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Probably a stupid question: Does the fact that a nonfiction book is for children (as opposed to adults) affect its reliability at all? - Purplewowies ( talk) 00:54, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Due to the possibility of subpages existing in talk space, Talk:A/B testing is a subpage of Talk:A. Some time back, I found a comparable page with a template saying something such as "Due to technical limitations, this is a subpage of [pagename], but it's really not". I can't now remember the template name (or the name of the page where I found it); can someone supply it? Nyttend ( talk) 01:45, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there someone who can assist me with my recent article ...to see if it merits posting on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dreduardoa/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreduardoa ( talk • contribs) 01:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Can the OTRS system be used by the subject of an article to make a statement similar a verified self-published source? For example, if a RS said that X wrote a song, but X denies it and there are no RS saying so, could X use the OTRS system to create a reliable statement saying otherwise? It doesn't seem to mentioned as a use of the OTRS system on WP:OTRS, but I imagine it could be used for this (as in "However, X denied this in a statement made to Wikipedia in 2012"). TimofKingsland ( talk) 02:23, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
How about the following related case. Can the objection in an OTRS to a fact being public in a wikipedia article be added to that wikipedia article? (as part of a section on how the group attempts to hide that fact) Naraht ( talk) 17:12, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I have moved in to this new apartment since Jan 2012 with a new internet connection, and I have this laptop since 2010. I am getting a "new message" tab for few days with the wikipedia page, where the messages are some 2007 cautionary notes about the owner of this IP address doing some vandalism in some wikipedia page. How do I make this message and the "you have new message" tab disappear? Can I do that without creating an account? (I did not own this IP address in 2007.)
Thanks in advance, AR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.229.223 ( talk) 03:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I created an account some years ago, so don't want to create a new one, but I changed my e-mail a year ago and your password recovery system is presumably sending the message to my old, dead e-mail. What can I do to recover my password, or change/modify my account to give my new e-mail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.104.200.182 ( talk) 03:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I looked up the word Phat on here and it has several deffinitions. However, it does not have the most common deffinition for the word. The most common use for the word today is: "Pretty Hot And Tempting". It is just used as slang. But that is the only way I've ever heard the word used.
For example, guys might look at a girl and notice that she is very attractive and skinny, so they may say to each other: "OMG, she is so PHAT!"
Anyway, I tried to add this deffinition to the listing of PHAT and there is no way to edit this entry. Down at the bottom of the page, it doesn't say EDIT and I can not add this extra information on the term phat.
Please help and/or fix this, by adding that deffinition to the term Phat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.85.53.246 ( talk) 07:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi everybody I'm trying to find a way how to add a TOC for my new page, I found only a horizontal TOC
. I dont need this. I even couldn't find any TOC source code.
And I want to know how to Connect header and sub-headers (sub-sections) with TOC or it is doing automatically.
I want to use a Vertical TOC with sub-header, no numerical.
TOC like are in actors pages.
Thank,
Haik
__TOC__
where you want the table to appear.
Yunshui
雲
水 08:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)can you create a Wikipedia page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jyedavey ( talk • contribs) 09:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I want to take Ethical Hacking as a career but being related to hacking, parents not allowing as they consider it to be risky as I could get involved in crime work without I knowing it.
Please could you enlighten me on this?
I am really interested in doing something creative in the field of computers and this field of Ethical Hacking has attracted me a lot.
Please guide me on this........ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.248.61.79 ( talk) 14:03, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Have you tried the
Computing section of Wikipedia's
Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using
Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there:
click here. I hope this helps.
Roger (
talk) 14:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The following four sentences deliver only one reference:
=======================================================
The current debt-ceiling may also expire "as early as December" 2012. [1]
The Tax Relief Act of 2010 and its continuation contain extensions. [2]
It mandates one trillion dollars over nine years.Cite error: The opening <ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).
The extension is also set to expire at the same time.Cite error: The opening <ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).
========================================================
Please edit this section. Because it contains two 'ref names' (one for Romans and one for Congress) and each name is used twice, it should deliver two items in the reflist: one for the Romans reference, containing two back pointers, and one for the Congress reference, again containing two back pointers. This is what I want.
If you change both of the 'ref name "Congress"'s to simply 'ref's (duplicating Congress's Citation templete), the reflist will produce three items: one for Romans with two back pointers and two identical references for Congress. I don't want this.
What am I doing wrong? -- RoyGoldsmith ( talk) 14:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
<ref name="Congress">...</ref>
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 14:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)I've put a space in front of each of the "=========" lines, so they don't create spurious section headers. Rojomoke ( talk) 16:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
7-24-2012 Maine
Dear Wikipedia;
I am puzzled by two recent actions and messages from LadyofShalott and Beyond My Ken about my Wikipedia entry, “Donald K. Fry.” (Please note that I write under two names: Don Fry and Donald K. Fry.) The entry is at Donald K. Fry
1. Both editors are warning me of conflict of interest. I did not create the Wikipedia entry on me, but in the past, I have corrected it, mostly little facts. No one objected. When I published my recent book, “Writing Your Way,” in March 2012, I added it to the entry. No one objected. Then last week, I added my freshly published novel, “How to Shoot Your Father.” Suddenly, I get these notices about conflict of interest. Please advise me. Is it a conflict of interest to correct and add details to the entry on me? How else would we keep it correct and updated?
2. Beyond My Ken edited my Wikipedia entry severely. He removed a lot of detail and the section on my journalism career and publications. He also removed my latest book, “How to Shoot Your Father,” and a reference to me as a novelist. He’s rewriting and thinning my biography, and I don’t understand why. Please advise.
Thanks.
≈≈≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donald K. Fry ( talk • contribs) 16:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Yes, this situation is and always has been a conflict of interest. However that does not prohibit you from being involved. Simply having " Conflict of Interest" shouted at you does not mean you must cease all editing and leave, and if editors have been over-zealous in alerting you to the conflict of interest then I apologize for that. Regardless of what what has happened to this point, our Conflict of Interest guideline is an intricate document and not a simple rule. It has information on how to proceed, what to do in case of disputes, and helpful links such as Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, which you may wish to read. There are legitimate ways you can contribute, as outlined at WP:COI#Non-controversial edits, which is why you have not experienced resistance in the past. BigNate37 (T) 20:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
hello, Why doesn't Wikipedia display fair use images on main page for encyclopedic purpose? is that cannot be qualified as fair use under copyright law, or just under Wikipedia's own policy? Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
For example, Ed, Edd n Eddy article. It was a Today's featured article on July 23, which includes fair use character image. Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
and see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/July_2012. Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can someone tell me if it's OK to name a section "Notes and references" and then name a subsection directly beneath it "Notes" (which stores the footnotes) and another subsection called "References" which stores the citations. For an illustration of what I mean see here, here and here. I can find no mention against this in MOS or any other guideline surrounding references and footnotes. -- Cassianto Talk 17:13, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
How do you enter for second chance drawings for this scratch off. It does not show the game on second chance drawings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.53.131 ( talk) 17:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I believe that Category:Back to the Future should be renamed as Category:Back to the Future (franchise), matching the category's article. But I could be wrong.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 17:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I lost access to the email address I used to register on wikipedia. How can I retrieve my login details? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.48.192.101 ( talk) 17:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, an unknown IP user with this numeral IP address (86.157.246.15) just vandalized this article, Rachel Dawes, probably just because he or she is a fan of Katie Holmes. Thought you might want to know.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 20:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I am editing this page but for some reason I'm having a problem taking the word, "User" off the beginning of the name, Eric Bellinger. Also, I want to put a picture up but can't seem to find where the option is to do that.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by EricBellinger ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Someone is continuously blanking Fanpov template, I have reverted thrice and then stopped, the page is currently blank, need some help: Template:Fanpov -- Tito Dutta ✉ 21:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The discussion page Talk:PID controller is acting strange. There's no table of contents; a "show" button in the info box reveals a huge amount of content that has supposedly been archived; there are no "edit" links on the individual sections. I can't tell what's going on. Spiel496 ( talk) 23:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< July 23 | << Jun | July | Aug >> | July 25 > |
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. |
Probably a stupid question: Does the fact that a nonfiction book is for children (as opposed to adults) affect its reliability at all? - Purplewowies ( talk) 00:54, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Due to the possibility of subpages existing in talk space, Talk:A/B testing is a subpage of Talk:A. Some time back, I found a comparable page with a template saying something such as "Due to technical limitations, this is a subpage of [pagename], but it's really not". I can't now remember the template name (or the name of the page where I found it); can someone supply it? Nyttend ( talk) 01:45, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there someone who can assist me with my recent article ...to see if it merits posting on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dreduardoa/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreduardoa ( talk • contribs) 01:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Can the OTRS system be used by the subject of an article to make a statement similar a verified self-published source? For example, if a RS said that X wrote a song, but X denies it and there are no RS saying so, could X use the OTRS system to create a reliable statement saying otherwise? It doesn't seem to mentioned as a use of the OTRS system on WP:OTRS, but I imagine it could be used for this (as in "However, X denied this in a statement made to Wikipedia in 2012"). TimofKingsland ( talk) 02:23, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
How about the following related case. Can the objection in an OTRS to a fact being public in a wikipedia article be added to that wikipedia article? (as part of a section on how the group attempts to hide that fact) Naraht ( talk) 17:12, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I have moved in to this new apartment since Jan 2012 with a new internet connection, and I have this laptop since 2010. I am getting a "new message" tab for few days with the wikipedia page, where the messages are some 2007 cautionary notes about the owner of this IP address doing some vandalism in some wikipedia page. How do I make this message and the "you have new message" tab disappear? Can I do that without creating an account? (I did not own this IP address in 2007.)
Thanks in advance, AR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.229.223 ( talk) 03:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I created an account some years ago, so don't want to create a new one, but I changed my e-mail a year ago and your password recovery system is presumably sending the message to my old, dead e-mail. What can I do to recover my password, or change/modify my account to give my new e-mail? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.104.200.182 ( talk) 03:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I looked up the word Phat on here and it has several deffinitions. However, it does not have the most common deffinition for the word. The most common use for the word today is: "Pretty Hot And Tempting". It is just used as slang. But that is the only way I've ever heard the word used.
For example, guys might look at a girl and notice that she is very attractive and skinny, so they may say to each other: "OMG, she is so PHAT!"
Anyway, I tried to add this deffinition to the listing of PHAT and there is no way to edit this entry. Down at the bottom of the page, it doesn't say EDIT and I can not add this extra information on the term phat.
Please help and/or fix this, by adding that deffinition to the term Phat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.85.53.246 ( talk) 07:25, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi everybody I'm trying to find a way how to add a TOC for my new page, I found only a horizontal TOC
. I dont need this. I even couldn't find any TOC source code.
And I want to know how to Connect header and sub-headers (sub-sections) with TOC or it is doing automatically.
I want to use a Vertical TOC with sub-header, no numerical.
TOC like are in actors pages.
Thank,
Haik
__TOC__
where you want the table to appear.
Yunshui
雲
水 08:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)can you create a Wikipedia page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jyedavey ( talk • contribs) 09:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I want to take Ethical Hacking as a career but being related to hacking, parents not allowing as they consider it to be risky as I could get involved in crime work without I knowing it.
Please could you enlighten me on this?
I am really interested in doing something creative in the field of computers and this field of Ethical Hacking has attracted me a lot.
Please guide me on this........ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.248.61.79 ( talk) 14:03, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Have you tried the
Computing section of Wikipedia's
Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using
Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there:
click here. I hope this helps.
Roger (
talk) 14:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The following four sentences deliver only one reference:
=======================================================
The current debt-ceiling may also expire "as early as December" 2012. [1]
The Tax Relief Act of 2010 and its continuation contain extensions. [2]
It mandates one trillion dollars over nine years.Cite error: The opening <ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).
The extension is also set to expire at the same time.Cite error: The opening <ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).
========================================================
Please edit this section. Because it contains two 'ref names' (one for Romans and one for Congress) and each name is used twice, it should deliver two items in the reflist: one for the Romans reference, containing two back pointers, and one for the Congress reference, again containing two back pointers. This is what I want.
If you change both of the 'ref name "Congress"'s to simply 'ref's (duplicating Congress's Citation templete), the reflist will produce three items: one for Romans with two back pointers and two identical references for Congress. I don't want this.
What am I doing wrong? -- RoyGoldsmith ( talk) 14:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
<ref name="Congress">...</ref>
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 14:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)I've put a space in front of each of the "=========" lines, so they don't create spurious section headers. Rojomoke ( talk) 16:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
7-24-2012 Maine
Dear Wikipedia;
I am puzzled by two recent actions and messages from LadyofShalott and Beyond My Ken about my Wikipedia entry, “Donald K. Fry.” (Please note that I write under two names: Don Fry and Donald K. Fry.) The entry is at Donald K. Fry
1. Both editors are warning me of conflict of interest. I did not create the Wikipedia entry on me, but in the past, I have corrected it, mostly little facts. No one objected. When I published my recent book, “Writing Your Way,” in March 2012, I added it to the entry. No one objected. Then last week, I added my freshly published novel, “How to Shoot Your Father.” Suddenly, I get these notices about conflict of interest. Please advise me. Is it a conflict of interest to correct and add details to the entry on me? How else would we keep it correct and updated?
2. Beyond My Ken edited my Wikipedia entry severely. He removed a lot of detail and the section on my journalism career and publications. He also removed my latest book, “How to Shoot Your Father,” and a reference to me as a novelist. He’s rewriting and thinning my biography, and I don’t understand why. Please advise.
Thanks.
≈≈≈≈≈ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donald K. Fry ( talk • contribs) 16:21, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Yes, this situation is and always has been a conflict of interest. However that does not prohibit you from being involved. Simply having " Conflict of Interest" shouted at you does not mean you must cease all editing and leave, and if editors have been over-zealous in alerting you to the conflict of interest then I apologize for that. Regardless of what what has happened to this point, our Conflict of Interest guideline is an intricate document and not a simple rule. It has information on how to proceed, what to do in case of disputes, and helpful links such as Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, which you may wish to read. There are legitimate ways you can contribute, as outlined at WP:COI#Non-controversial edits, which is why you have not experienced resistance in the past. BigNate37 (T) 20:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
hello, Why doesn't Wikipedia display fair use images on main page for encyclopedic purpose? is that cannot be qualified as fair use under copyright law, or just under Wikipedia's own policy? Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
For example, Ed, Edd n Eddy article. It was a Today's featured article on July 23, which includes fair use character image. Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:10, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
and see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/July_2012. Puramyun31 ( talk) 17:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, can someone tell me if it's OK to name a section "Notes and references" and then name a subsection directly beneath it "Notes" (which stores the footnotes) and another subsection called "References" which stores the citations. For an illustration of what I mean see here, here and here. I can find no mention against this in MOS or any other guideline surrounding references and footnotes. -- Cassianto Talk 17:13, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
How do you enter for second chance drawings for this scratch off. It does not show the game on second chance drawings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.53.131 ( talk) 17:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I believe that Category:Back to the Future should be renamed as Category:Back to the Future (franchise), matching the category's article. But I could be wrong.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 17:41, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I lost access to the email address I used to register on wikipedia. How can I retrieve my login details? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.48.192.101 ( talk) 17:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, an unknown IP user with this numeral IP address (86.157.246.15) just vandalized this article, Rachel Dawes, probably just because he or she is a fan of Katie Holmes. Thought you might want to know.-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 20:12, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I am editing this page but for some reason I'm having a problem taking the word, "User" off the beginning of the name, Eric Bellinger. Also, I want to put a picture up but can't seem to find where the option is to do that.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by EricBellinger ( talk • contribs) 20:28, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Someone is continuously blanking Fanpov template, I have reverted thrice and then stopped, the page is currently blank, need some help: Template:Fanpov -- Tito Dutta ✉ 21:15, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The discussion page Talk:PID controller is acting strange. There's no table of contents; a "show" button in the info box reveals a huge amount of content that has supposedly been archived; there are no "edit" links on the individual sections. I can't tell what's going on. Spiel496 ( talk) 23:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)