enough references siting my information. I have tons of reference websites supporting my work, but I also worked with the parent of the person I'm creating the page for, so I'm wondering how do I site a personal reference? Do I just put her mother's name or how? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HelloStranger24 ( talk • contribs) 16:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Yesterday I open an account and a page, but I can't find the page. What is the problem? How can I see it? The name of the page is Arcangeles
Arcangeles ( talk) 16:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I cant get my computer to run except in safemode. Even when it gives you a choice of 3 different safemodes to start in & RUN WINDOWS NORMAL, I can click on run windows normal and it still boots in safemode & is very slow. Although it will perform in every program except play my music or let me view my pics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.61.126.182 ( talk) 19:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I just found that hovering over a footnote inside the article text triggers the display of a Reference tooltip. When had this been enabled? Did the activation of this feature result from this discussion? Where was a consensus reached to enable this by default for all users? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Well, at least I found out how to disable it
My preferences/Gadgets/Browsing (the bottom checkbox at that section)
Just in case this is useful for someone else who happens to stumble over this section. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 20:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I had created an article on shawlsmith london, it is the only company to internationally produce and distribute scarves in the city of raleigh and the entire state of north carolina. The article was speedily deleted citing A7. THe facts that I have mentioned already signify the importance of shawlsmith london to the city and state of raleigh and were not included in the article. Their designs mix british sophistication with southern charm which also does not exists in any brand in the world. Each year they recruit many new interns from the south who are able to use their platform to become better leaders. None of this aformentioned information was in the original article. And I ask what more significance would the article need for it to be undeleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) 20:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik ( talk) 20:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
How about #9, its from celebritycafe.com if that's not third party what is? and numerous others which fall under "the first 30 hits" which are just online retailers which carry the brand. And the second page also falling within the first 30 hits is yacoubian your statement seems a bit biased because there are many other hits that are from thrid party companies that are not shawlsmith london. How about the notable fact that it is putting a small southern city on the map with accounts in major retail stores such as Neiman Marcus, Barney's etc. How much more notable does it have to be? Please advise as I have read the policies and spent a lot of time and effort on this article to be completely dismissed. For a person to learn about the city of Raleigh is this not something of notable value to them? In fact two separate publication sources thecharlotteobserver and wakeliving had published about shawlsmithlondon but those sources where not given because the material was either not used or was in print and not online source. I happen to know of the ceo becuase of his involvement in my surrounding community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) 21:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik ( talk) 22:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Karenjc for that simple yet informative answer. The company had articles written about it in a couple news affiliates that are in print and I was not able to get their information which is why I did not use them as a source. I will rewrite this article when I do. Thanks once more for the best answer I had gotten yet.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik ( talk • contribs) — Uamalik ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
I was on spin along in the 60s with my youth club how do I see a programe at that time please ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.3.23 ( talk) 21:43, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about NRHP articles and another question for references. I've done a fair amount of poking around Wikipdeia, and I've discovered the "edit", "history", and other buttons and places and policies like the "manual of style", but it seems like the manual of style is a general guideline, and doesn't have many specifics for the topic I want to write about, NRHP. How should that type of article be designed / written? My second question is how do references work and how should they be used? I clicked the edit section button for a references section on an article, and all it had was "
" - but the main article edit button shows things within the same type of that match the references, between ref tags formatted like HTML. Can this be explained? Thanks TheSilentJay ( talk) 21:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
Edit refs}}
.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
22:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, I've always been able use the pronunciation button to hear how a word is pronouced. But now it has stopped working? Its not a sound card problem. I'm running Win XP. Can you tell me why this isn't working anymore? And what I can do to get it back working? Thanks John Hailey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.117.148.58 ( talk) 22:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if Wikipedia had plans in the works to facilitate the sorting of articles on my watchlist. For example, I would like to see them sorted by "date added," "category/genre," and other possible configurations, besides the standard alphabetization. Omnispo ( talk) 22:38, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Omnispo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnispo ( talk • contribs) 22:37, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I was trying to find out some information on a product called Kand/ice distributed in Boise,ID. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.197.217.113 ( talk) 22:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madame,
I fear that my name and identity has been stated in a Wiki entry, which was deleted in 2008, yet is still visible and reference by your logs and by "wikigrains". What is the process to get this false information permanently deleted?
Thank you, M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erika C 57 ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Veilleux
and all associated logs should be deleted — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Erika C 57 (
talk •
contribs)
23:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
-- 2.97.77.60 ( talk) 23:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)