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Hi, I would be very thankful for help. I have delved into the world of wikipedia tables, and after searching the help on tables, I haven't found any easy way to right-align a column in a table. The only way I know is to specify style="text-align: right for every value on every row.
Please see my test in the table on the very bottom of my user page : User:dna-webmaster, where I have right-aligned the value in the cell in the second column, second row.
Isn't there a way to specify that the entire column should be right-aligned?
The table which I eventually wish to right-align is the big one on this page:
I am very thankful for help! Regards, Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis 00:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! I will go for that! Cheers, Dna-Dennis 05:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Note that you want something like a col or a colgroup element supported (in HTML-speak). This is not currently supported by the wiki-pipe syntax. So at the moment, you do have to individually align every cell. It's a bitch. see Help:Table. HTH -- pfctdayelise 14:50, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
I recently wrote an article on "HMCS TECUMSEH". When I enter this term into the search dialogue however, the article does not appear as a choice, but other links to this article seem to work. Is there some sort of meta-text that must be added to cause an article to appear as a search result?
The article on Cladistics lists several books and paper from which it was apparently written from. However, these are not referenced in the article's text. Should the existing "References" section be renamed to "Bibliography"? or does the term "References" mean the same thing, regardless? Also, is this article's use of bolding and italics done properly? -- maclean25 05:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
How does one create a new page for a title that already exists? Gprice157 21:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)gprice157 Gprice157 21:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just caught a pro-nazi vandal. IP is 210.54.59.106 , calling someone who put up a holocaust/fascism memorial a traitor, on the page " Braunau am Inn ". I fixed that, but he's posting on a bunch of Jewish pages now.
I'm guessing someone'll be on top of him for this now, but how do I normally go about reporting this? samwaltz 02:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Recent edits to the biography of the former United States Secretary of State seem IMHO to have strayed rather far from a neutral point of view. See the last long paragraph concerning his activities after he left the Carter Administration. I am not really familiar enough with the incidents to write intelligently, but the tone of the recent (anonymous) edit seems unencyclopedic to me. Morris 23:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, if I have a recording of me playing a piece by a modern composer (Gyorgy Ligeti), would I be allowed to upload it and put it on Wikipedia? I heard something about the composer having to be dead 70 years, but I thought that only applied to sheet music. Thanks :-) -- yoshi 21:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
A user has moved an article Constituencies in United Kingdom General Election to Constituencies inthe United Kingdom General Election (sic). Can I move it;
a) Back to the original page (without the "inthe") b) To a new page with the "inthe" correctly spelled?
Regards
doktorb 20:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
If this move was discussed on the talk page, move to the correctly spelled page and drop a friendly note.
If the move was not discussed. . . well. . .you can move it back with an even friendlyer (is that a word?) note explaining why. Also leave a note on the talk page. Wikifun Banana04131 04:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Where is the right place to ask for assistance in writing a (small) text in English if one's not fluent in this language? CG 17:34, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
What has happened to my sig? It worked fine until day before yesterday, and now what should look like
looks like
What's going on?? D enni ☯ (I pasted this in)
Just to let everyone know that the addition of links to the Alsos Digital Library (http:alsos.wlu.edu) is not a spam attack. The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, funded by the National Science Foundation, provides a broad, balanced range of annotated references for the study of nuclear issues. This searchable collection of 1900 references included books, articles, films, DCs, and websites. All annotations have been reviewed by members of the library's prestigious National Advisory Board.
It is the mission of the Alsos Library to make the history and current status of nuclear issues more accessible and comprehensible to the general public as well as to students and educators in the many fields influenced by the forces of the nuclear age.
Frank Settle, Project Manager Department of Chemistry Washington & Lee University Lexington, VA
How can I fix my signature so that it links on a page. It just comes out as flat type now. You can see when I sing here--Pomegranite 01:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Anon's infrequently sympathize the article. Some of the additions may be factual and may serve to balance the article, but since the edits routinely delete the External links I have to assume they are done in bad faith. Could someone more familiar with it look at the edit history and see if a compromise is possible? - Roy Boy 800 17:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know who can edit special pages (sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but special pages don't have talk pages), but I think Special:Upload needs a couple of changes.
-- pfctdayelise 02:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
They Can be found in thier main article National Grassland. Most grassland articles need to be wikified.
I am in the current process restoring a clean, single page, archive of Template:Did you know so that my bot can process the information, and properly archive all the information. There seems to be missing items from the archive, and I require someone to view User:AllyUnion/Did you know archive and double check against from the history of the template starting at here.
Basically, I need someone to hit the "Previous revision" button and double check that it is in order and no information is missing. Newest items are at the top of the page... If you find an item missing, it would be greatly appreciated if you leave a note on User talk:AllyUnion/Did you know archive. Note, not recommended for modem users... Your assistance will be greated appreciated. Thanks. (It also be a great help if anyone can copyedit the page too.) -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:08, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I am currently renaming many of my previously uploaded images by uploading them agains with clearer and more descriptive filenames. As such, it would be extremely helpful if an administrator could help out by deleting the old images so as not to clog up the WP:IFD page. If any administrators would like to help me with this, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks! :) Wikiwoohoo 17:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
For me, one of the more rewarding aspects of Wikipedia has finding and uploading full length songs for integration into our articles. And until now, I've been doing this more-or-less by myself, and I'm getting a bit frustrated both with the server-side technical problems (all of which have been ironed out now by now) and the lack of help from others.
However, as a result of my work, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dozens (hundreds?) of other articles all have wonderful song selections.
The full list (of approximately 300 full-length songs) can be found at Wikipedia:Sound/list.
Now, I'm at the point where I need help. There are thousands of articles that could benefit from have an example song (even if we limited ourselves only to the ones already uploaded). Fugue, Canon, Symphony, chord, harmony, counterpoint, 'etc. So I need some help rolling them out - adding them to articles using the audio templates I created (the one found on Beethoven, for example). Raul654 10:15, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I have made several edits, all of which were constructive, to my dismay they were all removed almost imediately by Nihonjoe, who sent me a message which stated I was either performing a test or comitting vandalism, niether of which were true. Today I created an article on a historical group of Asian natives called the Kanuni, after I noted that there was no article on Wikipedia, but I did not feel I had the knowledge to write the article so I merely stated that "This article is in need of content" hopeing to draw the attention of some one more qualified. I wanted to clear up any misunderstandings and would also like to add that Nihonjoe seems to be an authority on Japinese Cartooons, but lacks the same knowledge when it comes to history or non-Japanese linguistics, and therefore should stick to editing articles about Anime.
NOTE: The following was posted to my page by the anonymous user from this IP address: |
messages to user |
hello, you have sent me a warning message, I have not done any thing to warrant this, I have vandalized no pages, nor performed any tests, if you cheek my editing history you will see that earlier today i removed profanity from a place it did not belong, some of my grammar or spelling may be off, but the appropriate response would be to edit it instead of threatinging to remove my privliges, I hope this was merely a misunderstanding, and that it will be cleared up soon, thank you. |
Through the Helpdesk I got an unblock request for IP 203.122.254.26. Could this one be unblocked? Here is a quote from the unblock request: - Andre Engels 22:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I've just spotted in my watchlist that an anon user has edited image:Autofellatio 2.jpg with an edit summary that has set my alarm bells ringing regarding whether it was apropriate or not. I would check myself, but I am currently at work and have to be very careful about what images I view. The line below is what I saw on my watchlist:
I would like to assume good faith but given the history of the image, the anon user and edit summary I'd like someone to take a look. Thanks Thryduulf 14:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm doing linguistics research that involves finding articles that are "hard to read" (bad prose, badly organized, etc.). Is there a Wikipedia category that has a list of these? I found the "'Fix Crappy Prose' Challenge" category, but it only has 4 links, and I was wondering if there were a more extensive list somewhere. Thanks.
All of the information below is correct (and sourced) to my knowledge. I have an uneasy feeling there may be legal ramifications to some of the following- and I'd like to ask around before placing this back on the article page. I'll see what "official" Wikipedia guidelines say, and I'd like very much to hear your comments. (Also, please read the Terms of Use of the charitynavigator page: [1]) thanks, Christianjb 08:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
AiG is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code [2]. According to the charitynavigator website [3] AiG had a US $9,016,228 total revenue in FYE 2003, with president Ken Ham recieving a compensation of US$170,217. The website of WCPO TV has reported that in 2003, AiG "did not meet all of the [Better Business] Bureau's accountability standards" (emphasis in original) [4] Bill Wise, of AiG answered that this was due to a "miscommunication, understanding regarding document submittals back in August of 2002." (ibid [5])
Update: I've just emailed charitynavigator to ask them if I can quote the two figures I attributed to them. Is there anything else I should do? Christianjb 08:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Update: I received a nice email back from Charitynavigator giving permission for the figures to be used in the Wikipedia page. I don't think I've got a problem anymore. I'm pretty certain I'm safe on the rest of the text, which provides a sourced quote from a reputable media outlet. Thanks Christianjb 15:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Why does Yasmin (which is my daughters name) redirect to Oral contraceptives. Don't think that is correct, maybe some sort of vandalism.-- 71.28.253.196 07:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
using this.. http://geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
In the National Natural Landmarks article I started a list of landmarks. So far I have up to Conn. I can't finish the list due to my schedule so will someone help finish the list. Also help wikify it because I did it rather hastily. You can get info about NNL and what states have which NNL at the following URL Address:
http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/Registry/USA_Map/index.cfm
My subpage is User:For7thGen/subpage 3.
I spent maybe 1 1/2 hours going back and forth between editing it and "Show preview" without ever "Save page"ing it, and I think Wikipedia didn't like that. When I did Save page after that long workspan, much of the page was missing, but in a weird way, the most recent paragraph being there just fine.
At present "edit this page" shows the correct code, but neither "Show preview" nor "Save page" will give the complete page that should be generated by the correct code. And of course the code may disappear, so I have it saved on my own computer, via cut and paste.
I have also quit my browser (Safari 1.3), (my computer is a Mac iBook G4 using Mac OS 10.3, a year or so old), and tried my browser Explorer 5.2, with identical results, so I think I pushed Wikipedia beyond its limits.
I tried clearing my subpage 2, via edit this page, deleting it all, and Save pageing it, which correctly shows an empty page. But then doing edit this page and putting in the correct code via cut and paste and then either Show previewing it or Save pageing it gives the same weird result with part of the page missing. I left this page empty in hopes it may be okay tomorrow. I also left subpage 3 undisturbed since I couldn't get the correct version to show on it except in its coded or markup form.
So I'm totally at a loss.
Help me please. For7thGen 02:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, I found the problem when I was comparing the two versions so I could continue work, offline. I had stuck half-templates {{ref | and {{ref label | in my markup, before I learned about using the nowiki/nowiki pair which you can see I now know how to use. At first I got away with it, but it bit me hard later on!*! I'll probably remember that lesson at least a week or so. For7thGen 02:58, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm looking to see if anyone can lend me a hand (or a script or a robot) I can use to upload 300+ images. They are for Template:Xiangqi position. These are all roughly repetitive so the template can work and will basically include a GFDL-self license and a Template:Xiangqi-image to describe it. Is there anyway to accomplish this short of pressing the upload buttons 300 times? Is there a mass upload feature? -- Natalinasmpf 02:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
I was on WikiVacation and would like to get a copy of the last version of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Mirza_Ghalib before it was deleted for copyviolation. Some of the material that was deleted was from my pen/keyboard and could not have been a copy vio.
IFaqeer 02:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Funny, since early today, if a wikipedia article is in 3 or more categories, some categories are shown blended together. I.E., Silence of the lambs' category section contains " Best Picture OscarHorror FilmsFilms based on novelsBest Actor Oscar" all in one line. The html source looks correct on first glance. Any idea why this display bug appears? Thanks :-) Peter S. 15:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Recently a new editor has been pushing a viewpoint that the Republican Party is a fascist party. What is the best way to handle crackpot theories like these? Particularly since his edits are across multiple articles on this topic. PPGMD 01:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Im in a bit over my head here, and since copyrights are involved i'm not entirely sure what to do. User:24.147.103.146 has been going around blanking about a dozen pages regarding boston mafia leaders, replacing with the text "Content stolen from www.whiteywatch.com - Your ISP has been notified". I've examined this site and it belongs to WRKO-AM in boston, and it appears that all the deleted artciles are in fact more or less verbatim cut and paste jobs. Moreover, they were almost all added by the same user (or other users with similar IP ranges, which from their user pages appear to be a High School or something).
Anyway, if you check out [6] You'll see all the pages this guy has blanked. While he is clearly right in wanting to protect copyright, this doesn't seem like the right way to do it, especially by adding an advertisement. Should i warn this user? Should i request he be blocked? Im trying to go through now and revert all the pages to the most recent non-copyrighted version, but what should I do with regards to these two users??
Any advice or thoughts are more than welcome! thanks in advance. - Lanoitarus 04:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This page is in userspace, but it was moved from articlespace by SlimVirgin apaprently without discussion after an AfD that ended in no consensus. Myself and Antidote have removed the category tag while it is in userspace (as it is an article category, pages in userspace should not be in it), but Poetlister has reverted each change. I'm off to bed now, so could someone else please explain again at user talk:Poetlister why it should not be in an article category while in userspace. Also, please can someone ascertain whether this really should be in userspace or not. Thanks. Thryduulf 23:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I just changed my username from Hottentot to Khoikhoi. Is there any way to transfer my watchlist from my old account to my new one? Thanks. -- Khoikhoi 02:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I recently had to revert IP 12.208.191.131's edits over a large range of Anime related pages. His/her modus operandi consisted of removing all material within parentheses, including disambiguation strings in links. I do not believe he/she did this is bad faith, however, his/her lack of understanding about the subtleties of wikitext and failure to report reasons for the deletions in his/her edit summaries could be detrimental. He has made good edits, and I think he/she could become a good editor with some assistance. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 17:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wayne_Robert_Smith
Can't get the image up. Anybody here know how to post images on an article? I own the image and the link to a copy of it is on the page. I'm tired of trying to work it out. I'm going to bed.
How would one transfer contributions to a different username or from an IP address? --Jay ( Reply) 06:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not a newbie to Wikipedia but I ran into something that I'm not sure how to fix. There is a strange sequence of numbers at the top of the bambi page but I'm not sure what they are. A copy and paste looks like this: {{{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}|=|=|=|=|=|=|=}} {{{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}|=|=|=|=|=|=|=}}
I could revert the article but I don't think its vandalism. Instead it looks like someone tried to do something with wiki-markup but made a mistake. Could someone take a look at it and see what is going on? I'll contact the the user who made the change as well ( User:Phil Boswell) Thank you. Martin-C 19:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to list an article for deletion -- which I've done successfully in the past, so I'm not a complete doofus -- but this time, if I follow the directions, I end up with a listing that lacks a header. (There is a strong possiblity that I messed up on following the directions, of course.) I would appreciate if someone more competent (!) could go to the AfD listings and fix the listing for Non-Muslims Interactants with Muslims During Muhammad's Era.
i am adding some content to my userpage, and wanted to add this image to it [7], but it will only show as a link. it has to link to an external page as it updates weekly. is there anyway of doing this in the wiki. i understand it would be unacceptable to use it in an artical, but since it is my userpage would it be possible? Junior Aspirin 17:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I have an article/Talk page on my watchlist (i.e. Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative medicine/Archive 1) that I am unable to remove. I keep receiving the following message: "Couldn't remove item 'Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative medicine/Archive 1'...done." Any suggestions on how to get rid of it? Thanks! -- Edwardian 05:37, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to make a Wikipedia article, but I'm not sure if the article would be considered 'relevant' or not. Is there any page on Wikipedia that I can go to in order to ask someone if my article would be acceptable or not?
The article on question is on the similarities between the two anime Evangelion and RahXephon. Such a page would definately be relevant to fans of Evangelion and/or RahXephon, and to those who debate on whether or not the two series are similar.
Wikipedia:Peer review is probably not relevant: it's the last stage of very polished articles before they try to become featured. I think Sarek and jnothman are right. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
WikiProject Anime and manga it is, then. Thanks, all of you! EvaXephon 23:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon already exist. Dominick (TALK) 16:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just discovered one vanity page ( James P. Kimmel, Jr., J.D.) and several original research pages ( Nonjustice, Nonjustice system, Holistic law) while dealing with some recent edits to the Dispute resolution article. This user appears to be promoting his book which is currently ranked at roughly 230,000 on Amazon.com by sales. See also User talk:Bapu and User talk:Coolcaesar.
I don't have the time right now to relearn how to work the "Articles for deletion" process and how to get the articles into that process to be dealt with accordingly on the merits---I just took a lot of great photos I'm trying to upload. Can some administrators deal with this, please? Thank you. -- Coolcaesar 04:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm looking for some guidance on my first really contentious AfD, one where we seem to have a raging sock puppetry problem. I'm not an admin and while I've nominated lots of articles for AfD, this is the first time I've run into this problem. Someone at one of the puppet addresses blanked my user and talk pages yesterday.
The AfD page is
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GH avisualagency™. My question to folks around here is whether I'm handling it appropriately - am I doing too much, or not enough? Should I be deleting any of the non-voting text? Is it appropriate to warn the user behind this (
Lerner, who wrote the initial article about a company in which he's a partner) about sock puppetry? I'm hesitant to do much more than tag the puppets. I've tried to explain AfD policies to Lerner on
his talk page, but he persists in trying to rig the vote. I should say I'm not concerned about the results of the vote; there aren't any "keep" votes from regular users, and as long as the voting is fair, I don't care if the article is deleted or not. Anyway, I'm open to suggestions. Thanks. |
Klaw
¡digame!
22:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Striver recently created an article called Cursing Sahaba is Kufr (Sunni doctrine). The article is Shia-POV, badly titled, and unnecessary, and I was planning on putting it up for deletion. Then I noticed that it was suspiciously well-written and googled for the source, which I found.
I didn't know whether to put it up for deletion or flag the copyvio -- after some thought I decided to do the latter. Striver objected that the material was a "quote" and removed the copyvio notice. This is NOT OK, yes? See Talk:Cursing Sahaba is Kufr (Sunni doctrine) for a discussion of Striver's "quote" claim.
I reverted to put up the copyvio notice again. What should I do if Striver removes it again? Zora 09:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this is'nt the right place for this question:
A few days ago, I found a page that contained some sort of Wikipedia awards for editing. Can anyone direct me to this page?
thanks. Seanmcpherson1 05:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
articles MPACUK and Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK should be merged and also made more NPOV Yellowmellow45 12:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been tryign to get USA PATRIOT Act, Title II up to speed, but have hit the point where I can do no more for a while. Can some help? Here is what I need help with:
Folks, I've already done the hard part! Now I'm asking for some assistance on some easier stuff, but which is no less important. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I've mucked up page moves on Air-to-air missiles and helicopters linked from that page. Could someone help me fix it?-- TheDoctor10 ( talk| email) 07:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I am being castigated for having listed this article for deletion. It contains nothing but quotes, lots of quotes, long quotes, this is an inappropriate use of Wikipedia. And yet all of the votes are to keep. Can someone tell me if this is a proper Wikipedia aritlce? User:Zoe| (talk) 22:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
What Zoe knew, and I know, is that Striver generally doesn't improve the articles he starts. He has said that this is a job for other editors. As I just commented on the page for the AfD, the article could be a good and useful one, if it were retitled and if there were more exposition than quotes. Islamic views re stoning for adultery have been in the news lately. But should we keep mistitled articles with no real content around if it's unlikely that anyone will improve them? I dunno if I have the strength -- I'm at loggerheads with Striver in too many articles. Zora 00:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I have indicate that a part of an page of discussion connected with an article that this seems to be POV ( Foiba). Who can place POV template? -- Ilario 21:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Not too sure where this one lives. But how do you find a list of articles that cross reference to the article thatyou are reviewing? User:Zogin
Yes - thanks
April 2004 is a mess - It appears to have lost most of its content but had new stuff added. I may get round to analysing all the history and work out what should come from what old version later. If anyone else feels they want to do it first, feel free. -- SGBailey 23:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Having dealt with several Category:Bridge articles recently, I noticed inconsistency in denoting suit symbols. I encountered three general styles:
In addition, the default Arial symbols, e.g. ♥ are too small and appear ugly. (Some articles use increased font size for them).
I suggest fixing the stuff by
Duja 11:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like some comments on the subject article if folks have some time. This article represents the most extensive article edit I've ever done here. (I didn't start it, others had some content when I got there, as you can see from diffs, but I went to town on it today). I've been a fan of Steinman since I was a boy and it just seemed the thing to do. I'm not really sure it's up to the standards of peer review yet. For one thing it still has a lot of internal comments I left in it about things that still need doing etc, and for another I don't know if it's "finished" enough. Some of my other questions are:
Hence my request that a few kind souls take a look at it and comment, either on its talk page or mine. Thanks in advance!!! ++ Lar 00:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I ran across this via Special:Randompage, and I wanted to put a category tag on it, but I have no idea what it falls under. Physics? Joyous | Talk 17:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I submitted a picture, but am having trouble getting it licensed. How do I do that? —the preceding unsigned comment is by WikiPlayer ( talk • contribs)
Weißensee Cemetery would it be possible to redirect Weissensee Cemetery here (the Anglisised spelling without ß) Yellowmellow45 12:23, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
#redirect [[Weißensee Cemetery]]
Ok!!
Yellowmellow45
15:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Could a developer please remove the offensive edit summaries from Jimmy Wales? The same thing may also need to be done on the George W. Bush article. -- Ixfd64 02:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I am korean. english is poor... I have question...hmmm...What image license tags is only for enwiki, not for commons? make a tag list only for enwiki not for commons!! -- WonYong 07:52, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a way to merge watchlists in English and German Wikipedia? The ammount of separation between the different language Wikipedias - starting with the necessity to create two accounts - is distressing.
Or is this question/suggestion/whatever supposed to be a feature-request or even a bug? Or am I just to tired/stupid to figure things out? greetings --
Space-Marine
01:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I tried to log in using IE and got an incorrect password message and I don't know why. Unable to log in I pressed email new password. Is there anyway to get back the password of my choice because the one they sent in email is not one I would choose.-- Dakota ? e 21:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm new here and to be quite honest, I'm afraid to get my toes wet. So I'd like to request some assistance or advice. Two pages, Margaret Ray and MAR, seem to be in need of disambiguation pages. Another entry, C&C Music Factory, seem to have circular links, where clicking on the link just brings you back to the same entry. How would one go about resolving this?-- Silverhand 16:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
This site admitted [10] to deleting information from Wikipedia, but I don't know what article. Can anyone find this out, and revert the edit? -- user:zanimum
Is it possible that I translate some of the articles not available in Turkish to Turkish in order to enable more people to understand them? My intent is not to plagiarize in any way, I will be stating clearly that the article is a translation and offer links to the original one.
The AfD ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GH_avisualagency™) about which I posted earlier is now eight days old, and we haven't had a new vote in over 24 hours. Ignoring all the meat/sock puppets (I used "fewer than ten edits before voting" as the standard; we've had 30, 22 of whom voted "keep"), we have 18 votes to Delete, 1 to keep, and 2 abstentions. If someone could come close this out, I'd appreciate it. Any questions, just ask. Thanks. | Klaw ¡digame! 03:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
This is related to the AfD for which I solicited help above. The user who vandalized my user page has been engaging in a mild harassment campaign against me. I don't care so much about that, but this I do care about: Two accusations that I am harassing him/her, one here on his/her talk page and one on the talk page for the AfD. I placed a short response on the AfD talk page just to have an actual denial on the record. Should I do anything else? I don't like having the claim that I'm harassing anyone out there. Thanks, everyone's been a great help on this AfD so far. | Klaw ¡digame! 19:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm seeking some guidance on what to do about a persistent vandal that's been targeting my user/talk pages, along with the articles I've created, for almost 5 months now. To sum up my addition to the long term vandal alerts page, this particular vandal is on a personal crusade against me ever since I reverted vandalism done by him almost 5 months ago. He has evaded countless blocks, which must total to at least 50 by now; the primary IP ranges he uses are 138.89.xxx.xxx and 141.1xx.xxx, but as of late he has used some anonymous proxies. (A list of IPs he has used to vandalize my talk page can be found on the first heading of my deleted content subpage.)
A whois of the 141.1xx.xxx and 138.89.xxx.xxx IPs all point to a Verizon ISP in Newark, New Jersey. I was contemplating a range block today, but since the range of IPs used is so big, I'm afraid of the collateral damage that it will probably cause to legitimate users. His disruption hasn't stopped at Wikipedia, as he sees to fit to do things like creating a "nufy8" Wikiquote entry and inserting profanity into it, to repeatedly trying to contact/harass me through AIM.
Basically what I'm looking for are some suggestions. Should I try a range block? Should I e-mail Verizon? Is there a solution that I'm not seeing? Nufy8 02:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's guideline on linking to pornography (text)? I can't cite my sources for parts of the article on intercrural sex without doing so. Njál 20:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an easy job, and I'd do it myself, 'cept I'm a bit busy and I'm not sure of the naming conventions in this case.... I'd like Lisa Collins turned into a disambiguation page. The existing article should be moved (but I'm not sure what it should be called) and a new page needs to be made for Lisa Collins, actress (or should that be actor?) - Lisa Collins at IMDb. Thanks. TheMadBaron 05:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow... IMDB has 9 entries by that name! Agree that the academic shouldn't have the unqualified name, not sure whether it should even perhaps be the Australian actress... but making it a disambig seems the safe option. Andrewa 05:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello there! Me and another Wikipedist are having a small argument about the appropiated infobox that should be displayed in this article. Thus, and avoiding a Rv War, request any person who is willing to give us a hand to solve this problem, to take a look at both Infoboxes (the other fellow wikipedist being Rd232 ) and select wich one is more appropiated, Thanks! Messhermit 00:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Rick Block,
Whatever corrections you may have made on the link between the articles and "Gang Stalking" and "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex" did not take.
When you open "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex" and then enter the "Comments" section to that article, you are ONCE AGAIN immediately switched to the "Comments" section to the article entitled "Gang Stalking."
Hence, if you say "Delete this Article," you are saying "Delete the article entitled 'Gang Stalking,'" when in fact you are TRYING to say, "Delete the article entitled 'Gang Stalk Persecution Complex.'"
We are trying to get the "Persecution Complex" article deleted, and we want the "Gang Stalking" article kept, but, because of this improper merger or link between the two articles, we are getting nowhere with this.
Are these pages being hacked? Can you fix it permanently?
Thank you.
Julianne McKinney -- 68.251.198.41 18:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I need some help with a long-standing battle which I hope isn't yet to conflict resolution but may end up there.
Basically, swing time and swing rhythm now (again) both redirect to an article swung note which is really only accessible, or of interest, to serious musicologists. In addition, these redirects imply a post- bebop POV that not all of us share.
All I want is a good article on swing/shuffle that is accessible to the layperson (although I have some interest in musicology myself and more than 20 years jazz drumming experience and I'd never heard of a swung note before... but then I don't really like post-bebop rhythms anyway, I like to make people want to dance...), and a logical place to put it, and maybe some see also links from swing time and similar obvious titles where laypeople will look for this information.
See swing rhythm history and Talk:Swing rhythm for some background. Andrewa 16:57, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Searching new page additions on Wikipedia: A few days ago I added a new page addition on Wikipedia, Moon conspiracy and religion, however when I try to search from the Wikipedia search box on say, moon, moon conspiracy, moon landing, moon hoax; the new page addition does not get listed.
Could you tell me please if there is some time lag in the process between a new page addition on Wikipedia and the Wikipedia search listings?
Thanks
-- Wikiencyc 12:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I've gone every where [FAQs, etc] that I could think of trying to find an answer to this question. I did not want to bug the chosen few who have already helped me out so many times before, so . . . . . . . .... figured that I'd try here and see what happens.
I have been working on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Legacy_and_memorials
and just entered a link for George Bissell, expecting red ink and planning to start a stub for the sculptor, but instead discovered some other George Bissell. I don't know how to do discombobulations - or whatever - but if you do, here is a stub to begin the sculptor's page with.
Thanks,
stub:
George Bissell, American sculptor, born New Preston CT on February 16, 1839 and died in Mt. Vernon , NY on August 30, 1920. Bissell began working in his father's marble business in Poughkeepsie , NY before going to Europe where he studied in Paris, Rome and Florence. His works include the statue of Abraham Lincoln located in Edinburgh, Scotland and another Lincoln in Clermont, IA.
Thank you for checking; however, the problem still exists.
When you open the article entitled, "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex," and then, in the box that begins, "This article is being considered for deletion...," click on the "this article's entry" link (which opens up the comments section), you will note that the title of the article that you have opened is "Gang Stalking," NOT "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex." So any comments you post are directed at the article entitled "Gang Stalking," NOT "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex."
I took the precaution of stating that the article on "Gang Stalking" should be kept, while the one entitled, "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex," should be deleted, but, I can't comment further on this latter because I'm on the "Gang Stalking" comments page.
Thanks again.
Julianne McKinney -- 70.236.161.247 21:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Someone has improperly merged the article entitled, " Gang Stalking" with the article " Gang Stalk Persecution Complex." The result is that, when you attempt to comment on the need to delete the "Persecution" article as being very unprofessional, you are immediately switched over to the "Gang Stalking" article, where your comments in fact are registered.
Please unmerge these two articles. I am not a software expert and am only now beginning to barely grasp your diverse instructions, so, your assistance in this matter will be very greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Julianne McKinney -- 70.236.161.247 20:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:GermanGov&action=history User Steschke and I are not German lawyers but experienced in German legal issues. There is no doubt in our humble opinion that neither in the written German legal literature nor in court discussion a case is known that a photograph was qualified as an official work according § 5 II German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz). There was a German discussion on this point at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Amtliches_Werk and the Commons template GermanGov was deleted. The photographs can remain as fair use in the en Wikipedia but the template should'nt be used. Please note: We do not argue that there are not cases according § 5 I (regarding laws, court decisions etc.). Pictures of Bundesgesetzblatt or Reichsgesetzblatt are clearly Public Domain. There is in § 5 I no need of citing the source like in § 5 II. Thanks for all help! -- Historiograf 22:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
How much is "too much" to put into an infobox? I have seen some infoboxes like Template:Routeboxca2 that take up almost the entire length of the page. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Nuview is evidently using sockpuppets to delete documentation, material, and even links to other wikipedia articles from this article. I request assistance from an administrator on this.-- Fahrenheit451 17:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I have posted a request of copyright examination at List of billionaires (2005) that should also apply to all lists based on Forbes' annual world richest people list. The issue at hand is to decide whether the compilation of this list by Forbes required creative work or if it is just a compilation of raw data. This request was prompted by a Featured list nomination of List of Mexican billionaires. People knowledgeable of copyright law are kindly asked to provide their input at Talk:List of billionaires (2005). Thank you. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 14:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Could somebody who knows this material fix the third paragraph of the Gruiformes article? There are a couple of unfinished sentences there. Thanks. User:Zoe| (talk) 18:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I cleaned up a lot of the language but am not intimately familiar enough with the subject matter (ornithologic taxonomy) to confirm facts. alteripse 22:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
This article and those associated with it need assistance from some new blood who have no investment in the issues. They have become in some instances "exposés" and in others just plain garbled nonsense due to edit confilcts. George 13:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way of getting a list of all the files you've uploaded? Zafiroblue05 07:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I have created a template for the dog project, but I have never done anything this complicated with wikipedia templates before.
The requirements for the dog project are to have a need to have a table in a specific format with many many optional arguments.
I would like someone who is more of an expert with templates to review it and give me any advice (or tell me that I've just gone mad and have done things completely wrong :) )
Template is here: Template:Infobox Dogbreed
I'm not 100% happy with it but it works as desired, you can see an example article here: User:Trysha/Sandbox/Basset or Template:Infobox Dogbreed/test.
I think the only changes that i'd like to see now are that I'd like to be able to hide an entire section if one of 6 variables are not set (you can see where in the comments) - sadly, there seems to be no documentation on hiddenStructure at all.
- Trysha ( talk) 07:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Chubdub has been running amok in various hip-hop articles, rewriting them as critical essays/reviews rather than as encyclopedic articles. I've reverted and/or rewritten his changes several times, and have asked him to stop by providing links to WP:NOR, WP:NOT, WP:CITE, and WP:NPOV, but to no avail. (In a few instances, he has sourced his comments, and I've left those in or reworded them to hew more closely to the original sources.) I'm loath to say anything stronger than what I've said on his talk page, since I'm not an admin or an expert on Wikipedia policies. Any advice on what to do next would be appreciated; perhaps I'm being too bureaucratic about those policies. He also has one habit that isn't a policy violation but is rather annoying - he makes 20-30 small changes in succession to each article, rather than one long one, which makes it hard to go back through the history. The pages in question are Rakim, Das EFX, The Chronic, and Dead Serious (album). My comments to him begin at User_talk:Chubdub#Rakim; he responded twice on my talk page at User_talk:Keithlaw#Rakim. Thanks. | Klaw ¡digame! 19:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
What can be done when a user keeps going in and outright deleting an entire section of an article over and over again for no other reason than that it doesn't fit his political POV? (For the record, I'm talking about the CNN page.) This is apparently collateral damage from the fact that this user hasn't been able to keep the Fox News Channel entry quite as reliably one-sided as he'd like. -- Aaron 17:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I am asking for advice about the naming scheme used for the articles that are in Category:Windows_Vista_typefaces. They all seem to be pre-disambiguated as "(font)", although only 3 (out of 6) actually need this disambiguation. I was thinking of moving Consolas (font), Candara (font) and Calibri (font) back to Consolas, Candara and Calibri. I just can't see the point of having a 'common' scheme just for these 6 fonts, especially as wikilinks to them will almost certainly be piped most of the time (thus removing the "(font)" part). What do you think? laug 02:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I ran across this as a random article. It is currently without a category, but I'm not sure what it fits with. Ideas? Joyous | Talk 17:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I made Java code to convert a Gregorian (normal) date to the International Fixed Calendar. Should I post the source code on a subpage of my user page and link to it, or post it there in the same manner as that at Doomsday algorithm, or what? My code is Object-oriented, while the Doomsday code is just simple procedural stuff that can be translated into another programming language very easily (I could translate it to Java without even editing it). I would have to post source code because do not know how to do applets or anything like that.
Thank you, Lee S. Svoboda tɑk 04:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Stuff that is really long (which your Java code probably is due to the nature of OOP) probably should go to Wikisource. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 05:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Could somebody help me here? I found an article that seems to defy any definition of a "good article" (it's extremely biased, outragious claims are made, and the sources used to back up those claims consist largely out of tiny newspaper snippets that are blown up out of proportion to make the subject sound like the second coming of the christ). So far, so easy, but there is a devoted following of wikipedia users that seems to prevent any sensible editing or removal of the article. What should I do? Article here: Aladin. Is there a way to look for sockpuppets in the article history? Any help (and votes) would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Peter S. 19:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a page here that tells us where the codes for colours are, for my revamp of Wiktionary's main page?. I presumed that Wikipedia:Colours or Wikipedia:Colors would exist. Please ntify me on my talk page, thanks -- Dangherous 21:16, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
EffK 01:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
(Before you ask, the Help desk couldn't help me) I seem to recall reading a nice section somewhere in the WP: namespace, about how "boring" things are worth writing about too. Like, not just the presidents, but also the vice presidents. Not everything needs a superlative to be worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. (I'm not an inclusionist, but I believe this is true.) But reading over WP:NOT, I can't find this section. I'm starting to have a feeling it was in an old version of this page.
Does anyone recall it, or where I can find it? TIA, pfctdayelise 13:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that the article have settled down a bit since going off In the News on Main Page, and before the next influx of edits when MS release the patch on 10 Jan, I would like some outside opinion on couple of sticking matter over use of language and whether to list specific examples.
The small disputes starts here on the talk page. Basically, the question is whether the article should be listing specific example of operating systems that are not affected by this vulnerability, or is saying this is a Windows vulnerability, and other OS aren't affected (unless...) the better option.
The other one is this. Should the article mention in the Workaround section, switching operating system. If so, how should it be phase.
WP:NPOV need to be taken into account on both this issues. -- KTC 05:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Do we have a page for Canadian copyright, specifically Canadian public tags?-- Dakota ~ ε 16:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I’m wondering what the copyright status is of photos taken by Nazis in the course of their official duties before the end of WWII. Are these images now Public Domain and free to be uploaded on the Commons? Or, do we have to know when each individual died and figure it out that way. Thanks. -- Quasipalm 14:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I created an article within the last week or two on Helen Childs Boyden. Now I can't find it and am wondering if it has been deleted. Can anyone help me with this. It's not in my contributions log, if an article is deleted does that remove the contributions too? Thanks for any help.-- Samuel J. Howard 23:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
1. I have been using Opera and have had no troubles with my automatic signon.
2. I tried to sign on with Mozilla, but was told I had the wrong password. I foolishly asked Wiki to send me a new one (assuming it would take only minutes). After 10 minutes- nothing!
3. I still can get onto Wikipedia via my autosignon on Opera with no problem (and I AM signed on); but I cannot change my password in my preferences-- it tells me my (old?) password is no good.
4. Still no password has been e-Mailed to me after 20 minutes.
normxxx 22:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
===>> I eventually received my new password from wikipedia and have straitened myself out (for today?) thanks for your help
normxxx
00:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello again! Could you please tell me where I can find a list of CSS classes that may be used on Wikipedia? (if such a list exists.) I have seen various templates use CSS classes, e.g. Template:Current uses class="messagebox current". There are also suspicious-looking CSS classes in some templates. laug 03:45, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Harvard Law School is starting a Cyberlaw course this week (prof: Jonathan Zittrain). They're using Wikipedia as a case study for part of it... I'm encouraging them to create accounts and edit, as part of getting to know what kinds of social and policy issues editors face.
You can track their progress, and account creation, at the Cyberlaw Wikiproject. Please keep an eye on their group user pages, and help them get their feet wet without running afoul of too many local customs. (Though half the fun for them may be seeing how policy like VfD and cleanup-notification is implemented...) You can leave any q's about the project on my talk page. Cheers, +sj + 18:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
^^ It looks like someone got the coding wrong at the beginning of the article- can anyone fix it? I don't know how. I know, I know- I'll learn how to later. Andrewdt85 06:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I am thinking about uploading a database to wikipedia. The database does only fairly trivial computation but couldn't be sensibly replaced by an html table. It's purpose is to help balance the number of news resources on wikipedia: News sources by the population of the countries involved. I am writing it in open office. In this instance could I upload it in open offices standard format. What is the policy with regard to this? Any advice? Barnaby dawson 01:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Are Wikipedians allowed to use material from the 1911 Britannica in their articles? I understand that the 1911 EB is out of copyright. Clarification appreciated. -- Peripatetic 21:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Only three people have contributed opinions to this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Crowley (2nd nomination). I'd really appreciate some opinions from neutral outsiders. Please take a look and add a comment about what you think. Thanks! — ciphergoth 08:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Gamaliel violated the 3RR rule at John Kerry today. Here are the diffs:
He's an admin so I don't want to tangle with him, but something should be done. If you study the reverts he made, they were clearly made against non-vandal edits. For this reason, Gamaliel should not be allowed to flaunt the 3RR simply because he's pushing his own preferred text instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.15.76.242 ( talk • contribs)
I added a section to clarify the cosmic distance ladder article, but it needs a professional to verify it. Thanks in advance! 81.188.79.105 16:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to identify how long the article Tiger_Balm is. Is there any easy way to do this?
How do the different languages link together for the [this page] "in other languages" side bar? How do you add another article that is in a different language to that side bar, do the bots do it? -- x1987x 04:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
In case I've goofed about posting here and this comment belongs elsewhere I apologize in advance. I was just looking at the various months articles ( January, February, etc) and the Wikitionary link-box covers some of the text in the article. It's only a few characters but I've spent the last hour or so trying to fix it with no luck. I honestly can't be sure if it's only my laptop screen, I know spacing can vary from screen to screen. If anyone can offer a suggestion I'd appreciate it. Naufana 01:19, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
this picture may need deleted [19] it's got no copyright or anything on it and I am not sure it should be here.-- 71.28.249.55 01:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Having some trouble with an anonymous user reversing reverts in Thumbshot. Can someone point me in the right direction to get some help with this? Wrathchild 16:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I have a concern about User:63.251.16.30 ( talk, contribs). This user has made ~100 edits, and all of them are to add links to a personal website at www.cygnus-x1.net. There are a few warnings on the user's talk page, but every couple of weeks s/he returns to add/re-add spam. It's not quite the same as vandalism, in my view. Does anything need to be done? Or should I just keep an eye on it and revert when necessary? Is there a more specific page where this problem can be taken? -- Qirex 04:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Is this a joke? User:Zoe| (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Many proxy (??) IP-adresses comes from IANA-BLK, and the country is "EU #". Can any administrator block proxy-IP-adresses from iana.org? 1() 21:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way too see a list of all the Wikipedia templates? I can on yppedia using the link [ [21]]. Is there a way to do this on Wikipedia? -- pevarnj ( t/ c) 21:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's possible, but can the IP addresses of two apparently different users be checked to see if they are the same? I am suspicious of some sockpuppetry going on - at present it's merely annoying rather than actual vandalism, but it would help deal with it if I could be 100% sure, rather than only 90%. The users are user:DeveloperFrom1983 and user:MathStatWoman. The latter has definitely contributed using the IP 151.197.161.81, so if this matches up with the former too, then it would seem to confirm sockpuppetry. Is there any official policy on this? Graham 16:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I need help creating a Music Video infobox ( Template:Infobox Music Video) - it would go in all music video articles and give information on the Artist, Air date, the Director, and have a link to the Music Video Database.-- The lorax 16:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
How does a user report a web site that has copied a Wikipedia article with out crediting Wikipedia? -- DanBlackham 10:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi... I want to increase the range of photos that commons: has, especially of players, since at the moment it's quite poor. (See commons:Tennis.) But I need some help identifying pictures. If you know who these players are, could you please tell me?
Thanks! pfctdayelise 09:58, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I was doing a bit of new page patrol when I came a cropper of Merv slotnick. Merv looked like a copyvio of a page at askart.com but — well, see Merv's talk page re that. Since I wasn't sure if I should copyvio it, I left that note and went ahead and wikified the article. Then I noticed the lower case 's' in slotnick. When I tried to move ol' Merv to Merv Slotnick, I discovered that that page exists as well, and is a cut-and-paste of the same text, plus a messed-up external image link to what I can only assume is a piece of Merv's "art", which certainly looks meaningless enough to be abstract expressionism.
Not sure how to clean this up at this point. Copyvio both articles? Wait for the askart.com page to unlock in a few minutes (they allow free access to artist bio's on Friday)? Put the wikified text in Slotnick and mark slotnick for speedy? I've pretty much had my fill of Merv at this point, so if anyone can help out, you would have my thanks. Not to mention Merv's thanks. Thanks. -- DavidConrad 04:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights#Karsh_photos -- Historiograf 22:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
No? -- 134.130.68.65 23:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I did so some days ago - no reaction (only: message awaits moderation) -- Historiograf 23:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Recently, User:24.92.139.189 removed several paragraphs from Time Cube and Gene Ray. While I was not exactly happy with the sections he removed (perhaps they should have been removed), the anon's contribution history is a bit dubious. I plan on asking the anon for reasons for the deletions, and failing that, the informations will be reverted back in. If anyone who is knowledgable on the subject can determine whether or not the anon was justified in the removal of the information, please say so and act accordingly. Thanks. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 22:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
My user page has been reverted to an earlier version. Nothing in the history to show how it happened or who or what did it. Has anyone any ideas?-- Dakota ~ ε 08:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
need help expanding aticle Vickers Medium Mark II please fix it be making infomation sceen smaller and add a picture of it.uber555 Ok .( Uber555 04:45, 14 January 2006 (UTC))
(This was posted on the Help Desk, but I haven't gotten any replies.)
Are we allowed to import cc-by-sa material (text and images) into Wikipedia? In particular, I'm looking at this other wiki: http://wiki.theppn.org/Ping_Pung. Thanks. enochlau ( talk) 01:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I have been curious to ask this but wereas I found things I wanted in english I could get the information straight away but in greek for example I could not or there was just a very vague description. Is t possile for someone to translate from someone's original research in english to another language? Is this permisible? Give me time I'm only a new one here! Any suggestions much appreciated!
This page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_edward_wood
is in dire need, not only of some simple rewriting into clear English, but also of a title change, from 'James edward wood' to the proper capitalized form. What's the best way to transport the article to a new page with the proper URL (with his name capitalized properly, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edward_Wood), and delete the old page with the improper capitalization in the URL? Andrewdt85 23:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I hope this isn't covered somewhere else. If I take a map from the CIA World Factbook (public domain, work of the US govt) and add a dot to it to indicate some location, which license should I choose when contributing this to Wikipedia? I used to use the general "public domain", but since this is now deprecated, which of the various PD-* licenses should be used? Thanks. gspr 18:14, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
User:Jaffer has been adding questionable-quality external links to videos across the project. I'm inclined to revert them, but he clearly thinks adding them is a public service. Is there a good reason to keep the links around? - EurekaLott 05:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
hi. i need help contacting brendan moody. how can i do that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.81.2.126 ( talk • contribs) .
Hi, I'm just trying to make my first EasyTimeline. I've tried to copy bits from existing timelines, but I haven't seen one that does exactly what I envisage (which possibly means what I envisage is not suitable for EasyTimeline, but rather a plain table or something).
My attempt thus far is at
User:Pfctdayelise/Template:2006 Australian Open and I'm happy it works how I want. (Nevermind I haven't got all the data filled in yet.) I have this line:ImageSize= width:150 height:1200
But what I really want to do is have ImageSize= width=150 height:auto barincrement:30
. But it won't let me because I have TimeAxis = orientation:vertical
. I have a feeling I am not really using it as it was intended. :)
Having the barincrement statement would be great because then when I put Round 2 next to it, all I need to do is make that barincrement twice as big, offset the things slightly somehow, and then it would emulate this tennis draw (PDF) perfectly.
Any help? If I'm abusing it and should really just use a table, please let me know that too. TIA, pfctdayelise 03:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it permited ot use a template that is on this Wiki on another Wiki? -- pevarnj ( t/ c) 22:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
The majority of Maj IIM's contributions appear in violation of Wikipedia:Spam. This especially considering many edits reference an organization named IIM, which is also conspicuously in Maj IIM's username. Looking for advice. jareha 07:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Seconded. Caravaca 16:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi-
How do I add an accent mark above the "a" in French?
Many thanks for your help. David Justin 01:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for all your help, everyone. David Justin 02:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I just put up a new page on stage and hierarchical complexity. How do I find it? How do I place it in a category? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Commons@tiac.net ( talk • contribs) .
I can't decide whether this brouhaha should be mentioned on the German Wikipedia article. There's no German Wikimedia article, so...? -- zenohockey 02:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I checked the South Pole article today, and noticed a picture I'd added some time ago is no longer there. I managed to find where in the history [ here] it was deleted from the article, but I don't know how to determine when the actual picture itself was deleted (and why) from wikipedia. How do I find this out please? Thanks. -- Rebroad 11:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
have a question about an afd i just put up.-- Dakota ~ ε 09:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I haven't a clue where to get help with this issue. If this isn't the right place, can someone point me in the right direction? I brought this up on the image talk page, but no one has replied. Whose hand is this? Are these images the same? The issue is these two images, one a better reproduction than the other but they are both linked to articles about the same subjects, and are likely the same picture. I'd love some help figuring this out. From Image Talk:Roentgen-x-ray-von-kollikers-hand.jpg:
Isn't this picture the same as this other one? And even if not, people usually wear their wedding rings on their left hands so this picture is reversed....unless that's the way the first xrays came out?.....I'm having a hard time believing Roentgen's wife and Albert wore the exact same wedding rings too, as this image is attributed to two different people's hands. If you flip the first one it compares exactly with the second....Only the brightness of the picture is different. One of these is labelled wrong and I suspect its the one referring to this as being Albert's hand, BUT, its hard to tell. Pschemp 20:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
If you feed an ISBN to the Special:Booksources page, it brings up a Book sources page. Where is the editable source for this page? It has a dead link -- fetchbook.ca should be fetchbook.info. User:Zoe| (talk) 21:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
My question is about brands on Wikipedia. I have a picture Id like to upload to the Growth hormone deficiency page but it contains a brand name on it. What is wikipedia policy regarding pictures with brand names on them? Also I dont think this picture could be available without a name on it. Thanks Graxe
Graxe 00:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone explain why Current science and technology events has a large gap at the top (down to the end of the calendar template) whilst Current events and Current sports events do not - even though they all include the same template. -- SGBailey 17:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I work at the Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks department. Many sites' admins are inactive so we have to ultimately contact the host/ISP to take the sites down. This process requires the writing of the DMCA, which looks like the following:
1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the trademark or other intellectual property interest; 2. a description of the trademarked work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; 3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; 4. your address, telephone number, and email address; 5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; 6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the trademark or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the trademark or intellectual property owner's behalf.
Since many of us are not adults, we cannot send these letters to anyone. Which means that we require an adult to send such things. Is anyone interested in helping us out send such things? More discussions are located in User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Legal_help and User_talk:Simetrical#Legal_help. -- WB 03:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who works with animated gif's translate the word Monat to Month in Image:Pregnancy.gif? Rmhermen 16:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Black Rock Rangers was originally a copyright violation (see Talk:Black Rock Rangers). All versions up through this one are a copyvio of this page. Because I was unfamiliar with the copyright violation policy I simply rewrote the page rather than flagging it and rewriting it as a temp (I figured that out just after, and did things right with Kenji Siratori). Anyway, what is the procedure now? How do I get an admin to clean out the old versions? Kit O'Connell ( Todfox: user / talk / contribs) 20:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello everyone:
I've been trying to remove some blatantly POV material from Bar examination, but some anonymous IP user keeps putting it back in. The whole section at issue is clearly opinionated and written in weasel words without adequate support. I tried to explain Wikipedia policy to this user, but instead he or she got all obsessed with pointing out how I am arrogant and a hypocrite (see Talk:Bar examination) and proceeded to defend the preservation of the content with selective quoting from Wikipedia policies rather than acknowledging that the POV content needs to be verified or removed. Even if he is correct about my arrogance, the fact remains that the material as it currently stands violates numerous Wikipedia policies and should be removed.
I'm in the midst of drafting a long-planned rewrite of Lawyer (see Talk:Lawyer), plus my normal responsibilities, and I don't have the time to deal with this clown. Can some admins please deal with this? I think temporary semi-protection for the article may be necessary, as well as an IP block on the user. Thanks. -- Coolcaesar 19:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
The article in question is A Glossary of Confusing Psychiatric Terms. I've marked it for wikification and cleanup, but I suspect it needs more than that. Some bits of it might be better in Wiktionary, it needs a better title and I wouldn't be suprised if there was a better named article it could be merged with. I haven't got time to work out what needs to be done and do it, but as it stands its not how it needs to be. Thryduulf 10:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to discuss that in my opinion, the POV criteria isn't what it used to be.
I remember when I was new here, being basically chastizied (is that the word) for the articles I originated about John Ruiz, Felix Trinidad and Wilfredo Gomez. Just click on the history pages on those and go to the first edit. You'll see how terribly point of view I was then.
I now abstain by the NPOV rule; however, I have seen some articles come in that have decidedly point of view statements. I myself can only catch them everyonce in a while because I mainly write.
I don't know what the rules are about POV currently, maybe they've loosen a bit since I came. However, I think we should ALL (that includes me) try to keep an eye on articles that may contain point of view statements. For reference, look at the Manu Ginobili article, where Ive had an ongoing edit war of sorts, and the Jose Luis Cabezas article, where I changed some things around (It looked like Wikipedia was affirming that the Buenos Aires police has criminal contacts!).
Anyways, thats just my POV if you will, that we need to look out for these small sentences where it may show a point of view.
Thanks for reading this, taking it into consideration and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Guard of Wikipedia Heaven's Gates Martin
This has surely come up before, but... I can't make a meaningful contributions to deletion review because the articles, being deleted, are redlinked. Is there a trick that would let me read the article? Or maybe deletion review is intended mainly for admins, by design? (Which would be OK I guess if that's the intention.) Herostratus 18:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I think I'll start temporarily undeleting articles that I think merit it, without being asked, so that non-administrators can make informed comments. -- Tony Sidaway| Talk 11:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
By accident I came across a tiny Norway? flag icon when I was editing and hit preview. Now I can't replicate it; I don't remember the syntax that did it (I thought it was NOR but I was incorrect). I don't want to link to a larger file. At the time I had gathered that all countries' flags had a tiny thumbnail kicking around, but I've searched for 30 min and can't find help on this. If this is depreciated or I've been imagining things, please let me know. What I would like to do is have a cutsie little Canadian flag that attaches to my username when I post. 1) Would this be ok to do? 2) What is the shortcut for getting that tiny pic? - Kat 01:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Dlyons493 Talk 14:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
It has been proposed to break a section out of Imperium (Warhammer 40,000) into a separate page. This has been discussed on the talk page and I believe there's a consensus there, and as such I've created a draft of the new page in my talk namespace, but I can't move that into Emperor of Mankind (Warhammer 40,000) as there's already a redirect there? Is there any way this can be speedied, or should I just go through Requested Moves? Cheers -- Pak21 15:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
If the target where you want to move to is only a redirect to the page you are trying to move, you can move it right over the top of the redirect and it will save your edit history on the moved page. So edit the target page to redirect to the article you are moving. That should work, but might not if the redirect has an edit history. In that case you need the target article deleted and then do the move. I can just delete pages so that's how I do it when needed, so I'm not sure if the first method will work in this case. For the page in question the history is not so substantial that I think it's terribly important. But let me know if you want to delete for the move, or in general ask on the administrator's noticeboard for help in deleting to do a move and make sure there is agreement on doing it in the first place. - Taxman Talk 00:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm french user, i just edit this article:
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, i replace the ," by ", but i'm not sure it's good syntax in english. Someone can tell me ?
thx
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lyhana8
(Talk) -
20:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but, if not maybe someone can point me there!. I'd like if someone could run a piece of SQL against the DB to help me reduce some article sizes. Something like: select concat( '# ', art_title, ' (', art_len, ' bytes)' ) from art where art_title like '%Arrondissement%' order by art_len desc;
Dlyons493 Talk 15:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, for example in the article Nippon the japanese name is shown as question marks (???) in Firefox and as squares in Opera, this also happens with chinese names. Do I need to download something or change character encoding or what to make them work? Words in hebrew and arabic etc. are shown correctly. If there is an easy solution or a page about this, we should add a little mention about it to the pages that have special symbols.
Hi:
The link _Skin" is not a hyperlink in My preferences < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences> .
Cant change back to default skin. Help.
Rajesh
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Rajesh,
Unfortunately the helpdesk is not able to help you with technical matters such as this; can you make a note of it on the Village Pump at < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29> or on the Mediawiki Bugzilla at < http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>?
Regards, -- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
Thanks a bunch! Rajesh
I've copied most of the nominations for the 2005_Golden_Raspberry_Awards up. However I've got a nagging feeling that it might be a copyvio. If we can expand the into a bit we should be ok, however if the powers that be want to blat it until the show's been broadcast that's fine with me. However, the 2004 Razzie nominations went up pretty quickly as well [41]. CS Miller 22:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
how do i get a link from my web page to a wikipedia article to let the reader return to my page via the "back" key?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics" target="_blank">Electronics at Wikipedia</a>
One more revert from me at the Fucked Company article and I'll violate the three-revert rule. Only problem there is the most recent is a page blanking and needs reverting. It'd be helpful to have a couple more folks watch said article. jareha 18:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi - have just posted an article on Plans and apologies, but the name of the article hasn't capitalised the 'Apologies'. How do I change it to a capital A? Thanks! Gus Peterson 22:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The article jubilex was moved to its correct spelling of juiblex by cut-and-paste swap. Can an admin please revert and swap the pages normally? -- Muchness 22:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I've been having problems using some "tools", specifically Kate's tool and Interiot's tool, although for all I know other ones wouldn't work either. I added Kate's tool to my monobook.js page, and it worked for a while, but it hasn't in a few days. I checked out the page on it, and it says it wasn't working Jan. 16th, but was then fixed. Whenever I hit the link for either of these tools it just looks like it's perpetually trying to load, I get no content or error message or anything. It looks like they're working for other users, since I haven't seen any comments anywhere else about this. Any simple fixes I should try? Makemi 22:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
My sig is not working. Need some help to fix it. I would like to add my nickname and a link to my talk. You'll see it when I sign, it's quite messy.-- [[User:Super_ Flore|Jayla <sup><font color="purple">[[User_talk:Super_ Flore|hi]]</font></sup>]] 04:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Not sure what to do about Template:Bio being recreated.
It's transcluded once, onto User:John Coretana. I guess he tried to use a call to Bio, which didn't exist. His only edits are to his userpage and to the template, and this was 10 days ago. I left welcome2 on his talk. TFD? Speedy-delete? Subst it into the userpage? -- Christopherlin 11:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I dropped a talk page section that was resolved, but another restored it stating: "I don't believe that threads are supposed to be deleted from talk pages". Is this true? Seems pointless to keep around old info that is now resolved on the current page. You can always go to the history to get old information. Please let me know. Thanks. WilliamKF 00:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I have a 95 oldsmobile ciera with low miles. Does anyone know how to adjust the headlights on this vehicle. It takes bulbs and I can not find any adjusting screwes. The book shows how to adjust with seald beams but not with bulbs and there are no adjustments where it shows for sealed beams
Greetings! I am currently having a bit of a disagreement with another Wikipedian over the list of external links at the Marquette University article. As I don't have much experience with content debates, and I can't authoritatively discuss Wikipedia policy, I was wondering if maybe we could get some expert advice, or at least outside opinions, so that either a consensus on links to include or a rule to follow can be derived from what has so far been mostly back-and-forth with little decision-making. Thanx! -- Maxamegalon2000 21:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it me or is there something very funkified about this page (unless somebody has since fixed it). There is some information about Dopamine at the bottom, as if a disambiguation page had been merged. But when I go to edit it there is nothing there about dopamine. — RJH 15:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know why it was decided to make the Academy Award for Animated Short Film into a vast table, but it's virtually uneditable. I tried to stick a non-table listing of the 2005 nominees into it at the bottom and I gave up trying to do it as a table and just wanted to put it at the end, but it got stuck at the top of the 2000s. Could somebody fix it, please? I may, at some future date, untablify this mess. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I am working on the Berlin article and trying to decide the best way to translate the terminology for the city's administrative subdivisions. The top-level subdivision is called a Bezirk in German. This subdivision has an elected Bezirk council that runs a separate Bezirk-level government (below the city government level) handling things like planning and social services. Each Bezirk covers a fairly large area of multiple neighborhoods. Beneath the Bezirk is a subdivision called the Ortsteil, which has no government of its own, but is something like an officially designated neighborhood. Yet there are locally recognized architectural or historical districts that do not correspond to an official Ortsteil.
So, the question is, how do I translate Bezirk and Ortsteil? Here are the issues: I think that the best translation of Bezirk, in terms of giving a clear picture of what a Berlin Bezirk is, would be "borough", since a Berlin Bezirk is very similar in function to a New York or London borough. Do a search on Google, and you will find that some people have translated Bezirk as "borough". However, far more common is the translation of Bezirk as "district". I think this is probably so because if you look up the word Bezirk in a German-English dictionary, the first definition that you will find for Bezirk (a word that has numerous possible uses in German) is "district". So, in terms of usage, "district" is the preferred English term. This would point me toward using "district" for Bezirk except for the ambiguity of the word "district" in English. For example, if you use "district" for Bezirk, how do you describe "historical districts" (meaning areas that have a historic identity but necessarily a history as an administrative Bezirk)? And how do you translate Ortsteil? "Neighborhood" is one possibility, but there are many neighborhoods that are not Ortsteile (i.e. that lack boundaries and a name recognized by the government). (If I do use "neighborhood", by the way, I will spell it "neighbourhood" since the standard spelling for this article seems to be British.) If I used "neighborhood" for Ortsteil, how would I then refer to a neighborhood that is not an Ortsteil? There is an inconclusive discussion of this question at Talk:Berlin but I am looking for more input before I act. Please share your thoughts! Thanks. Marco polo 14:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I want to post a feature request to Bugzilla, but I'm lost there. Could someone with an account post my request? Thank you. CG 13:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there a convention to use when refering to dollar values? I had a quick look in the help section and didnt see anything about this.
For example, when refering to United States currency should you type- "$10" or "(US)$10" or "(US$)10" etc.?
Daniel NZ 23:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
A new user has asked me about using such images as this, which he says were designed on WikiCities. I am not familiar with this and would appreciate any help in this regard.
If anyone has information about these things, message me, or see the message on my talk page. The newby's name is mbeychok, and he has made some very fine contributions to some important articles that don't see much action, such as Cooling towers. Let's help him get his questions answered. Thanks! -- DanielCD 20:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
All edit submissions have the following footer: "Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL."
This footer is in error and I shall edit it. Where is the page to do so? - O^O
I want to create an article (or at least a stub) on Lipoxin. But currently, 'Lipoxin' gets redirected to Eicosanoid. Lipoxins are sometimes considered to be a subclass of eicosanoid, but they're different. And the Eicosanoid page doesn't even mention lipoxins.
I'd like to see the redirect removed. What should I do? David.Throop 05:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
This is strange. I created this article about 2 years ago, and it has been edited and altered since as normal. However, just now it popped up as brand new, and with no history! I don't understand this - did it the article get deleted wholesale at some point? If so, why? And shouldn't it still be possible to trace that through the history? Something funny is going on! Can someone help get the original text back please? Graham 02:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Further to this, it seems that it was deleted by User:Jareth. Checking the log [43], it seems this user has taken it upon himself to delete many, many articles without due process. This is going to annoy and upset a lot of people. Sure, there may be copyvios there, but earlier versions of these articles were probably fine. Unfortunately they've gone, so there is no option to check back and revert as necessary. We only have his word for the alleged violations. Unilateral deletion without even giving anyone a chance to correct the problems is stupid - the entire history and earlier versions of the articles is lost. This person (who is an admin) is abusing his power and should be set straight. To me this is little more than vandalism. Graham 02:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I would be very thankful for help. I have delved into the world of wikipedia tables, and after searching the help on tables, I haven't found any easy way to right-align a column in a table. The only way I know is to specify style="text-align: right for every value on every row.
Please see my test in the table on the very bottom of my user page : User:dna-webmaster, where I have right-aligned the value in the cell in the second column, second row.
Isn't there a way to specify that the entire column should be right-aligned?
The table which I eventually wish to right-align is the big one on this page:
I am very thankful for help! Regards, Dennis Nilsson. Dna-Dennis 00:03, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! I will go for that! Cheers, Dna-Dennis 05:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Note that you want something like a col or a colgroup element supported (in HTML-speak). This is not currently supported by the wiki-pipe syntax. So at the moment, you do have to individually align every cell. It's a bitch. see Help:Table. HTH -- pfctdayelise 14:50, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
I recently wrote an article on "HMCS TECUMSEH". When I enter this term into the search dialogue however, the article does not appear as a choice, but other links to this article seem to work. Is there some sort of meta-text that must be added to cause an article to appear as a search result?
The article on Cladistics lists several books and paper from which it was apparently written from. However, these are not referenced in the article's text. Should the existing "References" section be renamed to "Bibliography"? or does the term "References" mean the same thing, regardless? Also, is this article's use of bolding and italics done properly? -- maclean25 05:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
How does one create a new page for a title that already exists? Gprice157 21:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)gprice157 Gprice157 21:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just caught a pro-nazi vandal. IP is 210.54.59.106 , calling someone who put up a holocaust/fascism memorial a traitor, on the page " Braunau am Inn ". I fixed that, but he's posting on a bunch of Jewish pages now.
I'm guessing someone'll be on top of him for this now, but how do I normally go about reporting this? samwaltz 02:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Recent edits to the biography of the former United States Secretary of State seem IMHO to have strayed rather far from a neutral point of view. See the last long paragraph concerning his activities after he left the Carter Administration. I am not really familiar enough with the incidents to write intelligently, but the tone of the recent (anonymous) edit seems unencyclopedic to me. Morris 23:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, if I have a recording of me playing a piece by a modern composer (Gyorgy Ligeti), would I be allowed to upload it and put it on Wikipedia? I heard something about the composer having to be dead 70 years, but I thought that only applied to sheet music. Thanks :-) -- yoshi 21:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
A user has moved an article Constituencies in United Kingdom General Election to Constituencies inthe United Kingdom General Election (sic). Can I move it;
a) Back to the original page (without the "inthe") b) To a new page with the "inthe" correctly spelled?
Regards
doktorb 20:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
If this move was discussed on the talk page, move to the correctly spelled page and drop a friendly note.
If the move was not discussed. . . well. . .you can move it back with an even friendlyer (is that a word?) note explaining why. Also leave a note on the talk page. Wikifun Banana04131 04:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Where is the right place to ask for assistance in writing a (small) text in English if one's not fluent in this language? CG 17:34, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
What has happened to my sig? It worked fine until day before yesterday, and now what should look like
looks like
What's going on?? D enni ☯ (I pasted this in)
Just to let everyone know that the addition of links to the Alsos Digital Library (http:alsos.wlu.edu) is not a spam attack. The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, funded by the National Science Foundation, provides a broad, balanced range of annotated references for the study of nuclear issues. This searchable collection of 1900 references included books, articles, films, DCs, and websites. All annotations have been reviewed by members of the library's prestigious National Advisory Board.
It is the mission of the Alsos Library to make the history and current status of nuclear issues more accessible and comprehensible to the general public as well as to students and educators in the many fields influenced by the forces of the nuclear age.
Frank Settle, Project Manager Department of Chemistry Washington & Lee University Lexington, VA
How can I fix my signature so that it links on a page. It just comes out as flat type now. You can see when I sing here--Pomegranite 01:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Anon's infrequently sympathize the article. Some of the additions may be factual and may serve to balance the article, but since the edits routinely delete the External links I have to assume they are done in bad faith. Could someone more familiar with it look at the edit history and see if a compromise is possible? - Roy Boy 800 17:42, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know who can edit special pages (sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but special pages don't have talk pages), but I think Special:Upload needs a couple of changes.
-- pfctdayelise 02:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
They Can be found in thier main article National Grassland. Most grassland articles need to be wikified.
I am in the current process restoring a clean, single page, archive of Template:Did you know so that my bot can process the information, and properly archive all the information. There seems to be missing items from the archive, and I require someone to view User:AllyUnion/Did you know archive and double check against from the history of the template starting at here.
Basically, I need someone to hit the "Previous revision" button and double check that it is in order and no information is missing. Newest items are at the top of the page... If you find an item missing, it would be greatly appreciated if you leave a note on User talk:AllyUnion/Did you know archive. Note, not recommended for modem users... Your assistance will be greated appreciated. Thanks. (It also be a great help if anyone can copyedit the page too.) -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:08, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I am currently renaming many of my previously uploaded images by uploading them agains with clearer and more descriptive filenames. As such, it would be extremely helpful if an administrator could help out by deleting the old images so as not to clog up the WP:IFD page. If any administrators would like to help me with this, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks! :) Wikiwoohoo 17:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
For me, one of the more rewarding aspects of Wikipedia has finding and uploading full length songs for integration into our articles. And until now, I've been doing this more-or-less by myself, and I'm getting a bit frustrated both with the server-side technical problems (all of which have been ironed out now by now) and the lack of help from others.
However, as a result of my work, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dozens (hundreds?) of other articles all have wonderful song selections.
The full list (of approximately 300 full-length songs) can be found at Wikipedia:Sound/list.
Now, I'm at the point where I need help. There are thousands of articles that could benefit from have an example song (even if we limited ourselves only to the ones already uploaded). Fugue, Canon, Symphony, chord, harmony, counterpoint, 'etc. So I need some help rolling them out - adding them to articles using the audio templates I created (the one found on Beethoven, for example). Raul654 10:15, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I have made several edits, all of which were constructive, to my dismay they were all removed almost imediately by Nihonjoe, who sent me a message which stated I was either performing a test or comitting vandalism, niether of which were true. Today I created an article on a historical group of Asian natives called the Kanuni, after I noted that there was no article on Wikipedia, but I did not feel I had the knowledge to write the article so I merely stated that "This article is in need of content" hopeing to draw the attention of some one more qualified. I wanted to clear up any misunderstandings and would also like to add that Nihonjoe seems to be an authority on Japinese Cartooons, but lacks the same knowledge when it comes to history or non-Japanese linguistics, and therefore should stick to editing articles about Anime.
NOTE: The following was posted to my page by the anonymous user from this IP address: |
messages to user |
hello, you have sent me a warning message, I have not done any thing to warrant this, I have vandalized no pages, nor performed any tests, if you cheek my editing history you will see that earlier today i removed profanity from a place it did not belong, some of my grammar or spelling may be off, but the appropriate response would be to edit it instead of threatinging to remove my privliges, I hope this was merely a misunderstanding, and that it will be cleared up soon, thank you. |
Through the Helpdesk I got an unblock request for IP 203.122.254.26. Could this one be unblocked? Here is a quote from the unblock request: - Andre Engels 22:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I've just spotted in my watchlist that an anon user has edited image:Autofellatio 2.jpg with an edit summary that has set my alarm bells ringing regarding whether it was apropriate or not. I would check myself, but I am currently at work and have to be very careful about what images I view. The line below is what I saw on my watchlist:
I would like to assume good faith but given the history of the image, the anon user and edit summary I'd like someone to take a look. Thanks Thryduulf 14:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm doing linguistics research that involves finding articles that are "hard to read" (bad prose, badly organized, etc.). Is there a Wikipedia category that has a list of these? I found the "'Fix Crappy Prose' Challenge" category, but it only has 4 links, and I was wondering if there were a more extensive list somewhere. Thanks.
All of the information below is correct (and sourced) to my knowledge. I have an uneasy feeling there may be legal ramifications to some of the following- and I'd like to ask around before placing this back on the article page. I'll see what "official" Wikipedia guidelines say, and I'd like very much to hear your comments. (Also, please read the Terms of Use of the charitynavigator page: [1]) thanks, Christianjb 08:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
AiG is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code [2]. According to the charitynavigator website [3] AiG had a US $9,016,228 total revenue in FYE 2003, with president Ken Ham recieving a compensation of US$170,217. The website of WCPO TV has reported that in 2003, AiG "did not meet all of the [Better Business] Bureau's accountability standards" (emphasis in original) [4] Bill Wise, of AiG answered that this was due to a "miscommunication, understanding regarding document submittals back in August of 2002." (ibid [5])
Update: I've just emailed charitynavigator to ask them if I can quote the two figures I attributed to them. Is there anything else I should do? Christianjb 08:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Update: I received a nice email back from Charitynavigator giving permission for the figures to be used in the Wikipedia page. I don't think I've got a problem anymore. I'm pretty certain I'm safe on the rest of the text, which provides a sourced quote from a reputable media outlet. Thanks Christianjb 15:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Why does Yasmin (which is my daughters name) redirect to Oral contraceptives. Don't think that is correct, maybe some sort of vandalism.-- 71.28.253.196 07:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
using this.. http://geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
In the National Natural Landmarks article I started a list of landmarks. So far I have up to Conn. I can't finish the list due to my schedule so will someone help finish the list. Also help wikify it because I did it rather hastily. You can get info about NNL and what states have which NNL at the following URL Address:
http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/Registry/USA_Map/index.cfm
My subpage is User:For7thGen/subpage 3.
I spent maybe 1 1/2 hours going back and forth between editing it and "Show preview" without ever "Save page"ing it, and I think Wikipedia didn't like that. When I did Save page after that long workspan, much of the page was missing, but in a weird way, the most recent paragraph being there just fine.
At present "edit this page" shows the correct code, but neither "Show preview" nor "Save page" will give the complete page that should be generated by the correct code. And of course the code may disappear, so I have it saved on my own computer, via cut and paste.
I have also quit my browser (Safari 1.3), (my computer is a Mac iBook G4 using Mac OS 10.3, a year or so old), and tried my browser Explorer 5.2, with identical results, so I think I pushed Wikipedia beyond its limits.
I tried clearing my subpage 2, via edit this page, deleting it all, and Save pageing it, which correctly shows an empty page. But then doing edit this page and putting in the correct code via cut and paste and then either Show previewing it or Save pageing it gives the same weird result with part of the page missing. I left this page empty in hopes it may be okay tomorrow. I also left subpage 3 undisturbed since I couldn't get the correct version to show on it except in its coded or markup form.
So I'm totally at a loss.
Help me please. For7thGen 02:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, I found the problem when I was comparing the two versions so I could continue work, offline. I had stuck half-templates {{ref | and {{ref label | in my markup, before I learned about using the nowiki/nowiki pair which you can see I now know how to use. At first I got away with it, but it bit me hard later on!*! I'll probably remember that lesson at least a week or so. For7thGen 02:58, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm looking to see if anyone can lend me a hand (or a script or a robot) I can use to upload 300+ images. They are for Template:Xiangqi position. These are all roughly repetitive so the template can work and will basically include a GFDL-self license and a Template:Xiangqi-image to describe it. Is there anyway to accomplish this short of pressing the upload buttons 300 times? Is there a mass upload feature? -- Natalinasmpf 02:13, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
I was on WikiVacation and would like to get a copy of the last version of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Mirza_Ghalib before it was deleted for copyviolation. Some of the material that was deleted was from my pen/keyboard and could not have been a copy vio.
IFaqeer 02:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Funny, since early today, if a wikipedia article is in 3 or more categories, some categories are shown blended together. I.E., Silence of the lambs' category section contains " Best Picture OscarHorror FilmsFilms based on novelsBest Actor Oscar" all in one line. The html source looks correct on first glance. Any idea why this display bug appears? Thanks :-) Peter S. 15:33, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Recently a new editor has been pushing a viewpoint that the Republican Party is a fascist party. What is the best way to handle crackpot theories like these? Particularly since his edits are across multiple articles on this topic. PPGMD 01:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Im in a bit over my head here, and since copyrights are involved i'm not entirely sure what to do. User:24.147.103.146 has been going around blanking about a dozen pages regarding boston mafia leaders, replacing with the text "Content stolen from www.whiteywatch.com - Your ISP has been notified". I've examined this site and it belongs to WRKO-AM in boston, and it appears that all the deleted artciles are in fact more or less verbatim cut and paste jobs. Moreover, they were almost all added by the same user (or other users with similar IP ranges, which from their user pages appear to be a High School or something).
Anyway, if you check out [6] You'll see all the pages this guy has blanked. While he is clearly right in wanting to protect copyright, this doesn't seem like the right way to do it, especially by adding an advertisement. Should i warn this user? Should i request he be blocked? Im trying to go through now and revert all the pages to the most recent non-copyrighted version, but what should I do with regards to these two users??
Any advice or thoughts are more than welcome! thanks in advance. - Lanoitarus 04:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This page is in userspace, but it was moved from articlespace by SlimVirgin apaprently without discussion after an AfD that ended in no consensus. Myself and Antidote have removed the category tag while it is in userspace (as it is an article category, pages in userspace should not be in it), but Poetlister has reverted each change. I'm off to bed now, so could someone else please explain again at user talk:Poetlister why it should not be in an article category while in userspace. Also, please can someone ascertain whether this really should be in userspace or not. Thanks. Thryduulf 23:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I just changed my username from Hottentot to Khoikhoi. Is there any way to transfer my watchlist from my old account to my new one? Thanks. -- Khoikhoi 02:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I recently had to revert IP 12.208.191.131's edits over a large range of Anime related pages. His/her modus operandi consisted of removing all material within parentheses, including disambiguation strings in links. I do not believe he/she did this is bad faith, however, his/her lack of understanding about the subtleties of wikitext and failure to report reasons for the deletions in his/her edit summaries could be detrimental. He has made good edits, and I think he/she could become a good editor with some assistance. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 17:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wayne_Robert_Smith
Can't get the image up. Anybody here know how to post images on an article? I own the image and the link to a copy of it is on the page. I'm tired of trying to work it out. I'm going to bed.
How would one transfer contributions to a different username or from an IP address? --Jay ( Reply) 06:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not a newbie to Wikipedia but I ran into something that I'm not sure how to fix. There is a strange sequence of numbers at the top of the bambi page but I'm not sure what they are. A copy and paste looks like this: {{{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}|=|=|=|=|=|=|=}} {{{{{2}}}|{{{3}}}|=|=|=|=|=|=|=}}
I could revert the article but I don't think its vandalism. Instead it looks like someone tried to do something with wiki-markup but made a mistake. Could someone take a look at it and see what is going on? I'll contact the the user who made the change as well ( User:Phil Boswell) Thank you. Martin-C 19:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to list an article for deletion -- which I've done successfully in the past, so I'm not a complete doofus -- but this time, if I follow the directions, I end up with a listing that lacks a header. (There is a strong possiblity that I messed up on following the directions, of course.) I would appreciate if someone more competent (!) could go to the AfD listings and fix the listing for Non-Muslims Interactants with Muslims During Muhammad's Era.
i am adding some content to my userpage, and wanted to add this image to it [7], but it will only show as a link. it has to link to an external page as it updates weekly. is there anyway of doing this in the wiki. i understand it would be unacceptable to use it in an artical, but since it is my userpage would it be possible? Junior Aspirin 17:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I have an article/Talk page on my watchlist (i.e. Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative medicine/Archive 1) that I am unable to remove. I keep receiving the following message: "Couldn't remove item 'Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative medicine/Archive 1'...done." Any suggestions on how to get rid of it? Thanks! -- Edwardian 05:37, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to make a Wikipedia article, but I'm not sure if the article would be considered 'relevant' or not. Is there any page on Wikipedia that I can go to in order to ask someone if my article would be acceptable or not?
The article on question is on the similarities between the two anime Evangelion and RahXephon. Such a page would definately be relevant to fans of Evangelion and/or RahXephon, and to those who debate on whether or not the two series are similar.
Wikipedia:Peer review is probably not relevant: it's the last stage of very polished articles before they try to become featured. I think Sarek and jnothman are right. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
WikiProject Anime and manga it is, then. Thanks, all of you! EvaXephon 23:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon already exist. Dominick (TALK) 16:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I just discovered one vanity page ( James P. Kimmel, Jr., J.D.) and several original research pages ( Nonjustice, Nonjustice system, Holistic law) while dealing with some recent edits to the Dispute resolution article. This user appears to be promoting his book which is currently ranked at roughly 230,000 on Amazon.com by sales. See also User talk:Bapu and User talk:Coolcaesar.
I don't have the time right now to relearn how to work the "Articles for deletion" process and how to get the articles into that process to be dealt with accordingly on the merits---I just took a lot of great photos I'm trying to upload. Can some administrators deal with this, please? Thank you. -- Coolcaesar 04:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm looking for some guidance on my first really contentious AfD, one where we seem to have a raging sock puppetry problem. I'm not an admin and while I've nominated lots of articles for AfD, this is the first time I've run into this problem. Someone at one of the puppet addresses blanked my user and talk pages yesterday.
The AfD page is
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GH avisualagency™. My question to folks around here is whether I'm handling it appropriately - am I doing too much, or not enough? Should I be deleting any of the non-voting text? Is it appropriate to warn the user behind this (
Lerner, who wrote the initial article about a company in which he's a partner) about sock puppetry? I'm hesitant to do much more than tag the puppets. I've tried to explain AfD policies to Lerner on
his talk page, but he persists in trying to rig the vote. I should say I'm not concerned about the results of the vote; there aren't any "keep" votes from regular users, and as long as the voting is fair, I don't care if the article is deleted or not. Anyway, I'm open to suggestions. Thanks. |
Klaw
¡digame!
22:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Striver recently created an article called Cursing Sahaba is Kufr (Sunni doctrine). The article is Shia-POV, badly titled, and unnecessary, and I was planning on putting it up for deletion. Then I noticed that it was suspiciously well-written and googled for the source, which I found.
I didn't know whether to put it up for deletion or flag the copyvio -- after some thought I decided to do the latter. Striver objected that the material was a "quote" and removed the copyvio notice. This is NOT OK, yes? See Talk:Cursing Sahaba is Kufr (Sunni doctrine) for a discussion of Striver's "quote" claim.
I reverted to put up the copyvio notice again. What should I do if Striver removes it again? Zora 09:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this is'nt the right place for this question:
A few days ago, I found a page that contained some sort of Wikipedia awards for editing. Can anyone direct me to this page?
thanks. Seanmcpherson1 05:15, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
articles MPACUK and Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK should be merged and also made more NPOV Yellowmellow45 12:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I've been tryign to get USA PATRIOT Act, Title II up to speed, but have hit the point where I can do no more for a while. Can some help? Here is what I need help with:
Folks, I've already done the hard part! Now I'm asking for some assistance on some easier stuff, but which is no less important. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I've mucked up page moves on Air-to-air missiles and helicopters linked from that page. Could someone help me fix it?-- TheDoctor10 ( talk| email) 07:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I am being castigated for having listed this article for deletion. It contains nothing but quotes, lots of quotes, long quotes, this is an inappropriate use of Wikipedia. And yet all of the votes are to keep. Can someone tell me if this is a proper Wikipedia aritlce? User:Zoe| (talk) 22:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
What Zoe knew, and I know, is that Striver generally doesn't improve the articles he starts. He has said that this is a job for other editors. As I just commented on the page for the AfD, the article could be a good and useful one, if it were retitled and if there were more exposition than quotes. Islamic views re stoning for adultery have been in the news lately. But should we keep mistitled articles with no real content around if it's unlikely that anyone will improve them? I dunno if I have the strength -- I'm at loggerheads with Striver in too many articles. Zora 00:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I have indicate that a part of an page of discussion connected with an article that this seems to be POV ( Foiba). Who can place POV template? -- Ilario 21:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Not too sure where this one lives. But how do you find a list of articles that cross reference to the article thatyou are reviewing? User:Zogin
Yes - thanks
April 2004 is a mess - It appears to have lost most of its content but had new stuff added. I may get round to analysing all the history and work out what should come from what old version later. If anyone else feels they want to do it first, feel free. -- SGBailey 23:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Having dealt with several Category:Bridge articles recently, I noticed inconsistency in denoting suit symbols. I encountered three general styles:
In addition, the default Arial symbols, e.g. ♥ are too small and appear ugly. (Some articles use increased font size for them).
I suggest fixing the stuff by
Duja 11:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like some comments on the subject article if folks have some time. This article represents the most extensive article edit I've ever done here. (I didn't start it, others had some content when I got there, as you can see from diffs, but I went to town on it today). I've been a fan of Steinman since I was a boy and it just seemed the thing to do. I'm not really sure it's up to the standards of peer review yet. For one thing it still has a lot of internal comments I left in it about things that still need doing etc, and for another I don't know if it's "finished" enough. Some of my other questions are:
Hence my request that a few kind souls take a look at it and comment, either on its talk page or mine. Thanks in advance!!! ++ Lar 00:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I ran across this via Special:Randompage, and I wanted to put a category tag on it, but I have no idea what it falls under. Physics? Joyous | Talk 17:27, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I submitted a picture, but am having trouble getting it licensed. How do I do that? —the preceding unsigned comment is by WikiPlayer ( talk • contribs)
Weißensee Cemetery would it be possible to redirect Weissensee Cemetery here (the Anglisised spelling without ß) Yellowmellow45 12:23, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
#redirect [[Weißensee Cemetery]]
Ok!!
Yellowmellow45
15:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Could a developer please remove the offensive edit summaries from Jimmy Wales? The same thing may also need to be done on the George W. Bush article. -- Ixfd64 02:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I am korean. english is poor... I have question...hmmm...What image license tags is only for enwiki, not for commons? make a tag list only for enwiki not for commons!! -- WonYong 07:52, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a way to merge watchlists in English and German Wikipedia? The ammount of separation between the different language Wikipedias - starting with the necessity to create two accounts - is distressing.
Or is this question/suggestion/whatever supposed to be a feature-request or even a bug? Or am I just to tired/stupid to figure things out? greetings --
Space-Marine
01:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I tried to log in using IE and got an incorrect password message and I don't know why. Unable to log in I pressed email new password. Is there anyway to get back the password of my choice because the one they sent in email is not one I would choose.-- Dakota ? e 21:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm new here and to be quite honest, I'm afraid to get my toes wet. So I'd like to request some assistance or advice. Two pages, Margaret Ray and MAR, seem to be in need of disambiguation pages. Another entry, C&C Music Factory, seem to have circular links, where clicking on the link just brings you back to the same entry. How would one go about resolving this?-- Silverhand 16:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
This site admitted [10] to deleting information from Wikipedia, but I don't know what article. Can anyone find this out, and revert the edit? -- user:zanimum
Is it possible that I translate some of the articles not available in Turkish to Turkish in order to enable more people to understand them? My intent is not to plagiarize in any way, I will be stating clearly that the article is a translation and offer links to the original one.
The AfD ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GH_avisualagency™) about which I posted earlier is now eight days old, and we haven't had a new vote in over 24 hours. Ignoring all the meat/sock puppets (I used "fewer than ten edits before voting" as the standard; we've had 30, 22 of whom voted "keep"), we have 18 votes to Delete, 1 to keep, and 2 abstentions. If someone could come close this out, I'd appreciate it. Any questions, just ask. Thanks. | Klaw ¡digame! 03:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
This is related to the AfD for which I solicited help above. The user who vandalized my user page has been engaging in a mild harassment campaign against me. I don't care so much about that, but this I do care about: Two accusations that I am harassing him/her, one here on his/her talk page and one on the talk page for the AfD. I placed a short response on the AfD talk page just to have an actual denial on the record. Should I do anything else? I don't like having the claim that I'm harassing anyone out there. Thanks, everyone's been a great help on this AfD so far. | Klaw ¡digame! 19:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm seeking some guidance on what to do about a persistent vandal that's been targeting my user/talk pages, along with the articles I've created, for almost 5 months now. To sum up my addition to the long term vandal alerts page, this particular vandal is on a personal crusade against me ever since I reverted vandalism done by him almost 5 months ago. He has evaded countless blocks, which must total to at least 50 by now; the primary IP ranges he uses are 138.89.xxx.xxx and 141.1xx.xxx, but as of late he has used some anonymous proxies. (A list of IPs he has used to vandalize my talk page can be found on the first heading of my deleted content subpage.)
A whois of the 141.1xx.xxx and 138.89.xxx.xxx IPs all point to a Verizon ISP in Newark, New Jersey. I was contemplating a range block today, but since the range of IPs used is so big, I'm afraid of the collateral damage that it will probably cause to legitimate users. His disruption hasn't stopped at Wikipedia, as he sees to fit to do things like creating a "nufy8" Wikiquote entry and inserting profanity into it, to repeatedly trying to contact/harass me through AIM.
Basically what I'm looking for are some suggestions. Should I try a range block? Should I e-mail Verizon? Is there a solution that I'm not seeing? Nufy8 02:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's guideline on linking to pornography (text)? I can't cite my sources for parts of the article on intercrural sex without doing so. Njál 20:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an easy job, and I'd do it myself, 'cept I'm a bit busy and I'm not sure of the naming conventions in this case.... I'd like Lisa Collins turned into a disambiguation page. The existing article should be moved (but I'm not sure what it should be called) and a new page needs to be made for Lisa Collins, actress (or should that be actor?) - Lisa Collins at IMDb. Thanks. TheMadBaron 05:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Wow... IMDB has 9 entries by that name! Agree that the academic shouldn't have the unqualified name, not sure whether it should even perhaps be the Australian actress... but making it a disambig seems the safe option. Andrewa 05:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello there! Me and another Wikipedist are having a small argument about the appropiated infobox that should be displayed in this article. Thus, and avoiding a Rv War, request any person who is willing to give us a hand to solve this problem, to take a look at both Infoboxes (the other fellow wikipedist being Rd232 ) and select wich one is more appropiated, Thanks! Messhermit 00:42, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Rick Block,
Whatever corrections you may have made on the link between the articles and "Gang Stalking" and "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex" did not take.
When you open "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex" and then enter the "Comments" section to that article, you are ONCE AGAIN immediately switched to the "Comments" section to the article entitled "Gang Stalking."
Hence, if you say "Delete this Article," you are saying "Delete the article entitled 'Gang Stalking,'" when in fact you are TRYING to say, "Delete the article entitled 'Gang Stalk Persecution Complex.'"
We are trying to get the "Persecution Complex" article deleted, and we want the "Gang Stalking" article kept, but, because of this improper merger or link between the two articles, we are getting nowhere with this.
Are these pages being hacked? Can you fix it permanently?
Thank you.
Julianne McKinney -- 68.251.198.41 18:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I need some help with a long-standing battle which I hope isn't yet to conflict resolution but may end up there.
Basically, swing time and swing rhythm now (again) both redirect to an article swung note which is really only accessible, or of interest, to serious musicologists. In addition, these redirects imply a post- bebop POV that not all of us share.
All I want is a good article on swing/shuffle that is accessible to the layperson (although I have some interest in musicology myself and more than 20 years jazz drumming experience and I'd never heard of a swung note before... but then I don't really like post-bebop rhythms anyway, I like to make people want to dance...), and a logical place to put it, and maybe some see also links from swing time and similar obvious titles where laypeople will look for this information.
See swing rhythm history and Talk:Swing rhythm for some background. Andrewa 16:57, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Searching new page additions on Wikipedia: A few days ago I added a new page addition on Wikipedia, Moon conspiracy and religion, however when I try to search from the Wikipedia search box on say, moon, moon conspiracy, moon landing, moon hoax; the new page addition does not get listed.
Could you tell me please if there is some time lag in the process between a new page addition on Wikipedia and the Wikipedia search listings?
Thanks
-- Wikiencyc 12:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I've gone every where [FAQs, etc] that I could think of trying to find an answer to this question. I did not want to bug the chosen few who have already helped me out so many times before, so . . . . . . . .... figured that I'd try here and see what happens.
I have been working on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Legacy_and_memorials
and just entered a link for George Bissell, expecting red ink and planning to start a stub for the sculptor, but instead discovered some other George Bissell. I don't know how to do discombobulations - or whatever - but if you do, here is a stub to begin the sculptor's page with.
Thanks,
stub:
George Bissell, American sculptor, born New Preston CT on February 16, 1839 and died in Mt. Vernon , NY on August 30, 1920. Bissell began working in his father's marble business in Poughkeepsie , NY before going to Europe where he studied in Paris, Rome and Florence. His works include the statue of Abraham Lincoln located in Edinburgh, Scotland and another Lincoln in Clermont, IA.
Thank you for checking; however, the problem still exists.
When you open the article entitled, "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex," and then, in the box that begins, "This article is being considered for deletion...," click on the "this article's entry" link (which opens up the comments section), you will note that the title of the article that you have opened is "Gang Stalking," NOT "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex." So any comments you post are directed at the article entitled "Gang Stalking," NOT "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex."
I took the precaution of stating that the article on "Gang Stalking" should be kept, while the one entitled, "Gang Stalk Persecution Complex," should be deleted, but, I can't comment further on this latter because I'm on the "Gang Stalking" comments page.
Thanks again.
Julianne McKinney -- 70.236.161.247 21:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Someone has improperly merged the article entitled, " Gang Stalking" with the article " Gang Stalk Persecution Complex." The result is that, when you attempt to comment on the need to delete the "Persecution" article as being very unprofessional, you are immediately switched over to the "Gang Stalking" article, where your comments in fact are registered.
Please unmerge these two articles. I am not a software expert and am only now beginning to barely grasp your diverse instructions, so, your assistance in this matter will be very greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Julianne McKinney -- 70.236.161.247 20:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:GermanGov&action=history User Steschke and I are not German lawyers but experienced in German legal issues. There is no doubt in our humble opinion that neither in the written German legal literature nor in court discussion a case is known that a photograph was qualified as an official work according § 5 II German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz). There was a German discussion on this point at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Amtliches_Werk and the Commons template GermanGov was deleted. The photographs can remain as fair use in the en Wikipedia but the template should'nt be used. Please note: We do not argue that there are not cases according § 5 I (regarding laws, court decisions etc.). Pictures of Bundesgesetzblatt or Reichsgesetzblatt are clearly Public Domain. There is in § 5 I no need of citing the source like in § 5 II. Thanks for all help! -- Historiograf 22:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
How much is "too much" to put into an infobox? I have seen some infoboxes like Template:Routeboxca2 that take up almost the entire length of the page. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Nuview is evidently using sockpuppets to delete documentation, material, and even links to other wikipedia articles from this article. I request assistance from an administrator on this.-- Fahrenheit451 17:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I have posted a request of copyright examination at List of billionaires (2005) that should also apply to all lists based on Forbes' annual world richest people list. The issue at hand is to decide whether the compilation of this list by Forbes required creative work or if it is just a compilation of raw data. This request was prompted by a Featured list nomination of List of Mexican billionaires. People knowledgeable of copyright law are kindly asked to provide their input at Talk:List of billionaires (2005). Thank you. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 14:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Could somebody who knows this material fix the third paragraph of the Gruiformes article? There are a couple of unfinished sentences there. Thanks. User:Zoe| (talk) 18:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I cleaned up a lot of the language but am not intimately familiar enough with the subject matter (ornithologic taxonomy) to confirm facts. alteripse 22:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
This article and those associated with it need assistance from some new blood who have no investment in the issues. They have become in some instances "exposés" and in others just plain garbled nonsense due to edit confilcts. George 13:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there any way of getting a list of all the files you've uploaded? Zafiroblue05 07:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I have created a template for the dog project, but I have never done anything this complicated with wikipedia templates before.
The requirements for the dog project are to have a need to have a table in a specific format with many many optional arguments.
I would like someone who is more of an expert with templates to review it and give me any advice (or tell me that I've just gone mad and have done things completely wrong :) )
Template is here: Template:Infobox Dogbreed
I'm not 100% happy with it but it works as desired, you can see an example article here: User:Trysha/Sandbox/Basset or Template:Infobox Dogbreed/test.
I think the only changes that i'd like to see now are that I'd like to be able to hide an entire section if one of 6 variables are not set (you can see where in the comments) - sadly, there seems to be no documentation on hiddenStructure at all.
- Trysha ( talk) 07:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Chubdub has been running amok in various hip-hop articles, rewriting them as critical essays/reviews rather than as encyclopedic articles. I've reverted and/or rewritten his changes several times, and have asked him to stop by providing links to WP:NOR, WP:NOT, WP:CITE, and WP:NPOV, but to no avail. (In a few instances, he has sourced his comments, and I've left those in or reworded them to hew more closely to the original sources.) I'm loath to say anything stronger than what I've said on his talk page, since I'm not an admin or an expert on Wikipedia policies. Any advice on what to do next would be appreciated; perhaps I'm being too bureaucratic about those policies. He also has one habit that isn't a policy violation but is rather annoying - he makes 20-30 small changes in succession to each article, rather than one long one, which makes it hard to go back through the history. The pages in question are Rakim, Das EFX, The Chronic, and Dead Serious (album). My comments to him begin at User_talk:Chubdub#Rakim; he responded twice on my talk page at User_talk:Keithlaw#Rakim. Thanks. | Klaw ¡digame! 19:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
What can be done when a user keeps going in and outright deleting an entire section of an article over and over again for no other reason than that it doesn't fit his political POV? (For the record, I'm talking about the CNN page.) This is apparently collateral damage from the fact that this user hasn't been able to keep the Fox News Channel entry quite as reliably one-sided as he'd like. -- Aaron 17:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I am asking for advice about the naming scheme used for the articles that are in Category:Windows_Vista_typefaces. They all seem to be pre-disambiguated as "(font)", although only 3 (out of 6) actually need this disambiguation. I was thinking of moving Consolas (font), Candara (font) and Calibri (font) back to Consolas, Candara and Calibri. I just can't see the point of having a 'common' scheme just for these 6 fonts, especially as wikilinks to them will almost certainly be piped most of the time (thus removing the "(font)" part). What do you think? laug 02:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I ran across this as a random article. It is currently without a category, but I'm not sure what it fits with. Ideas? Joyous | Talk 17:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I made Java code to convert a Gregorian (normal) date to the International Fixed Calendar. Should I post the source code on a subpage of my user page and link to it, or post it there in the same manner as that at Doomsday algorithm, or what? My code is Object-oriented, while the Doomsday code is just simple procedural stuff that can be translated into another programming language very easily (I could translate it to Java without even editing it). I would have to post source code because do not know how to do applets or anything like that.
Thank you, Lee S. Svoboda tɑk 04:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Stuff that is really long (which your Java code probably is due to the nature of OOP) probably should go to Wikisource. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 05:31, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Could somebody help me here? I found an article that seems to defy any definition of a "good article" (it's extremely biased, outragious claims are made, and the sources used to back up those claims consist largely out of tiny newspaper snippets that are blown up out of proportion to make the subject sound like the second coming of the christ). So far, so easy, but there is a devoted following of wikipedia users that seems to prevent any sensible editing or removal of the article. What should I do? Article here: Aladin. Is there a way to look for sockpuppets in the article history? Any help (and votes) would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Peter S. 19:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a page here that tells us where the codes for colours are, for my revamp of Wiktionary's main page?. I presumed that Wikipedia:Colours or Wikipedia:Colors would exist. Please ntify me on my talk page, thanks -- Dangherous 21:16, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
EffK 01:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
(Before you ask, the Help desk couldn't help me) I seem to recall reading a nice section somewhere in the WP: namespace, about how "boring" things are worth writing about too. Like, not just the presidents, but also the vice presidents. Not everything needs a superlative to be worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. (I'm not an inclusionist, but I believe this is true.) But reading over WP:NOT, I can't find this section. I'm starting to have a feeling it was in an old version of this page.
Does anyone recall it, or where I can find it? TIA, pfctdayelise 13:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that the article have settled down a bit since going off In the News on Main Page, and before the next influx of edits when MS release the patch on 10 Jan, I would like some outside opinion on couple of sticking matter over use of language and whether to list specific examples.
The small disputes starts here on the talk page. Basically, the question is whether the article should be listing specific example of operating systems that are not affected by this vulnerability, or is saying this is a Windows vulnerability, and other OS aren't affected (unless...) the better option.
The other one is this. Should the article mention in the Workaround section, switching operating system. If so, how should it be phase.
WP:NPOV need to be taken into account on both this issues. -- KTC 05:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Do we have a page for Canadian copyright, specifically Canadian public tags?-- Dakota ~ ε 16:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I’m wondering what the copyright status is of photos taken by Nazis in the course of their official duties before the end of WWII. Are these images now Public Domain and free to be uploaded on the Commons? Or, do we have to know when each individual died and figure it out that way. Thanks. -- Quasipalm 14:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I created an article within the last week or two on Helen Childs Boyden. Now I can't find it and am wondering if it has been deleted. Can anyone help me with this. It's not in my contributions log, if an article is deleted does that remove the contributions too? Thanks for any help.-- Samuel J. Howard 23:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
1. I have been using Opera and have had no troubles with my automatic signon.
2. I tried to sign on with Mozilla, but was told I had the wrong password. I foolishly asked Wiki to send me a new one (assuming it would take only minutes). After 10 minutes- nothing!
3. I still can get onto Wikipedia via my autosignon on Opera with no problem (and I AM signed on); but I cannot change my password in my preferences-- it tells me my (old?) password is no good.
4. Still no password has been e-Mailed to me after 20 minutes.
normxxx 22:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
===>> I eventually received my new password from wikipedia and have straitened myself out (for today?) thanks for your help
normxxx
00:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello again! Could you please tell me where I can find a list of CSS classes that may be used on Wikipedia? (if such a list exists.) I have seen various templates use CSS classes, e.g. Template:Current uses class="messagebox current". There are also suspicious-looking CSS classes in some templates. laug 03:45, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Harvard Law School is starting a Cyberlaw course this week (prof: Jonathan Zittrain). They're using Wikipedia as a case study for part of it... I'm encouraging them to create accounts and edit, as part of getting to know what kinds of social and policy issues editors face.
You can track their progress, and account creation, at the Cyberlaw Wikiproject. Please keep an eye on their group user pages, and help them get their feet wet without running afoul of too many local customs. (Though half the fun for them may be seeing how policy like VfD and cleanup-notification is implemented...) You can leave any q's about the project on my talk page. Cheers, +sj + 18:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
^^ It looks like someone got the coding wrong at the beginning of the article- can anyone fix it? I don't know how. I know, I know- I'll learn how to later. Andrewdt85 06:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I am thinking about uploading a database to wikipedia. The database does only fairly trivial computation but couldn't be sensibly replaced by an html table. It's purpose is to help balance the number of news resources on wikipedia: News sources by the population of the countries involved. I am writing it in open office. In this instance could I upload it in open offices standard format. What is the policy with regard to this? Any advice? Barnaby dawson 01:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Are Wikipedians allowed to use material from the 1911 Britannica in their articles? I understand that the 1911 EB is out of copyright. Clarification appreciated. -- Peripatetic 21:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Only three people have contributed opinions to this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Crowley (2nd nomination). I'd really appreciate some opinions from neutral outsiders. Please take a look and add a comment about what you think. Thanks! — ciphergoth 08:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Gamaliel violated the 3RR rule at John Kerry today. Here are the diffs:
He's an admin so I don't want to tangle with him, but something should be done. If you study the reverts he made, they were clearly made against non-vandal edits. For this reason, Gamaliel should not be allowed to flaunt the 3RR simply because he's pushing his own preferred text instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.15.76.242 ( talk • contribs)
I added a section to clarify the cosmic distance ladder article, but it needs a professional to verify it. Thanks in advance! 81.188.79.105 16:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to identify how long the article Tiger_Balm is. Is there any easy way to do this?
How do the different languages link together for the [this page] "in other languages" side bar? How do you add another article that is in a different language to that side bar, do the bots do it? -- x1987x 04:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
In case I've goofed about posting here and this comment belongs elsewhere I apologize in advance. I was just looking at the various months articles ( January, February, etc) and the Wikitionary link-box covers some of the text in the article. It's only a few characters but I've spent the last hour or so trying to fix it with no luck. I honestly can't be sure if it's only my laptop screen, I know spacing can vary from screen to screen. If anyone can offer a suggestion I'd appreciate it. Naufana 01:19, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
this picture may need deleted [19] it's got no copyright or anything on it and I am not sure it should be here.-- 71.28.249.55 01:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Having some trouble with an anonymous user reversing reverts in Thumbshot. Can someone point me in the right direction to get some help with this? Wrathchild 16:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I have a concern about User:63.251.16.30 ( talk, contribs). This user has made ~100 edits, and all of them are to add links to a personal website at www.cygnus-x1.net. There are a few warnings on the user's talk page, but every couple of weeks s/he returns to add/re-add spam. It's not quite the same as vandalism, in my view. Does anything need to be done? Or should I just keep an eye on it and revert when necessary? Is there a more specific page where this problem can be taken? -- Qirex 04:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Is this a joke? User:Zoe| (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Many proxy (??) IP-adresses comes from IANA-BLK, and the country is "EU #". Can any administrator block proxy-IP-adresses from iana.org? 1() 21:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way too see a list of all the Wikipedia templates? I can on yppedia using the link [ [21]]. Is there a way to do this on Wikipedia? -- pevarnj ( t/ c) 21:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's possible, but can the IP addresses of two apparently different users be checked to see if they are the same? I am suspicious of some sockpuppetry going on - at present it's merely annoying rather than actual vandalism, but it would help deal with it if I could be 100% sure, rather than only 90%. The users are user:DeveloperFrom1983 and user:MathStatWoman. The latter has definitely contributed using the IP 151.197.161.81, so if this matches up with the former too, then it would seem to confirm sockpuppetry. Is there any official policy on this? Graham 16:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I need help creating a Music Video infobox ( Template:Infobox Music Video) - it would go in all music video articles and give information on the Artist, Air date, the Director, and have a link to the Music Video Database.-- The lorax 16:27, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
How does a user report a web site that has copied a Wikipedia article with out crediting Wikipedia? -- DanBlackham 10:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi... I want to increase the range of photos that commons: has, especially of players, since at the moment it's quite poor. (See commons:Tennis.) But I need some help identifying pictures. If you know who these players are, could you please tell me?
Thanks! pfctdayelise 09:58, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I was doing a bit of new page patrol when I came a cropper of Merv slotnick. Merv looked like a copyvio of a page at askart.com but — well, see Merv's talk page re that. Since I wasn't sure if I should copyvio it, I left that note and went ahead and wikified the article. Then I noticed the lower case 's' in slotnick. When I tried to move ol' Merv to Merv Slotnick, I discovered that that page exists as well, and is a cut-and-paste of the same text, plus a messed-up external image link to what I can only assume is a piece of Merv's "art", which certainly looks meaningless enough to be abstract expressionism.
Not sure how to clean this up at this point. Copyvio both articles? Wait for the askart.com page to unlock in a few minutes (they allow free access to artist bio's on Friday)? Put the wikified text in Slotnick and mark slotnick for speedy? I've pretty much had my fill of Merv at this point, so if anyone can help out, you would have my thanks. Not to mention Merv's thanks. Thanks. -- DavidConrad 04:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights#Karsh_photos -- Historiograf 22:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
No? -- 134.130.68.65 23:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I did so some days ago - no reaction (only: message awaits moderation) -- Historiograf 23:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Recently, User:24.92.139.189 removed several paragraphs from Time Cube and Gene Ray. While I was not exactly happy with the sections he removed (perhaps they should have been removed), the anon's contribution history is a bit dubious. I plan on asking the anon for reasons for the deletions, and failing that, the informations will be reverted back in. If anyone who is knowledgable on the subject can determine whether or not the anon was justified in the removal of the information, please say so and act accordingly. Thanks. — Ambush Commander( Talk) 22:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
My user page has been reverted to an earlier version. Nothing in the history to show how it happened or who or what did it. Has anyone any ideas?-- Dakota ~ ε 08:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
need help expanding aticle Vickers Medium Mark II please fix it be making infomation sceen smaller and add a picture of it.uber555 Ok .( Uber555 04:45, 14 January 2006 (UTC))
(This was posted on the Help Desk, but I haven't gotten any replies.)
Are we allowed to import cc-by-sa material (text and images) into Wikipedia? In particular, I'm looking at this other wiki: http://wiki.theppn.org/Ping_Pung. Thanks. enochlau ( talk) 01:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I have been curious to ask this but wereas I found things I wanted in english I could get the information straight away but in greek for example I could not or there was just a very vague description. Is t possile for someone to translate from someone's original research in english to another language? Is this permisible? Give me time I'm only a new one here! Any suggestions much appreciated!
This page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_edward_wood
is in dire need, not only of some simple rewriting into clear English, but also of a title change, from 'James edward wood' to the proper capitalized form. What's the best way to transport the article to a new page with the proper URL (with his name capitalized properly, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edward_Wood), and delete the old page with the improper capitalization in the URL? Andrewdt85 23:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I hope this isn't covered somewhere else. If I take a map from the CIA World Factbook (public domain, work of the US govt) and add a dot to it to indicate some location, which license should I choose when contributing this to Wikipedia? I used to use the general "public domain", but since this is now deprecated, which of the various PD-* licenses should be used? Thanks. gspr 18:14, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
User:Jaffer has been adding questionable-quality external links to videos across the project. I'm inclined to revert them, but he clearly thinks adding them is a public service. Is there a good reason to keep the links around? - EurekaLott 05:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
hi. i need help contacting brendan moody. how can i do that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.81.2.126 ( talk • contribs) .
Hi, I'm just trying to make my first EasyTimeline. I've tried to copy bits from existing timelines, but I haven't seen one that does exactly what I envisage (which possibly means what I envisage is not suitable for EasyTimeline, but rather a plain table or something).
My attempt thus far is at
User:Pfctdayelise/Template:2006 Australian Open and I'm happy it works how I want. (Nevermind I haven't got all the data filled in yet.) I have this line:ImageSize= width:150 height:1200
But what I really want to do is have ImageSize= width=150 height:auto barincrement:30
. But it won't let me because I have TimeAxis = orientation:vertical
. I have a feeling I am not really using it as it was intended. :)
Having the barincrement statement would be great because then when I put Round 2 next to it, all I need to do is make that barincrement twice as big, offset the things slightly somehow, and then it would emulate this tennis draw (PDF) perfectly.
Any help? If I'm abusing it and should really just use a table, please let me know that too. TIA, pfctdayelise 03:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Is it permited ot use a template that is on this Wiki on another Wiki? -- pevarnj ( t/ c) 22:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
The majority of Maj IIM's contributions appear in violation of Wikipedia:Spam. This especially considering many edits reference an organization named IIM, which is also conspicuously in Maj IIM's username. Looking for advice. jareha 07:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Seconded. Caravaca 16:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi-
How do I add an accent mark above the "a" in French?
Many thanks for your help. David Justin 01:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for all your help, everyone. David Justin 02:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I just put up a new page on stage and hierarchical complexity. How do I find it? How do I place it in a category? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Commons@tiac.net ( talk • contribs) .
I can't decide whether this brouhaha should be mentioned on the German Wikipedia article. There's no German Wikimedia article, so...? -- zenohockey 02:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I checked the South Pole article today, and noticed a picture I'd added some time ago is no longer there. I managed to find where in the history [ here] it was deleted from the article, but I don't know how to determine when the actual picture itself was deleted (and why) from wikipedia. How do I find this out please? Thanks. -- Rebroad 11:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
have a question about an afd i just put up.-- Dakota ~ ε 09:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I haven't a clue where to get help with this issue. If this isn't the right place, can someone point me in the right direction? I brought this up on the image talk page, but no one has replied. Whose hand is this? Are these images the same? The issue is these two images, one a better reproduction than the other but they are both linked to articles about the same subjects, and are likely the same picture. I'd love some help figuring this out. From Image Talk:Roentgen-x-ray-von-kollikers-hand.jpg:
Isn't this picture the same as this other one? And even if not, people usually wear their wedding rings on their left hands so this picture is reversed....unless that's the way the first xrays came out?.....I'm having a hard time believing Roentgen's wife and Albert wore the exact same wedding rings too, as this image is attributed to two different people's hands. If you flip the first one it compares exactly with the second....Only the brightness of the picture is different. One of these is labelled wrong and I suspect its the one referring to this as being Albert's hand, BUT, its hard to tell. Pschemp 20:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
If you feed an ISBN to the Special:Booksources page, it brings up a Book sources page. Where is the editable source for this page? It has a dead link -- fetchbook.ca should be fetchbook.info. User:Zoe| (talk) 21:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
My question is about brands on Wikipedia. I have a picture Id like to upload to the Growth hormone deficiency page but it contains a brand name on it. What is wikipedia policy regarding pictures with brand names on them? Also I dont think this picture could be available without a name on it. Thanks Graxe
Graxe 00:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone explain why Current science and technology events has a large gap at the top (down to the end of the calendar template) whilst Current events and Current sports events do not - even though they all include the same template. -- SGBailey 17:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I work at the Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks department. Many sites' admins are inactive so we have to ultimately contact the host/ISP to take the sites down. This process requires the writing of the DMCA, which looks like the following:
1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the trademark or other intellectual property interest; 2. a description of the trademarked work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; 3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; 4. your address, telephone number, and email address; 5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; 6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the trademark or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the trademark or intellectual property owner's behalf.
Since many of us are not adults, we cannot send these letters to anyone. Which means that we require an adult to send such things. Is anyone interested in helping us out send such things? More discussions are located in User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Legal_help and User_talk:Simetrical#Legal_help. -- WB 03:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who works with animated gif's translate the word Monat to Month in Image:Pregnancy.gif? Rmhermen 16:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Black Rock Rangers was originally a copyright violation (see Talk:Black Rock Rangers). All versions up through this one are a copyvio of this page. Because I was unfamiliar with the copyright violation policy I simply rewrote the page rather than flagging it and rewriting it as a temp (I figured that out just after, and did things right with Kenji Siratori). Anyway, what is the procedure now? How do I get an admin to clean out the old versions? Kit O'Connell ( Todfox: user / talk / contribs) 20:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello everyone:
I've been trying to remove some blatantly POV material from Bar examination, but some anonymous IP user keeps putting it back in. The whole section at issue is clearly opinionated and written in weasel words without adequate support. I tried to explain Wikipedia policy to this user, but instead he or she got all obsessed with pointing out how I am arrogant and a hypocrite (see Talk:Bar examination) and proceeded to defend the preservation of the content with selective quoting from Wikipedia policies rather than acknowledging that the POV content needs to be verified or removed. Even if he is correct about my arrogance, the fact remains that the material as it currently stands violates numerous Wikipedia policies and should be removed.
I'm in the midst of drafting a long-planned rewrite of Lawyer (see Talk:Lawyer), plus my normal responsibilities, and I don't have the time to deal with this clown. Can some admins please deal with this? I think temporary semi-protection for the article may be necessary, as well as an IP block on the user. Thanks. -- Coolcaesar 19:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
The article in question is A Glossary of Confusing Psychiatric Terms. I've marked it for wikification and cleanup, but I suspect it needs more than that. Some bits of it might be better in Wiktionary, it needs a better title and I wouldn't be suprised if there was a better named article it could be merged with. I haven't got time to work out what needs to be done and do it, but as it stands its not how it needs to be. Thryduulf 10:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to discuss that in my opinion, the POV criteria isn't what it used to be.
I remember when I was new here, being basically chastizied (is that the word) for the articles I originated about John Ruiz, Felix Trinidad and Wilfredo Gomez. Just click on the history pages on those and go to the first edit. You'll see how terribly point of view I was then.
I now abstain by the NPOV rule; however, I have seen some articles come in that have decidedly point of view statements. I myself can only catch them everyonce in a while because I mainly write.
I don't know what the rules are about POV currently, maybe they've loosen a bit since I came. However, I think we should ALL (that includes me) try to keep an eye on articles that may contain point of view statements. For reference, look at the Manu Ginobili article, where Ive had an ongoing edit war of sorts, and the Jose Luis Cabezas article, where I changed some things around (It looked like Wikipedia was affirming that the Buenos Aires police has criminal contacts!).
Anyways, thats just my POV if you will, that we need to look out for these small sentences where it may show a point of view.
Thanks for reading this, taking it into consideration and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Guard of Wikipedia Heaven's Gates Martin
This has surely come up before, but... I can't make a meaningful contributions to deletion review because the articles, being deleted, are redlinked. Is there a trick that would let me read the article? Or maybe deletion review is intended mainly for admins, by design? (Which would be OK I guess if that's the intention.) Herostratus 18:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I think I'll start temporarily undeleting articles that I think merit it, without being asked, so that non-administrators can make informed comments. -- Tony Sidaway| Talk 11:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
By accident I came across a tiny Norway? flag icon when I was editing and hit preview. Now I can't replicate it; I don't remember the syntax that did it (I thought it was NOR but I was incorrect). I don't want to link to a larger file. At the time I had gathered that all countries' flags had a tiny thumbnail kicking around, but I've searched for 30 min and can't find help on this. If this is depreciated or I've been imagining things, please let me know. What I would like to do is have a cutsie little Canadian flag that attaches to my username when I post. 1) Would this be ok to do? 2) What is the shortcut for getting that tiny pic? - Kat 01:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Dlyons493 Talk 14:16, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
It has been proposed to break a section out of Imperium (Warhammer 40,000) into a separate page. This has been discussed on the talk page and I believe there's a consensus there, and as such I've created a draft of the new page in my talk namespace, but I can't move that into Emperor of Mankind (Warhammer 40,000) as there's already a redirect there? Is there any way this can be speedied, or should I just go through Requested Moves? Cheers -- Pak21 15:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
If the target where you want to move to is only a redirect to the page you are trying to move, you can move it right over the top of the redirect and it will save your edit history on the moved page. So edit the target page to redirect to the article you are moving. That should work, but might not if the redirect has an edit history. In that case you need the target article deleted and then do the move. I can just delete pages so that's how I do it when needed, so I'm not sure if the first method will work in this case. For the page in question the history is not so substantial that I think it's terribly important. But let me know if you want to delete for the move, or in general ask on the administrator's noticeboard for help in deleting to do a move and make sure there is agreement on doing it in the first place. - Taxman Talk 00:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm french user, i just edit this article:
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, i replace the ," by ", but i'm not sure it's good syntax in english. Someone can tell me ?
thx
-
lyhana8
(Talk) -
20:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but, if not maybe someone can point me there!. I'd like if someone could run a piece of SQL against the DB to help me reduce some article sizes. Something like: select concat( '# ', art_title, ' (', art_len, ' bytes)' ) from art where art_title like '%Arrondissement%' order by art_len desc;
Dlyons493 Talk 15:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, for example in the article Nippon the japanese name is shown as question marks (???) in Firefox and as squares in Opera, this also happens with chinese names. Do I need to download something or change character encoding or what to make them work? Words in hebrew and arabic etc. are shown correctly. If there is an easy solution or a page about this, we should add a little mention about it to the pages that have special symbols.
Hi:
The link _Skin" is not a hyperlink in My preferences < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences> .
Cant change back to default skin. Help.
Rajesh
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Rajesh,
Unfortunately the helpdesk is not able to help you with technical matters such as this; can you make a note of it on the Village Pump at < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29> or on the Mediawiki Bugzilla at < http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>?
Regards, -- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
Thanks a bunch! Rajesh
I've copied most of the nominations for the 2005_Golden_Raspberry_Awards up. However I've got a nagging feeling that it might be a copyvio. If we can expand the into a bit we should be ok, however if the powers that be want to blat it until the show's been broadcast that's fine with me. However, the 2004 Razzie nominations went up pretty quickly as well [41]. CS Miller 22:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
how do i get a link from my web page to a wikipedia article to let the reader return to my page via the "back" key?
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics" target="_blank">Electronics at Wikipedia</a>
One more revert from me at the Fucked Company article and I'll violate the three-revert rule. Only problem there is the most recent is a page blanking and needs reverting. It'd be helpful to have a couple more folks watch said article. jareha 18:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi - have just posted an article on Plans and apologies, but the name of the article hasn't capitalised the 'Apologies'. How do I change it to a capital A? Thanks! Gus Peterson 22:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
The article jubilex was moved to its correct spelling of juiblex by cut-and-paste swap. Can an admin please revert and swap the pages normally? -- Muchness 22:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I've been having problems using some "tools", specifically Kate's tool and Interiot's tool, although for all I know other ones wouldn't work either. I added Kate's tool to my monobook.js page, and it worked for a while, but it hasn't in a few days. I checked out the page on it, and it says it wasn't working Jan. 16th, but was then fixed. Whenever I hit the link for either of these tools it just looks like it's perpetually trying to load, I get no content or error message or anything. It looks like they're working for other users, since I haven't seen any comments anywhere else about this. Any simple fixes I should try? Makemi 22:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
My sig is not working. Need some help to fix it. I would like to add my nickname and a link to my talk. You'll see it when I sign, it's quite messy.-- [[User:Super_ Flore|Jayla <sup><font color="purple">[[User_talk:Super_ Flore|hi]]</font></sup>]] 04:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Not sure what to do about Template:Bio being recreated.
It's transcluded once, onto User:John Coretana. I guess he tried to use a call to Bio, which didn't exist. His only edits are to his userpage and to the template, and this was 10 days ago. I left welcome2 on his talk. TFD? Speedy-delete? Subst it into the userpage? -- Christopherlin 11:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I dropped a talk page section that was resolved, but another restored it stating: "I don't believe that threads are supposed to be deleted from talk pages". Is this true? Seems pointless to keep around old info that is now resolved on the current page. You can always go to the history to get old information. Please let me know. Thanks. WilliamKF 00:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I have a 95 oldsmobile ciera with low miles. Does anyone know how to adjust the headlights on this vehicle. It takes bulbs and I can not find any adjusting screwes. The book shows how to adjust with seald beams but not with bulbs and there are no adjustments where it shows for sealed beams
Greetings! I am currently having a bit of a disagreement with another Wikipedian over the list of external links at the Marquette University article. As I don't have much experience with content debates, and I can't authoritatively discuss Wikipedia policy, I was wondering if maybe we could get some expert advice, or at least outside opinions, so that either a consensus on links to include or a rule to follow can be derived from what has so far been mostly back-and-forth with little decision-making. Thanx! -- Maxamegalon2000 21:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it me or is there something very funkified about this page (unless somebody has since fixed it). There is some information about Dopamine at the bottom, as if a disambiguation page had been merged. But when I go to edit it there is nothing there about dopamine. — RJH 15:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't know why it was decided to make the Academy Award for Animated Short Film into a vast table, but it's virtually uneditable. I tried to stick a non-table listing of the 2005 nominees into it at the bottom and I gave up trying to do it as a table and just wanted to put it at the end, but it got stuck at the top of the 2000s. Could somebody fix it, please? I may, at some future date, untablify this mess. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I am working on the Berlin article and trying to decide the best way to translate the terminology for the city's administrative subdivisions. The top-level subdivision is called a Bezirk in German. This subdivision has an elected Bezirk council that runs a separate Bezirk-level government (below the city government level) handling things like planning and social services. Each Bezirk covers a fairly large area of multiple neighborhoods. Beneath the Bezirk is a subdivision called the Ortsteil, which has no government of its own, but is something like an officially designated neighborhood. Yet there are locally recognized architectural or historical districts that do not correspond to an official Ortsteil.
So, the question is, how do I translate Bezirk and Ortsteil? Here are the issues: I think that the best translation of Bezirk, in terms of giving a clear picture of what a Berlin Bezirk is, would be "borough", since a Berlin Bezirk is very similar in function to a New York or London borough. Do a search on Google, and you will find that some people have translated Bezirk as "borough". However, far more common is the translation of Bezirk as "district". I think this is probably so because if you look up the word Bezirk in a German-English dictionary, the first definition that you will find for Bezirk (a word that has numerous possible uses in German) is "district". So, in terms of usage, "district" is the preferred English term. This would point me toward using "district" for Bezirk except for the ambiguity of the word "district" in English. For example, if you use "district" for Bezirk, how do you describe "historical districts" (meaning areas that have a historic identity but necessarily a history as an administrative Bezirk)? And how do you translate Ortsteil? "Neighborhood" is one possibility, but there are many neighborhoods that are not Ortsteile (i.e. that lack boundaries and a name recognized by the government). (If I do use "neighborhood", by the way, I will spell it "neighbourhood" since the standard spelling for this article seems to be British.) If I used "neighborhood" for Ortsteil, how would I then refer to a neighborhood that is not an Ortsteil? There is an inconclusive discussion of this question at Talk:Berlin but I am looking for more input before I act. Please share your thoughts! Thanks. Marco polo 14:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I want to post a feature request to Bugzilla, but I'm lost there. Could someone with an account post my request? Thank you. CG 13:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there a convention to use when refering to dollar values? I had a quick look in the help section and didnt see anything about this.
For example, when refering to United States currency should you type- "$10" or "(US)$10" or "(US$)10" etc.?
Daniel NZ 23:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
A new user has asked me about using such images as this, which he says were designed on WikiCities. I am not familiar with this and would appreciate any help in this regard.
If anyone has information about these things, message me, or see the message on my talk page. The newby's name is mbeychok, and he has made some very fine contributions to some important articles that don't see much action, such as Cooling towers. Let's help him get his questions answered. Thanks! -- DanielCD 20:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
All edit submissions have the following footer: "Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL."
This footer is in error and I shall edit it. Where is the page to do so? - O^O
I want to create an article (or at least a stub) on Lipoxin. But currently, 'Lipoxin' gets redirected to Eicosanoid. Lipoxins are sometimes considered to be a subclass of eicosanoid, but they're different. And the Eicosanoid page doesn't even mention lipoxins.
I'd like to see the redirect removed. What should I do? David.Throop 05:55, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
This is strange. I created this article about 2 years ago, and it has been edited and altered since as normal. However, just now it popped up as brand new, and with no history! I don't understand this - did it the article get deleted wholesale at some point? If so, why? And shouldn't it still be possible to trace that through the history? Something funny is going on! Can someone help get the original text back please? Graham 02:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Further to this, it seems that it was deleted by User:Jareth. Checking the log [43], it seems this user has taken it upon himself to delete many, many articles without due process. This is going to annoy and upset a lot of people. Sure, there may be copyvios there, but earlier versions of these articles were probably fine. Unfortunately they've gone, so there is no option to check back and revert as necessary. We only have his word for the alleged violations. Unilateral deletion without even giving anyone a chance to correct the problems is stupid - the entire history and earlier versions of the articles is lost. This person (who is an admin) is abusing his power and should be set straight. To me this is little more than vandalism. Graham 02:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)