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Hello I am the widow of the great Geochemist, Harold C. Helgeson and since this was the anniversary of his death I was looking at all of the wonderful articles on him and I noticed that Wikipedia has reduced his article down to mere sentence!! Wh does this??? This is very upsetting to his family as he was the greatest Geochemst who ever lived and I would like to know how we can return the article to its original context.
Thanks.
Frances Helegson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.248.188.4 ( talk) 02:42, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to use this ( The Pancake of Heaven!) as my signature, but it keeps saying "Invalid Raw Signature; Check HTML tags. how am I supposed to fix this? (If you could tell me the correct form that'll be great :) )
Code: '''[[User:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#5d9731; color:white; padding:2px;">The Pancake</font>]] [[User talk:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#1047AB; color:white; padding:2px;">of Heaven!</span>]]'''
Thank you. → The Pancake of Heaven! ( T • C) 05:44, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
<span>
with a </font>
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 06:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
'''[[User:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#5d9731; color:white; padding:2px;">The Pancake</span>]] [[User talk:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#1047AB; color:white; padding:2px;">of Heaven!</span>]]'''
My experience is that it is possible to do "dumb", "smart", and "smarter" searches with Google at the browser input field, with some "mark-up" with quotes and/or double-quotes and/or brackets to narrow the search. That would be something like regular expressions.
Is that possible within Wikipedia?
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help desk!
In the above "Welcome to Wikipedia Help Desk!" that I can see during question creation, suppose I want to find only the two singular instances of "question", and exclude the three instances of plural "questions".
Or suppose in a very long Wiki article, I would like exact matches on the phrase "your question" rather than "your questions".
My impression is that this can be done with Google if you know what you are doing, and I haven't found a way to do the [admittedly contrived] search within Wiki.
Thanks! Lynn ( talk) 06:25, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I have an issue and I don't know where to turn. I am really new to Wikipedia and am here to help a friend. At this point, my Wiki skills are somewhere between *zombie* and *newbie*. There is a living person I know whose page was set up by an unrelated party. That party has used that page to post defamatory content about the living person. I came in and edited it a few times to correct the problem, but now the unrelated party has locked me out and this rogue page is creating a lot of trouble. The content clearly violates any precept of the NPOV as Wikipedia governance suggests.
My question - What recourse do we have? The living person in question here only became aware of his own Wiki page a couple of months ago. The content is derogatory, defaming, hurtful and just plain inaccurate.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
ManjiroX ( talk) 12:58, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
if I create a username can I keep/merge my editing history/talk page into that? or will it all have to start over? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 16:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to keep my editing history as think this could be beneficial for a few reasons...what's the general philosophy behind not being able to move it over to a username? does it create technical problems? what's the difference between merging a talk page seamlessly vs merging an edit history seamlessly (if one can indeed seamlessly merge a talk page)?? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 18:09, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
You should understand that IPs are often reassigned. This means your IP talk page can be given to someone else in the future. My advice would be to make an account, then copy/paste the talk page history and put a link to where you got it in your edit summary. HighInBC 18:25, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
suppressredirect
? —
crh 23 (
Talk) 18:32, 29 May 2016 (UTC)yes, if someone can weigh in on what the specific steps would be in terms of A. create an account (just do that normally?) B. make my current talk page my new talk page (if this can really be done)..C. and then I guess I could only link to my current edit history on my new (same) talk page? (I'm not sure about all this anyway, leaning toward the status quo).. 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 19:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
in BSP u need to add Bromsulphthalein — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.81.137.216 ( talk) 19:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Quick favor. Would someone mind telling me if the full-text of this article is free for other people?
All of a sudden my work computer started automatically logging me in even when I'm using the incognito browser and I don't want to tease people by citing the url if it's not free for everyone. Thank you! —PermStrump (talk) 20:13, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
registration=yes
or subscription=yes
can be added to indicate this in the citation template -
Template:cite journal has some more details.
GermanJoe (
talk)How can I get my entry deleted? It his hugely libelous and makes me look crazy, and it is wildly inaccurate, based on bloggers' notes. How can I just get the whole thing deleted? I'm not anyone important and it is preventing me from even getting a job at a gas station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1313:C2A7:7414:169E:7D29:A591 ( talk) 22:54, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Do we need to highlight reasons to you as to why this overwhelmingly autobiographical page should be subjected to "Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion" ?
A search on the internet clearly raises alarms regarding the complete lack of Notability of Katrina Mathers.
We have regularly seen Wikipedia pages set up to promote one's own business - these pages have always been removed very quickly.
We are concerned when autobiographical pages such as Katrina Mathers are created: Wikipedia's integrity suffers a great deal as I am sure you are aware.
Thanks and please place these concerns on the Talk page of Katrina Mathers page - I am unable to do so Srbernadette ( talk) 23:37, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to get my head around how to identify 'original research' in the non-obvious cases. In strolling through articles with OR tags, I ran across [Little Heath, Coventry]. Could someone please look at this page and tell me what the original research here is (if any)? Thanks Leschnei ( talk) 23:57, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk Archives |
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Hello I am the widow of the great Geochemist, Harold C. Helgeson and since this was the anniversary of his death I was looking at all of the wonderful articles on him and I noticed that Wikipedia has reduced his article down to mere sentence!! Wh does this??? This is very upsetting to his family as he was the greatest Geochemst who ever lived and I would like to know how we can return the article to its original context.
Thanks.
Frances Helegson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.248.188.4 ( talk) 02:42, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to use this ( The Pancake of Heaven!) as my signature, but it keeps saying "Invalid Raw Signature; Check HTML tags. how am I supposed to fix this? (If you could tell me the correct form that'll be great :) )
Code: '''[[User:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#5d9731; color:white; padding:2px;">The Pancake</font>]] [[User talk:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#1047AB; color:white; padding:2px;">of Heaven!</span>]]'''
Thank you. → The Pancake of Heaven! ( T • C) 05:44, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
<span>
with a </font>
. --
John of Reading (
talk) 06:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
'''[[User:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#5d9731; color:white; padding:2px;">The Pancake</span>]] [[User talk:The Pancake of Heaven!|<span style="background:#1047AB; color:white; padding:2px;">of Heaven!</span>]]'''
My experience is that it is possible to do "dumb", "smart", and "smarter" searches with Google at the browser input field, with some "mark-up" with quotes and/or double-quotes and/or brackets to narrow the search. That would be something like regular expressions.
Is that possible within Wikipedia?
Welcome to the Wikipedia Help desk!
In the above "Welcome to Wikipedia Help Desk!" that I can see during question creation, suppose I want to find only the two singular instances of "question", and exclude the three instances of plural "questions".
Or suppose in a very long Wiki article, I would like exact matches on the phrase "your question" rather than "your questions".
My impression is that this can be done with Google if you know what you are doing, and I haven't found a way to do the [admittedly contrived] search within Wiki.
Thanks! Lynn ( talk) 06:25, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I have an issue and I don't know where to turn. I am really new to Wikipedia and am here to help a friend. At this point, my Wiki skills are somewhere between *zombie* and *newbie*. There is a living person I know whose page was set up by an unrelated party. That party has used that page to post defamatory content about the living person. I came in and edited it a few times to correct the problem, but now the unrelated party has locked me out and this rogue page is creating a lot of trouble. The content clearly violates any precept of the NPOV as Wikipedia governance suggests.
My question - What recourse do we have? The living person in question here only became aware of his own Wiki page a couple of months ago. The content is derogatory, defaming, hurtful and just plain inaccurate.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
ManjiroX ( talk) 12:58, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
if I create a username can I keep/merge my editing history/talk page into that? or will it all have to start over? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 16:31, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'd like to be able to keep my editing history as think this could be beneficial for a few reasons...what's the general philosophy behind not being able to move it over to a username? does it create technical problems? what's the difference between merging a talk page seamlessly vs merging an edit history seamlessly (if one can indeed seamlessly merge a talk page)?? 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 18:09, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
You should understand that IPs are often reassigned. This means your IP talk page can be given to someone else in the future. My advice would be to make an account, then copy/paste the talk page history and put a link to where you got it in your edit summary. HighInBC 18:25, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
suppressredirect
? —
crh 23 (
Talk) 18:32, 29 May 2016 (UTC)yes, if someone can weigh in on what the specific steps would be in terms of A. create an account (just do that normally?) B. make my current talk page my new talk page (if this can really be done)..C. and then I guess I could only link to my current edit history on my new (same) talk page? (I'm not sure about all this anyway, leaning toward the status quo).. 68.48.241.158 ( talk) 19:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
in BSP u need to add Bromsulphthalein — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.81.137.216 ( talk) 19:08, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Quick favor. Would someone mind telling me if the full-text of this article is free for other people?
All of a sudden my work computer started automatically logging me in even when I'm using the incognito browser and I don't want to tease people by citing the url if it's not free for everyone. Thank you! —PermStrump (talk) 20:13, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
registration=yes
or subscription=yes
can be added to indicate this in the citation template -
Template:cite journal has some more details.
GermanJoe (
talk)How can I get my entry deleted? It his hugely libelous and makes me look crazy, and it is wildly inaccurate, based on bloggers' notes. How can I just get the whole thing deleted? I'm not anyone important and it is preventing me from even getting a job at a gas station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1313:C2A7:7414:169E:7D29:A591 ( talk) 22:54, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Do we need to highlight reasons to you as to why this overwhelmingly autobiographical page should be subjected to "Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion" ?
A search on the internet clearly raises alarms regarding the complete lack of Notability of Katrina Mathers.
We have regularly seen Wikipedia pages set up to promote one's own business - these pages have always been removed very quickly.
We are concerned when autobiographical pages such as Katrina Mathers are created: Wikipedia's integrity suffers a great deal as I am sure you are aware.
Thanks and please place these concerns on the Talk page of Katrina Mathers page - I am unable to do so Srbernadette ( talk) 23:37, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to get my head around how to identify 'original research' in the non-obvious cases. In strolling through articles with OR tags, I ran across [Little Heath, Coventry]. Could someone please look at this page and tell me what the original research here is (if any)? Thanks Leschnei ( talk) 23:57, 29 May 2016 (UTC)