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I can not understand the logic of article on the European national football teams. Why does the "UEFA European Championship record," the European Championship semi-finalists are marked bronze color, but in the section marked achievements simply as a semifinal, and profiles of players there are no notes on bronze awards. If the wiki does not know no match for third place does not mean the absence of a set of bronze medals. Two teams semifinal losers are awarded bronze medals. There is no match for the bronze - there are two bronze medalist. For example - Russia and Turkey were awarded real prizes in 2008, the magnificent ceremony was not, but the medals were awarded. I hope the problem will be fixed or will be made public the reasons for the position of the wiki on this subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EddyBenoit ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hi i was told i could get on here and get a form for shared parenting. i can not find it can you please help thankyou
Jennifer Corwin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mama2001 ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all,
I was doing some review work in AFC earlier today, and one of the users whose articles I denied (Ssimmons01) sent me this email:
<email text removed>
The user seems to believe that his article, located here, is licenced to him, as he asks for all copyrighted content to be removed. He has blanked the article and put another review tag on it (for some reason). What should I do? Thanks, Ath leek 00:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Consider the following scenario:
You want to go to the Dallas article in wikipedia.
1. Google "Dallas". (no one googles "Dallas(city)" )
2. "Dallas(TV series)" is the only Wikipedia page google gives you. (Fine you think, I'll just go through the disambiguation page)
3. Click on Dallas(TV series)
4. No disambiguation page. (you see Dallas (2012 TV series) at the top, you think, maybe that page will have a disambiguation page)
5. Click Dallas (2012 TV series). Dead End.
Frustrated you now have to go back to google and type "Dallas (City)". This time you will find the query you were looking for from the beginning.
The final kick in the teeth: The article is named "Dallas" what you searched for in the first place.
This experience is becoming more and more common as we have tried to move away from the use of Disambiguation pages in wikipedia.
Unless we can change google's algorithms which we can't, the well-intentioned policy of marginalizing disambiguation pages results in frequent "Dead End" experiences for users who overwhelmingly arrive at wikipedia via google.
This is not a complaint, I just wanted to bring to light this growing issue, I just think this problem needs to be looked at seriously by someone. I hope some diligent administrator takes up this cause.
To get a sense of the problem you may wish to add the Disambiguation Page to the respective articles and observe the change in traffic here:
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas%20(1978%20TV%20series)
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas%20(2012%20TV%20series)
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas
Thank you 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 00:40, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you.
I was waiting for someone to make that response so I could paste the following:
In another Example:
Pretend you are a general user and attempt to reach the article on the object worn on your finger known as a ring. follow the links and see how many steps it will take you to find the article.
In this case I have actually intervened and tried to minimize the steps by adding a disambiguation link at the top of the first google result: ring(mathematics) but this was reverted by those watching that page in accordance with wikipedia policy.
Do you see the problem? 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 01:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to bring light to what seems be a systemic problem, Any thoughtful input would be much appreciated. :)
60.241.171.231 (
talk)
01:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Sorry maybe I didn't bring the correct emphasis on what I meant, The current wikipedia policy is to remove disambiguation pages as much as possible. Users follow this policy but this results in the problems I have stated above, If a user attempts to find ring using google the wikipedia policy which is being more and more enforced, results in more and more dead ends.
On the wikipedia search engine: The vast majority of users do not use it and have no reason to believe it will give better results than google (which it generally does not). All I can say is this is how the vast majority of people use wikipedia. If the aim of the policy is to change their behavior that's fine, I believe this is not in fact the aim, the aim is usability.
I feel I have done enough on my part to raise this issue and I'm not really interested in arguing with anyone. I'm just trying to help. All I can hope for is that someone more active on the site sees this and recognizes the problem and investigates it further. I feel I have made it as clear as I can. Hopefully it will make a difference. 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 01:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Here's the link: [2]
Thanks -- Vranak ( talk) 02:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Long story but I'm going to make it short, last month I got into this huge argument with 3 other users, they kind of took most of my own posts out of context and kept on applying other policies to make it seem like I was violating them. This made me feel stressed and frustrated and it let towards an exchange of uncivil responses from both sides. It was mainly because they disagreed with the article being deleted or moved since I was planning on proposing a merger. The conflict ended when one of the users involved left a kindly written letter and told me to put the merger on hold for now.
A month had passed since then and I'm planning on finally proposing a merger this time but I'm worried that this conflict might occur again. If it does then I am planning on taking it to the Wikiquette assistance but I'm having doubts if my actions are necessary so I want someone in Wikipedia with the right expertise to review what had gone wrong with this conflict last month without having to get the other 3 involved just yet. Is there a way for that to happen? 119.224.27.62 ( talk) 03:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Team, When I was searching for information on " Lakshadweep", I found that the map of India was incorrect. It did not show the POK of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. As a result, the portion looks truncated. As far as I know, the POK is not in Pakistan, it lies still in India.
Kindly rectify the same. It is a National Honour for us at Inida.
Rajesh Gopalakrishnan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.61.94.235 ( talk) 07:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I've been checking my watchlist from my phone while my dad works on finding some drivers for my new computer. I keep fat fingering the links and accidentally hitting rollback quite often. Sometimes I can stop it before the action goes through, but sometimes I can't. No matter how far I zoom in or out, a rollback link always seems to be right up against the link I want to click. Is there a way to hide the rollback links on my watchlist? (I'd like to have them available everywhere else, though, since rollback is one of the few types of edits I can do easily and effectively from my phone if I need to.) - Purplewowies ( talk) 07:50, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-rollback-link {
display: none;
}
Wikipedia's File:Aerial Superhighway.ogv (used in the jet stream article) is accompanied by an annoying and irrelevant piece of musak. Should/could this be removed from the file?-- Shantavira| feed me 11:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I created a page which was deleted. My question is 'how do I completely remove that page?' so that when anybody visits, nothing appears, not even the deletion notice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.178.89.214 ( talk) 11:35, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia. I am now ready to go live with my article. When I went live with a previous draft some months ago, my name appeared next to the subject name. How can I avoid this, and what is the easiest and simplest way for me to move my article to the live page. Thank you for your kind help. Maya Frida Barr ( talk) 11:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
A recent edit of The Anomebot2 forced the article Versatel building to appear in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data and Category:All articles needing coordinates. How do I fix this? I guess I could just add {{ Coord}} to the article, but I don't know where to get the correct values for the parameters from. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 11:55, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. I can't create the talk page to the
William Robert Colton page as The title "Talk:William Robert Colton" has been banned from creation. It matches the following blacklist entry: .*colton.*... Anyone know where this blacklist is and where I can make requests to change it? Doesn't appear on either the
Meta spam blacklist or the
Wikipedia one...
Nik
the
stoned
12:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
.*colton.*
is at
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. The links in your post are for external links and not for Wikipedia page names.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
13:22, 4 July 2012 (UTC)I was wanting to create a Japanese section for Andy Griffith due to his recent death, but I'm not sure how I would go about creating the separate language edition of it. Any tips? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluefiberoptics ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I am DAVID RUBINGER. Wikipedia used a picture of someone else in the biography of me. I find this affects me in many unfavorable ways and ask you to rectify this immediately. If you wish, I shall provide you with a photo which is REALLY me. Please inform me how to go about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.172.154.143 ( talk) 13:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season? I tried to tag it with {{ context}}, using Twinkle, and all manner of odd things happened. Twinkle gave me an error message once, so I tried again, so two edits were recorded. The second edit shows up in my watchlist as having added 24,431 characters, but in the article history and in the diff it's clear it added none. The template's also showing up oddly on the page. – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 13:58, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I.e., do this for each of these... Nik the stoned 15:39, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Should a "List of <officeholders>" be in normal or reverse chronological order - current person at the bottom or the top? Roger ( talk) 16:48, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hi.i'm writing because i really need to undarstand why the article that i edited twice was removed twice.when i first edited it it got deleted and i recived a message saying that it was deleted because i posted a link wich was not according to wikipedia format and it adviced to re edit the page without the link so i added the text without the link and i saw it got deleted again.I want to know why as long as the informatiuon that i included can be verified Hhattceppssutt ( talk) 14:55, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm 28 years old, i'm a new wikipedia user, I have a cognitive condition that I don't want to specify, but can a mentor help me use wikipedia? thanks. Narwhalgal84 ( talk) 17:40, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hey all,
having a problem with my template code
{{#switch:{{{p|}}}| 3rr | 3RR=[[wp:3RR|3RR]]}}
so if do
{{template|p=3rr}}
it will output
3RR
but if i do
{{template|p=3rr}}
{{template|p=3rr}}
for some reason it outputs it as
3RR
3RR
so it has this big space between it i aint sure why it i doing that
anyone give any advice, oh the template isnt called template just using it as a example, it only becomes more obvious when you do the template twice
Andrewcrawford (
talk -
contrib)
18:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
This article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_Sigma_Pi_chapters
is incorrectly labeled/flagged/catagorizd as Orphan.
It is linked under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Sigma_Pi#Collegiate_Chapters
My research did not reveal any method for correcting this.
Please assist.
67.79.76.100 ( talk) 18:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Special:WhatLinksHere/Rongel says Rongel is being transcluded onto itself. When I look at the page in edit mode, I don't see anything like {{Rongel}}, so what does that mean? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 18:36, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGESIZE:Rongel}}
when used on
Rongel. This apparently causes the mentioned page to be listed as transcluded. This also holds for other pages and if the code is not for the page it's placed on. For example, {{PAGESIZE:Great Pyramid}}
generates 135 and causes
Great Pyramid to be listed as transcluded here on the help desk.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
19:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Good day, I'd like to know how to submit a short bio of my Grandmother who's 107 years old today & still has all her 5 senses straight for record, how do I go about this? Thank you.-- Amazimaop ( talk) 19:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there a highlight tool readers could use when reading an article? If there isn't could you make one? It makes researching a lot easier if you could highlight things. Thanks! 65.186.196.79 ( talk) 19:59, 4 July 2012 (UTC)A Wikipedia user
in the section of famous people from Homer,Alaska, you list Larry Martin, which is correct, but you have him connected to a paleantoligist, which is not correct. Larry Martin, who participated in cross country skiing in the 72 and 76 Olympics, was born in 1950, still lives in Homer and runs a glass shop with his wife, Linda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.25.95 ( talk) 20:05, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I'm just wondering, how does editing a Wikipedia article work? Say someone submits an edit, then what? Must someone approve the edit? Is it an expert? Do they have to fact check it first? Is so, how do they do that? Or is there an algorithm that does everything? Is so, how does the algorithm decide what to print, and what edits are good/bad? Or, is it a combination of both editor & algorithm?
Thanks, Jason Prince — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.192.28 ( talk) 20:10, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard's description is the ideal. Most articles don't get checked that carefully when edited. Plenty of information is still unreferenced. I've probably added more unreferenced material, when I didn't know how to document something, hoping a reliable source would come along later, than referenced information.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:32, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Wow so Wikipedia is the work of many volunteers. That's a beautiful thing...
what do I do about someone edit warring? Missoulianette ( talk) 21:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
What is the name of the code used on your monobook.js, vector.css, etc., and where can I find out how to use the code? :) Ha dg er 23:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< July 3 | << Jun | July | Aug >> | July 5 > |
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. |
I can not understand the logic of article on the European national football teams. Why does the "UEFA European Championship record," the European Championship semi-finalists are marked bronze color, but in the section marked achievements simply as a semifinal, and profiles of players there are no notes on bronze awards. If the wiki does not know no match for third place does not mean the absence of a set of bronze medals. Two teams semifinal losers are awarded bronze medals. There is no match for the bronze - there are two bronze medalist. For example - Russia and Turkey were awarded real prizes in 2008, the magnificent ceremony was not, but the medals were awarded. I hope the problem will be fixed or will be made public the reasons for the position of the wiki on this subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EddyBenoit ( talk • contribs) 00:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hi i was told i could get on here and get a form for shared parenting. i can not find it can you please help thankyou
Jennifer Corwin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mama2001 ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all,
I was doing some review work in AFC earlier today, and one of the users whose articles I denied (Ssimmons01) sent me this email:
<email text removed>
The user seems to believe that his article, located here, is licenced to him, as he asks for all copyrighted content to be removed. He has blanked the article and put another review tag on it (for some reason). What should I do? Thanks, Ath leek 00:25, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Consider the following scenario:
You want to go to the Dallas article in wikipedia.
1. Google "Dallas". (no one googles "Dallas(city)" )
2. "Dallas(TV series)" is the only Wikipedia page google gives you. (Fine you think, I'll just go through the disambiguation page)
3. Click on Dallas(TV series)
4. No disambiguation page. (you see Dallas (2012 TV series) at the top, you think, maybe that page will have a disambiguation page)
5. Click Dallas (2012 TV series). Dead End.
Frustrated you now have to go back to google and type "Dallas (City)". This time you will find the query you were looking for from the beginning.
The final kick in the teeth: The article is named "Dallas" what you searched for in the first place.
This experience is becoming more and more common as we have tried to move away from the use of Disambiguation pages in wikipedia.
Unless we can change google's algorithms which we can't, the well-intentioned policy of marginalizing disambiguation pages results in frequent "Dead End" experiences for users who overwhelmingly arrive at wikipedia via google.
This is not a complaint, I just wanted to bring to light this growing issue, I just think this problem needs to be looked at seriously by someone. I hope some diligent administrator takes up this cause.
To get a sense of the problem you may wish to add the Disambiguation Page to the respective articles and observe the change in traffic here:
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas%20(1978%20TV%20series)
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas%20(2012%20TV%20series)
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Dallas
Thank you 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 00:40, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you.
I was waiting for someone to make that response so I could paste the following:
In another Example:
Pretend you are a general user and attempt to reach the article on the object worn on your finger known as a ring. follow the links and see how many steps it will take you to find the article.
In this case I have actually intervened and tried to minimize the steps by adding a disambiguation link at the top of the first google result: ring(mathematics) but this was reverted by those watching that page in accordance with wikipedia policy.
Do you see the problem? 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 01:08, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I am trying to bring light to what seems be a systemic problem, Any thoughtful input would be much appreciated. :)
60.241.171.231 (
talk)
01:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Sorry maybe I didn't bring the correct emphasis on what I meant, The current wikipedia policy is to remove disambiguation pages as much as possible. Users follow this policy but this results in the problems I have stated above, If a user attempts to find ring using google the wikipedia policy which is being more and more enforced, results in more and more dead ends.
On the wikipedia search engine: The vast majority of users do not use it and have no reason to believe it will give better results than google (which it generally does not). All I can say is this is how the vast majority of people use wikipedia. If the aim of the policy is to change their behavior that's fine, I believe this is not in fact the aim, the aim is usability.
I feel I have done enough on my part to raise this issue and I'm not really interested in arguing with anyone. I'm just trying to help. All I can hope for is that someone more active on the site sees this and recognizes the problem and investigates it further. I feel I have made it as clear as I can. Hopefully it will make a difference. 60.241.171.231 ( talk) 01:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Here's the link: [2]
Thanks -- Vranak ( talk) 02:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Long story but I'm going to make it short, last month I got into this huge argument with 3 other users, they kind of took most of my own posts out of context and kept on applying other policies to make it seem like I was violating them. This made me feel stressed and frustrated and it let towards an exchange of uncivil responses from both sides. It was mainly because they disagreed with the article being deleted or moved since I was planning on proposing a merger. The conflict ended when one of the users involved left a kindly written letter and told me to put the merger on hold for now.
A month had passed since then and I'm planning on finally proposing a merger this time but I'm worried that this conflict might occur again. If it does then I am planning on taking it to the Wikiquette assistance but I'm having doubts if my actions are necessary so I want someone in Wikipedia with the right expertise to review what had gone wrong with this conflict last month without having to get the other 3 involved just yet. Is there a way for that to happen? 119.224.27.62 ( talk) 03:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Team, When I was searching for information on " Lakshadweep", I found that the map of India was incorrect. It did not show the POK of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. As a result, the portion looks truncated. As far as I know, the POK is not in Pakistan, it lies still in India.
Kindly rectify the same. It is a National Honour for us at Inida.
Rajesh Gopalakrishnan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.61.94.235 ( talk) 07:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I've been checking my watchlist from my phone while my dad works on finding some drivers for my new computer. I keep fat fingering the links and accidentally hitting rollback quite often. Sometimes I can stop it before the action goes through, but sometimes I can't. No matter how far I zoom in or out, a rollback link always seems to be right up against the link I want to click. Is there a way to hide the rollback links on my watchlist? (I'd like to have them available everywhere else, though, since rollback is one of the few types of edits I can do easily and effectively from my phone if I need to.) - Purplewowies ( talk) 07:50, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-rollback-link {
display: none;
}
Wikipedia's File:Aerial Superhighway.ogv (used in the jet stream article) is accompanied by an annoying and irrelevant piece of musak. Should/could this be removed from the file?-- Shantavira| feed me 11:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I created a page which was deleted. My question is 'how do I completely remove that page?' so that when anybody visits, nothing appears, not even the deletion notice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.178.89.214 ( talk) 11:35, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia. I am now ready to go live with my article. When I went live with a previous draft some months ago, my name appeared next to the subject name. How can I avoid this, and what is the easiest and simplest way for me to move my article to the live page. Thank you for your kind help. Maya Frida Barr ( talk) 11:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
A recent edit of The Anomebot2 forced the article Versatel building to appear in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data and Category:All articles needing coordinates. How do I fix this? I guess I could just add {{ Coord}} to the article, but I don't know where to get the correct values for the parameters from. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 11:55, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. I can't create the talk page to the
William Robert Colton page as The title "Talk:William Robert Colton" has been banned from creation. It matches the following blacklist entry: .*colton.*... Anyone know where this blacklist is and where I can make requests to change it? Doesn't appear on either the
Meta spam blacklist or the
Wikipedia one...
Nik
the
stoned
12:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
.*colton.*
is at
MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. The links in your post are for external links and not for Wikipedia page names.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
13:22, 4 July 2012 (UTC)I was wanting to create a Japanese section for Andy Griffith due to his recent death, but I'm not sure how I would go about creating the separate language edition of it. Any tips? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluefiberoptics ( talk • contribs) 12:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I am DAVID RUBINGER. Wikipedia used a picture of someone else in the biography of me. I find this affects me in many unfavorable ways and ask you to rectify this immediately. If you wish, I shall provide you with a photo which is REALLY me. Please inform me how to go about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.172.154.143 ( talk) 13:56, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season? I tried to tag it with {{ context}}, using Twinkle, and all manner of odd things happened. Twinkle gave me an error message once, so I tried again, so two edits were recorded. The second edit shows up in my watchlist as having added 24,431 characters, but in the article history and in the diff it's clear it added none. The template's also showing up oddly on the page. – Arms & Hearts ( talk) 13:58, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I.e., do this for each of these... Nik the stoned 15:39, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Should a "List of <officeholders>" be in normal or reverse chronological order - current person at the bottom or the top? Roger ( talk) 16:48, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hi.i'm writing because i really need to undarstand why the article that i edited twice was removed twice.when i first edited it it got deleted and i recived a message saying that it was deleted because i posted a link wich was not according to wikipedia format and it adviced to re edit the page without the link so i added the text without the link and i saw it got deleted again.I want to know why as long as the informatiuon that i included can be verified Hhattceppssutt ( talk) 14:55, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm 28 years old, i'm a new wikipedia user, I have a cognitive condition that I don't want to specify, but can a mentor help me use wikipedia? thanks. Narwhalgal84 ( talk) 17:40, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
hey all,
having a problem with my template code
{{#switch:{{{p|}}}| 3rr | 3RR=[[wp:3RR|3RR]]}}
so if do
{{template|p=3rr}}
it will output
3RR
but if i do
{{template|p=3rr}}
{{template|p=3rr}}
for some reason it outputs it as
3RR
3RR
so it has this big space between it i aint sure why it i doing that
anyone give any advice, oh the template isnt called template just using it as a example, it only becomes more obvious when you do the template twice
Andrewcrawford (
talk -
contrib)
18:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
This article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Delta_Sigma_Pi_chapters
is incorrectly labeled/flagged/catagorizd as Orphan.
It is linked under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Sigma_Pi#Collegiate_Chapters
My research did not reveal any method for correcting this.
Please assist.
67.79.76.100 ( talk) 18:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Special:WhatLinksHere/Rongel says Rongel is being transcluded onto itself. When I look at the page in edit mode, I don't see anything like {{Rongel}}, so what does that mean? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 18:36, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
{{PAGESIZE:Rongel}}
when used on
Rongel. This apparently causes the mentioned page to be listed as transcluded. This also holds for other pages and if the code is not for the page it's placed on. For example, {{PAGESIZE:Great Pyramid}}
generates 135 and causes
Great Pyramid to be listed as transcluded here on the help desk.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
19:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)Good day, I'd like to know how to submit a short bio of my Grandmother who's 107 years old today & still has all her 5 senses straight for record, how do I go about this? Thank you.-- Amazimaop ( talk) 19:19, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Is there a highlight tool readers could use when reading an article? If there isn't could you make one? It makes researching a lot easier if you could highlight things. Thanks! 65.186.196.79 ( talk) 19:59, 4 July 2012 (UTC)A Wikipedia user
in the section of famous people from Homer,Alaska, you list Larry Martin, which is correct, but you have him connected to a paleantoligist, which is not correct. Larry Martin, who participated in cross country skiing in the 72 and 76 Olympics, was born in 1950, still lives in Homer and runs a glass shop with his wife, Linda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.25.95 ( talk) 20:05, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I'm just wondering, how does editing a Wikipedia article work? Say someone submits an edit, then what? Must someone approve the edit? Is it an expert? Do they have to fact check it first? Is so, how do they do that? Or is there an algorithm that does everything? Is so, how does the algorithm decide what to print, and what edits are good/bad? Or, is it a combination of both editor & algorithm?
Thanks, Jason Prince — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.192.28 ( talk) 20:10, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Gold Standard's description is the ideal. Most articles don't get checked that carefully when edited. Plenty of information is still unreferenced. I've probably added more unreferenced material, when I didn't know how to document something, hoping a reliable source would come along later, than referenced information.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:32, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Wow so Wikipedia is the work of many volunteers. That's a beautiful thing...
what do I do about someone edit warring? Missoulianette ( talk) 21:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
What is the name of the code used on your monobook.js, vector.css, etc., and where can I find out how to use the code? :) Ha dg er 23:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)