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Good evening, In describing a word (in this case sultan) it would seem to be useful to show it's firts use or origin if possible.
The first person called "sultan" was Mahmud of Ghazni, over 1000 years ago, who led the Ghaznavid "empire". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.225.106 ( talk) 01:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I just used Star Deeds to name a star. I see the constellation on one of your pages and a list of its stars. I don't see our star's longitude and latitude listed, it is probably not a "notable" star. But it is now name after me and another person.
The information on the deed:Be it known to all that the Star herein designated in the scientifically renowned SAO Star Catalog as 110052 Cetus and residing within the boundaries of the constellation Cetus "The Sea Monster" is hereby named in honor as Mike & Susie's Star The Star's astronomically verified position is Right Ascension 01h 40m 51.26s, Declination +00° 24' 35.5", Type F8, Magnitude 8.9, Distance Unknown The public record is listed in The Millennium Chronicle on the World Wide Web at www.starcatalog.com and is copyrighted with the United States government. A duplicate of the star record is maintained in a secure vaulted location.
How can I add it to the Wiki page for Cetus' Stars. Or since I am not good at editing pages, would you please just do it for me. It would truly be lots faster for all us.
We named the star using
http://www.stardeed.com/digitaldeed.html.
It is not really advertising if you don't name them, but we officially have a star that is copyrighted.
Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susiii2u2 ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
That is not the point. It is the romance. Hope you find someone too. So you look up at the stars and know that a loved one 2 states away looks up and sees it too. It hurts nothing and adds some love and fun. Not a bad thing. So romantic. We are not going up there and planting flags and colonizing it. Just being romantic. What fun. What love. Wish some on you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susiii2u2 ( talk • contribs) 07:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The Deed is dated 5-31-12, a birthday and I will check then and see if it is listed. If not I will email them. At least it should be listed there. Thanks for noticing. I didn't see it either. Just the one before mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.236.70 ( talk) 20:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, some days the romance isn't visible to the naked eye either, being 2 states apart, and thankfully the certificate was only 20.00. But considering we send hugs with the moon, the idea has charm. And I needed an email-able gift. He is unavailable by post. Sometimes it really is the thought that counts. Thank you, though for pointing out the reality of getting our own star. You actually have to goto the Star's Register to see it. Or sent the the certificate to someone. It probably covers the effort to make one up. It is a cute little certificate. Remember the site on Valentine's Day if flowers and candy and dinner are boring. Hope your night is good. Great gift for kids of all ages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.236.70 ( talk) 08:40, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
AMREE was focussed on research in human physiology at high altitude. Not only was the research very successful, but the Expedition placed 4 people on the summitt.Ref: "Everest, Testing Place" by John West.
Thanks, John Evans AMREE Climbing Leader (ret) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.9.3.5 ( talk) 04:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
When I try to log into my account, after I entered my login details and click the Login-button I get an error saying
[43ab6fce] 2012-05-17 08:55:45: Fatal exception of type MWException
What is the problem and what can I do? 87.168.255.187 ( talk) 08:58, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Funny, it works again now. I've no idea what the problem was. 87.168.255.187 ( talk) 09:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 May 16 is broken from Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2012_May_16#River_Skerne downwards: there's a big blue box that goes to the bottom of the page, including about 50 articles, rather than just going around the closed River Skerne AfD which I think is what was intended. Sorry, but I've no idea how to fix it. -- Colapeninsula ( talk) 09:29, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
It was stated that in the movie Stars In My Crown James Arness was uncredited but this is now true. I would like you to edit this and change this.√ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.176.202 ( talk) 10:19, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Sorry for bothering but i am facing a weird problem and thought to discuss with you.
I am sure you can track my pages on wikipedia through my login details. We had recently updated our pages at "pictofigo".
Although google search result shows the Pictofigo pages of wikipedia but when we try to search "Pictofigo" on wikipedia search the pages doesn't show up. Is there any specific reason to do so? Or is it that i am doing something wrongly.
Please advise so that we can make corrections and our pages shows up on wikipedia search as well.
Look forward to hear from you.
Regards,
p! Pictofigo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pictofigo ( talk • contribs) 12:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I moved a file and have attempted to flag the redirect page with a speedy tag. However, File:Sunset5.JPG is still showing as a redirect page even with the {{ db-f2}} tag present... Any ideas why this might be happening? Cheers, Nik the stoned 12:26, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Suppose I have two statements which are cited to two different pages in the same paper. Is it somehow possible to create one reference (for example using {{ Citation}} or {{ Cite journal}}) and easily identify which specific pages are being referenced? I don't want to use Harvnb and Sfn. I want to have something like
<ref>{{Citation | last1=Dilcher | first1=K. | last2=Skula | first2=L. | title=A new criterion for the first case of Fermat's last theorem | journal=Math. Comp. | volume=64 | issue=209 | page1=363 | page2=388 | jstor=2153341 | publisher=AMS | year=1995}}</ref>
where I can link to each of the page parameters (highlighted through embolding) without having the reference appearing two times in the reference section. Is something like that possible? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Could someone who knows about geographical coordinates please take a look at River Cole, West Midlands. In Firefox I am seeing two different overlapping coords at the top of the page, presumably caused by both the mouth and the source being defined in the infobox? Thanks.-- Shantavira| feed me 13:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why do we categorize people as serial killers without any reliable sources? I understand, this is not a BLP, but it seems weird to me to categorize someone as a serial killer who confessed after being stretched on the rack. We have a source that claims he confessed before "actual" torture commenced (the rack does not count for some strange reason), but that source was written a couple of hundred years later. The method of execution seems to be an indication that he was not treated very kindly, and that treatment may have contributed to his decision to confess. This guy also confessed he had sex with a female demon sent to him by Satan. Should we trust his confessions? Should we make a distinction between convicted serial killers and alleged serial killers? Bruno Lüdke is categorized as a serial killer and a necrophile. I want to see some reliable sources that prove he was a serial killer and a necrophile. Lüdke was never put on trial for any of the killings and it is likely he was used as a scapegoat. He is also categorized as "executed by lethal injection", do we have reliable sources that confirm the claim the intention of giving the injection was to kill him? Arcandam ( talk) 07:01, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Collapsed exchange that apparently didn't answer the question
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I would rather my comments stay, but I'll collapse our exchange.
Equazcion
(talk)
05:29, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I've got a list of articles. Is there somehwere I can feed it into which will then give me the articles back with a figure for page views?
Presently, we can go to article history -> page view statistics ; and there we can see page views over 30,60,90 days.
Reason: I have a little project on the go to review articles on a topic and it would be nice to prioritise them according to how often the blimmin' thing gets looked at. It'd give me an idea where to invest my time.
I have an idea that such requests are not catered for as it tends to cause work for over-stretched servers but I thought I'd ask. -- bodnotbod ( talk) 14:20, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see my question at Template talk:Rfc#Closing RFC. Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I have discovered what appears to be a complete list of the works of Richard Scarry, whose article on Wikipedia states that the list you have is incomplete and readers "can help by expanding it." I tried to do that once before, and nothing happened. I have an account, but I guess the software doesn't believe it. You can add the list yourself by going here: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rscarry.htm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.54.228.95 ( talk) 17:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#Film_awards
There is an award missing. There are 2 awards listed for Yentl - but there should be 3.
Under the 1984 section... How can I add the following award:
1984. Golden Globe Awards. Best Motion Picture - (Comedy Or Musical) - Yentl. WON. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craignewcastle ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks John! That is perfect. Craignewcastle ( talk) 21:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to have to ask for help again - but I'm trying to add one more award to the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#Film_awards
I followed your advice for increasing the row span - but then all the columns misalign. I'm usually good with this sort of thing.
I need to add an award to 1988 (Nuts). It's a Golden Globe, so can fit right under the other nomination for the same film/award show. The nomination was for: Best Motion Picture - Drama
Can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it. Craignewcastle ( talk) 18:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks so much John. I was able to amend from my end. Looks great. Craignewcastle ( talk) 23:33, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
My article, PLushicles, was deleted. I am very sorry if I am causing trouble for you but I was not actually done editing and would be so grateful if you would let me officially submit it before it was deleted. Thank you so much for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alliejacob123 ( talk • contribs) 20:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I find Wikipedia so very useful in finding information. Sometimes I want to share some knowledge that I've gained from Wikipedia on facebook. This can be done with online newspaper articles. Can we do this with Wikipedia? I think it will increase wikipedia readership very much. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.71.128 ( talk) 21:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why are the pages listed at Help:Special_page#Inactive even there? Wouldn't the sensible thing be to either delete them or reinstate them? — 烏Γ ( kaw), 22:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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Good evening, In describing a word (in this case sultan) it would seem to be useful to show it's firts use or origin if possible.
The first person called "sultan" was Mahmud of Ghazni, over 1000 years ago, who led the Ghaznavid "empire". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.225.106 ( talk) 01:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I just used Star Deeds to name a star. I see the constellation on one of your pages and a list of its stars. I don't see our star's longitude and latitude listed, it is probably not a "notable" star. But it is now name after me and another person.
The information on the deed:Be it known to all that the Star herein designated in the scientifically renowned SAO Star Catalog as 110052 Cetus and residing within the boundaries of the constellation Cetus "The Sea Monster" is hereby named in honor as Mike & Susie's Star The Star's astronomically verified position is Right Ascension 01h 40m 51.26s, Declination +00° 24' 35.5", Type F8, Magnitude 8.9, Distance Unknown The public record is listed in The Millennium Chronicle on the World Wide Web at www.starcatalog.com and is copyrighted with the United States government. A duplicate of the star record is maintained in a secure vaulted location.
How can I add it to the Wiki page for Cetus' Stars. Or since I am not good at editing pages, would you please just do it for me. It would truly be lots faster for all us.
We named the star using
http://www.stardeed.com/digitaldeed.html.
It is not really advertising if you don't name them, but we officially have a star that is copyrighted.
Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susiii2u2 ( talk • contribs) 02:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
That is not the point. It is the romance. Hope you find someone too. So you look up at the stars and know that a loved one 2 states away looks up and sees it too. It hurts nothing and adds some love and fun. Not a bad thing. So romantic. We are not going up there and planting flags and colonizing it. Just being romantic. What fun. What love. Wish some on you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susiii2u2 ( talk • contribs) 07:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The Deed is dated 5-31-12, a birthday and I will check then and see if it is listed. If not I will email them. At least it should be listed there. Thanks for noticing. I didn't see it either. Just the one before mine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.236.70 ( talk) 20:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, some days the romance isn't visible to the naked eye either, being 2 states apart, and thankfully the certificate was only 20.00. But considering we send hugs with the moon, the idea has charm. And I needed an email-able gift. He is unavailable by post. Sometimes it really is the thought that counts. Thank you, though for pointing out the reality of getting our own star. You actually have to goto the Star's Register to see it. Or sent the the certificate to someone. It probably covers the effort to make one up. It is a cute little certificate. Remember the site on Valentine's Day if flowers and candy and dinner are boring. Hope your night is good. Great gift for kids of all ages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.236.70 ( talk) 08:40, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
AMREE was focussed on research in human physiology at high altitude. Not only was the research very successful, but the Expedition placed 4 people on the summitt.Ref: "Everest, Testing Place" by John West.
Thanks, John Evans AMREE Climbing Leader (ret) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.9.3.5 ( talk) 04:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
When I try to log into my account, after I entered my login details and click the Login-button I get an error saying
[43ab6fce] 2012-05-17 08:55:45: Fatal exception of type MWException
What is the problem and what can I do? 87.168.255.187 ( talk) 08:58, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Funny, it works again now. I've no idea what the problem was. 87.168.255.187 ( talk) 09:00, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2012 May 16 is broken from Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2012_May_16#River_Skerne downwards: there's a big blue box that goes to the bottom of the page, including about 50 articles, rather than just going around the closed River Skerne AfD which I think is what was intended. Sorry, but I've no idea how to fix it. -- Colapeninsula ( talk) 09:29, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
It was stated that in the movie Stars In My Crown James Arness was uncredited but this is now true. I would like you to edit this and change this.√ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.176.202 ( talk) 10:19, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Sorry for bothering but i am facing a weird problem and thought to discuss with you.
I am sure you can track my pages on wikipedia through my login details. We had recently updated our pages at "pictofigo".
Although google search result shows the Pictofigo pages of wikipedia but when we try to search "Pictofigo" on wikipedia search the pages doesn't show up. Is there any specific reason to do so? Or is it that i am doing something wrongly.
Please advise so that we can make corrections and our pages shows up on wikipedia search as well.
Look forward to hear from you.
Regards,
p! Pictofigo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pictofigo ( talk • contribs) 12:25, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I moved a file and have attempted to flag the redirect page with a speedy tag. However, File:Sunset5.JPG is still showing as a redirect page even with the {{ db-f2}} tag present... Any ideas why this might be happening? Cheers, Nik the stoned 12:26, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Suppose I have two statements which are cited to two different pages in the same paper. Is it somehow possible to create one reference (for example using {{ Citation}} or {{ Cite journal}}) and easily identify which specific pages are being referenced? I don't want to use Harvnb and Sfn. I want to have something like
<ref>{{Citation | last1=Dilcher | first1=K. | last2=Skula | first2=L. | title=A new criterion for the first case of Fermat's last theorem | journal=Math. Comp. | volume=64 | issue=209 | page1=363 | page2=388 | jstor=2153341 | publisher=AMS | year=1995}}</ref>
where I can link to each of the page parameters (highlighted through embolding) without having the reference appearing two times in the reference section. Is something like that possible? -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 12:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Could someone who knows about geographical coordinates please take a look at River Cole, West Midlands. In Firefox I am seeing two different overlapping coords at the top of the page, presumably caused by both the mouth and the source being defined in the infobox? Thanks.-- Shantavira| feed me 13:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why do we categorize people as serial killers without any reliable sources? I understand, this is not a BLP, but it seems weird to me to categorize someone as a serial killer who confessed after being stretched on the rack. We have a source that claims he confessed before "actual" torture commenced (the rack does not count for some strange reason), but that source was written a couple of hundred years later. The method of execution seems to be an indication that he was not treated very kindly, and that treatment may have contributed to his decision to confess. This guy also confessed he had sex with a female demon sent to him by Satan. Should we trust his confessions? Should we make a distinction between convicted serial killers and alleged serial killers? Bruno Lüdke is categorized as a serial killer and a necrophile. I want to see some reliable sources that prove he was a serial killer and a necrophile. Lüdke was never put on trial for any of the killings and it is likely he was used as a scapegoat. He is also categorized as "executed by lethal injection", do we have reliable sources that confirm the claim the intention of giving the injection was to kill him? Arcandam ( talk) 07:01, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Collapsed exchange that apparently didn't answer the question
|
---|
I would rather my comments stay, but I'll collapse our exchange.
Equazcion
(talk)
05:29, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
|
Hello. I've got a list of articles. Is there somehwere I can feed it into which will then give me the articles back with a figure for page views?
Presently, we can go to article history -> page view statistics ; and there we can see page views over 30,60,90 days.
Reason: I have a little project on the go to review articles on a topic and it would be nice to prioritise them according to how often the blimmin' thing gets looked at. It'd give me an idea where to invest my time.
I have an idea that such requests are not catered for as it tends to cause work for over-stretched servers but I thought I'd ask. -- bodnotbod ( talk) 14:20, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see my question at Template talk:Rfc#Closing RFC. Jc3s5h ( talk) 16:10, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I have discovered what appears to be a complete list of the works of Richard Scarry, whose article on Wikipedia states that the list you have is incomplete and readers "can help by expanding it." I tried to do that once before, and nothing happened. I have an account, but I guess the software doesn't believe it. You can add the list yourself by going here: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rscarry.htm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.54.228.95 ( talk) 17:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#Film_awards
There is an award missing. There are 2 awards listed for Yentl - but there should be 3.
Under the 1984 section... How can I add the following award:
1984. Golden Globe Awards. Best Motion Picture - (Comedy Or Musical) - Yentl. WON. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craignewcastle ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks John! That is perfect. Craignewcastle ( talk) 21:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to have to ask for help again - but I'm trying to add one more award to the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand#Film_awards
I followed your advice for increasing the row span - but then all the columns misalign. I'm usually good with this sort of thing.
I need to add an award to 1988 (Nuts). It's a Golden Globe, so can fit right under the other nomination for the same film/award show. The nomination was for: Best Motion Picture - Drama
Can anyone help? I'd really appreciate it. Craignewcastle ( talk) 18:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks so much John. I was able to amend from my end. Looks great. Craignewcastle ( talk) 23:33, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
My article, PLushicles, was deleted. I am very sorry if I am causing trouble for you but I was not actually done editing and would be so grateful if you would let me officially submit it before it was deleted. Thank you so much for your time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alliejacob123 ( talk • contribs) 20:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
I find Wikipedia so very useful in finding information. Sometimes I want to share some knowledge that I've gained from Wikipedia on facebook. This can be done with online newspaper articles. Can we do this with Wikipedia? I think it will increase wikipedia readership very much. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.143.71.128 ( talk) 21:23, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why are the pages listed at Help:Special_page#Inactive even there? Wouldn't the sensible thing be to either delete them or reinstate them? — 烏Γ ( kaw), 22:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)