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Hello, I would like to know how to go about changing the wiki page from user: Earnest Diaz to a regular titled page Earnest Diaz
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Earnest_Diaz
Earnest Diaz 01:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Earnest Diaz ( talk • contribs)
I have noticed that at times that templates that use Arabic script which involves the script going from right to left will effectively capture text that is outside the double brackets marking the end of the template eg ([[Kurdish language|Kurdish:عمر سهروردى]]c.1144-1234). (This piece of code comes from the article Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi. Despite my best efforts I can't seem to cleanly get the template to stop capturing the birth and death dates that follow. So I had to artificially put in the c. to try and physically separate the dates from the text template. I can't believe I am the only one facing this problem and hopefully it is already addressed somewhere, but I couldn't find it. Thanks -- Chewings72 ( talk) 07:52, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
[[Apple]]s
renders as
Apples, and [[Apples]]
as
Apples. Note that both the links render the same, though the first link takes you to "Apple" while the second to "Apples". It helps when you want to use plural words. Rather than typing [[Apple|Apples]]
simply type [[Apple]]s
. So, you should put a space between the link and "c." to get it right. If you want no space and no eating up of the word by the link, use a
zero-width space, U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (​, ​, ​, ​, ​). --
Fauzan
✆ talk
✉ mail
09:17, 3 October 2014 (UTC)The heading of the page '32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment' should be changed to '32 Signal Regiment'. We are no longer known as a Scottish Regiment. I have read through the processes for change, however, I cannot seem to find how to change this myself.
Your help is greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cameraface ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Good Morning, I have tried to create a page, and was told that it can only be created by administrators. When I followed the link, the administrator said that he/she is on a long breal from wikipedia and that other administrators can review his past articles. Since I am very new to Wikipedia, please help me with who should I contact to get that page created ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?action=edit&preload=Template%3AUnreviewed-preload&editintro=Template%3AUnreviewed-editintro&summary=&nosummary=&prefix=&minor=&title=Daniel+Kanu&create=Create+a+new+article+directly)
Thank You Ljiljana K — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ljiljana K ( talk • contribs) 09:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I was creating a webpage on wiki and wanted to give up. How can I delete the account and everything it provides...?
I searched through google and wiki but it all says I am not able to delete it that I am not "admin" of wiki...
I need help could you please ?
Sincerely, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaron Sam Peterson ( talk • contribs) 09:51, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
It is not possible to delete user accounts, as all contributions must be assigned to some identifier; either a username or an
IP address.
All Wikipedia editors have the right to leave Wikipedia for good (ie, permanently). The usual way to leave the Wikipedia project is simply to stop editing. Your contributions remain in Wikipedia. If you wish to resume editing at a later date, you can simply start again by logging into the same account. Old accounts that have any significant edits are almost never deleted or recycled to new users.
If you decide to make a fresh start and do not wish to be connected to a previous account, you can simply discontinue the old account(s) and create a new one that becomes the only account you use. Discontinuing the old account means it will not be used again; it should note on its user page that it is inactive— for example, with the {{ retired}} tag —to prevent the switch being seen as an attempt to sock puppet.
Editors seeking privacy per their right to vanish can have their accounts renamed and their user pages and (in some cases) user talk pages deleted. -- Gadget850 talk 12:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to change the name of this school * St George's School: A Church of England Academy
The page title needs to become "St George's School: A Church of England Academy". I've looked all over but just can't find a way of doing it, any help would be much appreciated!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr-kennedy ( talk • contribs) 10:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I took the liberty of making the following additional edits:
{{DISPLAYTITLE:St George's School: A Church of England Academy}}
, which was added shortly before the move.{{DEFAULTSORT:St George's School: A Church of England Academy}}
I hope these edits are all appropriate. ‑‑ Mandruss ( talk) 09:29, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi I have just read an article about Jorge Grant professional football player for Nottingham forest, it states that he is 20 years of age.
However this is not the case, he is still 19 and will not be 20 until December. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.134.239.154 ( talk) 11:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there any way I can do this? -- P123ct1 ( talk) 13:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to create a page/article for the disease myalgic Encephalomyelitis , but when I check ed too see if it already exists I am directed to the chronic fatigue syndrome page.
Any ME page would have many links to the CFS page, but as there are now differential diagnostic criterias for both illnesses I believe they should have separate pages. [1]
Otherwise everyone who googles ME gets sent to CFS , which causes bad patient outcomes in hospital settings .
How can I 'undo the page redirection and create a new one?
Ps I'm new at this and was hoping to do a draft page slowly,
Best regards
Littlefish123 ( talk) 17:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Littlefish123 Littlefish123 ( talk) 17:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
References
Hey, I have the page WWII Puppet States, and I have a table with most of (hopefully) the puppet states in WWII. In this page, there is a table. Some of the info in this table have background colors, using the tool bgcolor=, and then a color, like lightgreen. I'm trying to add a column to the table with flags, however, on the corresponding row, the background color goes over the image. You can still mouse over and click the link of the picture, but you can't actually see it. Thanks for any help. Cnd474747 ( talk) 19:56, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I have to say that I am absolutely disgusted at the fact someone was allowed to delete the historical statistics from the above page. Its OK for other clubs at our level to have them on but not us. I spent days compiling them and now they are gone stating wiki is not for meaningless statisitcs. I find the Manchester United football club statistics meaningless, but I bet I'm not allowed to delete them.
Being a member of the North Shields FC committee I am frankly astonished that Wikipedia wouldn't be more supportive of growing football clubs like ours trying to get more information about our history out into the public domain.
I can understand possibly removing the league records going back to the early 1900's but to removed club honours which are important facts about any club, not statistics, I feel is out of order. I am more than happy to clean up the page with any required references as was helpfully suggested in specific cases by other admins. Madworld1979 ( talk) 21:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Can someone please help me with this: Template:Did you know nominations/Lia Olguța Vasilescu ? Bagnume ( talk) 22:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, the "show improved diff view" green triangle button is not working for Safari on Windows 7. This seems to happen whenever there's some sort of update. Can someone fix it? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 22:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I keep getting the error message on my Quincy Brown wiki page that I don't have any references or sources when I do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brittlovesquincy ( talk • contribs) 23:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Help desk | ||
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< October 2 | << Sep | October | Nov >> | October 4 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
---|
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 would like to know how to go about changing the wiki page from user: Earnest Diaz to a regular titled page Earnest Diaz
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Earnest_Diaz
Earnest Diaz 01:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Earnest Diaz ( talk • contribs)
I have noticed that at times that templates that use Arabic script which involves the script going from right to left will effectively capture text that is outside the double brackets marking the end of the template eg ([[Kurdish language|Kurdish:عمر سهروردى]]c.1144-1234). (This piece of code comes from the article Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi. Despite my best efforts I can't seem to cleanly get the template to stop capturing the birth and death dates that follow. So I had to artificially put in the c. to try and physically separate the dates from the text template. I can't believe I am the only one facing this problem and hopefully it is already addressed somewhere, but I couldn't find it. Thanks -- Chewings72 ( talk) 07:52, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
[[Apple]]s
renders as
Apples, and [[Apples]]
as
Apples. Note that both the links render the same, though the first link takes you to "Apple" while the second to "Apples". It helps when you want to use plural words. Rather than typing [[Apple|Apples]]
simply type [[Apple]]s
. So, you should put a space between the link and "c." to get it right. If you want no space and no eating up of the word by the link, use a
zero-width space, U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (​, ​, ​, ​, ​). --
Fauzan
✆ talk
✉ mail
09:17, 3 October 2014 (UTC)The heading of the page '32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment' should be changed to '32 Signal Regiment'. We are no longer known as a Scottish Regiment. I have read through the processes for change, however, I cannot seem to find how to change this myself.
Your help is greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cameraface ( talk • contribs) 08:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Good Morning, I have tried to create a page, and was told that it can only be created by administrators. When I followed the link, the administrator said that he/she is on a long breal from wikipedia and that other administrators can review his past articles. Since I am very new to Wikipedia, please help me with who should I contact to get that page created ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?action=edit&preload=Template%3AUnreviewed-preload&editintro=Template%3AUnreviewed-editintro&summary=&nosummary=&prefix=&minor=&title=Daniel+Kanu&create=Create+a+new+article+directly)
Thank You Ljiljana K — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ljiljana K ( talk • contribs) 09:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I was creating a webpage on wiki and wanted to give up. How can I delete the account and everything it provides...?
I searched through google and wiki but it all says I am not able to delete it that I am not "admin" of wiki...
I need help could you please ?
Sincerely, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaron Sam Peterson ( talk • contribs) 09:51, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
It is not possible to delete user accounts, as all contributions must be assigned to some identifier; either a username or an
IP address.
All Wikipedia editors have the right to leave Wikipedia for good (ie, permanently). The usual way to leave the Wikipedia project is simply to stop editing. Your contributions remain in Wikipedia. If you wish to resume editing at a later date, you can simply start again by logging into the same account. Old accounts that have any significant edits are almost never deleted or recycled to new users.
If you decide to make a fresh start and do not wish to be connected to a previous account, you can simply discontinue the old account(s) and create a new one that becomes the only account you use. Discontinuing the old account means it will not be used again; it should note on its user page that it is inactive— for example, with the {{ retired}} tag —to prevent the switch being seen as an attempt to sock puppet.
Editors seeking privacy per their right to vanish can have their accounts renamed and their user pages and (in some cases) user talk pages deleted. -- Gadget850 talk 12:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to change the name of this school * St George's School: A Church of England Academy
The page title needs to become "St George's School: A Church of England Academy". I've looked all over but just can't find a way of doing it, any help would be much appreciated!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr-kennedy ( talk • contribs) 10:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I took the liberty of making the following additional edits:
{{DISPLAYTITLE:St George's School: A Church of England Academy}}
, which was added shortly before the move.{{DEFAULTSORT:St George's School: A Church of England Academy}}
I hope these edits are all appropriate. ‑‑ Mandruss ( talk) 09:29, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi I have just read an article about Jorge Grant professional football player for Nottingham forest, it states that he is 20 years of age.
However this is not the case, he is still 19 and will not be 20 until December. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.134.239.154 ( talk) 11:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there any way I can do this? -- P123ct1 ( talk) 13:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to create a page/article for the disease myalgic Encephalomyelitis , but when I check ed too see if it already exists I am directed to the chronic fatigue syndrome page.
Any ME page would have many links to the CFS page, but as there are now differential diagnostic criterias for both illnesses I believe they should have separate pages. [1]
Otherwise everyone who googles ME gets sent to CFS , which causes bad patient outcomes in hospital settings .
How can I 'undo the page redirection and create a new one?
Ps I'm new at this and was hoping to do a draft page slowly,
Best regards
Littlefish123 ( talk) 17:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Littlefish123 Littlefish123 ( talk) 17:31, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
References
Hey, I have the page WWII Puppet States, and I have a table with most of (hopefully) the puppet states in WWII. In this page, there is a table. Some of the info in this table have background colors, using the tool bgcolor=, and then a color, like lightgreen. I'm trying to add a column to the table with flags, however, on the corresponding row, the background color goes over the image. You can still mouse over and click the link of the picture, but you can't actually see it. Thanks for any help. Cnd474747 ( talk) 19:56, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I have to say that I am absolutely disgusted at the fact someone was allowed to delete the historical statistics from the above page. Its OK for other clubs at our level to have them on but not us. I spent days compiling them and now they are gone stating wiki is not for meaningless statisitcs. I find the Manchester United football club statistics meaningless, but I bet I'm not allowed to delete them.
Being a member of the North Shields FC committee I am frankly astonished that Wikipedia wouldn't be more supportive of growing football clubs like ours trying to get more information about our history out into the public domain.
I can understand possibly removing the league records going back to the early 1900's but to removed club honours which are important facts about any club, not statistics, I feel is out of order. I am more than happy to clean up the page with any required references as was helpfully suggested in specific cases by other admins. Madworld1979 ( talk) 21:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Can someone please help me with this: Template:Did you know nominations/Lia Olguța Vasilescu ? Bagnume ( talk) 22:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi, the "show improved diff view" green triangle button is not working for Safari on Windows 7. This seems to happen whenever there's some sort of update. Can someone fix it? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 22:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I keep getting the error message on my Quincy Brown wiki page that I don't have any references or sources when I do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brittlovesquincy ( talk • contribs) 23:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)