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Of course, MoS doesn't give much (any) info about this. But I would like to know whether they are reliable sources from which information can be obtained. I mean, like the IUPAC name, melting point, BP, etc. Note that Wpedia worships them all, still there are plenty of compound which needs citations for IUPAC names and synonyms.
Also suppose that I found a missing or incorrect Chemspider ID or likewise things of Pubchem and CAS, shall I change it correctly. There is Chembot, so is it needed to add a reference to the chemspider itself for citing its own ID for a compound. Vanischenu m Talk 00:24, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Lots of technical data which interests me, but no mention of passenger comfort.
What is the noise level in the passnger cabin at cruise as compared to other equivalent aircraft? The quietest aircraft I ever flew on was an Airbus A340, the 777 was distinctly louder.
How about cabin altitude during cruise? What's typical, is it adjustable?
And also relative humidity? Do I arrive parched and dehydrated? Especially on a long flight.
Compare these critical passenger comfort factors, if possible.
Respectfully, Frank............ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.85.25.148 ( talk) 00:49, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Is Lexisnexis a valid source to use to make an edit on a page?
Mattsky ( talk) 01:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed the past 2 days updates to articles can take over an hour to be incorporated into Wikipedia. I find this troubling at best, mostly a nuisance, and warily a step toward censorship.
Why have updates that I and other editors been delayed in the system??! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doyna Yar ( talk • contribs) 03:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am new to Wikipedia and started working on an article yesterday but it was not ready for review so I did not publish it but saved the draft (I thought?) and now I cant find it. Any tips on how to retrieve my article?
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarajp ( talk • contribs) 05:04, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
We are trying to create a page for our company, while being as neutral and factually correct as possible. We see plenty examples of other companies that have done this on Wikipedia, such as SugarCRM, Guidewire, Accenture, IBM, and Adobe. In the absence of any externally published information about our company (we are relatively new), what do we have to do to publish a page about our company without it getting flagged for deletion? It is not at all our intent to use it for marketing purposes, it is just to provide a quick and informational summary about our company on the very effective database that is Wikipedia. We welcome any suggestions and tips! Thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by EBaoTech ( talk • contribs) 05:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I am a grade 10 learner.I have just recently heard about additional maths and its many benefits.I do very well at core math.so I wanted to know if I would cope with additional math if I took it in the middel of grade 10 93.186.16.243 ( talk) 09:16, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
In your history about Edward Ladd Betts you refer to the fact that he married the daughter of Sir Samuel Morton Peto. This is incorrect.
He married the SISTER of Sir Samuel Morton Peto and NOT his daughter.
I am his great grandson and have all the family information. There are several sites which refer to the fact that he married Samuel Morton Peto's daughter - obviously all copying each other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.225.118.168 ( talk) 12:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I made an expansion to this stub, as per your request. But I now need to correct a couple of minor typos and slightly improve grammar by making paragraphs. But I can not now find the "edit" bar in order to get back into the text of the article to enable me to do so? The only edit bars I can see are for REFERENCES and EXTERNAL SOURCES but no edit click on bar appears at the top to enable me to get into the text. Is there some fault on your software? Yours etc. Daviddru — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daviddru ( talk • contribs) 12:27, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
section=0
to edit the first section, or you can take out the section extension entirely from the url and that is the same url as provided when you click on the main edit button. --
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
12:42, 12 June 2012 (UTC)This was recently nominated for deletion, although tagging it as "historical" was the main purpose. There were concerns of very low traffic of this page, and people used it as an excuse to propose mergers. Nevertheless, I believe that it could be useful as an alternative to deletion or as a pre-deletion. I don't want it to become historical... yet. I want this page to be more useful than it is now, but I don't know where else to turn. I have yet to find an idea about what to do with this page about non-free image reviews. People say that it is redundant to WP:FFD and WP:PUF. I don't know what to say, but I'm torn. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
On my user page, my committed identity template overlaps my user language template. I've tried adding <br>, but it didn't seem to do anything. How would I push the babel template down?— Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:21, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
In Osmotic power there is an error regarding 2 references 12 and 14 to one of my publications. I read : 12 (Brauns, E. “Toward a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water trough salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?” Environmental Process and Technology. Jan 2007. 312-323.) 14 (Brauns, E. “Toward a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water through salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?.” Environmental Process and Technology. Jan 2007. 312-323.)
The Journal "Environmental Process and Technology" referenced to and the year is however not correct. The correct Journal is "Desalination" and so the correct reference is :
Brauns, E. “Towards a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water trough salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?” Desalination 219 (2008) 312-323
Please correct this in ref 12 and 14
regards
Etienne Brauns — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.191.242 ( talk) 14:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I've updated some information for my page (Children's Museum of Houston), but when you Google it, the snippet in the Google box on the right has the old information presented (taken from Wikipedia). How can I update that to show the new information I've put in? Is this more of a Google issue than a Wikipedia issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.65.252.66 ( talk) 15:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I know how to edit an article on Wikipedia but I don't know how I change the path name of an article. The issue is with this article: St Francis D'Assisi High school. As you may notice, I'd like for the word "school" at the end of the path name to be uppercased to "School" thereby making it St Francis D'Assisi High School but I'm not too sure how to go about doing that. The reason I want this done is on Facebook it shows the school lower-cased which kinda looks ugly. Can you advise me on this. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.8.11 ( talk) 16:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I have been a member for some time now and I am starting to learn a fair bit of policies, etc. I see that there are lots of discussions that you can take part in. Are there any places where I may help out? Zaminamina ( talk) 17:23, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
hello,
please someone fix the sorting in the second column here? Thanks.-- GoP T C N 17:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Alphabets |
---|
First three |
A |
B |
C |
y Last three |
X |
Y |
Z |
Clicking on the sort button will make everything in disorder. I do not know whether this is a problem of my browser Vanischenu m Talk 20:51, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
OR
Please not that each entry that you have bolded in that page was supposed to be the heading of its followings. So what I mean is that, those bolded items should not be dispatched from its followers while sorting. Rather it should stay along with its sub-entries in such a way that the sorting applies to the sub-entries' local alphabetic order. To make the point simple, here in this table, C should not come along with Z, X or Y., and should stay under the heading First three. Vanischenu m Talk 22:39, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
When reading an article, it would be very convenient if I could simply hover my cursor over any of the blue links and be provided with a 2 or 3 sentence definition/summary of the term. Now if I'm reading, and my understanding of the topic at hand is dependent upon some other term highlighted in blue, I'm forced to click away and then come back. I could learn much faster if there was some page action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.107.188.5 ( talk) 17:48, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I have tried to upload a small j.peg of a logo on the page Astro Studios. I believe because I haven't edited enough I am not an entrusted editor and able to download this. Can someone else upload it for me? Pretty Please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.90.214.146 ( talk) 17:56, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Why doesn't firefox search/find words on your wiki pages that are hyperlinks? This seems like a huge miss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.171.191.60 ( talk) 19:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
If there is a source for (A imply B) and for (B imply C), by pure logic this imply that (A imply C) .
Is the statement that (A imply C), considered original research? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:07, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
How about this (CT examination imply xray ionizing radiation dose is absorbed by patients) and (xray ionizing radiaton dose absorbtion by people imply adverse effects). Conclusion (CT examination imply adverse effects) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:29, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Not a lot of research about cognitive decline due to CT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:50, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
sum one has been in my computer 4 along time thay have put lies about me all over face book and this site i nead it removed asap face book name also that and frank furt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.218.179.146 ( talk) 19:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Would be grateful for help. Have explored the help files for linking between wiki products but don't seem to have found what I want (particularly Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons for searches). I have resolved my problem (temporarily?) by setting a URL link to the precise search, but presume that there must be code to do this more easily i.e. code which sets up a search and is not a particular single category link? I have read up on categories and galleries but these do not seem to meet what I need as where particular images may be is basically where someone has chosen to put them and thus there is no particular single category which pulls the images down. Thus the type of link I have built in is Wikimedia Commons for Gloucestershire nature reserve images or Wikimedia Commons for Badgeworth Buttercup images. Thank you. Sjeans ( talk) 20:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
[[commons:]]
links (see
Help:Interwiki linking#Interwiki linking from and within Wikimedia). Also, to "disguise" your urls you can surround them in <span class="plainlinks">
and </span>
tags (example:
Wikimedia Commons for Gloucestershire nature reserve images). However i don't know exactly how to do what you are trying to achieve.
benzband (
talk)
20:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)my name is shelley hirsch-someone had created a wikipedia page for me and i suggested that there needed to be more info. now it appears that the whole page is deleted. i would like to keep up what was there until i make changes...thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shelley hirsch ( talk • contribs) 22:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Dear Wiki,
I am a graduate student that often uses Wiki. I was wondering on behalf of all students, if it is possible to expand the pages without having to use the side to side scroll because the lines expand and not really the size.
Thanks, Annie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.169.143 ( talk) 23:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
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Of course, MoS doesn't give much (any) info about this. But I would like to know whether they are reliable sources from which information can be obtained. I mean, like the IUPAC name, melting point, BP, etc. Note that Wpedia worships them all, still there are plenty of compound which needs citations for IUPAC names and synonyms.
Also suppose that I found a missing or incorrect Chemspider ID or likewise things of Pubchem and CAS, shall I change it correctly. There is Chembot, so is it needed to add a reference to the chemspider itself for citing its own ID for a compound. Vanischenu m Talk 00:24, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Lots of technical data which interests me, but no mention of passenger comfort.
What is the noise level in the passnger cabin at cruise as compared to other equivalent aircraft? The quietest aircraft I ever flew on was an Airbus A340, the 777 was distinctly louder.
How about cabin altitude during cruise? What's typical, is it adjustable?
And also relative humidity? Do I arrive parched and dehydrated? Especially on a long flight.
Compare these critical passenger comfort factors, if possible.
Respectfully, Frank............ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.85.25.148 ( talk) 00:49, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Is Lexisnexis a valid source to use to make an edit on a page?
Mattsky ( talk) 01:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed the past 2 days updates to articles can take over an hour to be incorporated into Wikipedia. I find this troubling at best, mostly a nuisance, and warily a step toward censorship.
Why have updates that I and other editors been delayed in the system??! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doyna Yar ( talk • contribs) 03:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I am new to Wikipedia and started working on an article yesterday but it was not ready for review so I did not publish it but saved the draft (I thought?) and now I cant find it. Any tips on how to retrieve my article?
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarajp ( talk • contribs) 05:04, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
We are trying to create a page for our company, while being as neutral and factually correct as possible. We see plenty examples of other companies that have done this on Wikipedia, such as SugarCRM, Guidewire, Accenture, IBM, and Adobe. In the absence of any externally published information about our company (we are relatively new), what do we have to do to publish a page about our company without it getting flagged for deletion? It is not at all our intent to use it for marketing purposes, it is just to provide a quick and informational summary about our company on the very effective database that is Wikipedia. We welcome any suggestions and tips! Thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by EBaoTech ( talk • contribs) 05:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I am a grade 10 learner.I have just recently heard about additional maths and its many benefits.I do very well at core math.so I wanted to know if I would cope with additional math if I took it in the middel of grade 10 93.186.16.243 ( talk) 09:16, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
In your history about Edward Ladd Betts you refer to the fact that he married the daughter of Sir Samuel Morton Peto. This is incorrect.
He married the SISTER of Sir Samuel Morton Peto and NOT his daughter.
I am his great grandson and have all the family information. There are several sites which refer to the fact that he married Samuel Morton Peto's daughter - obviously all copying each other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.225.118.168 ( talk) 12:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I made an expansion to this stub, as per your request. But I now need to correct a couple of minor typos and slightly improve grammar by making paragraphs. But I can not now find the "edit" bar in order to get back into the text of the article to enable me to do so? The only edit bars I can see are for REFERENCES and EXTERNAL SOURCES but no edit click on bar appears at the top to enable me to get into the text. Is there some fault on your software? Yours etc. Daviddru — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daviddru ( talk • contribs) 12:27, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
section=0
to edit the first section, or you can take out the section extension entirely from the url and that is the same url as provided when you click on the main edit button. --
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
12:42, 12 June 2012 (UTC)This was recently nominated for deletion, although tagging it as "historical" was the main purpose. There were concerns of very low traffic of this page, and people used it as an excuse to propose mergers. Nevertheless, I believe that it could be useful as an alternative to deletion or as a pre-deletion. I don't want it to become historical... yet. I want this page to be more useful than it is now, but I don't know where else to turn. I have yet to find an idea about what to do with this page about non-free image reviews. People say that it is redundant to WP:FFD and WP:PUF. I don't know what to say, but I'm torn. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
On my user page, my committed identity template overlaps my user language template. I've tried adding <br>, but it didn't seem to do anything. How would I push the babel template down?— Yutsi Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 14:21, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
In Osmotic power there is an error regarding 2 references 12 and 14 to one of my publications. I read : 12 (Brauns, E. “Toward a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water trough salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?” Environmental Process and Technology. Jan 2007. 312-323.) 14 (Brauns, E. “Toward a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water through salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?.” Environmental Process and Technology. Jan 2007. 312-323.)
The Journal "Environmental Process and Technology" referenced to and the year is however not correct. The correct Journal is "Desalination" and so the correct reference is :
Brauns, E. “Towards a worldwide sustainable and simultaneous large-scale production of renewable energy and potable water trough salinity gradient power by combining reversed electrodialysis and solar power?” Desalination 219 (2008) 312-323
Please correct this in ref 12 and 14
regards
Etienne Brauns — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.191.242 ( talk) 14:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I've updated some information for my page (Children's Museum of Houston), but when you Google it, the snippet in the Google box on the right has the old information presented (taken from Wikipedia). How can I update that to show the new information I've put in? Is this more of a Google issue than a Wikipedia issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.65.252.66 ( talk) 15:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I know how to edit an article on Wikipedia but I don't know how I change the path name of an article. The issue is with this article: St Francis D'Assisi High school. As you may notice, I'd like for the word "school" at the end of the path name to be uppercased to "School" thereby making it St Francis D'Assisi High School but I'm not too sure how to go about doing that. The reason I want this done is on Facebook it shows the school lower-cased which kinda looks ugly. Can you advise me on this. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.8.11 ( talk) 16:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I have been a member for some time now and I am starting to learn a fair bit of policies, etc. I see that there are lots of discussions that you can take part in. Are there any places where I may help out? Zaminamina ( talk) 17:23, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
hello,
please someone fix the sorting in the second column here? Thanks.-- GoP T C N 17:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Alphabets |
---|
First three |
A |
B |
C |
y Last three |
X |
Y |
Z |
Clicking on the sort button will make everything in disorder. I do not know whether this is a problem of my browser Vanischenu m Talk 20:51, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
OR
Please not that each entry that you have bolded in that page was supposed to be the heading of its followings. So what I mean is that, those bolded items should not be dispatched from its followers while sorting. Rather it should stay along with its sub-entries in such a way that the sorting applies to the sub-entries' local alphabetic order. To make the point simple, here in this table, C should not come along with Z, X or Y., and should stay under the heading First three. Vanischenu m Talk 22:39, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
When reading an article, it would be very convenient if I could simply hover my cursor over any of the blue links and be provided with a 2 or 3 sentence definition/summary of the term. Now if I'm reading, and my understanding of the topic at hand is dependent upon some other term highlighted in blue, I'm forced to click away and then come back. I could learn much faster if there was some page action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.107.188.5 ( talk) 17:48, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I have tried to upload a small j.peg of a logo on the page Astro Studios. I believe because I haven't edited enough I am not an entrusted editor and able to download this. Can someone else upload it for me? Pretty Please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.90.214.146 ( talk) 17:56, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Why doesn't firefox search/find words on your wiki pages that are hyperlinks? This seems like a huge miss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.171.191.60 ( talk) 19:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
If there is a source for (A imply B) and for (B imply C), by pure logic this imply that (A imply C) .
Is the statement that (A imply C), considered original research? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:07, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
How about this (CT examination imply xray ionizing radiation dose is absorbed by patients) and (xray ionizing radiaton dose absorbtion by people imply adverse effects). Conclusion (CT examination imply adverse effects) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:29, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Not a lot of research about cognitive decline due to CT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.241.242 ( talk) 19:50, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
sum one has been in my computer 4 along time thay have put lies about me all over face book and this site i nead it removed asap face book name also that and frank furt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.218.179.146 ( talk) 19:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Would be grateful for help. Have explored the help files for linking between wiki products but don't seem to have found what I want (particularly Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons for searches). I have resolved my problem (temporarily?) by setting a URL link to the precise search, but presume that there must be code to do this more easily i.e. code which sets up a search and is not a particular single category link? I have read up on categories and galleries but these do not seem to meet what I need as where particular images may be is basically where someone has chosen to put them and thus there is no particular single category which pulls the images down. Thus the type of link I have built in is Wikimedia Commons for Gloucestershire nature reserve images or Wikimedia Commons for Badgeworth Buttercup images. Thank you. Sjeans ( talk) 20:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
[[commons:]]
links (see
Help:Interwiki linking#Interwiki linking from and within Wikimedia). Also, to "disguise" your urls you can surround them in <span class="plainlinks">
and </span>
tags (example:
Wikimedia Commons for Gloucestershire nature reserve images). However i don't know exactly how to do what you are trying to achieve.
benzband (
talk)
20:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)my name is shelley hirsch-someone had created a wikipedia page for me and i suggested that there needed to be more info. now it appears that the whole page is deleted. i would like to keep up what was there until i make changes...thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shelley hirsch ( talk • contribs) 22:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Dear Wiki,
I am a graduate student that often uses Wiki. I was wondering on behalf of all students, if it is possible to expand the pages without having to use the side to side scroll because the lines expand and not really the size.
Thanks, Annie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.169.143 ( talk) 23:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)