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I would like to offer to my fellow Wikipedians to have a look at the sketch of the following idea: AN ANNUAL COMPETITION IN PHOTOGRAPHY AMONG WIKIPEDIANS ONLY, and to consider a possibility to turn this sketch into a working project by ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism, or to offer a better plan to solve the “problem”.
The tDear hing is, that many articles (as I have noticed) on various subjects of science can be illustrated in much more interesting, expressive way, in better quality and, what is even more important, in stronger connection to the essence of the subject; that’s why I propose to hold a competition in photography for (as a first step) the science articles.
It is necessary to stress here, that the appearance of the new photos in the articles is getting less attention of the Editors, than the appearance of the new articles, that is why good texts are bit by bit being filled with obscure and sometimes confounding photos, which often does not correspond to the current level of photography and doesn't reflect the latest scientific concepts and achievements.
The proposed competition could attract a focused attention to the articles of all participants, what will help to improve the quality of edited photos, and the winners will become a Wiki’s known and recognized experts, as each winning photo should be marked by the symbol of the win —Wiki-medal; thus, the winners will be able to give valuable advice to those, who need it, and to help the beginners to join future competitions, being better prepared.
Each day really gigantic number of people are approaching each Wiki page, and especially articles about science, such as palaeontology, astronomy, geology, etc...
For many of the readers these articles are the only immediately available source of information they have, and illustrations are incredibly important, as they act here as the “windows” to the World of Science, and this wonderful world should be presented correctly and interestingly.
I believe, that many Wikipedians can offer high quality photos of their own work for each of selected by Editors topics (articles). Those who are not interested in photography, could participate as the creators of designs for Wiki-medals, or to vote for the best 3 photos on each topic.
As the purpose of the competition, in the first place, is to improve a quality of the illustration of the articles, it will be appropriate to have competition without 1-2-3 places, but with selection of 3 best photos for each article, and prize the winners, for example, in category Chemistry, by 3 Wiki-medals of the same, ‘chemistry’ design, but in category Astronomy — by 3 Wiki-medals of the different design, created specially for the article Astronomy, and so on.
Every next year Editors could offer, let's say 4 (probable, it will be the optimal number) new different subjects for competition and 4 designs of Wiki-medal. Designs should reflect the assents of the subjects by its symbols. All designs, being different, should be contained in the chosen shape, which remains constant. On my page I presented an example of 4 designs of Wiki-medals for the best illustration of the following articles: Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Gemmology.
It doesn't mean at all, that I wish to suggest to narrow down the Photography Competition to some single category, as for example, the illustration of science articles, or wider—to narrow down competitions to Photography only.
There’s an endless variety of the possible types of brilliant competitions and only the will and creative ideas of Wikipedians are needed for their development. I’m offering to take Photography Competition under consideration just as a first step, and if it will be found by Wikipedians, as the positive step, then the advice, recommendations and suggestions of the experienced and willing to help Wikipedians will be absolutely essential and invaluable, as there are a lot of questions here, for example: how to organize the competition technically? Whether it is possible to create a special contest page? In what form shall Editors vote for the best photos? And many more.
But the first question - what Wikipedians think about this proposal?
Thank you.
Regards, Chris Oxford. Chris Oxford (talk) 15:35, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
In the first place I would like to thank Editors iridescent and w.carter for their replies. Summarising your comments, I can confirm, that I myself was concerned about (and that is mentioned in my proposal) some aspects, which you pointed out.
I certainly suspected, that the organization of new competition is not an easily achievable goal.
Answering Editor iridescent comment "There is not much correlation between aesthetic attractiveness and encyclopaedic value.", I can say, that quality image, brightly and cleverly stressing the essence of the subject, can have not less encyclopaedic value, than dull, technically poorly executed one. Of course, if we are talking about photos, possessing historical value, the quality is not that important, but if we are talking about today’s level of the illustration of the science articles, than the ideal image just has to combine two qualities: both encyclopaedic and aesthetic, and only in this case an image will have Wiki value, and the purpose of the proposed competition “Photos for Science Articles” was to select exactly such photos.
But I understand, what Editor iridescent meant and completely respect his point of view: photos for science articles should be not just “nice pictures”. On Talk:Mineralogy it is possible to find the discussion (Hope diamond) on the subject directly related to the issue, which we are discussing with Editor iridescent here. During the talk on Talk:Mineralogy me and some Editors agreed on the fact that the photos must conform to the essence of the article and should not be “chosen because they are pretty”, as a knowledgeable Editor RockMagnetist aptly remarked. So Editor iridescent now can see, that actually we are on the same page.
I thank Editor w.carter for welcoming me to the Teahouse. It’s correct - I’m quite new to the Wiki community, but I already heard about such photo competitions as Picture of the Year, "Wiki Loves Monuments", "Wiki Loves Earth", but I did not consider them as an analogue of the competition “Photos for Science Articles”, as they targeted different fields, although, of course these photos may be used in such articles as Architecture, etc. But Commons’ Photo Challenge monthly thematic competition was a complete surprise for me. It really has similarity with Photos for Science Articles; the only difference is that Photo Challenge is monthly competition, but I offered annual one without 1-2-3 places, and focused on illustration of Wiki’s Science Articles only, not on completely different subjects every time. That is the only difference, but the basis is really similar.
But I am actually very pleased that I was not alone on this path, and that this idea also "visited" my colleagues Wikipedians, and that it was already put into reality.
Probably Photo Challenge competition will include regularly Science thematic by fields, as they did for Palaeontology (Fossils), and as I have seen, the article Fossils obtained, as result, exclusively perfect photo material. I'm often reading magazines Gemmology and Gems & Jewellery, published by the UK Gemmological Association (Gem-A) and always find there the articles on the latest scientific discoveries, illustrated with photographs of rare minerals in rough & cut forms and antique and modern masterpieces of jewellery art. I know, that UK Gemmological Association has a huge collection of minerals from all over the world, most of which are the gifts of geologists and collectors of minerals, and must be available for educational purposes. For illustration of the Wiki article Mineralogy etc., this collection can be used by photographers as an invaluable source of excellent examples of different minerals.
As Editor w.carter suggested, I looked at the pages with my pictures, and found the notices, mentioned by him. When I uploaded photos to the pages, I marked them as "free image", but now I realized (thanks to w.carter), that it is not enough to make them available for other Editors, so I'll move photos to Commons as soon as I will get another free hour.
I am sure that useful information out of discussions, including this one, will help all new Wikipedians to orientate better in the Wiki-space.
Regards, Chris Oxford.
Chris Oxford ( talk) 12:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
A line beginning with a space is automatically formatted like this, which is not what you usually want and certainly not what you wanted in your contributions above, which I have reformatted. (Original formatting here.)
Great thanks to you, Thnidu, for the returning back to normal the text, which I copied and carried to the top, as time was running out and I saw that I’m losing a chance to answer my fellow editors, who kindly helped make clear the situation with the competition. Actually I was horrified when I saw what happened with the text, when I brought it’s copy to the top of the Question forum. Thanks again.
Hello, w.carter I would like to say, that I appreciate your help very much: your clear, friendly advises gave me an opportunity to obtain right information and to understand the Wiki rules much more quicker, than I would have done it alone, and I terrible sorry about delay with reply; as soon, as I’ll correct things with uploaded photos, I’ll visit your talk page with the couple of questions and a pleasant surprise.
Regards, Chris Oxford. Chris Oxford ( talk) 19:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I know, it's the Wikimedia Foundation, but who controls it? There must be some boss or so. -- Ueberwolf ( talk) 17:53, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Ueberwolf: I'm sorry to inform you that what you believe the Wikipedia is ... that there are no lies in WP, but only the truth ... is very wrong. See this essay:
Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth. There may be thousands of "lies" here. Which is one reason why the WP should never be regarded as a
reliable source.
w.carter
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20:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, there has been a persistent vandal jumping IP addresses (see this ANI report). I was wondering if there is a way to search for edits/editors in an IP range to see if any vandalism has been missed? Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 21:06, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Twinkle is very efficient. Is there any other gadgets/tools like Twinkle? The Avengers ( talk) 17:45, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay. So I want a help to make a bot. It should add some extra CAT whenever some particular CAT is added even if HotCat is used or not. For example, if CAT:Egypt is added, CAT:Africa should be added bu the bot automatically. So, what should I need to know? The languages, and other requirements.
P.S. I have an account here.
14.139.242.195 (
talk)
05:13, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
As a first-time editor reading the article on sundowner winds, I saw that it classified them as foehn winds. This is explicitly contradicted & explained in what was said about sundowners in the Santa Ana winds article. I thought that if I hit "TALK" I'd get into an area of discussion about the article where I could question the inconsistency, and let a more knowledgeable editor sort out the contradiction between the 2 articles. But that wasn't what happened when I hit "TALK". So I tried to edit it instead. I also wanted to question the etymology attributing "sundowner" to the Argentinian term "zonda", but couldn't see how to insert a request for a citation. In searching help I haven't found any info about how to do that. I'm out of time at present for searching through all the how-to articles about editing - can you tell me how to enter a request for a citation, and if there's a way to get onto a talk page about an article if you don't want to do an outright edit??? Nubelibra ( talk) 18:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
in the "edit source" window. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:00, 29 October 2015 (UTC).I have a question in regards to creating two new pages. Can I create a page about an e-magazine? Can I create a page about the advertising company that publishes this e-magazine? The reason I ask is because I read that certain pages may be removed if they aren't appropriate for Wikipedia. ( Amy Sarkiss ( talk) 20:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi I accidentally created this page, can someone please delete it? And also delete my subpage. Thank you. srini ( talk) 17:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if the tags should be placed above or below the hatnotes, such as See also, For other uses, etc. Outedexits ( talk) 07:12, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Another editor's comment led me to support a page split at Talk:Heroes Reborn (miniseries)#Merging Dark Matters, and propose another one at Talk:List of Heroes characters#Split. However, neither of these has received any responses. Is this a situation where I can assume there is no opposition and be bold and create the new pages myself? Should I wait a few more days for comments? And is there any specific procedure/template/tag I need to use to "close" the discussions? Thanks, 2macia22 ( talk) 23:08, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi John. How fast and hard is that rule? I have content I see here that desperately needs an editor's deft touch, and some which needs to be totally rewritten. Am I safe to assume that forewarning of one week without comment is sufficient for me to go in there and get my fingers stinky (if you'll pardon the expression)?
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09:34, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
The page Wee Waa was vandalized, and also moved to Javed Ali (country town). Now instead of describing an Australian town, it refers to resisting the lizard people. I am not sure how to undo the move, and I don't want to mess things up by doing a partial undo ... can somebody please help? Gronk Oz ( talk) 14:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the claim on the page? I think this needs a citation needed or possibly a clarification needed if it's making claims about names and meanings.....
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I have started a new article Aviation in India. However, I am finding it difficult to find a suitable layout for the same. Any help or review will be appreciated. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:21, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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12:07, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Th article Islam by country already outdated. Please help me to update that article. In this article Islam followers in 2011 already 1,6 billion. I want to update number of Islam followers in 2014 already 2 billion according to http://www.religiouspopulation.com/ and this http://www.muslimpopulation.com/World/ Thanks-- ReginaIndo ( talk) 03:28, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I started creating an article about a Bollywood Playback Singer titled "Jubin Nautiyal" on 25 October.But later I came across another article with same title which was created on 27 October.I finished the editing today and submitted it for reviews.However,my article is comprehensive and detailed.What should I do now...??? Prabhat 9 ( talk) 15:29, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes,You got it right.Now the problem is that my article with the same title is waiting a review.I submitted the article today itself. Prabhat 9 ( talk) 15:52, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for resolving the issue.Interacting with experienced editors is indeed fruitful.Looking forward to contribute more...!! Prabhat 9 ( talk) 16:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I tried a lot but each and every time my article got deleted due to violation. I have a company which I want to post in wikipedia. Guide me how to solve the issue — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paresh Nandy ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I wrote an article about my Invention. I have news paper coverage. I am the managing director of a company. The page I created was "3CS Invention".
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In reference to the page "Rice Lake Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota", and the unrelated page "Rice Lake, Minnesota" (Clearwater County). Request to move two pages.
Incorporation as a municipality is now an established fact for the Rice Lake in St. Louis County. It is no longer a civil township. The article page name should be changed. The page should be moved and updated with city status. The former Rice Lake Township incorporated as the city of Rice Lake on October 22, 2015. In an order dated August 20, 2015, Minnesota Administrative Law Judge Barbara Case ruled that the township "has established the relevant factors by a preponderance of the evidence, and therefore Rice Lake Township's petition for incorporation is granted." The incorporation effort began in June 2014. On October 13, 2015, residents of Rice Lake turned out to elect their first city mayor, and their city councilors. The results of the election were certified. The first city council meeting of Rice Lake was held on October 22, 2015. Cite the following reference. [1]
The name of the article page for the now former township should be changed to simply "Rice Lake, Minnesota". There is currently another article with the page name "Rice Lake, Minnesota", but that is a Census-designated place in Clearwater County, Minnesota. That page name also needs to be changed to "Rice Lake (CDP), Minnesota" in order to disambiguate between the two different pages. This should happen to acknowledge the legal change that has recently commenced as a result of the incorporation of Minnesota's newest city. Changes should happen to both of these existing pages. They both need to be moved and updated, the Rice Lake in Saint Louis County, and the Rice Lake in Clearwater County.— AlphaTaxonomy ( talk) 01:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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Can anyone help me to improve my inline citations + help me get rid of the annoying long standing message "This article includes inline citations, but they are not properly formatted. Please improve this article by correcting them. (June 2015)" Thank you. Mariana Marianadjraposa ( talk) 16:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
If i create a draft, but there is a redirect which has the same title: then how to move the draft over the redirect? The Avengers ( talk) 15:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Theoretical explanation take 2:
Case 1: About 90% or more of the time when someone types "FOO" into Wikipedia, they are looking for information about a type of cheese.
Case 2: About half the time people may be looking for the cheese, but about half the time they may be looking for the movie.
Case 3: About 90% of the time people who type FOO into Wikipedia will be searching for the film.
Does that clarify anything? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:37, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I have submitted and re-submitted a Wiki page about Gary L Krupp. I feel like I follow and incorporate reviewer suggestions, but it has been rejected again. I don't understand the comment that was left this time "This is a start but still needs any more available coverage overall. Cheers," Any guidance is much appreciated.
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, but I thought my sig go too "hot", so I went back to the native color. I also used a non-breaking-space so my sig does not wrap on to two lines. If you copy/paste my username with the curly braces then you can ping me easily. Do a view-source to see how to do a nbsp. Cheers! {{u|
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I would like to offer to my fellow Wikipedians to have a look at the sketch of the following idea: AN ANNUAL COMPETITION IN PHOTOGRAPHY AMONG WIKIPEDIANS ONLY, and to consider a possibility to turn this sketch into a working project by ideas, suggestions and constructive criticism, or to offer a better plan to solve the “problem”.
The tDear hing is, that many articles (as I have noticed) on various subjects of science can be illustrated in much more interesting, expressive way, in better quality and, what is even more important, in stronger connection to the essence of the subject; that’s why I propose to hold a competition in photography for (as a first step) the science articles.
It is necessary to stress here, that the appearance of the new photos in the articles is getting less attention of the Editors, than the appearance of the new articles, that is why good texts are bit by bit being filled with obscure and sometimes confounding photos, which often does not correspond to the current level of photography and doesn't reflect the latest scientific concepts and achievements.
The proposed competition could attract a focused attention to the articles of all participants, what will help to improve the quality of edited photos, and the winners will become a Wiki’s known and recognized experts, as each winning photo should be marked by the symbol of the win —Wiki-medal; thus, the winners will be able to give valuable advice to those, who need it, and to help the beginners to join future competitions, being better prepared.
Each day really gigantic number of people are approaching each Wiki page, and especially articles about science, such as palaeontology, astronomy, geology, etc...
For many of the readers these articles are the only immediately available source of information they have, and illustrations are incredibly important, as they act here as the “windows” to the World of Science, and this wonderful world should be presented correctly and interestingly.
I believe, that many Wikipedians can offer high quality photos of their own work for each of selected by Editors topics (articles). Those who are not interested in photography, could participate as the creators of designs for Wiki-medals, or to vote for the best 3 photos on each topic.
As the purpose of the competition, in the first place, is to improve a quality of the illustration of the articles, it will be appropriate to have competition without 1-2-3 places, but with selection of 3 best photos for each article, and prize the winners, for example, in category Chemistry, by 3 Wiki-medals of the same, ‘chemistry’ design, but in category Astronomy — by 3 Wiki-medals of the different design, created specially for the article Astronomy, and so on.
Every next year Editors could offer, let's say 4 (probable, it will be the optimal number) new different subjects for competition and 4 designs of Wiki-medal. Designs should reflect the assents of the subjects by its symbols. All designs, being different, should be contained in the chosen shape, which remains constant. On my page I presented an example of 4 designs of Wiki-medals for the best illustration of the following articles: Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Gemmology.
It doesn't mean at all, that I wish to suggest to narrow down the Photography Competition to some single category, as for example, the illustration of science articles, or wider—to narrow down competitions to Photography only.
There’s an endless variety of the possible types of brilliant competitions and only the will and creative ideas of Wikipedians are needed for their development. I’m offering to take Photography Competition under consideration just as a first step, and if it will be found by Wikipedians, as the positive step, then the advice, recommendations and suggestions of the experienced and willing to help Wikipedians will be absolutely essential and invaluable, as there are a lot of questions here, for example: how to organize the competition technically? Whether it is possible to create a special contest page? In what form shall Editors vote for the best photos? And many more.
But the first question - what Wikipedians think about this proposal?
Thank you.
Regards, Chris Oxford. Chris Oxford (talk) 15:35, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
In the first place I would like to thank Editors iridescent and w.carter for their replies. Summarising your comments, I can confirm, that I myself was concerned about (and that is mentioned in my proposal) some aspects, which you pointed out.
I certainly suspected, that the organization of new competition is not an easily achievable goal.
Answering Editor iridescent comment "There is not much correlation between aesthetic attractiveness and encyclopaedic value.", I can say, that quality image, brightly and cleverly stressing the essence of the subject, can have not less encyclopaedic value, than dull, technically poorly executed one. Of course, if we are talking about photos, possessing historical value, the quality is not that important, but if we are talking about today’s level of the illustration of the science articles, than the ideal image just has to combine two qualities: both encyclopaedic and aesthetic, and only in this case an image will have Wiki value, and the purpose of the proposed competition “Photos for Science Articles” was to select exactly such photos.
But I understand, what Editor iridescent meant and completely respect his point of view: photos for science articles should be not just “nice pictures”. On Talk:Mineralogy it is possible to find the discussion (Hope diamond) on the subject directly related to the issue, which we are discussing with Editor iridescent here. During the talk on Talk:Mineralogy me and some Editors agreed on the fact that the photos must conform to the essence of the article and should not be “chosen because they are pretty”, as a knowledgeable Editor RockMagnetist aptly remarked. So Editor iridescent now can see, that actually we are on the same page.
I thank Editor w.carter for welcoming me to the Teahouse. It’s correct - I’m quite new to the Wiki community, but I already heard about such photo competitions as Picture of the Year, "Wiki Loves Monuments", "Wiki Loves Earth", but I did not consider them as an analogue of the competition “Photos for Science Articles”, as they targeted different fields, although, of course these photos may be used in such articles as Architecture, etc. But Commons’ Photo Challenge monthly thematic competition was a complete surprise for me. It really has similarity with Photos for Science Articles; the only difference is that Photo Challenge is monthly competition, but I offered annual one without 1-2-3 places, and focused on illustration of Wiki’s Science Articles only, not on completely different subjects every time. That is the only difference, but the basis is really similar.
But I am actually very pleased that I was not alone on this path, and that this idea also "visited" my colleagues Wikipedians, and that it was already put into reality.
Probably Photo Challenge competition will include regularly Science thematic by fields, as they did for Palaeontology (Fossils), and as I have seen, the article Fossils obtained, as result, exclusively perfect photo material. I'm often reading magazines Gemmology and Gems & Jewellery, published by the UK Gemmological Association (Gem-A) and always find there the articles on the latest scientific discoveries, illustrated with photographs of rare minerals in rough & cut forms and antique and modern masterpieces of jewellery art. I know, that UK Gemmological Association has a huge collection of minerals from all over the world, most of which are the gifts of geologists and collectors of minerals, and must be available for educational purposes. For illustration of the Wiki article Mineralogy etc., this collection can be used by photographers as an invaluable source of excellent examples of different minerals.
As Editor w.carter suggested, I looked at the pages with my pictures, and found the notices, mentioned by him. When I uploaded photos to the pages, I marked them as "free image", but now I realized (thanks to w.carter), that it is not enough to make them available for other Editors, so I'll move photos to Commons as soon as I will get another free hour.
I am sure that useful information out of discussions, including this one, will help all new Wikipedians to orientate better in the Wiki-space.
Regards, Chris Oxford.
Chris Oxford ( talk) 12:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
A line beginning with a space is automatically formatted like this, which is not what you usually want and certainly not what you wanted in your contributions above, which I have reformatted. (Original formatting here.)
Great thanks to you, Thnidu, for the returning back to normal the text, which I copied and carried to the top, as time was running out and I saw that I’m losing a chance to answer my fellow editors, who kindly helped make clear the situation with the competition. Actually I was horrified when I saw what happened with the text, when I brought it’s copy to the top of the Question forum. Thanks again.
Hello, w.carter I would like to say, that I appreciate your help very much: your clear, friendly advises gave me an opportunity to obtain right information and to understand the Wiki rules much more quicker, than I would have done it alone, and I terrible sorry about delay with reply; as soon, as I’ll correct things with uploaded photos, I’ll visit your talk page with the couple of questions and a pleasant surprise.
Regards, Chris Oxford. Chris Oxford ( talk) 19:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I know, it's the Wikimedia Foundation, but who controls it? There must be some boss or so. -- Ueberwolf ( talk) 17:53, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Ueberwolf: I'm sorry to inform you that what you believe the Wikipedia is ... that there are no lies in WP, but only the truth ... is very wrong. See this essay:
Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth. There may be thousands of "lies" here. Which is one reason why the WP should never be regarded as a
reliable source.
w.carter
-Talk
20:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, there has been a persistent vandal jumping IP addresses (see this ANI report). I was wondering if there is a way to search for edits/editors in an IP range to see if any vandalism has been missed? Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 21:06, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Twinkle is very efficient. Is there any other gadgets/tools like Twinkle? The Avengers ( talk) 17:45, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Okay. So I want a help to make a bot. It should add some extra CAT whenever some particular CAT is added even if HotCat is used or not. For example, if CAT:Egypt is added, CAT:Africa should be added bu the bot automatically. So, what should I need to know? The languages, and other requirements.
P.S. I have an account here.
14.139.242.195 (
talk)
05:13, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
As a first-time editor reading the article on sundowner winds, I saw that it classified them as foehn winds. This is explicitly contradicted & explained in what was said about sundowners in the Santa Ana winds article. I thought that if I hit "TALK" I'd get into an area of discussion about the article where I could question the inconsistency, and let a more knowledgeable editor sort out the contradiction between the 2 articles. But that wasn't what happened when I hit "TALK". So I tried to edit it instead. I also wanted to question the etymology attributing "sundowner" to the Argentinian term "zonda", but couldn't see how to insert a request for a citation. In searching help I haven't found any info about how to do that. I'm out of time at present for searching through all the how-to articles about editing - can you tell me how to enter a request for a citation, and if there's a way to get onto a talk page about an article if you don't want to do an outright edit??? Nubelibra ( talk) 18:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
{{
Citation needed}}
in the "edit source" window. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
22:00, 29 October 2015 (UTC).I have a question in regards to creating two new pages. Can I create a page about an e-magazine? Can I create a page about the advertising company that publishes this e-magazine? The reason I ask is because I read that certain pages may be removed if they aren't appropriate for Wikipedia. ( Amy Sarkiss ( talk) 20:21, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi I accidentally created this page, can someone please delete it? And also delete my subpage. Thank you. srini ( talk) 17:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I was wondering if the tags should be placed above or below the hatnotes, such as See also, For other uses, etc. Outedexits ( talk) 07:12, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Another editor's comment led me to support a page split at Talk:Heroes Reborn (miniseries)#Merging Dark Matters, and propose another one at Talk:List of Heroes characters#Split. However, neither of these has received any responses. Is this a situation where I can assume there is no opposition and be bold and create the new pages myself? Should I wait a few more days for comments? And is there any specific procedure/template/tag I need to use to "close" the discussions? Thanks, 2macia22 ( talk) 23:08, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi John. How fast and hard is that rule? I have content I see here that desperately needs an editor's deft touch, and some which needs to be totally rewritten. Am I safe to assume that forewarning of one week without comment is sufficient for me to go in there and get my fingers stinky (if you'll pardon the expression)?
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The page Wee Waa was vandalized, and also moved to Javed Ali (country town). Now instead of describing an Australian town, it refers to resisting the lizard people. I am not sure how to undo the move, and I don't want to mess things up by doing a partial undo ... can somebody please help? Gronk Oz ( talk) 14:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the claim on the page? I think this needs a citation needed or possibly a clarification needed if it's making claims about names and meanings.....
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I have started a new article Aviation in India. However, I am finding it difficult to find a suitable layout for the same. Any help or review will be appreciated. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo ( talk · contribs · count) 08:21, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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12:07, 30 October 2015 (UTC)Th article Islam by country already outdated. Please help me to update that article. In this article Islam followers in 2011 already 1,6 billion. I want to update number of Islam followers in 2014 already 2 billion according to http://www.religiouspopulation.com/ and this http://www.muslimpopulation.com/World/ Thanks-- ReginaIndo ( talk) 03:28, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I started creating an article about a Bollywood Playback Singer titled "Jubin Nautiyal" on 25 October.But later I came across another article with same title which was created on 27 October.I finished the editing today and submitted it for reviews.However,my article is comprehensive and detailed.What should I do now...??? Prabhat 9 ( talk) 15:29, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes,You got it right.Now the problem is that my article with the same title is waiting a review.I submitted the article today itself. Prabhat 9 ( talk) 15:52, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for resolving the issue.Interacting with experienced editors is indeed fruitful.Looking forward to contribute more...!! Prabhat 9 ( talk) 16:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I tried a lot but each and every time my article got deleted due to violation. I have a company which I want to post in wikipedia. Guide me how to solve the issue — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paresh Nandy ( talk • contribs) 07:53, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I wrote an article about my Invention. I have news paper coverage. I am the managing director of a company. The page I created was "3CS Invention".
Can any one help my content to comply with wikipedia rules as it is very tricky to delete to comply with rules ? Mallikgn ( talk) 16:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
In reference to the page "Rice Lake Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota", and the unrelated page "Rice Lake, Minnesota" (Clearwater County). Request to move two pages.
Incorporation as a municipality is now an established fact for the Rice Lake in St. Louis County. It is no longer a civil township. The article page name should be changed. The page should be moved and updated with city status. The former Rice Lake Township incorporated as the city of Rice Lake on October 22, 2015. In an order dated August 20, 2015, Minnesota Administrative Law Judge Barbara Case ruled that the township "has established the relevant factors by a preponderance of the evidence, and therefore Rice Lake Township's petition for incorporation is granted." The incorporation effort began in June 2014. On October 13, 2015, residents of Rice Lake turned out to elect their first city mayor, and their city councilors. The results of the election were certified. The first city council meeting of Rice Lake was held on October 22, 2015. Cite the following reference. [1]
The name of the article page for the now former township should be changed to simply "Rice Lake, Minnesota". There is currently another article with the page name "Rice Lake, Minnesota", but that is a Census-designated place in Clearwater County, Minnesota. That page name also needs to be changed to "Rice Lake (CDP), Minnesota" in order to disambiguate between the two different pages. This should happen to acknowledge the legal change that has recently commenced as a result of the incorporation of Minnesota's newest city. Changes should happen to both of these existing pages. They both need to be moved and updated, the Rice Lake in Saint Louis County, and the Rice Lake in Clearwater County.— AlphaTaxonomy ( talk) 01:59, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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Can anyone help me to improve my inline citations + help me get rid of the annoying long standing message "This article includes inline citations, but they are not properly formatted. Please improve this article by correcting them. (June 2015)" Thank you. Mariana Marianadjraposa ( talk) 16:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
If i create a draft, but there is a redirect which has the same title: then how to move the draft over the redirect? The Avengers ( talk) 15:15, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Theoretical explanation take 2:
Case 1: About 90% or more of the time when someone types "FOO" into Wikipedia, they are looking for information about a type of cheese.
Case 2: About half the time people may be looking for the cheese, but about half the time they may be looking for the movie.
Case 3: About 90% of the time people who type FOO into Wikipedia will be searching for the film.
Does that clarify anything? -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:37, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I have submitted and re-submitted a Wiki page about Gary L Krupp. I feel like I follow and incorporate reviewer suggestions, but it has been rejected again. I don't understand the comment that was left this time "This is a start but still needs any more available coverage overall. Cheers," Any guidance is much appreciated.
bjsolberg 207.38.128.240 ( talk) 14:04, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I've been on Wikipedia for about 2 months now and have learned lots of things since signing up. However upon learning, I've seen many user names with different fonts/colors/text/sizes and I always wanted to know how to do it. Can anyone help me (or give me a tutorial) on how to change my user name when signing? Adog104 ( talk) 18:43, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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, but I thought my sig go too "hot", so I went back to the native color. I also used a non-breaking-space so my sig does not wrap on to two lines. If you copy/paste my username with the curly braces then you can ping me easily. Do a view-source to see how to do a nbsp. Cheers! {{u|
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05:50, 31 October 2015 (UTC)I just moved the article How Deep Is Your Love to How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song) as Calvin Harris has this song title too. I just want someone to help fixing all the links because I forgot the gadget to fix it. Thanks! Nahnah4 ( talk | contribs | guestbook) 09:17, 30 October 2015 (UTC)