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William Birch ( 1765- 1834), enamel painter and engraver: practised after 1794 in Philadelphia; received Society of Arts medal, 1785.
Are the images on the web {{ PD-old}}? -- evrik ( talk) 22:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to get a bot working on other wiki-project but I need help from an experience botuser who's designed one with C# in Windows. -- Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 01:00, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
"User warning" here is defined to be any edit that consists solely of the addition of a pre-written message to a contributor's discussion page in response to intentionally unconstructive editing.
I've always marked user warnings as minor. It's the default behaviour for the most widely-used anti-vandalism tool. However, it would appear that some users consider this to be inappropriate. Can I get some sort of consensus on this? – Gurch 23:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Question - can an admin delete the content of a user page, so that it cannot be retrieved? Case in point is User:Nicole 50dc. The content there was used earlier today to recreate a page [1] (since speedied away) that was deleted as a result of this AfD yesterday. The user, an SPA and likely sock (see the IP edits in the AfD), is editing the page and will probably try the same thing again. Would nominating it as an MfD be the appropriate thing to do, or is there a quicker way? Thanks for any guidance. -- Smalljim 22:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
This thread moved to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) where it belongs. -- Richard 17:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
On my home computer (I'm using a public one right now using my public computer sock. My main is User:Malinaccier), I can't log in. I type the password in and everything works fine, but the page won't fully load telling me that I've signed in. All the rest of the Wikipedia pages also freeze. I'm not sure that this is the right place to post this, but I need some help. Thanks! •Malinaccier Public• T/ C 13:17, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know where I can download Wikipedia for Schools? The torrent that I have only ever has half a dozen peers and no seeds. — PhilHibbs | talk 22:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I am working with some folks to create a wikipedia style site to create a compendium of the histyr of a major metropolitan region. This will begin as a schools project, but we aim to open it to the general public after a year.
Having no experience in wiki potentially this vast, I was wondering if anyone out there does have such experience and might be avilable for consultation and advice. Harrycpayne 17:46, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to get some insight on what (or even if) avenues exist that can stop someone from editing mostly music related articles and changing the genres to what that user sees fit. The user Lizard Andrea seems to want to see this paticular field as 'genres according to Lizard Andrea' and any change from that, no matter the consensus, will be change back by me. If you check the contribs, you can see that this user hits the same articles the way (I assume it's a) she wants to even though they almost always subsequently get reverted/undone. I've put in for an RfC (Request for Comment) from the Wiki-community, but due to the relatively low profile of these edits, no-one has bothered to warn her about this besides me which is not enough to meet the threshold for this action. Is there any recourse for this because I have no desire to get into warring on articles? Lastly, I really don't consider these vandal edits and I thought they were in good faith but there seems to be an agenda involved as of late, personal or otherwise. τßōиЄ2001 00:50, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I can view and edit articles but when I ask for my watchlist, I get this message:
Anybody know what's going on and whether anybody is working on this? Where is the right place to notify the appropriate people about this? -- Richard 18:24, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Make a lasting impact on the world! We guestimate the 2007 Wikipedia for Schools has helped several million children, including a couple of hundred thousand rural poor kids from http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/news14.html, distribution to schools in South Africa, India & Pakistan and a million or so online browsers at http:/schools-wikipedia.org plus tens of thousands of downloads and several thousand physical DVDs sent to networks. So who is lining up to start with the long process of the 2008 DVD? Please leave me a note if you feel you can contribute in a subject area: the main task is identifying lists of articles and historical versions which are free from vandalism. These versions last... the 2006 CD version still gets 5000 unique IP browsers a day. -- BozMo talk 17:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
My name is shahebaz and uid shahebaz1985. I had a project in manufacturing planning and control on the topic capacity planning requirement. It was a successfull project. I want to post this with different references and links which have been used to create it. I dont have any idea about the license as this is the first time i had a thought of posting the article because i could'nt find it on wikipedia. I have collected all the required information from different books and links. I have one more query. Is it possible to get it checked by some professional that is the article which i'm suppose to post is correct or not. Is there any changes have to be made? To clear my confusion and to help me out you people can contact me on my email id: <e-mail deleted for privacy concerns> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahebaz1985 ( talk • contribs) 13:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey Guys! I'm trying to fix {{ Infobox Artist Discography}} in the graphical sense, but can't seem to figure out how. What I'm trying to do is make sure the rows all appear as the same heigh, but every so often, the lines get blown out in size (see some of the articles that links there to see what I'm talking about). Anybody know how this can be fixed, retaining the knockout function (i.e. the way that it doesn't show unnecessary lines). (ps: I put this note up yesterday at WT:ALBUM, but as per usual, they're taking their sweet time responding). -- linca linca 13:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there is a policy on when to translate pages (to English) that are mainly of interest to a specific country. For instance, articles on the various municipalities of Finland are present on the Finnish Wikipedia, but generally not on the English Wikipedia.
Since English could be considered the closest thing to a "world language" we got I think it makes sense to translate these "local" pages to English, as many more readers will be able to understand the content. It is frustrating to seek knowledge on a local topic that turns out to be described only in a language you don't understand.
But is there a policy on when to do these translations? If there is I haven't found it. Perhaps there is a risk of cluttering the English Wikipedia with articles that are too local in nature? Relrel 10:54, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I recently removed the trivia section from the Boy Meets Boy (TV series) article. It was all unsourced and as it referred to living people, the best course seemed to be to remove it, as the first step in an attempt to improve the article for the Television Project. User:Otto4711 immediately reverted the removal saying he disagreed with the assessment. I reverted stating "discuss on talk page, this trivia also violates WP:Living", which I felt it did by making statements about living people that were unsourced and could be seen as controversial. Otto4711 reverted again, saying to leave it alone. Then he goes to the talk page and simply posts "let's discuss."
While trying to type up a message on the talk page to explain the removal and the reasons behind it, I reverted his revert (at this point, its a minor edit war), noting that violations of living must be removed immediately. He again reverted, claiming they items were sourced, then went back and added in some bad sources for the trivia claims (one is from IMDB, while the other two only partially support the items in question). Meanwhile, he is being increasingly incivil both on my talk page (and [2] and in the article talk page, refusing to listen to reason and discuss ways of rectifying things. I attempted to explain the need for reliable, neutral sources for statements about living people and ever offered ways the two fairly useful bits of trivia could be incorporated into the article.
He finally seemed to understand and left the trivia off, so I went on with improving the article, giving it a lot of clean up and structure fixes. Now, he's put the trivia back again claiming it is "properly" sourced. I'm not bothering to revert again. I removed the unsupported statement and the IMDB reference, which he again reverted, sticking in another hastily found (or made up) source.
As a side note, a previous editor had tagged the trivia section [3], which Otto4711 also removed, saying three items were reasonable (and not addressing what the tag actually says). He also seems to remove or revert any edit he disagrees with, and, I feel like he is displaying WP:Ownership issues over the article.
I know I probably should have given up reverting earlier when it became obvious that he wasn't going to really attempt to discuss anything, but other than that, I attempted to remain civil and tried to see his side of things, but he never gave any reason for keeping the trivia beyond his just wanting to. I've given up any attempt to dialog with him and will not bother continuing to work to improve the article until the issue is resolved, so any feedback and/or assistance appreciated. Collectonian ( talk) 04:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Right, it doesn't have to be negative, but it _does_ have to be contentious - and just because someone wants to remove it doesn't automatically mean it's contentious (and, I thought the 3RR exemption didn't make the distinction on whether it's negative either) — Random832 19:55, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
{{ DisambigProject}} is putting pages like Talk:Acacius (a lot of pages like that) into Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates. That's wrong.
There were two edits to the template on November 16th, the first (I think) to fix this problem and the second (I think) primarily for aesthetic reasons. Would someone more experienced take a look and see what needs to be done? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
What's the policy about who can or when to remove "Cleanup" and "Advert" tags? Two months ago I wrote the article Anti-stuttering devices. I had it peer-reviewed, a variety of changes were made, and no one has made any changes in over a month. Can we get rid of the tags now?-- TDKehoe ( talk) 04:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'll remove the tags.-- TDKehoe ( talk) 15:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I want to add a new booksource for Turkey, but this page seems to be locked. Can someone add "Izmir Institute of Technology Library" to to book source list?
Here's the search string:
replace 0136299814 with required query string.
Thanks;
Iytenet ( talk) 13:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you please help me on the working of the box-headers and box-footers on the Portal pages. As when I am trying to replicate those on my local wiki, the contents are not getting inside the boxes....... :(
Thanks in advance... Krishna... <email removed>... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.80.57.2 ( talk) 14:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, somebody has put this template ( Template:Tooltip-article ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) at WP:TFD. It appears to be some integral part of the wiki, and is protected. Does anyone know what it actually does, and whether it is safe to delete? TFD discussion found here. Thanks --GW_Simulations User Page | Talk 18:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
After readin an article, how do I access additional user additions.comments/corrections? Thanx for a prompt reply. Scott —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghentbois ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 18 November 2007
Not too sure where to post this, but here goes.
Many pictures of football (soccer) players are taken by fans inside the ground. However, only photographers with licenses are allowed to distribute pictures taken inside football grounds (in the UK at least) due to rights issues.
So should all images taken "from the stands" be deleted? Duke of Whitstable ( talk) 23:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I've been at WP for quite some time now, but I don't know how to fix this. The article Spanish language's references after about 18 display as a horrible mess, for me at least. Would someone mind fixing it? - Oreo Priest 06:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I need to recruit editors to create and develop lists for the set known as Lists of basic topics (part of Wikipedia's navigation system). There's a wish list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.
I've posted notices at WP:CBB, Wikipedia:Requested articles, and Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. I've posted the WikiProject at Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts and Wikipedia:WikiProject.
What else can I do?
How else can I find editors to join this WikiProject and/or create these lists?
I look forward to your ideas.
The Transhumanist 06:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
A problem has been reported about the list of redirects: Special:Listredirects, on this page Wikipedia talk:Special:Listredirects. It explains:"limited to displaying only the first 1,000 entries? Currently the list ends before reaching the letter C. "
Wikipedia redirect is a very relevant list for anybody interested in semantics. Does anybody have a clue how this could be fixed so that anybody could access the full list? Or does anybody have a clue how this list can be accessed through another way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiquestion ( talk • contribs) 12:08, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Cool, I think you are leading me on the right track. But could there be a way to get the name of the page instead of 'pageid="5878274"'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiquestion ( talk • contribs) 12:33, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I know that this may not seem relevant to be in this subject, but I asked in Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#Sam and I was refered to the Reference desk. The closest place that I could find to ask this question was on this page. Here's my question again:
In the article Sam, there is currently a dispute as to whether or not the opening paragraph, "Sam is primarily a male given name and may refer to:" is an assertion that needs to be referenced. Personally, I think that this is an acceptable assertion, except that Wikipedia policy requires that any disputed assertion requires a reference and this assertion is under dispute. However, other editors say that it doesn't require a reference. At this point, it is effectively down to, "Yes it does," and "No it doesn't," with no end is sight. Because I don't want to engage in any more edit-warring, I'm asking for assistance. What discussion there has been (except in the edit-war comments), fit on one page at the bottom of the talk page. If you do want to take on this Wikipedia policy issue, please post it to Talk:Sam. — Val42 ( talk) 05:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
How can I have an image itself be an internal link? Feed back ☎ 06:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
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. Just replace that line by default [[Apple tree]]
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Dapete
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, an 'i' symbol will appear in the corner of the image linking to the image page.
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(Talk) 00:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)~DON~I was the previous owner of a property, the property was sold but there was a clause in the sales agreement which stated that the family living in the workers house may not be removed, this was done because they had been there for over ten years and we couldnt evict them in time for the sale to go through. The size of the actual property is +- half an acre,whilst the main property is six acres. Now the reason I am making this query is to find out how we go about making it legal according to the law, as this family would like to have electricity installed and can not do so unless they can prove ownership. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.32.254 ( talk) 17:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Goguryeo-Guk has been tagged as a hoax for... several months now? Evidently there's some truth to it, per the talk page, but... what should be done since that's stalled out? It seems to be stuck in this awful limbo: It's not trustworthy enough to untag and let go on its way, but it is not being deleted... Any informations? 68.39.174.238 ( talk) 02:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I am a 16-year-old Singaporean and a near-native speaker of English. Since joining Wikipedia in February 2006, I have made over 2500 edits, which include writing a GA - I Not Stupid - and three DYKs - Money No Enough, The Best Bet and Megan Zheng.
In school, I usually score A1s in English - I topped my school in English last year and almost repeated that feat this year. Nevertheless, I know that my English still needs considerable polishing; my sentence structures are awkward and I struggle with the more subtle aspects of English grammar. Contributing to Wikipedia has helped me further improve my writing skills and command of English to a certain extent.
I am looking for a copy-editor who:
Anyone who meets the above criteria and is interested should post on my talk page, where we can make the necessary arrangements (such as exchanging IRC/MSN/GTalk handles).
-- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 15:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
What's the reason behind, and how do we fix Last stand. The table appears after the references (in earlier revisions it was fine). Thank you. El_C 21:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to bring Peter Wellington up to GA standards, and to do that, I want to include an image of the subject. I am in contact with his electorate office, but they just told me "oh, there's one on the Queensland Parliament website you can use.
Obviously, the image of Wellington on that site is copyrighted, and the person I'm talking to, like most people outside of Wikiland, more than likely does not have an extensive knowledge of image copyrights, licences, and the like. Is there an official looking page somewhere that I can point her to that explains why we can't just pinch that portrait of him, why we can't use "permission given to use on Wikipedia", and the difference in "simple terms" between GFDL and public domain and the like? Lankiveil ( talk) 11:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Just enquiring here as there seems to be no guidance on WP:N as to what makes a newspaper notable apart from the general guidelines. I ask because I recently came across a short article about a local newspaper whose circulation is <27,000. Obviously it's notable in its locality, but in general? -- Rodhullandemu ( please reply here - contribs) 18:33, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
I just saw this article, using this template. There seems to be something wrong with it: the months are -all but August- called "[[I]]", even when displayed on the above article. I'd like to correct the template and the article, but this wiki syntax is somewhat puzzling. Can somebody please help with this problem? Ka me yama 22:24, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
What does "patrolling" mean in reference to WikiP? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I have been scanning the information on UK long-distance footpaths. They are neatly categorised into those in each of the induvidual UK nations. I would like to add a link to a description of a reoute that joins up a number of long-distance paths into a route of just over a thousand miles running from Dover to Cape Wrath (North-west corner of Scotland). The link would be to my own website - thousandplus.org which has been set up to attract sponsorship for my own attempt at this route and I would like to know whether there is any breach of policy or etiquette in adding a link of this type. While there is no personal gain involved it could be seen as touting for donations. Is there an alternative way of adding the description of the route to Wikpedia? Although this is not a formally recognised route I an sure it would be of interest to a fair number of more ambitious walkers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.206.120.252 ( talk) 20:28, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Mr. or Ms. Unsigned, for asking your question. I, for one, appreciate your posting it. The best way to get the info into WikiP is to have your footpath noted by outside sources — magazines or Web sites about walking, exploration, tourism, etc. You can do this simply by sending your info to as many non WikiP places as possible (maybe even writing and illustrating your own article). Get it published in the Times or the Scotsman and I am sure that a notice in WikiP will follow. The theory is that you can't write the WikiP article yourself, but once your footpath becomes notable I, for one, would not complain if you asked somebody else to write a piece about it, citing the outside sources. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Review done. Thanks! Jackollie 01:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Is there someone who knows baseball better than I do who could take a look at the contributions of Dshibshm? He's made a ton of changes to player articles tonight. The first of his changes I found were things like removing a nickname or a player number, which I assumed was vandalism, but a lot of the changes are to positions played, etc. - things I'm not knowledgeable about. If the edits I've rv'd are actually good changes, I'll put them back if someone will let me know. Jackollie 02:54, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
May I have some assistance in trimming, cutting and rearranging the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004? The article was written piece by piece, almost day by day, during the trial and appeal, and it is not a unified, encyclopedic article. Kindly visit the page and detail on the Discussion page there what you think should be done and how you can help, if possible. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 08:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I tried to transfer and edited that particular information into KWKM and I have not finshed editing that, what do I need to do? I have information from the defuctional American one affiliate from the outlying areas outside of Phoenix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ks sonflower ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how to find a previous deletion debate for a recreated page? The Afd page is only ordered by date & I don't know even roughly when the debate occurred. Thanks. -- Rodhullandemu ( please reply here - contribs) 17:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
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William Birch ( 1765- 1834), enamel painter and engraver: practised after 1794 in Philadelphia; received Society of Arts medal, 1785.
Are the images on the web {{ PD-old}}? -- evrik ( talk) 22:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to get a bot working on other wiki-project but I need help from an experience botuser who's designed one with C# in Windows. -- Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 01:00, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
"User warning" here is defined to be any edit that consists solely of the addition of a pre-written message to a contributor's discussion page in response to intentionally unconstructive editing.
I've always marked user warnings as minor. It's the default behaviour for the most widely-used anti-vandalism tool. However, it would appear that some users consider this to be inappropriate. Can I get some sort of consensus on this? – Gurch 23:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Question - can an admin delete the content of a user page, so that it cannot be retrieved? Case in point is User:Nicole 50dc. The content there was used earlier today to recreate a page [1] (since speedied away) that was deleted as a result of this AfD yesterday. The user, an SPA and likely sock (see the IP edits in the AfD), is editing the page and will probably try the same thing again. Would nominating it as an MfD be the appropriate thing to do, or is there a quicker way? Thanks for any guidance. -- Smalljim 22:34, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
This thread moved to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) where it belongs. -- Richard 17:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
On my home computer (I'm using a public one right now using my public computer sock. My main is User:Malinaccier), I can't log in. I type the password in and everything works fine, but the page won't fully load telling me that I've signed in. All the rest of the Wikipedia pages also freeze. I'm not sure that this is the right place to post this, but I need some help. Thanks! •Malinaccier Public• T/ C 13:17, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know where I can download Wikipedia for Schools? The torrent that I have only ever has half a dozen peers and no seeds. — PhilHibbs | talk 22:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I am working with some folks to create a wikipedia style site to create a compendium of the histyr of a major metropolitan region. This will begin as a schools project, but we aim to open it to the general public after a year.
Having no experience in wiki potentially this vast, I was wondering if anyone out there does have such experience and might be avilable for consultation and advice. Harrycpayne 17:46, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to get some insight on what (or even if) avenues exist that can stop someone from editing mostly music related articles and changing the genres to what that user sees fit. The user Lizard Andrea seems to want to see this paticular field as 'genres according to Lizard Andrea' and any change from that, no matter the consensus, will be change back by me. If you check the contribs, you can see that this user hits the same articles the way (I assume it's a) she wants to even though they almost always subsequently get reverted/undone. I've put in for an RfC (Request for Comment) from the Wiki-community, but due to the relatively low profile of these edits, no-one has bothered to warn her about this besides me which is not enough to meet the threshold for this action. Is there any recourse for this because I have no desire to get into warring on articles? Lastly, I really don't consider these vandal edits and I thought they were in good faith but there seems to be an agenda involved as of late, personal or otherwise. τßōиЄ2001 00:50, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I can view and edit articles but when I ask for my watchlist, I get this message:
Anybody know what's going on and whether anybody is working on this? Where is the right place to notify the appropriate people about this? -- Richard 18:24, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Make a lasting impact on the world! We guestimate the 2007 Wikipedia for Schools has helped several million children, including a couple of hundred thousand rural poor kids from http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/news14.html, distribution to schools in South Africa, India & Pakistan and a million or so online browsers at http:/schools-wikipedia.org plus tens of thousands of downloads and several thousand physical DVDs sent to networks. So who is lining up to start with the long process of the 2008 DVD? Please leave me a note if you feel you can contribute in a subject area: the main task is identifying lists of articles and historical versions which are free from vandalism. These versions last... the 2006 CD version still gets 5000 unique IP browsers a day. -- BozMo talk 17:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
My name is shahebaz and uid shahebaz1985. I had a project in manufacturing planning and control on the topic capacity planning requirement. It was a successfull project. I want to post this with different references and links which have been used to create it. I dont have any idea about the license as this is the first time i had a thought of posting the article because i could'nt find it on wikipedia. I have collected all the required information from different books and links. I have one more query. Is it possible to get it checked by some professional that is the article which i'm suppose to post is correct or not. Is there any changes have to be made? To clear my confusion and to help me out you people can contact me on my email id: <e-mail deleted for privacy concerns> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahebaz1985 ( talk • contribs) 13:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey Guys! I'm trying to fix {{ Infobox Artist Discography}} in the graphical sense, but can't seem to figure out how. What I'm trying to do is make sure the rows all appear as the same heigh, but every so often, the lines get blown out in size (see some of the articles that links there to see what I'm talking about). Anybody know how this can be fixed, retaining the knockout function (i.e. the way that it doesn't show unnecessary lines). (ps: I put this note up yesterday at WT:ALBUM, but as per usual, they're taking their sweet time responding). -- linca linca 13:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there is a policy on when to translate pages (to English) that are mainly of interest to a specific country. For instance, articles on the various municipalities of Finland are present on the Finnish Wikipedia, but generally not on the English Wikipedia.
Since English could be considered the closest thing to a "world language" we got I think it makes sense to translate these "local" pages to English, as many more readers will be able to understand the content. It is frustrating to seek knowledge on a local topic that turns out to be described only in a language you don't understand.
But is there a policy on when to do these translations? If there is I haven't found it. Perhaps there is a risk of cluttering the English Wikipedia with articles that are too local in nature? Relrel 10:54, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I recently removed the trivia section from the Boy Meets Boy (TV series) article. It was all unsourced and as it referred to living people, the best course seemed to be to remove it, as the first step in an attempt to improve the article for the Television Project. User:Otto4711 immediately reverted the removal saying he disagreed with the assessment. I reverted stating "discuss on talk page, this trivia also violates WP:Living", which I felt it did by making statements about living people that were unsourced and could be seen as controversial. Otto4711 reverted again, saying to leave it alone. Then he goes to the talk page and simply posts "let's discuss."
While trying to type up a message on the talk page to explain the removal and the reasons behind it, I reverted his revert (at this point, its a minor edit war), noting that violations of living must be removed immediately. He again reverted, claiming they items were sourced, then went back and added in some bad sources for the trivia claims (one is from IMDB, while the other two only partially support the items in question). Meanwhile, he is being increasingly incivil both on my talk page (and [2] and in the article talk page, refusing to listen to reason and discuss ways of rectifying things. I attempted to explain the need for reliable, neutral sources for statements about living people and ever offered ways the two fairly useful bits of trivia could be incorporated into the article.
He finally seemed to understand and left the trivia off, so I went on with improving the article, giving it a lot of clean up and structure fixes. Now, he's put the trivia back again claiming it is "properly" sourced. I'm not bothering to revert again. I removed the unsupported statement and the IMDB reference, which he again reverted, sticking in another hastily found (or made up) source.
As a side note, a previous editor had tagged the trivia section [3], which Otto4711 also removed, saying three items were reasonable (and not addressing what the tag actually says). He also seems to remove or revert any edit he disagrees with, and, I feel like he is displaying WP:Ownership issues over the article.
I know I probably should have given up reverting earlier when it became obvious that he wasn't going to really attempt to discuss anything, but other than that, I attempted to remain civil and tried to see his side of things, but he never gave any reason for keeping the trivia beyond his just wanting to. I've given up any attempt to dialog with him and will not bother continuing to work to improve the article until the issue is resolved, so any feedback and/or assistance appreciated. Collectonian ( talk) 04:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Right, it doesn't have to be negative, but it _does_ have to be contentious - and just because someone wants to remove it doesn't automatically mean it's contentious (and, I thought the 3RR exemption didn't make the distinction on whether it's negative either) — Random832 19:55, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
{{ DisambigProject}} is putting pages like Talk:Acacius (a lot of pages like that) into Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates. That's wrong.
There were two edits to the template on November 16th, the first (I think) to fix this problem and the second (I think) primarily for aesthetic reasons. Would someone more experienced take a look and see what needs to be done? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
What's the policy about who can or when to remove "Cleanup" and "Advert" tags? Two months ago I wrote the article Anti-stuttering devices. I had it peer-reviewed, a variety of changes were made, and no one has made any changes in over a month. Can we get rid of the tags now?-- TDKehoe ( talk) 04:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I'll remove the tags.-- TDKehoe ( talk) 15:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I want to add a new booksource for Turkey, but this page seems to be locked. Can someone add "Izmir Institute of Technology Library" to to book source list?
Here's the search string:
replace 0136299814 with required query string.
Thanks;
Iytenet ( talk) 13:00, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you please help me on the working of the box-headers and box-footers on the Portal pages. As when I am trying to replicate those on my local wiki, the contents are not getting inside the boxes....... :(
Thanks in advance... Krishna... <email removed>... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.80.57.2 ( talk) 14:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, somebody has put this template ( Template:Tooltip-article ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) at WP:TFD. It appears to be some integral part of the wiki, and is protected. Does anyone know what it actually does, and whether it is safe to delete? TFD discussion found here. Thanks --GW_Simulations User Page | Talk 18:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
After readin an article, how do I access additional user additions.comments/corrections? Thanx for a prompt reply. Scott —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghentbois ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 18 November 2007
Not too sure where to post this, but here goes.
Many pictures of football (soccer) players are taken by fans inside the ground. However, only photographers with licenses are allowed to distribute pictures taken inside football grounds (in the UK at least) due to rights issues.
So should all images taken "from the stands" be deleted? Duke of Whitstable ( talk) 23:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I've been at WP for quite some time now, but I don't know how to fix this. The article Spanish language's references after about 18 display as a horrible mess, for me at least. Would someone mind fixing it? - Oreo Priest 06:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I need to recruit editors to create and develop lists for the set known as Lists of basic topics (part of Wikipedia's navigation system). There's a wish list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics.
I've posted notices at WP:CBB, Wikipedia:Requested articles, and Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. I've posted the WikiProject at Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts and Wikipedia:WikiProject.
What else can I do?
How else can I find editors to join this WikiProject and/or create these lists?
I look forward to your ideas.
The Transhumanist 06:58, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
A problem has been reported about the list of redirects: Special:Listredirects, on this page Wikipedia talk:Special:Listredirects. It explains:"limited to displaying only the first 1,000 entries? Currently the list ends before reaching the letter C. "
Wikipedia redirect is a very relevant list for anybody interested in semantics. Does anybody have a clue how this could be fixed so that anybody could access the full list? Or does anybody have a clue how this list can be accessed through another way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiquestion ( talk • contribs) 12:08, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Cool, I think you are leading me on the right track. But could there be a way to get the name of the page instead of 'pageid="5878274"'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiquestion ( talk • contribs) 12:33, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I know that this may not seem relevant to be in this subject, but I asked in Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests#Sam and I was refered to the Reference desk. The closest place that I could find to ask this question was on this page. Here's my question again:
In the article Sam, there is currently a dispute as to whether or not the opening paragraph, "Sam is primarily a male given name and may refer to:" is an assertion that needs to be referenced. Personally, I think that this is an acceptable assertion, except that Wikipedia policy requires that any disputed assertion requires a reference and this assertion is under dispute. However, other editors say that it doesn't require a reference. At this point, it is effectively down to, "Yes it does," and "No it doesn't," with no end is sight. Because I don't want to engage in any more edit-warring, I'm asking for assistance. What discussion there has been (except in the edit-war comments), fit on one page at the bottom of the talk page. If you do want to take on this Wikipedia policy issue, please post it to Talk:Sam. — Val42 ( talk) 05:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
How can I have an image itself be an internal link? Feed back ☎ 06:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
<imagemap> Image:Apple tree.jpg|200px| rect 0 0 2272 1704 [[Apple tree]] desc none </imagemap>
rect
. Just replace that line by default [[Apple tree]]
. --
Dapete
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, an 'i' symbol will appear in the corner of the image linking to the image page.
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(Talk) 00:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)~DON~I was the previous owner of a property, the property was sold but there was a clause in the sales agreement which stated that the family living in the workers house may not be removed, this was done because they had been there for over ten years and we couldnt evict them in time for the sale to go through. The size of the actual property is +- half an acre,whilst the main property is six acres. Now the reason I am making this query is to find out how we go about making it legal according to the law, as this family would like to have electricity installed and can not do so unless they can prove ownership. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.32.254 ( talk) 17:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Goguryeo-Guk has been tagged as a hoax for... several months now? Evidently there's some truth to it, per the talk page, but... what should be done since that's stalled out? It seems to be stuck in this awful limbo: It's not trustworthy enough to untag and let go on its way, but it is not being deleted... Any informations? 68.39.174.238 ( talk) 02:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I am a 16-year-old Singaporean and a near-native speaker of English. Since joining Wikipedia in February 2006, I have made over 2500 edits, which include writing a GA - I Not Stupid - and three DYKs - Money No Enough, The Best Bet and Megan Zheng.
In school, I usually score A1s in English - I topped my school in English last year and almost repeated that feat this year. Nevertheless, I know that my English still needs considerable polishing; my sentence structures are awkward and I struggle with the more subtle aspects of English grammar. Contributing to Wikipedia has helped me further improve my writing skills and command of English to a certain extent.
I am looking for a copy-editor who:
Anyone who meets the above criteria and is interested should post on my talk page, where we can make the necessary arrangements (such as exchanging IRC/MSN/GTalk handles).
-- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 15:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
What's the reason behind, and how do we fix Last stand. The table appears after the references (in earlier revisions it was fine). Thank you. El_C 21:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to bring Peter Wellington up to GA standards, and to do that, I want to include an image of the subject. I am in contact with his electorate office, but they just told me "oh, there's one on the Queensland Parliament website you can use.
Obviously, the image of Wellington on that site is copyrighted, and the person I'm talking to, like most people outside of Wikiland, more than likely does not have an extensive knowledge of image copyrights, licences, and the like. Is there an official looking page somewhere that I can point her to that explains why we can't just pinch that portrait of him, why we can't use "permission given to use on Wikipedia", and the difference in "simple terms" between GFDL and public domain and the like? Lankiveil ( talk) 11:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Just enquiring here as there seems to be no guidance on WP:N as to what makes a newspaper notable apart from the general guidelines. I ask because I recently came across a short article about a local newspaper whose circulation is <27,000. Obviously it's notable in its locality, but in general? -- Rodhullandemu ( please reply here - contribs) 18:33, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
I just saw this article, using this template. There seems to be something wrong with it: the months are -all but August- called "[[I]]", even when displayed on the above article. I'd like to correct the template and the article, but this wiki syntax is somewhat puzzling. Can somebody please help with this problem? Ka me yama 22:24, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
What does "patrolling" mean in reference to WikiP? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I have been scanning the information on UK long-distance footpaths. They are neatly categorised into those in each of the induvidual UK nations. I would like to add a link to a description of a reoute that joins up a number of long-distance paths into a route of just over a thousand miles running from Dover to Cape Wrath (North-west corner of Scotland). The link would be to my own website - thousandplus.org which has been set up to attract sponsorship for my own attempt at this route and I would like to know whether there is any breach of policy or etiquette in adding a link of this type. While there is no personal gain involved it could be seen as touting for donations. Is there an alternative way of adding the description of the route to Wikpedia? Although this is not a formally recognised route I an sure it would be of interest to a fair number of more ambitious walkers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.206.120.252 ( talk) 20:28, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Mr. or Ms. Unsigned, for asking your question. I, for one, appreciate your posting it. The best way to get the info into WikiP is to have your footpath noted by outside sources — magazines or Web sites about walking, exploration, tourism, etc. You can do this simply by sending your info to as many non WikiP places as possible (maybe even writing and illustrating your own article). Get it published in the Times or the Scotsman and I am sure that a notice in WikiP will follow. The theory is that you can't write the WikiP article yourself, but once your footpath becomes notable I, for one, would not complain if you asked somebody else to write a piece about it, citing the outside sources. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Review done. Thanks! Jackollie 01:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Is there someone who knows baseball better than I do who could take a look at the contributions of Dshibshm? He's made a ton of changes to player articles tonight. The first of his changes I found were things like removing a nickname or a player number, which I assumed was vandalism, but a lot of the changes are to positions played, etc. - things I'm not knowledgeable about. If the edits I've rv'd are actually good changes, I'll put them back if someone will let me know. Jackollie 02:54, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
May I have some assistance in trimming, cutting and rearranging the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004? The article was written piece by piece, almost day by day, during the trial and appeal, and it is not a unified, encyclopedic article. Kindly visit the page and detail on the Discussion page there what you think should be done and how you can help, if possible. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 08:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I tried to transfer and edited that particular information into KWKM and I have not finshed editing that, what do I need to do? I have information from the defuctional American one affiliate from the outlying areas outside of Phoenix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ks sonflower ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Can someone tell me how to find a previous deletion debate for a recreated page? The Afd page is only ordered by date & I don't know even roughly when the debate occurred. Thanks. -- Rodhullandemu ( please reply here - contribs) 17:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)