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In this edit, I attempted to move a talk header template on Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. However, as you can see by checking the before and after oldids, the only changes were that the box became a couple of pixels wider and a few pixels closer to the top of the screen. Why didn't my edit cause it to go on top? Nyttend ( talk) 00:05, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Recently I get a lot of script errors in Firefox when browsing, editing, or comparing diffs (Non-responsive script error). That makes Wikipedia browsing slow. I use Firefox 21. This error appeared one week ago and still occurs. How to fix it? Thanks. Zyma ( talk) 05:34, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Script: [1]. Zyma ( talk) 14:50, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Is the Visual Editor supposed to be available for all skins? I use Cologne Blue, and nothing changed for me last week. The "Remove VE" option is not ticked in my preferences. Thanks. Rojomoke ( talk) 08:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hello,
If I goole 'Ishrat Jahan' it takes me to the 'Ishrat Jahan Fake Encounter Case'. I have serious reservation against Wikipedia putting this case as fake encounter. It is not confirmed by the highest court in India whether this case was indeed a fake encounter. So I would urge you to omit the word fake. What is going to be your position in case the courts fail to prove that the case was a fake encounter. Until that is proved, we can go with the assumption that the encounter was genuine.
Thanks, Reader
The use of the word "late" (i.e. dead) is particularly common in articles about people and places in the Indian subcontinent, where it is a form of honorific prefix.
I thought there was a specific guideline against the use of it, but
WP:HONORIFIC only deprecates the use of honorifics relating to title, position or activity, especially in relation to clergy and royalty.
Is there another guideline, that I have missed? does it come under "Honorifics" by inference? or is it an acceptable use?
Arjayay (
talk)
10:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm struggling to edit a citation - so to take it from a cited web-source to properly citing the names, dates etc of the supportive document. WLunnR ( talk) 12:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Smith Wigglesworth's biography — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.221.159.83 ( talk • contribs)
Sirs, If I geotag a photo when I upload it to wikipedia I can add location. If I try to add the location later I often run into difficulties. I have just tried to add ((Location dec |+++++++|+++++++)) to an image and it did not work.
Sometimes ((location possible)) works but more often than not it does not
What am I doing wrong?
Dr John Studley— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dorjaynima ( talk • contribs)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hello.
I have written an Article that merits inclusion in Wikipedia, but I am told the subject, a person, is not properly noteworthy. I understand the wish for secondary source references, but those just don't exist for most newspaper reporters, whose job it was to be invisible as they report their stories. Thomas O'Toole wrote over 2500 articles for The Washington Post over 20 years, after writing first for The Cape Cod Standard Times, The Wall St. Journal, TIME magazine and The New York Times. He wrote a major book forecasting the future with Marvin Cetron, which didn't become a best-seller only because John Naisbitt's Megatrends scooped it by a month and was lavishly promoted. Thomas O'Toole's desk was photographed and reproduced for the set of All The President's Men. He was THE contact person in Washington for NASA over most of his 20 years at The Post. A google search reveals how one article written by Thomas O'Toole in 1983 (Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered) was taken by the conspiracy community and paraded across the internet as a chink in the armor of cover-up of a Planet-X story. Some people would like to see his memory rescued from such false history. Can someone help me edit the article properly and move it forward? Thank you.
Here's the piece as it stands:
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Thomas O'Toole was a science reporter and editor at The Washington Post from 1966 to 1987. His main subject was the space program, in particular the Apollo program to land men on the moon. He extensively covered Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, the Grand Tour probes to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, and the space shuttle program. O'Toole wrote many articles on energy, including the burgeoning nuclear power industry in America. He also covered significant espionage stories, from Cold War subjects to Watergate and the hunt for Nazi figures hiding in America and elsewhere after World War 2. O'Toole was born in 1931 in Jersey City and he attended high school and college at St. Peter's Prep (Hoboken) and St. Peter's College (Jersey City). After doing military service in France, he earned his graduate journalism degree from Boston University and then worked at The Cape Cod Standard Times in Hyannis, reporting on the Andrea Doria ocean liner sinking of 1956. O'Toole returned to New York City, finding work with The Wall St. Journal (1957-61), TIME magazine, and The New York Times (1965-66). He was a partner in the 1962 aerospace and culture magazine USA1, which published five issues before folding. He married Vitaline O'Connell, of Hartford, in 1958 and they had four children. In the summer of 1966, Howard Simons and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post hired Tom O'Toole as The Post was growing into a paper of national prominence. O'Toole immediately began covering the Lunar Orbiter program from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. From there, his work covered every imaginable aspect of the space program. His articles were frequently featured on the front page of the paper. O'Toole was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and he was awarded the National Space Club Press Award in 1970. Around 1980, O'Toole was invited to work with Marvin Cetron on Cetron's first book about the future, titled Encounters with the Future. Cetron and O'Toole were both contributors to OMNI magazine, which collected some of the best science news and writing of the time. Cetron's sweeping predictions, largely gained from his insider position at the Navy Advanced Research Laboratory, were put into context and prose by O'Toole, who brought his own working knowledge of science to the project. The book was published by McGraw-Hill in 1982. O'Toole continued to cover space and energy, among other subjects, for The Washington Post. He visited Three Mile Island during the 1979 crisis at the Pennsylvania nuclear facility. He detailed the space shuttle program from its infancy, although he was in Pasadena covering deep space probe Voyager's encounter with Uranus when the shuttle Challenger blew up in January of 1986. O'Toole worked for several years at public relations firm Powell-Tate in Washington. He was also an early editor and contributor to space.com. He married a second time, to Mary-Kate Cranston of Washington. They had one child. Tom O'Toole died in 2003 from complications from diabetes. |
Owen Sinclair — Preceding unsigned comment added by cosmonaut61 ( talk • contribs)
Created a new account on Wikipedia and was offered option of editing an article 'for clarity'(assume this is not a 'live' article). In addition to the editing for clarity, the article needs research. Ex: Date of birth provided spanned a period of 53-years. Does one just ignore the research question, if he/she has offered to edit for clarity? May I do both - in my spare time?
Thank you, Shannon M. Kulik
I edited the article about me to create a factual, accurate page. I tried using the double brackets [[ ]] to create links on certain words or titles like Baywatch or Thunder in Paradise, but when I save the edit, the brackets were still there and no links. What am I doing wrong? Also, can pictures be added to the article? If so, how? Thanks you Michael Berk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Jerome Berk ( talk • contribs) — Michael Jerome Berk ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
What are the steps to remove the least informative of the two? ``` Buster Seven Talk 22:54, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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In this edit, I attempted to move a talk header template on Talk:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. However, as you can see by checking the before and after oldids, the only changes were that the box became a couple of pixels wider and a few pixels closer to the top of the screen. Why didn't my edit cause it to go on top? Nyttend ( talk) 00:05, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Recently I get a lot of script errors in Firefox when browsing, editing, or comparing diffs (Non-responsive script error). That makes Wikipedia browsing slow. I use Firefox 21. This error appeared one week ago and still occurs. How to fix it? Thanks. Zyma ( talk) 05:34, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Script: [1]. Zyma ( talk) 14:50, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Is the Visual Editor supposed to be available for all skins? I use Cologne Blue, and nothing changed for me last week. The "Remove VE" option is not ticked in my preferences. Thanks. Rojomoke ( talk) 08:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Hello,
If I goole 'Ishrat Jahan' it takes me to the 'Ishrat Jahan Fake Encounter Case'. I have serious reservation against Wikipedia putting this case as fake encounter. It is not confirmed by the highest court in India whether this case was indeed a fake encounter. So I would urge you to omit the word fake. What is going to be your position in case the courts fail to prove that the case was a fake encounter. Until that is proved, we can go with the assumption that the encounter was genuine.
Thanks, Reader
The use of the word "late" (i.e. dead) is particularly common in articles about people and places in the Indian subcontinent, where it is a form of honorific prefix.
I thought there was a specific guideline against the use of it, but
WP:HONORIFIC only deprecates the use of honorifics relating to title, position or activity, especially in relation to clergy and royalty.
Is there another guideline, that I have missed? does it come under "Honorifics" by inference? or is it an acceptable use?
Arjayay (
talk)
10:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm struggling to edit a citation - so to take it from a cited web-source to properly citing the names, dates etc of the supportive document. WLunnR ( talk) 12:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Smith Wigglesworth's biography — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.221.159.83 ( talk • contribs)
Sirs, If I geotag a photo when I upload it to wikipedia I can add location. If I try to add the location later I often run into difficulties. I have just tried to add ((Location dec |+++++++|+++++++)) to an image and it did not work.
Sometimes ((location possible)) works but more often than not it does not
What am I doing wrong?
Dr John Studley— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dorjaynima ( talk • contribs)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Hello.
I have written an Article that merits inclusion in Wikipedia, but I am told the subject, a person, is not properly noteworthy. I understand the wish for secondary source references, but those just don't exist for most newspaper reporters, whose job it was to be invisible as they report their stories. Thomas O'Toole wrote over 2500 articles for The Washington Post over 20 years, after writing first for The Cape Cod Standard Times, The Wall St. Journal, TIME magazine and The New York Times. He wrote a major book forecasting the future with Marvin Cetron, which didn't become a best-seller only because John Naisbitt's Megatrends scooped it by a month and was lavishly promoted. Thomas O'Toole's desk was photographed and reproduced for the set of All The President's Men. He was THE contact person in Washington for NASA over most of his 20 years at The Post. A google search reveals how one article written by Thomas O'Toole in 1983 (Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered) was taken by the conspiracy community and paraded across the internet as a chink in the armor of cover-up of a Planet-X story. Some people would like to see his memory rescued from such false history. Can someone help me edit the article properly and move it forward? Thank you.
Here's the piece as it stands:
Collapsing draft text
|
---|
Thomas O'Toole was a science reporter and editor at The Washington Post from 1966 to 1987. His main subject was the space program, in particular the Apollo program to land men on the moon. He extensively covered Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, the Grand Tour probes to Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, and the space shuttle program. O'Toole wrote many articles on energy, including the burgeoning nuclear power industry in America. He also covered significant espionage stories, from Cold War subjects to Watergate and the hunt for Nazi figures hiding in America and elsewhere after World War 2. O'Toole was born in 1931 in Jersey City and he attended high school and college at St. Peter's Prep (Hoboken) and St. Peter's College (Jersey City). After doing military service in France, he earned his graduate journalism degree from Boston University and then worked at The Cape Cod Standard Times in Hyannis, reporting on the Andrea Doria ocean liner sinking of 1956. O'Toole returned to New York City, finding work with The Wall St. Journal (1957-61), TIME magazine, and The New York Times (1965-66). He was a partner in the 1962 aerospace and culture magazine USA1, which published five issues before folding. He married Vitaline O'Connell, of Hartford, in 1958 and they had four children. In the summer of 1966, Howard Simons and Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post hired Tom O'Toole as The Post was growing into a paper of national prominence. O'Toole immediately began covering the Lunar Orbiter program from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. From there, his work covered every imaginable aspect of the space program. His articles were frequently featured on the front page of the paper. O'Toole was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and he was awarded the National Space Club Press Award in 1970. Around 1980, O'Toole was invited to work with Marvin Cetron on Cetron's first book about the future, titled Encounters with the Future. Cetron and O'Toole were both contributors to OMNI magazine, which collected some of the best science news and writing of the time. Cetron's sweeping predictions, largely gained from his insider position at the Navy Advanced Research Laboratory, were put into context and prose by O'Toole, who brought his own working knowledge of science to the project. The book was published by McGraw-Hill in 1982. O'Toole continued to cover space and energy, among other subjects, for The Washington Post. He visited Three Mile Island during the 1979 crisis at the Pennsylvania nuclear facility. He detailed the space shuttle program from its infancy, although he was in Pasadena covering deep space probe Voyager's encounter with Uranus when the shuttle Challenger blew up in January of 1986. O'Toole worked for several years at public relations firm Powell-Tate in Washington. He was also an early editor and contributor to space.com. He married a second time, to Mary-Kate Cranston of Washington. They had one child. Tom O'Toole died in 2003 from complications from diabetes. |
Owen Sinclair — Preceding unsigned comment added by cosmonaut61 ( talk • contribs)
Created a new account on Wikipedia and was offered option of editing an article 'for clarity'(assume this is not a 'live' article). In addition to the editing for clarity, the article needs research. Ex: Date of birth provided spanned a period of 53-years. Does one just ignore the research question, if he/she has offered to edit for clarity? May I do both - in my spare time?
Thank you, Shannon M. Kulik
I edited the article about me to create a factual, accurate page. I tried using the double brackets [[ ]] to create links on certain words or titles like Baywatch or Thunder in Paradise, but when I save the edit, the brackets were still there and no links. What am I doing wrong? Also, can pictures be added to the article? If so, how? Thanks you Michael Berk — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Jerome Berk ( talk • contribs) — Michael Jerome Berk ( talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
What are the steps to remove the least informative of the two? ``` Buster Seven Talk 22:54, 8 July 2013 (UTC)