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I have an expansive collection of historical maps. Whenever I edit information maintained by Mn/DOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation), the information is always reverted to the data that this agency wants to appear on the page, not what may actually be factual. Is there a way to have the pages marked/flagged that public edit is not allowed? Personally I feel that this group is violating the open source content objective of Wikipedia. It is very frustrating that they continue this warring on contributers and false information is being presented to the public, because "this is not recognized be Mn/DOT".
I nominated an article for deletion. The deletion debate appears to be getting a little unpleasant. Could someone who has not been involved in the deletion debate take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin A. Neil? Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:56, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Both {{ GZM RDT}} and {{ GZM RDT/doc}} have remain unchanged for quite some time. I am pretty sure that the last time I looked at them they were normal (the template pages themselves, not transclusions). What is breaking them and how to fix it? Repeated purging does not help. Kxx ( talk | contribs) 02:15, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, our company has changed name from Sentia Media to iSentia but I cannot get access to change the page name. Can you please amend this, in line with the copy which is already adjusted?
Thanks
John Chalmers
Group Communications Manager <redacted contact details> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.110.146.116 ( talk) 06:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
When we encounter non-vandal editors who refuse to embrace grammar, MOS standards, etc, is there a non-invasive, non-combative way to request an unbiased set of eyes regularly review their edits to a specific article? (I don't mean ALL of their edits, because that's beyond the scope of my interest). The Dispute Resolution board seems to deal with SPECIFIC disputes, not "This dude just doesn't get it" disputes. I don't find it an equitable solution that I bow-out of editing the articles I'm interested in, but I find myself biased against hard-headed editors who seem impervious to correction or edification, and I've Assumed Good Faith when reasonable, occasionally going to great lengths to explain reversions. Is there a polite way to solicit other editors' participation in specific article updates without creating an official complaint against the contributor(s) and their content? I'm not interested in banhammers, only quality articles. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 06:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I wanna use the template on danish wikipedia but is it possible to make so it so the link say Santiago del Estero but at same time links to Provincia de Santiago del Estero like Santiago del Estero this? -- 89.249.2.53 ( talk) 07:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have two accounts, this one which I used on the English wikipedia and one I used on the dutch wikipedia. I would like to rectify this situation and if I'm not mistaken, I should make a usurpation request. However, I really don't like either of the names I used, so I would like a username change as well. How would I best go about this?
What I think I would have to is to first request a name change for one of the accounts, then once that is done create a usurpation request to merge the two accounts and then verify that the other account is my own by responding to the request with it.
Is this correct? Is there a more direct way to approach this situation? Is it a problem that I don't have all that many edits in any of the accounts?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks for any help. My name is Jasper ( talk) 08:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam, i noticed in the subject information that Mohamed Rajabdeen is a sri lankan moor which is not the case. In fact his family are considered as Indian muslims living in sri lanka. Please do the correction to ensure that we as sri lankan moors maintain our identity.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colombosrilanka ( talk • contribs) 08:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
good day to you, a 3 months pregnant PHL women been send out to work oversea by a PHL agency in PHL,any one there in PHL can help her parent in PHL to make a complaints against the agency at PHL, please give the parent at PHL a helping hand, hope to hear from you ASAP, thank you
Yap S C — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.110.98 ( talk) 08:45, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Please delete article Cowell area school as there are grammar errors in the title leading to its orphan status. I could not change or fix the title so I copied and corrected the whole page to Cowell Area School which links correctly and is no longer orphaned. Alternatively if someone could fix the grammar error in the original page's title and then delete the new one I would be ok with that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malcolmjrogers ( talk • contribs) 13:37, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I cannot make John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston appear on my screen. Not a problem I've had with any other article. I just get a totally blank screen when I click on the blue link, i.e. from article Baron Churston. Any ideas? Thanks. ( Lobsterthermidor ( talk) 14:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC))
If I want to quote markup language in a talk page without having the markup language take effect, what do I do? How do I turn off the magic?
For background, on an article talk page, there is a special form of SHOUTING. Rather than using BLOCK CAPITALS, which is so 1980's, having been considered shouting by the Internet community since the Internet was the ARPANET, the raw text includes (font size="+3"), except that the parentheses are angle brackets. In discussing this, how do I display the angle brackets rather than having them shout and disfigure the talk page? Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:58, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have entered constructive Talk Comments requesting the page edit to supply a reference for the claims of the edit. This comment disappeared once but I have since reposted the comment. Can someone at Wikipedia check if I'm posting Talk Comments correctly and show me how to improve them if I am not. Thank you. VALID REALITY ( talk) 16:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VALID REALITY ( talk • contribs) 16:03, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I am having problems navigating the image insert of a photo of myself. It is a photo of me that I own. It is up online at my IMDB home page gallery, and also on my personal website danielquinn.net. I was able to enter it on the Wikipedia Commons site, but I would like viewers to see it on my regular Wikipedia page.
Thank you, Daniel Quinn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenmab819 ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for responding so quickly. Yes I am the younger Daniel Quinn. I am the actor not the writer. This is the jpeg I have uploaded to the Commons site. /Users/dqactor/Desktop/Daniel_Quinntwick.jpeg I appreciate all of your help! Best regards, Daniel Quinn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenmab819 ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey, has anybody seen
Cacycle? I need his help on the subjects of a couple of posts that I added near the bottom of
the talk page that he uses for wikEd stuff, but he hasn't responded to either of those or to an e-mail that I sent him. Maybe he'll pop in later today with a new version of wikEd or something, but he needs to read the feedback that I've given him first!
RandomDSdevel (
talk) 16:58, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Please advise how I can go about updating a photo which shows the 152nd Airlift Wing's current unit patch. Also, I'm unable to update the page to say "152nd Airlift Wing" instead of "152d Airlift Wing." Thank You! 152AW/Public Affairs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.79.9.16 ( talk) 17:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have no idea where to ask this, but I'm curious why the Upload File option uses {{ Non-free use rationale 2}}? It's not so much that it's confusing to fill out, but that the end result looks like it was hacked out by some noob (me). See here. Whereas {{ Non-free use rationale album cover}} has so much more information that's far better worded and explained. Why can't these two templates be combined so that the NFCC links appear, but the wording is still more professional, and the template doesn't look like some half-filled out thing with "n.a."s and sentences that start with lowercases and so forth? – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 17:36, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Can someone figure out why state=expanded is not working at Helen Keller in Template:Helen Keller.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
English is not my mother tongue and I am new at Wikipedia. Could you please tell me if I may do something not according to Wikipedia:NPA here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Primark&oldid=553381930#.27Sweatshops.27_.26_Primark?
Many thanks, New worl ( talk) 18:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please go to Talk:Primark#.27Sweatshops.27_.26_Primark
Thanks, New worl ( talk) 09:23, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
On the QSI Corporation page, the page title needs to change from QSI Corporation, as that company has been bought out by Beijer Electronics in 2010, to Beijer Electronics Inc.
I know how to change the text within the page but the page title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSI_Corporation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.128.33.98 ( talk) 21:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.128.33.98 ( talk) 23:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have a question about whether Checkuser can be used "in reverse". Here is the situation. A biographical article page, Rebecca Hall, was being partially blanked by a non-registered user, who was claiming that reliably sourced biographical information is false, and was therefore deleting it. (It was characterized as vandalism, but I think that label is questionable. It appears to be a content dispute, in which the unregistered user may have an obsession.) The IP address has now been blocked. A new registered user, while not deleting the information, is ranting about it on the talk page. Is Checkuser in order, or should we just wait and see what the user does next? Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:12, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Recently I asked:
I would like to search for changes tagged with col-spam or autobiography. I tried putting both tags in the tag filter box with no extra operators, both tags joined with an OR operator and both tags with an OR operator with the terms inside ()s. None of these worked. How do I find recent changes that have been tagged with one or more tags?
Someone suggested that I use WP:CATSCAN but that does not seem to sork for me. Am I using catscan incorrectly? DouglasCalvert ( talk) 22:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
This may not be the right forum, but I'd like to get the opinion of other editors on this image, which has been added to a couple of pages here and on es.wikipedia. It appears to me to be pure WP:SYNTH, an imagined reconstruction based on various sources, and I have removed it accordingly. It is an interesting and well-made image, but I don't believe it belongs here. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< May 2 | << Apr | May | Jun >> | May 4 > |
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. |
I have an expansive collection of historical maps. Whenever I edit information maintained by Mn/DOT (Minnesota Department of Transportation), the information is always reverted to the data that this agency wants to appear on the page, not what may actually be factual. Is there a way to have the pages marked/flagged that public edit is not allowed? Personally I feel that this group is violating the open source content objective of Wikipedia. It is very frustrating that they continue this warring on contributers and false information is being presented to the public, because "this is not recognized be Mn/DOT".
I nominated an article for deletion. The deletion debate appears to be getting a little unpleasant. Could someone who has not been involved in the deletion debate take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin A. Neil? Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:56, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Both {{ GZM RDT}} and {{ GZM RDT/doc}} have remain unchanged for quite some time. I am pretty sure that the last time I looked at them they were normal (the template pages themselves, not transclusions). What is breaking them and how to fix it? Repeated purging does not help. Kxx ( talk | contribs) 02:15, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, our company has changed name from Sentia Media to iSentia but I cannot get access to change the page name. Can you please amend this, in line with the copy which is already adjusted?
Thanks
John Chalmers
Group Communications Manager <redacted contact details> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.110.146.116 ( talk) 06:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
When we encounter non-vandal editors who refuse to embrace grammar, MOS standards, etc, is there a non-invasive, non-combative way to request an unbiased set of eyes regularly review their edits to a specific article? (I don't mean ALL of their edits, because that's beyond the scope of my interest). The Dispute Resolution board seems to deal with SPECIFIC disputes, not "This dude just doesn't get it" disputes. I don't find it an equitable solution that I bow-out of editing the articles I'm interested in, but I find myself biased against hard-headed editors who seem impervious to correction or edification, and I've Assumed Good Faith when reasonable, occasionally going to great lengths to explain reversions. Is there a polite way to solicit other editors' participation in specific article updates without creating an official complaint against the contributor(s) and their content? I'm not interested in banhammers, only quality articles. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 06:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I wanna use the template on danish wikipedia but is it possible to make so it so the link say Santiago del Estero but at same time links to Provincia de Santiago del Estero like Santiago del Estero this? -- 89.249.2.53 ( talk) 07:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have two accounts, this one which I used on the English wikipedia and one I used on the dutch wikipedia. I would like to rectify this situation and if I'm not mistaken, I should make a usurpation request. However, I really don't like either of the names I used, so I would like a username change as well. How would I best go about this?
What I think I would have to is to first request a name change for one of the accounts, then once that is done create a usurpation request to merge the two accounts and then verify that the other account is my own by responding to the request with it.
Is this correct? Is there a more direct way to approach this situation? Is it a problem that I don't have all that many edits in any of the accounts?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks for any help. My name is Jasper ( talk) 08:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam, i noticed in the subject information that Mohamed Rajabdeen is a sri lankan moor which is not the case. In fact his family are considered as Indian muslims living in sri lanka. Please do the correction to ensure that we as sri lankan moors maintain our identity.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colombosrilanka ( talk • contribs) 08:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
good day to you, a 3 months pregnant PHL women been send out to work oversea by a PHL agency in PHL,any one there in PHL can help her parent in PHL to make a complaints against the agency at PHL, please give the parent at PHL a helping hand, hope to hear from you ASAP, thank you
Yap S C — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.110.98 ( talk) 08:45, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Please delete article Cowell area school as there are grammar errors in the title leading to its orphan status. I could not change or fix the title so I copied and corrected the whole page to Cowell Area School which links correctly and is no longer orphaned. Alternatively if someone could fix the grammar error in the original page's title and then delete the new one I would be ok with that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malcolmjrogers ( talk • contribs) 13:37, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I cannot make John Yarde-Buller, 1st Baron Churston appear on my screen. Not a problem I've had with any other article. I just get a totally blank screen when I click on the blue link, i.e. from article Baron Churston. Any ideas? Thanks. ( Lobsterthermidor ( talk) 14:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC))
If I want to quote markup language in a talk page without having the markup language take effect, what do I do? How do I turn off the magic?
For background, on an article talk page, there is a special form of SHOUTING. Rather than using BLOCK CAPITALS, which is so 1980's, having been considered shouting by the Internet community since the Internet was the ARPANET, the raw text includes (font size="+3"), except that the parentheses are angle brackets. In discussing this, how do I display the angle brackets rather than having them shout and disfigure the talk page? Robert McClenon ( talk) 14:58, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have entered constructive Talk Comments requesting the page edit to supply a reference for the claims of the edit. This comment disappeared once but I have since reposted the comment. Can someone at Wikipedia check if I'm posting Talk Comments correctly and show me how to improve them if I am not. Thank you. VALID REALITY ( talk) 16:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VALID REALITY ( talk • contribs) 16:03, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I am having problems navigating the image insert of a photo of myself. It is a photo of me that I own. It is up online at my IMDB home page gallery, and also on my personal website danielquinn.net. I was able to enter it on the Wikipedia Commons site, but I would like viewers to see it on my regular Wikipedia page.
Thank you, Daniel Quinn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenmab819 ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for responding so quickly. Yes I am the younger Daniel Quinn. I am the actor not the writer. This is the jpeg I have uploaded to the Commons site. /Users/dqactor/Desktop/Daniel_Quinntwick.jpeg I appreciate all of your help! Best regards, Daniel Quinn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenmab819 ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey, has anybody seen
Cacycle? I need his help on the subjects of a couple of posts that I added near the bottom of
the talk page that he uses for wikEd stuff, but he hasn't responded to either of those or to an e-mail that I sent him. Maybe he'll pop in later today with a new version of wikEd or something, but he needs to read the feedback that I've given him first!
RandomDSdevel (
talk) 16:58, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Please advise how I can go about updating a photo which shows the 152nd Airlift Wing's current unit patch. Also, I'm unable to update the page to say "152nd Airlift Wing" instead of "152d Airlift Wing." Thank You! 152AW/Public Affairs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.79.9.16 ( talk) 17:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have no idea where to ask this, but I'm curious why the Upload File option uses {{ Non-free use rationale 2}}? It's not so much that it's confusing to fill out, but that the end result looks like it was hacked out by some noob (me). See here. Whereas {{ Non-free use rationale album cover}} has so much more information that's far better worded and explained. Why can't these two templates be combined so that the NFCC links appear, but the wording is still more professional, and the template doesn't look like some half-filled out thing with "n.a."s and sentences that start with lowercases and so forth? – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 17:36, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Can someone figure out why state=expanded is not working at Helen Keller in Template:Helen Keller.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
English is not my mother tongue and I am new at Wikipedia. Could you please tell me if I may do something not according to Wikipedia:NPA here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Primark&oldid=553381930#.27Sweatshops.27_.26_Primark?
Many thanks, New worl ( talk) 18:38, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
Could you please go to Talk:Primark#.27Sweatshops.27_.26_Primark
Thanks, New worl ( talk) 09:23, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
On the QSI Corporation page, the page title needs to change from QSI Corporation, as that company has been bought out by Beijer Electronics in 2010, to Beijer Electronics Inc.
I know how to change the text within the page but the page title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSI_Corporation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.128.33.98 ( talk) 21:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.128.33.98 ( talk) 23:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I have a question about whether Checkuser can be used "in reverse". Here is the situation. A biographical article page, Rebecca Hall, was being partially blanked by a non-registered user, who was claiming that reliably sourced biographical information is false, and was therefore deleting it. (It was characterized as vandalism, but I think that label is questionable. It appears to be a content dispute, in which the unregistered user may have an obsession.) The IP address has now been blocked. A new registered user, while not deleting the information, is ranting about it on the talk page. Is Checkuser in order, or should we just wait and see what the user does next? Robert McClenon ( talk) 22:12, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Recently I asked:
I would like to search for changes tagged with col-spam or autobiography. I tried putting both tags in the tag filter box with no extra operators, both tags joined with an OR operator and both tags with an OR operator with the terms inside ()s. None of these worked. How do I find recent changes that have been tagged with one or more tags?
Someone suggested that I use WP:CATSCAN but that does not seem to sork for me. Am I using catscan incorrectly? DouglasCalvert ( talk) 22:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
This may not be the right forum, but I'd like to get the opinion of other editors on this image, which has been added to a couple of pages here and on es.wikipedia. It appears to me to be pure WP:SYNTH, an imagined reconstruction based on various sources, and I have removed it accordingly. It is an interesting and well-made image, but I don't believe it belongs here. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 23:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)