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I'm at work and I don't feel comfortable checking an edit due to the possibly NSFW links used for the sources. Could someone who doesn't have prying eyes watching over them check this edit? I think the editor may be using WP:SYNTHESIS to justify their claims. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 00:22, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Why does Template:Types of ant say there's an error? I can't see any possible mistake in the source code for it. Blackbombchu ( talk) 00:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I do not know where to go to ask a question, I searched Jason LaBarbera the NHL hockey player and the information Wikipedia has is the wrong information. He was born January 8th 1980 and he was born in Prince George BC not Burnaby BC. Just wanted to give you right information. Please forward this onto the right area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.68.244 ( talk) 02:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
You have at least one article up that talks about Eskimos being descended from Siberian Mongols. I have recently read a genetics study that asserts that this is inaccurate. More recent genetic studies show that Eskimos are not closely related to Siberian Mongols, but are more related to Northern Navajo Indians. There is not enough tracking information on the Thule people of Asia and the later wave of Athabascan to be certain at this point but I was talking with a Yup'ik recently and he asserts they are descended from the Athabascans, while most literature says the Inuit are descended from the Thule. We need to be cautious about making absolute statements about all of these Indigenous groups since no one has ever properly documented their origins down through the ages. I'm just a hobbiest; not an expert, but I think we need to hear a lot more from geneticists before we can unravel the truth about Arctic Nomadics and other North American Indigenous peoples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.33.62 ( talk) 02:36, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Re: /info/en/?search=Operation_Mockingbird
I need to add a citation to an entry that sorely needs it but don't know how. I just joined Wikipedia and don't know what's up. I tried to edit add information to this section and just got code:
"According to Alex Constantine (Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA), in the 1950s, "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts". Wisner was able to constrain newspapers from reporting about certain events, including the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran (see: Operation Ajax) and Guatemala (see: Operation PBSUCCESS).[9]"
This attribution has been widely circulated but is either unattributed or wrong. I contacted Alex Constantine regarding an article I'm publishing, and he says this:
"The Mockingbird story was a chapter in a book of mine, Virtual Government, published by Feral House in 1997. But an article in The Nation mistakenly identified it as a "book," and reporters have since made periodic reference to it. I have to roll my eyes every time it happens. I wrote to The Nation immediately after I found the error and a correction was printed. Nevertheless, I continue to find references to the "book" that doesn't exist.
Best, Alex Constantine"
I just want to add that citation. Can someone help me out?
Thanks,
Shawn Sacramento — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyperpolysyllabic ( talk • contribs) 03:11, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I use the What links here tool. I usually know what I'm typing in. Recently I have noticed that search suggestions have come to the tool. I do not need its help. Any way to disable it? (It can get annoying, too.) I posted on another page and no one responded. A Great Catholic Person ( talk) 03:54, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Mandruss ( talk · contribs), Dismas ( talk · contribs), I did that, but I still want the dropdown lists for the search, not what links here. A Great Catholic Person ( talk) 04:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Whatever,
I really do not care who sees this.
I cannot print any of your information-CRAP???? This is not how people learn. They have to read, comprehend, compare, examine. That is what books are for.
This system is hopeless. My children get 30 mins a day of television or movies, another 20 minutes on a device. They read books every night, and have inherited my love of history. My youngest-she is six- asked me to look upon the computer and PRINT about James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Scotland. I have found what she wants but your company does not allow printing.
This is not the first time I have encountered this problem. It is appalling. Some of us want our children educated properly so unless I get confirmation that your site will be printer friendly-with a fee if that is necessary- I will be doing all sorts of nasty notifications about your site's greed, indifference to education, indifference to basic learning etc.
That is not a threat, a fact.
Samantha Ward — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.183.57.38 ( talk) 05:44, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
i want to update the article List of manned spacecraft, if you see this article List of manned spacecraft there is section called Current manned spacecraft section, in that USA country is missing, i want to add the manned space-craft belongs to USA, & also i want to remove Space stations in Current manned spacecraft, because space stations don't return to earth like manned space-crafts does. how can i do this changes or any wikipedia editor please modify the changes which i am asking, i don't want to spoil wiki articles in any form i want to update the wikipedia articles, so i am posting this section. Ram nareshji ( talk) 07:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I have created a page on Henri Bol, but in the heading Bol is bol. I would like to change the b into a capital B. How do I do that? Thanks /info/en/?search=Henri_bol Gesinamartina ( talk) 13:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: Which template should be added inline after a link to a disambiguation page, if I can't disambiguate because I don't know which item was intended? I found one called "which", but it appears to be intended for use on weasel words. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
{{
disambiguation needed}}
?Apparently you only get around 10 free page views at the NYT's online, and I don't want to subscribe. Does anybody have free access to this article here and the NYT's in general? Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:31, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there a policy in Wikipedia in which good articles should not be deleted? I was wondering this when I thought about how much work it takes to write a good article. PointsofNoReturn ( talk) 16:27, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
In my opinion, the fourth word of the original post should have disqualified it for this page, anyway. This page is for help using and editing Wikipedia. Granted, that's a very general description, but I would think it would exclude things that are better suited for Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Or, WP:Noticeboards says, "Noticeboards are not places to advocate for change to Wikipedia's existing policies. Instead, such suggestions should be taken directly to the talk page of the applicable policy or guideline." One could interpret that as suggesting that page as a good place for clarification of policy. Either way, Help desk doesn't seem the appropriate place for such discussion. ‑‑ Mandruss ☎ 22:25, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello
I have created and saved a draft article on mypage called Cleaview (house). Can someone please check it is ok and whether it can be put on Wilipedia. Also, I wanted to add some photographs of the house but don't know how so if someone can please help me with that too.
Kind regards Paul (moulash) Moulash ( talk) 16:40, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
, and the software numbers them and collects them at the end of the article. See
referencing for beginners for more on this.I think their should be a page called 'DC Shared Universe' (DCSU) for man of steel and the 10 new films. Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) have a page, and now dc have a similar theme going on. They used to have the DCSU but because there was only one film, 'man of steel', it was deleted and i think the page should be re-made, just take the same idea and layout as Marvel's MCU page. It would be much appreciated thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.43.108.80 ( talk) 16:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Politecnico di Studi Aziendali is an unaccredited Swiss school (see also its talk page), but some editors, chiefly anonymous apart from a brand new account, keep writing that it is accredited. The latest valid revision is http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Politecnico_di_Studi_Aziendali&oldid=631064576 by User:Sfan00_IMG. Is it possible to stop this vandalism? Thank you.-- Bianbum ( talk) 17:20, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I recently changed my e-mail address. Despite searching (I found out, for example, how to change my password), I don't see an option for changing the e-mail address. This must exist so if someone can point me to where it is, I'll appreciate it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bblinn ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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< October 25 | << Sep | October | Nov >> | October 27 > |
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'm at work and I don't feel comfortable checking an edit due to the possibly NSFW links used for the sources. Could someone who doesn't have prying eyes watching over them check this edit? I think the editor may be using WP:SYNTHESIS to justify their claims. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 00:22, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Why does Template:Types of ant say there's an error? I can't see any possible mistake in the source code for it. Blackbombchu ( talk) 00:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I do not know where to go to ask a question, I searched Jason LaBarbera the NHL hockey player and the information Wikipedia has is the wrong information. He was born January 8th 1980 and he was born in Prince George BC not Burnaby BC. Just wanted to give you right information. Please forward this onto the right area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.68.244 ( talk) 02:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
You have at least one article up that talks about Eskimos being descended from Siberian Mongols. I have recently read a genetics study that asserts that this is inaccurate. More recent genetic studies show that Eskimos are not closely related to Siberian Mongols, but are more related to Northern Navajo Indians. There is not enough tracking information on the Thule people of Asia and the later wave of Athabascan to be certain at this point but I was talking with a Yup'ik recently and he asserts they are descended from the Athabascans, while most literature says the Inuit are descended from the Thule. We need to be cautious about making absolute statements about all of these Indigenous groups since no one has ever properly documented their origins down through the ages. I'm just a hobbiest; not an expert, but I think we need to hear a lot more from geneticists before we can unravel the truth about Arctic Nomadics and other North American Indigenous peoples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.33.62 ( talk) 02:36, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Re: /info/en/?search=Operation_Mockingbird
I need to add a citation to an entry that sorely needs it but don't know how. I just joined Wikipedia and don't know what's up. I tried to edit add information to this section and just got code:
"According to Alex Constantine (Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA), in the 1950s, "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts". Wisner was able to constrain newspapers from reporting about certain events, including the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran (see: Operation Ajax) and Guatemala (see: Operation PBSUCCESS).[9]"
This attribution has been widely circulated but is either unattributed or wrong. I contacted Alex Constantine regarding an article I'm publishing, and he says this:
"The Mockingbird story was a chapter in a book of mine, Virtual Government, published by Feral House in 1997. But an article in The Nation mistakenly identified it as a "book," and reporters have since made periodic reference to it. I have to roll my eyes every time it happens. I wrote to The Nation immediately after I found the error and a correction was printed. Nevertheless, I continue to find references to the "book" that doesn't exist.
Best, Alex Constantine"
I just want to add that citation. Can someone help me out?
Thanks,
Shawn Sacramento — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyperpolysyllabic ( talk • contribs) 03:11, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I use the What links here tool. I usually know what I'm typing in. Recently I have noticed that search suggestions have come to the tool. I do not need its help. Any way to disable it? (It can get annoying, too.) I posted on another page and no one responded. A Great Catholic Person ( talk) 03:54, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Mandruss ( talk · contribs), Dismas ( talk · contribs), I did that, but I still want the dropdown lists for the search, not what links here. A Great Catholic Person ( talk) 04:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Whatever,
I really do not care who sees this.
I cannot print any of your information-CRAP???? This is not how people learn. They have to read, comprehend, compare, examine. That is what books are for.
This system is hopeless. My children get 30 mins a day of television or movies, another 20 minutes on a device. They read books every night, and have inherited my love of history. My youngest-she is six- asked me to look upon the computer and PRINT about James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Scotland. I have found what she wants but your company does not allow printing.
This is not the first time I have encountered this problem. It is appalling. Some of us want our children educated properly so unless I get confirmation that your site will be printer friendly-with a fee if that is necessary- I will be doing all sorts of nasty notifications about your site's greed, indifference to education, indifference to basic learning etc.
That is not a threat, a fact.
Samantha Ward — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.183.57.38 ( talk) 05:44, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
i want to update the article List of manned spacecraft, if you see this article List of manned spacecraft there is section called Current manned spacecraft section, in that USA country is missing, i want to add the manned space-craft belongs to USA, & also i want to remove Space stations in Current manned spacecraft, because space stations don't return to earth like manned space-crafts does. how can i do this changes or any wikipedia editor please modify the changes which i am asking, i don't want to spoil wiki articles in any form i want to update the wikipedia articles, so i am posting this section. Ram nareshji ( talk) 07:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I have created a page on Henri Bol, but in the heading Bol is bol. I would like to change the b into a capital B. How do I do that? Thanks /info/en/?search=Henri_bol Gesinamartina ( talk) 13:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: Which template should be added inline after a link to a disambiguation page, if I can't disambiguate because I don't know which item was intended? I found one called "which", but it appears to be intended for use on weasel words. — Anne Delong ( talk) 13:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
{{
disambiguation needed}}
?Apparently you only get around 10 free page views at the NYT's online, and I don't want to subscribe. Does anybody have free access to this article here and the NYT's in general? Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:31, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there a policy in Wikipedia in which good articles should not be deleted? I was wondering this when I thought about how much work it takes to write a good article. PointsofNoReturn ( talk) 16:27, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
In my opinion, the fourth word of the original post should have disqualified it for this page, anyway. This page is for help using and editing Wikipedia. Granted, that's a very general description, but I would think it would exclude things that are better suited for Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Or, WP:Noticeboards says, "Noticeboards are not places to advocate for change to Wikipedia's existing policies. Instead, such suggestions should be taken directly to the talk page of the applicable policy or guideline." One could interpret that as suggesting that page as a good place for clarification of policy. Either way, Help desk doesn't seem the appropriate place for such discussion. ‑‑ Mandruss ☎ 22:25, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello
I have created and saved a draft article on mypage called Cleaview (house). Can someone please check it is ok and whether it can be put on Wilipedia. Also, I wanted to add some photographs of the house but don't know how so if someone can please help me with that too.
Kind regards Paul (moulash) Moulash ( talk) 16:40, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
, and the software numbers them and collects them at the end of the article. See
referencing for beginners for more on this.I think their should be a page called 'DC Shared Universe' (DCSU) for man of steel and the 10 new films. Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) have a page, and now dc have a similar theme going on. They used to have the DCSU but because there was only one film, 'man of steel', it was deleted and i think the page should be re-made, just take the same idea and layout as Marvel's MCU page. It would be much appreciated thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.43.108.80 ( talk) 16:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Politecnico di Studi Aziendali is an unaccredited Swiss school (see also its talk page), but some editors, chiefly anonymous apart from a brand new account, keep writing that it is accredited. The latest valid revision is http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Politecnico_di_Studi_Aziendali&oldid=631064576 by User:Sfan00_IMG. Is it possible to stop this vandalism? Thank you.-- Bianbum ( talk) 17:20, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
I recently changed my e-mail address. Despite searching (I found out, for example, how to change my password), I don't see an option for changing the e-mail address. This must exist so if someone can point me to where it is, I'll appreciate it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bblinn ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)