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Hello,
I am writing on behalf of the Australian National Botanic Gardens about an error listed on our information that appears to the right on the google search page that links to the Wikipedia page. The information states that we are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, but in fact we are open from 8.30am - 5.00 pm every day except Christmas day.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.7.63.177 ( talk) 05:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I posted external links to image galleries that are on topic on several entries, from AMARG to the SS United States. I noticed recently that all of these links were removed. They were not spam, and I have noticed dozens of other articles with links to external references of other websites with image galleries. This is very frustrating and it feels that the ones I am posting are being unfairly singled out. I have read the guide on posting external links but I am not sure why some image galleries relating to subjects are deemed OK while others are not, when the content and style of delivery are very similar.
Is there someone who can explain to me why the ones I have put up are singled out for removal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abandoned america ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am in the process of cleaning up a music groups pages to make them easier to locate for fans. There is one page Neo Ttaemun-ethat has an automatic filter, and it wont let me change the title to the english name of the song "Because of You (After School Song)" So i can make the page match the other after school pages. Please I dont understand why this filter was put, it was like someone wanted to make it impossible to fix this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clowcardruler ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear editors: Because I accepted an article about a person named Jeff Ellis at the Afc, I then had to create a disambiguation page, Jeff Ellis (disambiguation). Another editor has added an item to the page Jeff Ellis (disambiguation), referencing the name of a musician, Donald Hazelwood. There was a rather promotional half=sentence about this bowmaker in the article, referenced to his own web site. Huon removed both the sentence and the item on the disambiguation page. The same user has reverted the disambiguation edit, apparently because policy says that if another article has a redlink, then the disambiguation page can have one too. Now there is another redlink, just created, at Richard Tognetti, which also has a sentence referenced by the bowmaker's own web site. I haven't done much work with disambiguation pages, but this all seems promotional to me. Before removing both items, as Huon did, I would like some input from someone who understands disambiguation rules. — Anne Delong ( talk) 08:30, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Editors, Please alter the 4th reference for the article - Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale. The reference is from the London Gazette - Supplement (dated September 27th, 1911), page 7117, but it is the "Supplement for the Coronation of George V - a list of Peers of the Realm who paid Homage to the Sovereign at Westminster Abbey on June 22nd, 1911" I was wrong thinking that the reference was relating to the Investiture of the Prince of Wales.
Also, please get rid of the "needs additional citations etc " bit at the top of the article. I think it is a good article isn't it? Cheers and thanks Ted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.153.199 ( talk) 10:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
First thanks for the work you do. How does one become a virtual librarian with Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 54.228.68.47 ( talk) 10:33, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Plese insert in wikkipedia Indian Langwage Telugu directly thanking — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.83.46.11 ( talk) 13:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there a way to see the number of new articles I created and which ones they are?-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 13:51, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I had posted on 7/31 regarding a new article on Longmont Public Library. Is it ok now? Thanks. Bkundanis ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:34, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
I am working on making major revisions to my company's Wiki Page which is currently extremely out of date. How can I go about making big revisions to our wiki quickly?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babibonkerz ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there anyway to have some context on a profile permanently deleted as it is inaccurate but as I delete it keeps getting put back on. Can I pay to block such material? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derek.smith2 ( talk • contribs) 15:27, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey there! I was trying to remove/edit {{user sandbox}} from the top of my page and I am unable to. Could you give me a heads up on how to do this?
Thanks LtdMcw ( talk) 15:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I am writing an article and trying to add citations. The following error is coming up when I save: "Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page)." Could you help me with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlyrebecca ( talk • contribs) 17:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi
On your page sex shop about 3/4 down the page it says online retailers. It mentions a few web sites and a very popular English one. I thought I would add ours and link it to our page on your site as it tells people about us. As I have read you can do so as everyone else has. So I created an account done everything properly this time as I bothered reading your guidelines. My account now does not exist? and I had a warning I cant do what other people have done? Why is this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 17:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response. No our shop does not have a Wikipedia article and as far as I can see nor has the other company. Their company name links to them to their info what does it matter if I want to put our name in and link it to our page? it was on your site telling people about ourselves. Thought that was the idea (giving people information). So I take it our account has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 17:55, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
OK we will get coverage in reliable sources and see what happens in the future. Oh sorry account still exists. Bad typing on my behalf. Thanks. Peace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 18:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I have a global account ( this is my user page on it.wikipedia. My global name is Yiyi, but on en.wikipedia there is an user with this nikname ( User:Yiyi), with only 3 contributions dated ugust 2005. So, I created another user on en.wikipedia ( User:Bustocco). Could I change name from Bustocco to Yiyi? If yes, how? Thanks. Sorry if I'm unlogged. -- 95.244.160.149 ( talk) 18:27, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, can someone transfer my account User:Peter Braun74 to User:PeterBraun74 ? - Peter Braun74 ( talk) 18:52, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I am trying to change the Seventeen Magazine Seventeen (magazine) picture to a more recent cover of the magazine. I tried to upload a file by going to the toolbox and following the rules under "upload file" but it still won't let me. How do I change the picture? Mlbrown211 ( talk) 19:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I authored the article in the English Wikipedia on KARL LENNERT. Upon publication, it was redirected from my sandbox. Now, I can't empty my sandbox without the article also disappearing from Wikipedia. Can you help me with this problem, please? Thanks, mrwick1 -- Mrwick1 ( talk) 20:50, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I was a united states marine form 1957 to 1960. I was looking for some information about one of the units I was in and didn't make much head way. I assume that was because no one has taken the time to give you this information. The subject matter I was looking for was about the number of pilots in a U. S. Marine Air Group. I looked at several pages of Wikipedia information and did not get the answer to my question. I also found that the information on the the Marine units I was looking at was pretty skimpy. The first question I asked was what was the First Marine Brigade, your answer was something like "a Brigade is a Military unit made up of two or more smaller units". The correct answer is; The First Marine Brigade of the 1950s and '60s was a Marine Air Group (in this case MAG 13) which was made up of some fixed wing ground attack and some rotory wing transport air craft combined with a reinforced infantry regiment (The Fourth Marine Regiment in this case.) The reinforcement consisted of an Ontos battalion (see below), an amtrak (Landing Vehicle Track) company, a force recon company and some even smaller attached units. The Ontos was a light tracked vehicle with six 106MM recoiless rifles mounted on a small turret on top of it. It was originally designed as a semi high rate of fire anti-tank weapon but was soon found to be an efficient anti-bunker and with white-phosphorus rounds a terrable anti perssonel weapon. I was a squad leader in the 106MM recoiless rifle platoon,first battalion, 4th Marines. I had one 106 R/R mounted on a jeep. The amtrak was an lightly armored amphibious tracked vehicle used basiclly by the Marine Corps to transport troops from LSTs and troop transports to the shore when assaultting a beech. Having tracks it could take the troops up to the tree line and/or dunes before unloading them, giving them a better chance at survival than a landing craft. their biggest draw-back was their slow rate of travel in water and on land. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.101.222 ( talk) 22:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
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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. |
Hello,
I am writing on behalf of the Australian National Botanic Gardens about an error listed on our information that appears to the right on the google search page that links to the Wikipedia page. The information states that we are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, but in fact we are open from 8.30am - 5.00 pm every day except Christmas day.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.7.63.177 ( talk) 05:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I posted external links to image galleries that are on topic on several entries, from AMARG to the SS United States. I noticed recently that all of these links were removed. They were not spam, and I have noticed dozens of other articles with links to external references of other websites with image galleries. This is very frustrating and it feels that the ones I am posting are being unfairly singled out. I have read the guide on posting external links but I am not sure why some image galleries relating to subjects are deemed OK while others are not, when the content and style of delivery are very similar.
Is there someone who can explain to me why the ones I have put up are singled out for removal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abandoned america ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I am in the process of cleaning up a music groups pages to make them easier to locate for fans. There is one page Neo Ttaemun-ethat has an automatic filter, and it wont let me change the title to the english name of the song "Because of You (After School Song)" So i can make the page match the other after school pages. Please I dont understand why this filter was put, it was like someone wanted to make it impossible to fix this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clowcardruler ( talk • contribs) 06:59, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear editors: Because I accepted an article about a person named Jeff Ellis at the Afc, I then had to create a disambiguation page, Jeff Ellis (disambiguation). Another editor has added an item to the page Jeff Ellis (disambiguation), referencing the name of a musician, Donald Hazelwood. There was a rather promotional half=sentence about this bowmaker in the article, referenced to his own web site. Huon removed both the sentence and the item on the disambiguation page. The same user has reverted the disambiguation edit, apparently because policy says that if another article has a redlink, then the disambiguation page can have one too. Now there is another redlink, just created, at Richard Tognetti, which also has a sentence referenced by the bowmaker's own web site. I haven't done much work with disambiguation pages, but this all seems promotional to me. Before removing both items, as Huon did, I would like some input from someone who understands disambiguation rules. — Anne Delong ( talk) 08:30, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Editors, Please alter the 4th reference for the article - Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale. The reference is from the London Gazette - Supplement (dated September 27th, 1911), page 7117, but it is the "Supplement for the Coronation of George V - a list of Peers of the Realm who paid Homage to the Sovereign at Westminster Abbey on June 22nd, 1911" I was wrong thinking that the reference was relating to the Investiture of the Prince of Wales.
Also, please get rid of the "needs additional citations etc " bit at the top of the article. I think it is a good article isn't it? Cheers and thanks Ted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.153.199 ( talk) 10:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
First thanks for the work you do. How does one become a virtual librarian with Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 54.228.68.47 ( talk) 10:33, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Plese insert in wikkipedia Indian Langwage Telugu directly thanking — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.83.46.11 ( talk) 13:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there a way to see the number of new articles I created and which ones they are?-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 13:51, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I had posted on 7/31 regarding a new article on Longmont Public Library. Is it ok now? Thanks. Bkundanis ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:34, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
I am working on making major revisions to my company's Wiki Page which is currently extremely out of date. How can I go about making big revisions to our wiki quickly?
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Babibonkerz ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there anyway to have some context on a profile permanently deleted as it is inaccurate but as I delete it keeps getting put back on. Can I pay to block such material? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derek.smith2 ( talk • contribs) 15:27, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey there! I was trying to remove/edit {{user sandbox}} from the top of my page and I am unable to. Could you give me a heads up on how to do this?
Thanks LtdMcw ( talk) 15:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I am writing an article and trying to add citations. The following error is coming up when I save: "Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page)." Could you help me with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlyrebecca ( talk • contribs) 17:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi
On your page sex shop about 3/4 down the page it says online retailers. It mentions a few web sites and a very popular English one. I thought I would add ours and link it to our page on your site as it tells people about us. As I have read you can do so as everyone else has. So I created an account done everything properly this time as I bothered reading your guidelines. My account now does not exist? and I had a warning I cant do what other people have done? Why is this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 17:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response. No our shop does not have a Wikipedia article and as far as I can see nor has the other company. Their company name links to them to their info what does it matter if I want to put our name in and link it to our page? it was on your site telling people about ourselves. Thought that was the idea (giving people information). So I take it our account has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 17:55, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
OK we will get coverage in reliable sources and see what happens in the future. Oh sorry account still exists. Bad typing on my behalf. Thanks. Peace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.8.0.163 ( talk) 18:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I have a global account ( this is my user page on it.wikipedia. My global name is Yiyi, but on en.wikipedia there is an user with this nikname ( User:Yiyi), with only 3 contributions dated ugust 2005. So, I created another user on en.wikipedia ( User:Bustocco). Could I change name from Bustocco to Yiyi? If yes, how? Thanks. Sorry if I'm unlogged. -- 95.244.160.149 ( talk) 18:27, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, can someone transfer my account User:Peter Braun74 to User:PeterBraun74 ? - Peter Braun74 ( talk) 18:52, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I am trying to change the Seventeen Magazine Seventeen (magazine) picture to a more recent cover of the magazine. I tried to upload a file by going to the toolbox and following the rules under "upload file" but it still won't let me. How do I change the picture? Mlbrown211 ( talk) 19:40, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I authored the article in the English Wikipedia on KARL LENNERT. Upon publication, it was redirected from my sandbox. Now, I can't empty my sandbox without the article also disappearing from Wikipedia. Can you help me with this problem, please? Thanks, mrwick1 -- Mrwick1 ( talk) 20:50, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
I was a united states marine form 1957 to 1960. I was looking for some information about one of the units I was in and didn't make much head way. I assume that was because no one has taken the time to give you this information. The subject matter I was looking for was about the number of pilots in a U. S. Marine Air Group. I looked at several pages of Wikipedia information and did not get the answer to my question. I also found that the information on the the Marine units I was looking at was pretty skimpy. The first question I asked was what was the First Marine Brigade, your answer was something like "a Brigade is a Military unit made up of two or more smaller units". The correct answer is; The First Marine Brigade of the 1950s and '60s was a Marine Air Group (in this case MAG 13) which was made up of some fixed wing ground attack and some rotory wing transport air craft combined with a reinforced infantry regiment (The Fourth Marine Regiment in this case.) The reinforcement consisted of an Ontos battalion (see below), an amtrak (Landing Vehicle Track) company, a force recon company and some even smaller attached units. The Ontos was a light tracked vehicle with six 106MM recoiless rifles mounted on a small turret on top of it. It was originally designed as a semi high rate of fire anti-tank weapon but was soon found to be an efficient anti-bunker and with white-phosphorus rounds a terrable anti perssonel weapon. I was a squad leader in the 106MM recoiless rifle platoon,first battalion, 4th Marines. I had one 106 R/R mounted on a jeep. The amtrak was an lightly armored amphibious tracked vehicle used basiclly by the Marine Corps to transport troops from LSTs and troop transports to the shore when assaultting a beech. Having tracks it could take the troops up to the tree line and/or dunes before unloading them, giving them a better chance at survival than a landing craft. their biggest draw-back was their slow rate of travel in water and on land. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.214.101.222 ( talk) 22:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)