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Hey there. I am actually User:MaJic however I can not access my account? I'm not sure what is going on so I have this temp account. What should I do? Thanks. -- Gym and Firebrand ( talk) 00:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC) I would like to use my Right to Vanish under my User:MaJic account, as I have been advised to do so by Wikicommons. Thanks again. -- Gym and Firebrand ( talk) 01:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
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On Vehicle registration plates of Kansas, in the county coding section, I tried creating a table out of previously written information which lists the county codes. I originally tried using a format similar to the one on the Vehicle registration plates of Nebraska page, but then when something seemed wrong, I tried doing it in a format similar to the other two tables on the page. Unfortunately, it seems to think everything after the county code table is a part of the table. I don't know how to fix this. DandyDan2007 ( talk) 05:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I had sumbitted a draft article titled 'Sanjiv Rai' for submission, but do not know where to find this when checking whether it's been published or sent back (post review) for further edition. Appreciate all help.
Best Regards, Monce Monce.abraham ( talk) 06:06, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
in the Burmese system of Measurements, one decimal place has been wrongly given for the Volume conversion from Burmese to Metric of 1pyi. An equivalent metric volume shall be 2,55710424 liters instead of 0,255710424 liters as given on your page. I will be thankful if you will kindly correct it accordingly.
Yours Sincerely <name and address redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.81.165.107 ( talk) 07:12, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Should a copy of this discussion be placed at Talk:Burmese units of measurement? RJFJR ( talk) 14:32, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
I am trying to figure out how the marriage between Wikipedia and Facebook works as far as displaying only articles on a Facebook fan page. According to my research on Facebook, I've learned that the method of accomplishment may be something that I learn from you. I'm going to include a hyperlink with this message so that you can see details of what I'm referring to. If for any reason the hyperlink isn't showing, then log onto Facebook and, in the search bar on the top of the Facebook page, type in a search for 'Rufies'. From the list of options, select the fan page about it...
... You'll notice that it isn't like other fan pages. Instead of being interactive like most fan pages, that page simply tells you what rufies are, and seems to display a wikipedia entry direct from your site. It then properly lists you as a source.
... So, what I'm trying to do is make a fan page for myself, but only to tell people a little bit about me, while preventing people from commenting or being able to interact with it like they can with normal fan pages.
So, again, Facebook tells me that the answer for creating that page lies with you.
As I see that you are a volunteer, I'd like to thank you for taking the time out to read and address this manner.
Sincerely, Crayon Scribe
And here is the link to an example of what I'm trying to create...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rufies/106315892736912 — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Crayon Scribe (
talk •
contribs) 07:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. -- Orange Mike | Talk 15:57, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi
can you please change the description underneath the photo of Greenland building to 'Greenlands, 'home to Henley Business School' as we have been Henley Business School since 2008.
many thanks
Nick Tapping Digital Marketing Henley Business School Greenlands Henley-on-Thames — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.126.1 ( talk) 09:21, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Done Roger ( talk) 09:30, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
what is the code that will show the top ten users and the top ten enwest pages please, looked at loads of open source stuff but cant find anything.
thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.79.208.19 ( talk) 11:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
LEGEND! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.79.208.19 ( talk) 12:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Text in Romanian
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România - genocidul sau holocaustul comunist în cifre: Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei: (A) Florin Mătrescu ("Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", Bucuresti, 1998, pg.56-57) avanseaza următoarele cifre: Holocaustul rosu sau crimele in cifre ale comunismului international | Foto: © Dinu Lazar Foto: © Dinu Lazar 1. între 28 iunie 1940 şi 22 iunie 1941 au fost deportaşi în lagărele din Nordul Ingheţat un număr de 300.000 de romani basarabeni şi bucovineni 2. între 1945 şi 1954, 500.000 de români basarabeni şi bucovineni deportaţi în lagăre 3. între 1946 şi 1947, 200.000 - 350.000 de români morţi în urma foametei provocată de Stalin.
1. între 28 iunie 1940 şi 22 iunie 1941, 300.000 de români deportaţi 2. între 1944 şi 1948 , 250.000 de români deportati 3. între 1946 şi 1947 , 300.000 de români morţi în urma fometei provocată de Stalin 4. la 6 iulie 1949 începe a 3-a deportare masivă; 11.324 familii deportate 5. între 1954 şi 1964, 300.000 de români deportaţi în Rusia şi Kazahstan Anton Ovseyenco în "The Time of Stalin: Potret of a Tirrany", N.Y. Harper and Row, 1981 (citat in "Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", pg. 57) , estimează numărul total al victimelor comunismului în Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei la 1.500.000 de persoane. România: din "Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", Florin Mătrescu, Bucureşti, 1998, pg.80-86) reţinem grupurile masive de deportări şi crime: 1. "capitularea fără condiţii" de la 23 august 1944 a avut ca rezultat deportarea a 180.000 de soldaţi şi ofiţeri în lagărele gulagului sovietic (doar câteva mii s-au mai întors). Recent, în mlaştina râului Bălţi din Basarabia a fost descoperit un osuar românesc compus din 50.000 schelete de soldaţi români - din unitaţi ale Armatei Regale Române, care în primăvara 1944 au constituit prima linie de rezistenţă împotriva Armatei Roşii. (citat din Mihai Vicol, "Un "Katyn" românesc" - România Liberă Internaţional, nr.320/04.08.96) 2. ocuparea ţării de către Armata Roşie a însemnat un val de crime în rândul populaţiei civile, crime de proporţii încă necunoscute - oameni ucişi doar pentru a fi jefuiţi sau pentru a-şi apăra fiicele şi soţiile de violuri. 3. colectivizarea forţată a ţărănimii (începând din 1949) a afectat 12.000.000 de ţărani; sate întregi au fost mitraliate şi nimicite cu tunurile - provacând 30.000 de victime. Deportările masive din perioada 1949 - 1960 s-au soldat cu încă 200.000 de ţărani morţi în lagărele de muncă sau închisori. 4. rezistenţa armată din munţi (1946 - 1958), unică in lagărul comunist, a mai adăugat un număr de victime * 5. în cele 120 de închisori şi lagăre de muncă, au murit între 150.000- 200.000 oameni. Cifrele globale ale holocaustului roşu în România: sunt diferite NBold textumărul total al deţinuţilor: - 2.000.000 ( Filip Păunescu - "Cunoaşterea şi combaterea comunismului", Libertatea, anul 8, nr.72 - martie 1989) - 3.000.000 (Cicerone Ioaniţoiu)Italic text Numărul total al morţilor în regimurile Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Ceauşescu, Iliescu (revoluţie, Târgu-Mureş, mineriade, etc.) este greu de stabilit; se descoperă mereu noi gropi comune pe lângă lagărele de muncă şi închisori. Cifra avansată de Florin Mătrescu este de 891.500 morţi în genocidul comunist comis între actualele graniţe ale României.
(Grupul Independent pentru Democraţie) |
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.122.115.70 ( talk) 12:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm after some help with editing the template Template:New Zealand Breakers current roster. I'm wanting to add the symbol denoting injured for a couple players, but I can't figure out how to do that. What code do I need to do for this?
Thanks - Danielfarrellnzl ( talk) 15:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
[[File:Cruz Roja.svg|8px]]
after the name to produce
.
Template:NBL roster footer uses the code [[Image:Cruz Roja.svg|8px|(INJ)]]
to produce
with "(INJ)" as
mouseover text.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)The page relating to Christian Outreach for Relief and Development is names after the old organizational name. The content has been updated.
The title should read Cord as indicated on our website www.cord.org.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.214.136 ( talk) 16:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I recover a deleted file? danhaerle ( talk) 17:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't know about anyone else, but the font your are using on your pages is extremely difficult to read. Would be great if it could be changed to something less thick and blocky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.126.169.226 ( talk) 17:22, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Several pages are coded in an attempt to apply a specific background color to each cell in the header row of a table: for example, Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2012, where many of the tables are meant to have "lightgrey" background color in their header rows, and List of counties in Ohio, where the table header row is meant to have the background color "#ccf".
I think the color in the Ohio article worked properly at one time (maybe in mid-2010), but now when I view the article I no longer see the background color. The 2012 article was created in 2008, and has grown quite a bit since then, and consistently the authors have used the same technique to specify the background color, so I imagine that it worked at one time.
I see that the background color is being placed on the tr tags. I know a way to specify the background color on each th tag, which works, but it is awkward.
One other point: help page en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Tables says: You can add class="wikitable" next to the {| at the start of your table to have the standard formatting applied that applies a background color to table headings..., and then shows what a table is supposed to look like, but as far as I can tell the table heading displayed has just a white background.
Is there a simple way to specify a background color for the header row of a wikitable? Or, has the CSS been changed so that it just doesn't work any longer? If so, shouldn't the Help page be updated? NameIsRon ( talk) 21:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
wikitable
is a class with defined styling that includes: table.wikitable > tr > th,
table.wikitable > * > tr > th,
.mw_metadata th {
text-align: center;
background: white;
font-weight: bold;
wikitable
CSS will always overide whatever you set. But, you can set the style per cell. I think some confuse wikitable
as another term for table wikimarkup. See the
main Vector CSS for more of the wikitable
CSS. I fixed
List of counties in Ohio; I leave the other as an exercise. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 22:57, 21 September 2012 (UTC)Hi there. I'm new to Wikipedia as of about ten minutes ago and would appreciate any pointers to the places I can go to easily find my way round and learn the in's and out's of editing. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by John 1320 ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for formatting the artical on 'geomedical engineering'. It looks excellent. However I could not understand how to wikify it? It has some terminologies already available on Wikipedia, how to link them here? All references provided are available online on highly aunthenticated source (International Medical Geology Association [IMGA] website; www.medical geology.org). How to link them here in the article? I am new user facing difficulty to do that. Would you please help. I really do appeciate. Best Regards, Atteeq — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atteequr ( talk • contribs) 22:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I know someone who was answering questions everyday. I remember hepling him with answers. This was About 2 years ago. now I would like to do what my friend did, but the format looks different. WHAT happened to the page where you can pick catergories and answer questions.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.fixit4444 ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you add a a picture with caption onto a page AND make so this when it is clicked on, you will be taken to the page discussing the image where a larger resolution is available. I have have already uploaded the image, but have not figured out how to link to it or make a scaled down size version of it appear on the page I am editing. It has been uploaded to Wikipedia, not Commons. For example the following link only gives me a "Bad title" error. How do I solve it?
Flowchart of Major Methodist Divisions and Mergers — Preceding unsigned comment added by StephenDJenkins ( talk • contribs) 23:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
[url displayname]
there should be no pipe character '|' in the middle. Pipes are for internal wikilinks. See more at
Help:Link.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)I have had a username and password for years. On a number of occasions I have made contributions to wikipedia articles ... none of them appeared in the articles after I made them. Today for the first time in years I tried to edit Homo Sapiens Sapiens. When I concluded my session and went back to the article my changes were gone.
HEY! I love what you/we are doing, I use wikipedia all the time to do research and your info is almost always excellent. I urge others to use wikipedia. But I also need to understand how to make my suggestions/changes stick so I am not wasting my scarce and precious time.
The following is the addition I made to the article. I saved it this time because of past BAD experiences. How do I make my changes work? I do not have any time to waste!!!
"It is important to understand that "we", homo sapiens sapiens, are a "flash in the pan". In the last Century we have learned/come to believe that the Universe is 13 billion years old and our planet, Earth, is 4 billion years old. As a result of our genome research in the last few decades we have learned that we, homo sapiens sapiens (a recent re-designation), all had a common "mom" in east Africa a mere 200,000 years ago. WE ARE A FLASH IN THE PAN! Not only that, but this realization makes all ethnic predjudices groundless.
The human species is certainly 'different" but only because we have learned to communicate from generation to generation with written language, but ... we are still a brief flash in the pan in the history of the Universe. Humility is the order of the day. Another sobering thought can be drawn from Edwin Hubble's discovery. It is far beyond plausible to conjecture that there are millions and perhaps billions of species as or more "intelligent" than we are in the thing we call the Universe." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drucker0905 ( talk • contribs) 23:46, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey there. I am actually User:MaJic however I can not access my account? I'm not sure what is going on so I have this temp account. What should I do? Thanks. -- Gym and Firebrand ( talk) 00:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC) I would like to use my Right to Vanish under my User:MaJic account, as I have been advised to do so by Wikicommons. Thanks again. -- Gym and Firebrand ( talk) 01:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
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On Vehicle registration plates of Kansas, in the county coding section, I tried creating a table out of previously written information which lists the county codes. I originally tried using a format similar to the one on the Vehicle registration plates of Nebraska page, but then when something seemed wrong, I tried doing it in a format similar to the other two tables on the page. Unfortunately, it seems to think everything after the county code table is a part of the table. I don't know how to fix this. DandyDan2007 ( talk) 05:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I had sumbitted a draft article titled 'Sanjiv Rai' for submission, but do not know where to find this when checking whether it's been published or sent back (post review) for further edition. Appreciate all help.
Best Regards, Monce Monce.abraham ( talk) 06:06, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
in the Burmese system of Measurements, one decimal place has been wrongly given for the Volume conversion from Burmese to Metric of 1pyi. An equivalent metric volume shall be 2,55710424 liters instead of 0,255710424 liters as given on your page. I will be thankful if you will kindly correct it accordingly.
Yours Sincerely <name and address redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.81.165.107 ( talk) 07:12, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Should a copy of this discussion be placed at Talk:Burmese units of measurement? RJFJR ( talk) 14:32, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
To whom it may concern,
I am trying to figure out how the marriage between Wikipedia and Facebook works as far as displaying only articles on a Facebook fan page. According to my research on Facebook, I've learned that the method of accomplishment may be something that I learn from you. I'm going to include a hyperlink with this message so that you can see details of what I'm referring to. If for any reason the hyperlink isn't showing, then log onto Facebook and, in the search bar on the top of the Facebook page, type in a search for 'Rufies'. From the list of options, select the fan page about it...
... You'll notice that it isn't like other fan pages. Instead of being interactive like most fan pages, that page simply tells you what rufies are, and seems to display a wikipedia entry direct from your site. It then properly lists you as a source.
... So, what I'm trying to do is make a fan page for myself, but only to tell people a little bit about me, while preventing people from commenting or being able to interact with it like they can with normal fan pages.
So, again, Facebook tells me that the answer for creating that page lies with you.
As I see that you are a volunteer, I'd like to thank you for taking the time out to read and address this manner.
Sincerely, Crayon Scribe
And here is the link to an example of what I'm trying to create...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rufies/106315892736912 — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Crayon Scribe (
talk •
contribs) 07:27, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. -- Orange Mike | Talk 15:57, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi
can you please change the description underneath the photo of Greenland building to 'Greenlands, 'home to Henley Business School' as we have been Henley Business School since 2008.
many thanks
Nick Tapping Digital Marketing Henley Business School Greenlands Henley-on-Thames — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.126.1 ( talk) 09:21, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Done Roger ( talk) 09:30, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
what is the code that will show the top ten users and the top ten enwest pages please, looked at loads of open source stuff but cant find anything.
thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.79.208.19 ( talk) 11:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
LEGEND! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.79.208.19 ( talk) 12:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Text in Romanian
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România - genocidul sau holocaustul comunist în cifre: Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei: (A) Florin Mătrescu ("Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", Bucuresti, 1998, pg.56-57) avanseaza următoarele cifre: Holocaustul rosu sau crimele in cifre ale comunismului international | Foto: © Dinu Lazar Foto: © Dinu Lazar 1. între 28 iunie 1940 şi 22 iunie 1941 au fost deportaşi în lagărele din Nordul Ingheţat un număr de 300.000 de romani basarabeni şi bucovineni 2. între 1945 şi 1954, 500.000 de români basarabeni şi bucovineni deportaţi în lagăre 3. între 1946 şi 1947, 200.000 - 350.000 de români morţi în urma foametei provocată de Stalin.
1. între 28 iunie 1940 şi 22 iunie 1941, 300.000 de români deportaţi 2. între 1944 şi 1948 , 250.000 de români deportati 3. între 1946 şi 1947 , 300.000 de români morţi în urma fometei provocată de Stalin 4. la 6 iulie 1949 începe a 3-a deportare masivă; 11.324 familii deportate 5. între 1954 şi 1964, 300.000 de români deportaţi în Rusia şi Kazahstan Anton Ovseyenco în "The Time of Stalin: Potret of a Tirrany", N.Y. Harper and Row, 1981 (citat in "Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", pg. 57) , estimează numărul total al victimelor comunismului în Basarabia şi Nordul Bucovinei la 1.500.000 de persoane. România: din "Holocaustul roşu sau crimele în cifre ale comunismului internaţional", Florin Mătrescu, Bucureşti, 1998, pg.80-86) reţinem grupurile masive de deportări şi crime: 1. "capitularea fără condiţii" de la 23 august 1944 a avut ca rezultat deportarea a 180.000 de soldaţi şi ofiţeri în lagărele gulagului sovietic (doar câteva mii s-au mai întors). Recent, în mlaştina râului Bălţi din Basarabia a fost descoperit un osuar românesc compus din 50.000 schelete de soldaţi români - din unitaţi ale Armatei Regale Române, care în primăvara 1944 au constituit prima linie de rezistenţă împotriva Armatei Roşii. (citat din Mihai Vicol, "Un "Katyn" românesc" - România Liberă Internaţional, nr.320/04.08.96) 2. ocuparea ţării de către Armata Roşie a însemnat un val de crime în rândul populaţiei civile, crime de proporţii încă necunoscute - oameni ucişi doar pentru a fi jefuiţi sau pentru a-şi apăra fiicele şi soţiile de violuri. 3. colectivizarea forţată a ţărănimii (începând din 1949) a afectat 12.000.000 de ţărani; sate întregi au fost mitraliate şi nimicite cu tunurile - provacând 30.000 de victime. Deportările masive din perioada 1949 - 1960 s-au soldat cu încă 200.000 de ţărani morţi în lagărele de muncă sau închisori. 4. rezistenţa armată din munţi (1946 - 1958), unică in lagărul comunist, a mai adăugat un număr de victime * 5. în cele 120 de închisori şi lagăre de muncă, au murit între 150.000- 200.000 oameni. Cifrele globale ale holocaustului roşu în România: sunt diferite NBold textumărul total al deţinuţilor: - 2.000.000 ( Filip Păunescu - "Cunoaşterea şi combaterea comunismului", Libertatea, anul 8, nr.72 - martie 1989) - 3.000.000 (Cicerone Ioaniţoiu)Italic text Numărul total al morţilor în regimurile Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Ceauşescu, Iliescu (revoluţie, Târgu-Mureş, mineriade, etc.) este greu de stabilit; se descoperă mereu noi gropi comune pe lângă lagărele de muncă şi închisori. Cifra avansată de Florin Mătrescu este de 891.500 morţi în genocidul comunist comis între actualele graniţe ale României.
(Grupul Independent pentru Democraţie) |
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.122.115.70 ( talk) 12:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm after some help with editing the template Template:New Zealand Breakers current roster. I'm wanting to add the symbol denoting injured for a couple players, but I can't figure out how to do that. What code do I need to do for this?
Thanks - Danielfarrellnzl ( talk) 15:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
[[File:Cruz Roja.svg|8px]]
after the name to produce
.
Template:NBL roster footer uses the code [[Image:Cruz Roja.svg|8px|(INJ)]]
to produce
with "(INJ)" as
mouseover text.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:00, 22 September 2012 (UTC)The page relating to Christian Outreach for Relief and Development is names after the old organizational name. The content has been updated.
The title should read Cord as indicated on our website www.cord.org.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.214.136 ( talk) 16:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
How do I recover a deleted file? danhaerle ( talk) 17:10, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I don't know about anyone else, but the font your are using on your pages is extremely difficult to read. Would be great if it could be changed to something less thick and blocky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.126.169.226 ( talk) 17:22, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Several pages are coded in an attempt to apply a specific background color to each cell in the header row of a table: for example, Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2012, where many of the tables are meant to have "lightgrey" background color in their header rows, and List of counties in Ohio, where the table header row is meant to have the background color "#ccf".
I think the color in the Ohio article worked properly at one time (maybe in mid-2010), but now when I view the article I no longer see the background color. The 2012 article was created in 2008, and has grown quite a bit since then, and consistently the authors have used the same technique to specify the background color, so I imagine that it worked at one time.
I see that the background color is being placed on the tr tags. I know a way to specify the background color on each th tag, which works, but it is awkward.
One other point: help page en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Tables says: You can add class="wikitable" next to the {| at the start of your table to have the standard formatting applied that applies a background color to table headings..., and then shows what a table is supposed to look like, but as far as I can tell the table heading displayed has just a white background.
Is there a simple way to specify a background color for the header row of a wikitable? Or, has the CSS been changed so that it just doesn't work any longer? If so, shouldn't the Help page be updated? NameIsRon ( talk) 21:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
wikitable
is a class with defined styling that includes: table.wikitable > tr > th,
table.wikitable > * > tr > th,
.mw_metadata th {
text-align: center;
background: white;
font-weight: bold;
wikitable
CSS will always overide whatever you set. But, you can set the style per cell. I think some confuse wikitable
as another term for table wikimarkup. See the
main Vector CSS for more of the wikitable
CSS. I fixed
List of counties in Ohio; I leave the other as an exercise. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 22:57, 21 September 2012 (UTC)Hi there. I'm new to Wikipedia as of about ten minutes ago and would appreciate any pointers to the places I can go to easily find my way round and learn the in's and out's of editing. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by John 1320 ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for formatting the artical on 'geomedical engineering'. It looks excellent. However I could not understand how to wikify it? It has some terminologies already available on Wikipedia, how to link them here? All references provided are available online on highly aunthenticated source (International Medical Geology Association [IMGA] website; www.medical geology.org). How to link them here in the article? I am new user facing difficulty to do that. Would you please help. I really do appeciate. Best Regards, Atteeq — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atteequr ( talk • contribs) 22:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I know someone who was answering questions everyday. I remember hepling him with answers. This was About 2 years ago. now I would like to do what my friend did, but the format looks different. WHAT happened to the page where you can pick catergories and answer questions.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.fixit4444 ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
How do you add a a picture with caption onto a page AND make so this when it is clicked on, you will be taken to the page discussing the image where a larger resolution is available. I have have already uploaded the image, but have not figured out how to link to it or make a scaled down size version of it appear on the page I am editing. It has been uploaded to Wikipedia, not Commons. For example the following link only gives me a "Bad title" error. How do I solve it?
Flowchart of Major Methodist Divisions and Mergers — Preceding unsigned comment added by StephenDJenkins ( talk • contribs) 23:24, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
[url displayname]
there should be no pipe character '|' in the middle. Pipes are for internal wikilinks. See more at
Help:Link.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)I have had a username and password for years. On a number of occasions I have made contributions to wikipedia articles ... none of them appeared in the articles after I made them. Today for the first time in years I tried to edit Homo Sapiens Sapiens. When I concluded my session and went back to the article my changes were gone.
HEY! I love what you/we are doing, I use wikipedia all the time to do research and your info is almost always excellent. I urge others to use wikipedia. But I also need to understand how to make my suggestions/changes stick so I am not wasting my scarce and precious time.
The following is the addition I made to the article. I saved it this time because of past BAD experiences. How do I make my changes work? I do not have any time to waste!!!
"It is important to understand that "we", homo sapiens sapiens, are a "flash in the pan". In the last Century we have learned/come to believe that the Universe is 13 billion years old and our planet, Earth, is 4 billion years old. As a result of our genome research in the last few decades we have learned that we, homo sapiens sapiens (a recent re-designation), all had a common "mom" in east Africa a mere 200,000 years ago. WE ARE A FLASH IN THE PAN! Not only that, but this realization makes all ethnic predjudices groundless.
The human species is certainly 'different" but only because we have learned to communicate from generation to generation with written language, but ... we are still a brief flash in the pan in the history of the Universe. Humility is the order of the day. Another sobering thought can be drawn from Edwin Hubble's discovery. It is far beyond plausible to conjecture that there are millions and perhaps billions of species as or more "intelligent" than we are in the thing we call the Universe." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drucker0905 ( talk • contribs) 23:46, 21 September 2012 (UTC)