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It's been proposed on Talk: List of articles all languages should have, the Meta-based hub page for the Wikipedia page Wikipedia:Vital articles, that because homosexuality is potentially controversial or offensive, it is not important for many language Wikis to have it (unlike, apparently, The Holocaust, abortion, evolution, etc.), and it's unacceptable for anyone to even recommend (the list is purely optional) that comprehensive encyclopedias address the topic. User:Blockinblox, claiming to be enforcing consensus, has argued that homosexuality (unlike heterosexuality) cannot be listed on the page because it is "widely viewed as a deviancy around the world" and dismissed any discussion of adding an article on homosexuality to the list of important articles with comments like "DO NOT force your agenda on the rest of the world. What you do in your country is your country's problem." (I had not been aware that my country was the only one with homosexuals, nor that I had an "agenda" on the issue, but I stand corrected.)
What I'd love more than anything is some fresh perspectives on the matter, whether they agree or disagree with my recommended additions and changes; it will be difficult to keep discussion from getting stuck in the mud with only two users with strongly differing opinions talking the matter over. So, anyone at all who's willing, I'd love some outsiders' views and arguments. - Silence 07:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
"Hasn't spread to many places yet"! Rick Norwood 23:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I can only say that everything you write indicates how limited your experience is. Homosexuals have existed in every society throughout recorded history. Sometimes they have been accepted, sometimes they have been persecuted. There is nothing new about either attitude. Rick Norwood 01:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, since it's Wikipedia's self-proclaimed goal to build the self-feeding omni-über-encyclopedia, you need an article on every topic in every language. That being said, I'm sure the articles on Abortion, Racism, Genocide, Homosexualtiy etc. will be different on each wikipedia, because each of these things has a different place with different examples in each society. All you have to do is appeal to the types of people who read the article, you don't just translate a bunch of text about gays in America, England, and Australia to the french and japanese wikipedia, because it wouldn't be relevant to the people reading it. You'd find examples of LGBT culture in France and Japan.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 01:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Have you ever stopped to wonder why you spend so much time thinking about homosexuality? Rick Norwood 15:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry Blockinblox, I was not aware of the cabal-esque situation on the metapage. This suggests a much larger issue is at work here. Perhaps this discussion should be moved the page's talkpage.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 18:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, based on what Silence just said and contributions like this [1], I'm led to question the motives of Blockinblox. He stated earlier in this post that the article on homosexuality shouldn't be there because it does not affect the world on a global scale. But in his earlier posts, he makes a case for it corrupting free speech around the world. I'm assuming he doesn't want Wikipedia to be corrupted by politically correct BS, which I understand and support, but he's just not going about it very well.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 02:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you tell us who the admin is and provide links to the talkpage you're talking about? I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth, I was trying to correctly address what your issue was (sorry).-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 14:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Blockinblox, may the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, which passeth all understanding, be upon you. Rick Norwood 21:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Will somebody please edit this page? For my money it could be deleted; there is no value in listing everything that happens to come in groups of two. But there is one link in it that I'd like to correct -- assuming the page must stand -- and I can't even fully load the page, let alone edit it. It is far, far too long.
I'd like to ask some kind soul to split the page into 3 or more manageable pages. Thank you. John Reid 21:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm indifferent as to method. Right now I can't load it past Me-Mo. Too long. Please fix. John Reid 08:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you; I made the required edit. John Reid 23:13, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The article Michael cleaver appears to be a well-written short bio of a deceased Austrialian pro rugby player and war hero, not something that ordinarily would draw much editor attention. But it doesn't check out. A quick look in Google doesn't show a relevant hit. According to the official New Zealand Allblacks list of all players, past and present, there has been no player named "Cleaver" on the team at any time. I added a "Hoax" tag, put a message on the user's talk page, and there's no denial. So I added a "prod" tag.
It's the first and only contribution by User:J-rich.
Am I wrong, or is this subtle vandalism? -- John Nagle 17:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried to add a cultural references section to the article Christian views on contraception, but they were reverted by Alienus. Cultural references are very, very common on countless Wikipedia article.
User:Alienus also threatened to ban me even though I was not violating any Wikipedia rules (just his preferences) and he does not have administrative status.
Captain Jackson 00:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
You are being ignored because you typoed the name of the article you wanted people to look at. Also, looking at the article, I discover that Alienus did not threaten to ban you, but only informed you that you were apt to be banned if you keep reverting. Rick Norwood 20:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that in wikihtml, when we edit, formating has extra space, for example, when we edit a comment, there's a space between the $Subject/headline:$ & the content of the message. Another example is == Extra Space ==$ is also the same as ==Extra Space==$. Does this make comments larging in size as bytewise? Even if not, it could create confusion. So I guess Mediawiki needs to be tweaked/the devlopers\the codes needs a little editing?
Please leave one if you'd like more clarification on this issue. You could also contact me <redacted> [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNUL hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].
thanks
24.70.95.203 20:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia serves as all Wiki Projects' highest form of governemnt; I don't think that's right. I think that Wikimedia should be where Help, Reference Desk, Proposals, Policy, etc. should be located. Also, Beer Parlour & Tea Room should be deleted, etc. & if there are any other institutions like as mentioned in this comment, then they should be deleted to. User pages should also be consolidated into 1 central location, namely Wikimedia, or a separate place, but these are draft ideas, but the general idea, would organize Wikimedia & save resources. Taking the point of saving resources, Accounts should be allowed to be deleted.
Please leave one if you'd like more clarification on this issue. You could also contact me iooiioioo@hotmail.com [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNU licence hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].
thanks
24.70.95.203 14:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to redirect Heinrich der Zänker but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Sumergocognito 17:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria
Henry_II%2C_Duke_of_Bavaria
Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Astrotrain has unilaterally moved Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom for use in Scotland to Royal Coat of Arms in Scotland. I have just moved it back.
This move is part of an ongoing campaign by this User to try to claim that these are not the Arms of the United Kingdom, but rather that they are the Arms of Scotland. Note the (presumably intentional) similarity to the separate Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland article (if you can't see the difference, compare in with of).
I urge other Users to Watch this article and User like a hawk. I personally have a poor relationship with the User in question and want to get involved as little as possible with their edits. I would appreciate it if calmer heads than mine were to monitor the situation. -- Mais oui! 01:21, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hiya! I was wondering if anyone could redirect the search "bananalamb" to go to the "Super Lamb Banana" page. I don't have enough wikiskills to do it myself. Thanks!
~mikokit
Type "#REDIRECT Super_lamb_banana_page" as the first and only line of your page PiAndWhippedCream 12:39, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Merecat has posted complaints to Talk:Killian documents and Talk:Rationales to impeach George W. Bush that he does not like the new footnote format introduced with Cite.php ( WP:FOOTNOTE) and wants citations to web sources to be listed only as inline URL links. He also posted to VPT that he didn't like the new system, but did not get any sympathy (it's out of the archive but here's one diff [3]). Now he has tagged Killian documents and Rationales to impeach George W. Bush with {{ Template:Citation style}}. I worked very hard to move all the references in Killian documents (about 75) to the new format because under the old {{ note}} and {{ ref}} system, the numbers didn't match and it was very difficult to edit the citations since they were separate from the text. Clearly I am not a neutral party and I will not remove his tag for that reason. However, I would appreciate a discussion of whether one editor can unilaterally decide that the citation format is wrong. Thanks. Thatcher131 03:20, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Could some more people take a look at this, and read the article? I'm worried by the standard of comment on the deletion nomination that people are voting based on their POV on the video game / violence debate, not on whether or not this is a well sourced, NPOV article. Thanks, For great justice. 19:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to edit the image description of Image:Closeup_of_an_blue-green_human_eye.jpeg to indicate its correct licensing info, which is { { noncommercial } }, as can easily be verified from the source web page. (Click on "view image license.") However, when I click on "edit this page," I get a message saying that the article doesn't exist. Is this because I don't have an account? Anyhow, the correct licensing info is easy to verify, and I'd be grateful to anyone who could make the correction. TIA! -- 24.52.254.62 23:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I am no novice to Latex, but the exact placement of the generated pictures is not clear to me in wiki. Please have a look at Petri_net#Basic_mathematical_properties. It looks very strange on my Konqueror. I would like to hear how it looks in other browsers. Please repair it if you can! Thx, Msoos 20:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
...to copy in order to have a userbox template work on an intranet wiki? Alternately (if I've posted this in the wrong place), can I get a redirect to the proper place to ask this question? Ecophreek 05:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I previously posted this on the proposal section as i've no idea where it really should go.
While looking around i noticed the Zoological medicine stubs category.
This of course is of great interest to me as i am a current vet student.
However it seemed like most of the subcats pointed solely to human related articles. Is there any way i'd be able to somehow integrate a purely veterinary perspective on existing stubs or create new ones with a veterinary slant?
eg. if i were to go category:animal anatomy and then click on the "subcategories" cardiovascular system, Arteries and finally selecting Radial artery as a layman and inexperienced wiki user (which i am) i would expect to see the radial artery as described in an animal system, however that is not the case
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Biliskner 22:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently moved the article Country rock to Country rock (music) (and added a disambiguation page at the old location). Is there an easy way to change all 4-500 links to the original country rock page so that they link directly to the new location? Hgilbert 10:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
A Wikipedian zh:User:Martinoei recently kept deleting all negative contents in the article about himself zh:黄世泽 as well as other's sayings in the talk page. He calls those contents slander and announced he would accuse MediaWiki or a particular administrator for defaming him. However, most of those contents are just search results from google. Some sugguestions were proposed such as to delete that article, to redirect that article to his user page, and/or to ban him, etc. Please refer to zh:talk:黄世泽(talk page of that article), zh:Wikipedia:删除投票和请求/2006年4月7日 (Afd discussion), zh:User talk:Martinoei (talk page of that wikipedian) or contact me for further info. Did similar cases ever happen in English Wikipedia? If yes, please provide us as a reference. And welcome to join the discussion in Chinese Wikipedia or give some thoughts here. Thanks. - Xiaojeng 22:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm sysop in Italian Wikipedia and Italian Wikitionary, but I don't know how I can have assistance here (it's very difficult to add something in English Wikipedia!!!). There is this user kwami who rollbacks all my contributions here. He has asked me some references and I've given references Talk:List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers#Italian_language, actually he says that I've given as references Wikipedia (US CENSUS!!!) and "blank pages" like this Italian Foreign Office (if people follows the links he should have statistics divided by consulate). Excuse me, it's not my sin if this user don't know how read statistics or how read web pages. It should exhibit me his references (not web sites or phylological studies i.e. Ethnologue, but official statistics). I don't know where is my "original" research!!!!!!! No numbers are dreamed by me. -- Ilario 22:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, since I have entirely too many user names on different wikis, I would like to be renamed from "Caesarion" to "Steinbach". Being a bureaucrat on the Limburgic Wikipedia myself I have done the same there quite recently and all new wiki account I create bear this name. Just a matter of uniformity, and it would be much clearer that way. So can some bureaucrat rename me asap? Caesarion 20:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
This is an offer of assistance, not a request. It is a repeat from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject#Best_practices_around_article_classification
Although I am not QUITE ready to go public with a generic solution (and may never be) if your project wants to do classification but is daunted by the work in generating tables like these Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Article_Classification, or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America#Partial_list_of_pages_covered_by_the_project I have a tool that I can run for you to generate these tables. It is driven by categories. I am interested in doing this for a few projects (you can see an example of what it generates at User:Lar/Sandbox2). To use it you/I need to know what categories the articles your project is interested in classifying are. Either make up a table like this one: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Categories on a page somewhere and let me know where, or give me a text list of categories. If you're interested, drop me a message on my talk page with the name of the project and the name of the subpage where you would like the classification info placed. What I find out doing this for the first few projects to respond will be used to improve the tool. Suggestions where else to publicise this accepted as well.
One question I thought of, though... should the templates the tables embed be made regular templates instead of being subpages of the projects page? ++ Lar: t/ c 18:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me why I get the same home page everytime I open Wiki - I keep getting the same page from late March. I was hoping to move on with my life but I seem destined to read it over and over!!!
Hi!
There are alot of world maps flooting around on Wikipedia, but I wonder if there is any that includes all the small islands. The oned used for maps of bigger countries dosen't. -- 217.210.194.14 15:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I have a question that I think is about redirects, but I'm not sure. At 14:43, 12 April 2006, I edited the IPPF article. (copyedit: Corrected grammar and usage, added headings, added internal links). It appears that shortly after that someone added a redirect to International Planned Parenthood Federation. Here is the diff location: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IPPF&curid=3089555&diff=48153384&oldid=48152236
My edits do not show up at the redirect (obviously), so what should I do?
Any help would be appreciated. My technical knowledge of Wikipedia is not yet deep enough to know the appropriate procedure to employ. Thanks in advance.
A. Kohler 17:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
-- Akohler Talk @ 21:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I am a student at the Unversity of Utah working on a thesis to study wikipedia. I am seeking any administrators or other experienced wikipedians who would be willing to grant me an IM interview. Any suggestions you might have would be helpful. 155.97.209.58 06:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)U of U Student
Okay, I created an account and you can email any ideas to me at utestudent@gmail.com Thank you in advance for any help you give Utestudent 05:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone help me with the four tildes problem? I've no idea if this is common - as I am now beginning to use Wikipedia more than ever before, I'm having to post on talk pages more frequently, as well as places like this. And therefore sign and date my posts in the usual way. That no longer seems to work as it should, and I always have to go back in a second time to correct the coding for the vertical line and the square brackets on my 'Talk' part of my signature. Anyone out there know what I mean? It looks like this: Bruce, aka Agendum | [[User_talk:Agendum|Talk]] 15:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC) - I've checked my preferences and updated my signature multiple times, but nothing seems to work! No doubt it will do the same again here: Bruce, aka Agendum | [[User_talk:Agendum|Talk]] 15:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting a pronunciation audio file for "sake" in the Sake article.
It may be rice wine to you, but it's sake to me. Rick Norwood 22:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I created a new page for The Mooney Suzuki's album Alive & Amplified. There is an older version of the same page entitled Alive and Amplified. I would like to remove the old page completely in favour of the new page.
I have trouble editing some long articles
What can be done about an editor repeatedly disrupting pages by objecting to the new link style? Se
Talk:Rationales to impeach George W. Bush.
Nomen Nescio
21:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
The Talk page Talk:Pantheism somehow has had categories assigned to it (not from templates). The normal talk page editor does not display them, so they cannot be removed. Can an admin assist with this task, or is there a way for any editor to do this? -- Blainster 00:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
but can't find or figure out how to archive my user talk page. Last time someone else did it for me but I'll be damned if I can remember how. Any ideas? Theories? Opinions? Suggestions? Carptrash 06:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation!
There's a List of Linux computer viruses, but it's grossly incomplete, with about ten entries (a complete list would have hundreds if not thousands), and years out of date. There are virus databases that have current info on that subject. What should be the fate of the article? I'm considering a move to "Notable Linux computer viruses". Presumably virus notability comes under WP:SOFTWARE, although the criteria don't quite fit. Comments? -- John Nagle 17:51, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Image:Blueship.JPG is a blatant violation of the Image Upload Policy which outlaws the watermarking of images. I'm not sure what to do about this.-- Keycard ( talk) 17:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've posted this in a number of other places, but I figured that one more couldn't hurt... Since very recently -- the change must have happened in the last two or three days -- I can only see the last 500 changes in my watchlist, which poses a problem if I want to see the changes made *before* 14 hours ago (which I have to in order to catch up to the last three days of activity). Help? Thanks in advance; a notice on my talk page that you've answerred would be appreciated, too. — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 20:07, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I’m a 24 year old, multicultural individual fascinated by the Wikipedia project. As I will start a Master program this fall, I will have 3.5 months of free time. I have seen that Wikipedia requires help in various ways. I’m highly interested in working on this help on a regular schedule during these months. However it is not possible for me to help for such a duration without any monetary compensation. Is there any possibility to help the Wikipedia project and get some monetary compensation for it?
Thanks in advance.
Jeronimomh 16:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to become a developer for some months? ... posted at 13:19, 18 April 2006 by Jeronimomh
Is it my imagination, or have I come across pages on Wikipedia in which Bibtex has been used to cite external sources? I had assumed this was possible, but now I can't find any evidence by searching through the site! A fault brain on my part? Thanks in advance anyone! - Chris Wood 13:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there
How do you delete your own account? I have no need of a Wikipedia account anymore.
Thanks.
Afterthought.cjb.cc 22:02, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
So you just spammed your own site and then you decide to leave? You could have done the same thing with an anonymous IP address.-- The i kiro id ( talk parler hablar paroli 说 話し parlar) 01:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
You should sign in, even if it's just for little edits. You could turn over a new leaf, be a wikignome or something. You can stay here, just be constructive.-- The i kiro id ( talk parler hablar paroli 说 話し parlar) 02:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Please help with any instructions on how I can add an image that I took to the text that I wrote.
The image was uploaded but Idon't know how to make it appear on the page with the appropriate text.
Thank you User:Wildflowers00
Greetings. If anyone happens to feel inspired to help with consensus-building on a couple of very low-traffic articles, would you please have a look at the recent edit histories and talk pages of Appalachia, Virginia and Wise County, Virginia? Looking at User talk:Davins111 may also be helpful in this instance. It can be very tough to build consensus on articles with very light traffic, so the articles could certainly use anyone who might be inspired to help. Thank you. -- Takeel 13:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The page Crystal Gail Mangum has been locked by office action, and even its history has been deleted. Supposedly actions by "Dannyisme" are official "office actions". But why? The article was in the AfD process anyway, and earlier today, sources in the mainstream press had been found for the info. So it was safe from a libel perspective. Wierd. -- John Nagle 04:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
A user I blocked apologized and asked to be unblocked. I unblocked him, but he claims he still can't edit. I've checked logs for both his username and his IP and I don't see blocks on either of them. Can someone help me figure out what's going on? The user is Itchybowwow ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), his IP is 192.198.151.130 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). -- Woggly 12:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
In a bizarre twist to the long-running controversy over the
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy article,
an editor involved in that dispute has begun unilaterally altering the
Good Article Nomination and
Dispute subarticles to eliminate the "everyone can veto" stipulation. His
first change was made on 22-April (edit comment "why should partial editors be able to fail an article when they cannot pass it"), with an rapid-fire
followup and resultant edit-war with another editor from the cartoon article following soon after. After involving
a third party (who seems to be acting in good faith, if apparently without carefully reviewing the situation) the user has
now begun attempting to extend the change to the related subarticles "for consistency". Editors with an interest in the maintenance of a well-established consensus position on this matter might like to watch the page for further such attempts. —
JEREMY
20:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any tool that will list all of the pages/articles I have created? ~Linuxerist E/ L/ T 14:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a userbox, and I've noticed that there's a lot of inconsistency in current userboxe templates regarding categorisation. Specifically, some templates have <noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia userboxes]]</noinclude>
and others don't. Is there any policy or guideline on whether userbox templates should contain this code? Thanks. --
David Scarlett(
Talk)
06:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I was looking at [ Georg Antonius of Liechtenstein]. It's a redirect page with categories. Should the cats have been removed when the page was turned into a redirect? Since he is a person he belongs in certain cats, however now that the page is a reirect it seems odd to have cats on a redirect, however it's certainly not hurting anyone to have them there. Is there a wikipedia policy on this? -- Bachrach44 18:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
My office has named our conference rooms after presidents, scientists or inventors. I would like to use images from this site for our signs. If the images are listed as in the Public Domain, am I able to use the images for that purpose? This site has been a great reference!
Hi, I'm just curious to know what does the (top) on my contributions page mean. It is placed next to some of the articles I've edited. Thanks. GeoW 19:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think so.There are some much older edits. GeoW 18:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I think a couple of small changes need making to the opening para of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamera (Another well known cover version with link, and a link to The Sandpipers page which it looks like I shall have to supply).
Unfortunately I can find no 'edit' button for this para. Is this something intentional, a bug, or a quirk of Firefox/Linux? Deke42 13:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
A new user using my real name erased my talk page and posted a harassing message [4]. Is there anything I can do about this?-- Prosfilaes 05:11, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Stumbled accross Fermat computer algebra system while doing RC patrol today. The page is essentially straight form the manual for Fermat. I initially flagged it as a copyvio, but on the talk page the author claims that he is the author of fermat (and therefore, presumably, the author of the manual). Since IANAL my main question is this: does this get around our copyright problems? Beyond that the article clearly needs some cleanup and wikification (it was, after all, taken straight from the manual), but I want to make sure we're okay on the copyright issues before proceding much further. -- Bachrach44 20:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
The Clone troopers article is composed of completely fictional content. I can't see how it is appropriate for an encyclopedia. It does have a template warning of unverified sources, but I don't think this is sufficient; fictional material is not verifiable, so this article appears to violate Wikipedia policy. IMHO, the entire article should be removed, except for the beginning paragraph, however, I'm reluctant to do so because it's likely to be reverted. So I'm seeking the opinion and/or action of an experienced administrator. Thanks.
-- Lostart 19:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
crosspost from WP:AN, where I haven't had a response.
A user has asked me if he can have some personal information deleted from a talk page archive, which he regrets leaving. The trouble is that he made the edits in question months ago and never removed it, and the archive contains many more edits on top of it, all containing the personal information. So far as I can see the only way to delete the personal information altogether is to edit the page to remove it, then delete all the revisions leading up to it. Would that be acceptable? It's a talk page archive rather than an article, so would the signatures be sufficient to avoid breaking the GFDL? -- Sam Blanning (talk) 18:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a tool that allows a user to see a map of pages linked to a particular page? Metaquestion: Where should I have looked or searched within Wikipedia to answer this question myself? David.Throop 04:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I am working with another student on a research paper to explore Wikipedia as a means of constructing knowledge. I would greatly appreciate any response to the following questions: (Feel free to email your responses to me at utestudent@gmail.com or post comments here)
Have you cited wikipedia as a source in your own work/projects?
How do you view Wikipedia in terms of credibility?
Do you condone or support the use of wikipedia as an academic source?
How does wikipedia ensure the credibility and validity of the information posted?
What about the Wikipedia ‘peer review process’ validates the work posted?
What authority/experience/credibility/credentials do those who contribute possess in the area of their contributions?
Should people who post on certain subjects (such as science) be required to have some sort of verifiable educational status?
What methods of validating the credibility of the contributors are used, or are there any methods?
Utestudent 01:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you want me to create a seperate page for this survey and post a message on the Community Bulletin Board? You'll get more responses that way. -- Osbus 21:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Basically, there is a section of the article called God's 40 Day Warning of the Rapture. The whole thing is copied verbatim from http://truthroom.com/farticle/3#24 http://truthroom.com/farticle/3#24 .
If you google it, the only references on the internet are either from truthroom.com itself, chn-net.com (run by the same organization), Wikipedia, or someone quoting one of the three. It is a new doctrine - not at all mainstream. It's just the opinion of one person.
Even if it were a mainstream topic and even if it were not just copied verbatim, the whole thing is incredibly POV.
I removed the segment and the original author reverted it back. I detailed a number of problems with the segment, including copyright violation, POV, factual errors, original research, and non-notable. The original author only responds to anything I say by accusing me of censorship.
I posted a RFC but that hasn't gotten any authoritative help. What exactly do I do from here?
There are a great plenty problems with the article. Rapture#Scriptural_basis and Rapture#Expected_events are both in desparate need of a rewrite. So this certainly isn't the only problem with the article, but removing a segment that is non-notable, a copyright violation, etc, would seem to be a good place to start.
What do I do from here? BigDT 22:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I posted a message at User talk:129.210.13.31 after reverting this anon's edit to Classical Chinese(not malicious, more of a content dispute). Before I was going to post the message, however, I looked up the IP to make sure it wasn't some dynamic AOL address. I found out via WHOIS IP lookup that Santa Clara University holds all IPs in the range of 129.210.0.0 - 129.210.255.255. There are active editors from that college, though no malicious contribs. However, as an FYI, I want to post a notice of the school on all possible IPs from that range in the future, so if any vandalism happens, anyone considering a block will know this is a relatively public IP range. Is there a way I can do that, label a whole IP range?-- The i kiro id ( talk )( Help Me Improve) 18:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I was working on an article for quite a while, and my login timed out. I saved the article without realizing, and now the edit is attributed to an anonymous IP address. I realize no one is going to give me a pulitzer for my wikipedia edits, but it's a little bit annoying to not get any credit. Is there a way to retroactively claim an edit? Thanks. AAMiller 10:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I need more!!! Please help me. Thank you, brainybassist 23:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
A couple of hours ago I created a goofy little user template. When I looked at my user profile I noticed that the template I created disappeared. The page is not just deleted it is as if it never existed: it is not listed under my user contribution log. Any ideas what happened? User:mdozturk
Rember that the cabal knows what is best for you.-- God Ω War 05:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify on the nature of deletion: the kind of "deletion" that you or I can carry out is generally referred to as "blanking" or "removing" or something of the sort. Proper deletion of contributions can be carried out by any one of 800+ admins, according to various policies that you'll find through perusal of my last two links. The difference is that if something is just removed, it remains in the page's edit history, user contributions, logs, etc. If something is actually deleted, then to any non-admin, for all intents and purposes it never existed (except that you can always try to suggest its undeletion, since it's still in the database but only accessible/undeletable by admins; also, it isn't removed from logs, in the case of uploads and moves). — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 04:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I can't put my finger on what's wrong with the tone on this page, and what I should do to rectify it. Any suggestions? Thanks-- Keycard ( talk) 12:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy is currently attacked by users on the SVG page. We need support so we can apply the Wikipedia rules against users that do not accept the guidelines. Spankman 06:15, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Image:Al-Hadba Minarate of the Big Mosque in Mosul, IRaq.jpg - the border round the edge suggests that the source is an online encyclopedia or travel website. What should I do about it, or should I just leave it?-- Keycard ( talk) 17:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
So what action should I take? Thanks-- Keycard ( talk) 10:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I {{ prod}}-ed this, stating concerns over both copyright and OR, and the page author seems to have removed bits of the page, though I'm concerned that it's still someone trying to use WP as a publishing platform. Can someone check it out and AfD as appropriate? 81.104.165.184 10:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that the Pheromones entry contained a spammy link to Pherlure, which seems to be a fraudulently marketed product.
I removed the link and followed it to a redirect page on the supposed active ingredient of Pherlure, Di-dehydroepiandrosterone.
I edited this page to include the very concrete evidence that there is no such compound and that the study which is cited by Pherlure as proof that it works is not only fake, but is mentioned on fake web sites which they apparently created -- the only content on the websites are descriptions of the fake study (as shown by Google: there are no other pages on these sites).
No sooner than I had added this info, the page was deleted entirely.
Whomever added it in the first place and deleted it is very likely a shill working for Pherlure and should be watched.
Also, this page should be added back in so that unsuspecting would-be customers can be informed about the fake study.
What do you all advise?
Thanks. -- Jahat 01:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
A while ago, the WikiProject Saints set up an infobox template. The last part of that template included a space for a sample prayer.
Recently, there has been some commentary on the talk page about the inclusion of prayers on the articles about the Saints. Two editors in particular, Attilios and Ian Spackman, have been editing the articles pretty heavily. I think they both have an agenda and are pursuing it despite the consensus of the Wikiproject.
It is my belief that prayers in a literary or historic context are NPOV. I can understand that some may consider the inclusion of a prayer to be hagiographic, but freedom of religion is not freedom from religion.
There is a 3RR about to happen on a number of these articles. I am trying to be philosophical about this, but don’t want to yield the point when what is happening goes against the consensus and borders on vandalism. One editor is an Italian atheist who uses very poor English, didn't understand what are NPOV was and left nasty notes in the edit summaries and in the articles themselves.
This on the heals of the edit war on John Bosco and homosexuality. How do we reign this in before it gets out control?
Thanks! -- evrik 14:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
How long are these prayers? If we're talking about one or two sentences, and they're mentioned in a historical context, then I have no problem with including them (and I'm agnostic). But if they're long, they should go to Wikisource and a link included in the article. User:Zoe| (talk) 22:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Offensiveness is not grounds for removing something from Wikipedia (although in more serious cases than this, where many people would be severely offended, it could be grounds for giving the user a choice in advance as to whether to view it; see, e.g., Goatse). Since it should be extremely clear that quoting the prayers does not imply a belief in their efficacy, there's no issue of POV. Therefore, the only question is whether they're useful or informative to our readers. Taking Saint Peter as an example, I think they don't really add much to the articles. Maybe Wikisource would be a good place for them, though, assuming the Catholic Church doesn't claim copyright.
I should note, however, that you would do well to assume good faith and not attack your fellow editors. Argumentum ad rem, please. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC) I notice that Mr Evrik has yet to make an apology for his racist attack and feel that he should be reminded that it is not too late. — Ian Spackman 17:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
When I looked into why the History of beaker (glassware) was so short, I found it was created by cut and paste by User:Snow1215 [7]. 24.18.215.132 21:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
If "legend of stafy" is entered into the search box, the article of the same name does NOT appear. Perhaps it's a glitch in the search software? Also, regarding the same article: there's four commonly used English spellings of "Stafy," and two different forms of the games' title; as such, there's technically eight different ways to search for the game. I propose that the following search terms all redirect to Legend of Stafy:
This is will make it much easier for people seeking information on this topic to find it. Can someone show me how to accomplish this? Many thanks in advance! -- Liquidcross 15:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello Im trying to make a category and subcategory for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia_Scholastic_Hockey_League I would appreciate some help Thanks. John R G 07:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I think I have it figured out but I would still like someone to check it over to make sure it is correct. Thanks John R G 07:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
How do I get my infoboxes in my user page to line up the way I want to? -- Micahbrwn 07:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I love the name 'encyclopedsit' for Login ID.
May I use it? 59.148.129.20 17:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I have tried to regiter the Login ID 'encyclopedist', but the page show out that Login error:Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.
59.148.129.20 17:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I originally created this article, as you can see by looking at its history. A new article, which is a cut-and-paste of mine, was created at Canadair CL-215, and my article was changed to a redirect, but because it was a cut-and-paste, my history did not follow. Is there any way to rectify this? D e nni ☯ 01:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
The Template:Election box metadata used to work simply by posting {{Election box metadata}} on the relevant party's article talk page. I have tried with One London and it doesn't seem to be working at all. Is this a problem with my account or a technical issue? Cheers doktorb | words 17:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I did an audio reading for the Julie Brown article. I am just looking for someone's input as to what I should put for accent in the information, as I am American but don't feel I have any particular regional accent. Your input is appreciated. Please see Audio Info
God help me, I'm looking for a userbox. Specifically, a userbox that would help locate people who take photographs for Wikipedia. Not particularly "photography as a hobby" or "professional photographer", but simply "I take photos for Wikipedia - do you". I can't find any photo-related userboxes except "I took this featured photo". Stevage 15:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
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I created a little wiki page, and I've been using it for a couple of days now. Today, I edited the page for perhaps 15-25 times. And now I wasn't able to view the page any more, and got this error message:
"Reason: too many requests by this IP in a 24 hour period"
After that I turned on the proxy and that's how I'm able to view pages again. My question is, how many requests per IP can I make in a 24 hour period? I was quite surprised that my moderate use caused this. If it is restricted like that, at least there should be some active warning?
This is particularily disturbing because I loose my new edits if this error message appears (I have to start copy pasting everything I write for a backup.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.251.240.117 ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, there is an obvious problem to which I see no obvious solution. On the Clive Barker page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Barker) there is a bibliography of his novels that have been converted into links to the page for each book. That's fine and dandy until one gets to the last item: "Galilee #2" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee#2_.28book.29) Somehow it has been linked to a copy of the main page for "Galilee" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee) the geographic location. Where it becomes confusing is that according to the history page for "Galilee #2", it has always contained content on the location, going back to 2001. In fact, both pages appear to share all history. But that is nuts, because the novel won't be released until 2007, and was not even announced in 2001. I suspect that since the novel is not yet released, the bibliography list item on "Clive Barker" page should not be linked at all. I don't know if there is a way to kill the link, since it may be automatic. Alternatively, I don't know if it is proper form to delete the linked page, even though it duplicates the legitmate Galilee page (or whether this would nuke the "real" Galilee page as well) Anyone run into this before, and have a solution?
-Samiam
Is there somewhere I can flag up an article like Mike Bickle, so that an experienced Wikipedian can clean it up? I found this page while searching for another Mike Bickle who is an esteemed geologist. Also, if an article were to be created for the geologist, are there rules which would decide which person the link "Mike Bickle" directs to? 82.36.110.118 17:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible an Admin blocks this user for several hours ? If you wonder why I ask just look at his contributions, it seems like he/she does not know how to use the preview button. There are lots of edits to single article within several minutes creating lots of restore points not really needed if the preview button had been used. I asked him on his discussion page to use the preview button but it does not look like he is reading it. -- Denniss 21:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
How exactly do you make them? 60.227.18.35 05:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I've done a fair bit of editing in the Clinical Surveillance article now, and currently have the article divided into two sections. I believe the first part of the article is fine, although it could be expanded, and reflects the established definition of the term. However, the second part of the article is really problematic, as I believe it may have been written by an account made primarily for distributing a certain type of information within Wikipedia. I think it's fine to reflect these alternate points of view, and I propose that it be done by creating an article called clinical sousveillance and making links from one to the other. But I don't think they should be in the article.
What I need help with is 1) what is the established way to fork an article and keep the edit history? 2) I believe that since these are two separate terms this is NOT POV forking, but I would like to make sure before I do a giant edit. Museumfreak 06:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Silver Sonic Shadow ( talk · contribs) is busily importing dozens of articles from the Star Wars wiki into Wikipedia. These include Sun djem (details of one style of light-saber combat), Form IV: Ataru (details of another style of light-saber combat), Form V: Shien / Djem So (details of yet another style of light-saber combat), Form VI: Niman (details of, guess what)), and Trispzest (details of aerial lightsaber combat). About forty such articles have been created in the last eight hours.
It looks like this user's intention is to import a sizable chunk of the Star Wars wiki into the main Wikipedia. Most of the articles wouldn't pass WP:FICT; they're about minor Star Wars subjects. Should something be done about this? -- John Nagle 04:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I recently put torrent shocking up for AfD. After doing quite a bit of research, and previously knowing about bittorrent, I believe it is without basis, and also doesn't come up on google. The result of the AfD was "merge with bittorrent". I do not think that any of the text on torrent shocking is worth saving, so what I want to do is just blank the page and redirect to bittorrent. However, is this against the decided outcome? Do I have to either get a "full delete", or somehow save the text? Mrjeff 12:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
As currently we have a discussion in the german wiki about how to deal with different standards regarding correct spelling (german, swiss, and austrian rules show some minor differences) I would like to know whether there ever has been a similar discussion regarding e.g. the use of american or british english? Nico b. 08:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone happen to know who I should talk to about rebuilding the uncategorized categories list? Is it something a non-admin can do? -- ProveIt (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a limit on the number of Userboxes you can have on your page? Thanks... Scalene 08:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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Would it be against fair use or copyright to include a zagat rating (not the decsription just the numbers) for articles about clubs or resteraunts and what not? -- larsinio (poke) (prod) 19:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I got this email from someone who I believe is User:ElizabethMckenzie / User talk:ElizabethMckenzie. This info is not on "my site", it's on Wikipedia. Basically, she wants these warnings (they were for self-promotion, vanity, and recreation of deleted content) removed. In question is User talk:67.86.180.171, which is the IP address of User:ElizabethMckenzie / User talk:ElizabethMckenzie. In addition, this affects User:Johnlekay.
email content removed 17:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Not sure how to proceed. WP:VAND says "users generally are permitted to remove and archive comments at their discretion, except in cases of warnings, which they are generally prohibited from removing". Nationalparks 22:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Searching for John LeKay in Google, he seems to be a minor artist into self-promotion, with Elizabeth McKenzie his PR person. He has a web site, a blog, and a magazine. He did have some work in a reviewed art show in New York in 1993-1994, but the reviews, with lines like "John LeKay's found object sculptures exhibit a failing common to the genre in that the objects that make up the work have their own social context that is difficult to transcend." [9] [10] don't indicate much notability. Just give McKenzie a reading list of Wikipedia policies if there's further complaint from that direction. -- John Nagle 21:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
My understanding is:
Prodego talk 02:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I am looking for information about a Polish town named Siemiatycze. There is a very small reference in the English version of Wikipedia, but quite a long one in the Polish version. I would like to get an English translation of the Polish article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bocamark ( talk • contribs) AmiDaniel ( talk) 23:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC).
I just created a page ' Blake Parlette '. The thing is, it's about a person named ' Blake Parlett ' with no E on the end.
Please help. thank you all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ColtsScore ( talk • contribs) 21:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC).
I'm working on a table in my sandbox, and I can't find the three-letter template for French Guiana. (For example, typing {{NGA}} gives the name Nigeria and its flag.) Can anyone help? Is there a list of these three-letter templates anywhere? Thanks, — BrianSmithson 14:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
According to Plaid Cymru the colour of that party has changed from green to yellow. I have changed the {{Election box metaddata}} template to reflect this, so all instances of Plaid in election results boxes has automatically changed to yellow.
It seems the metadata info for the Liberal Democrats is a very similar shade of yellow, which I understand should be altered to a golden colour. However their election box name is "Liberal Democrats (UK)" which re-directs to "Liberal Democrats", so I can't access the metadata (or I don't think I can) to change it.
How can the LibDem template be changed to alter the colour if the template article is a redirect?
doktorb | words 10:16, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a template that says something like, "No other articles link to this one. Please add links accordingly to this article in similar ones, if possible."? I'm finding a lot of crappy articles that need wikifying are largely ignored because no one can find them.-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 02:35, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Not particularly. After people fix an article they often forget that they have to "advertise" its existence on other pages, or else it won't be any help to anyone. Perhaps I'll create a new template for it.-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 00:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
i am a new wikipedian an i want to know how to issue warnings to vandals.
thankyou Joshuarooney 14:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Half way down the Organometallic chemistry page, there's a link to Zeise's salt that works, but the one half way down eighteen electron rule doesn't. And this one doesn't either! Any ideas why not? Thanks.
Nope, that's not it. The Organometallic chemistry page doesn't have an underscore but works, whilst the eighteen electron rule page does but doesn't work!! -- Brichcja 22:15, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I've changed them all to a curved quote, just to make it work!-- Brichcja
There is an edit war in progress at Rotary_International over the addition of text that explains to the blind how to use links in the lists of members. You can see the text in this diff. The reason for its inclusion is stated to be that blind users are unable to know that the links in the lists are links and not plain text. An editor wrote that the French Wikipedia includes similar types of text. The debate can be read on the article's talk page. There was an RfC but I think that did not help much. Assistance anyone? Thanks. -- 127. *. *. 1 02:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
When comparing versions of a particular document it shows my user name as the editor of some vandalism.
It does not show up in my list of contributions and the 'Article History' shows that the contribution was made by an anonymous IP (131.137.245.200). It was quickly removed by someone else and a little investigation will show that I didn't add the comments.
But it still concerns me that if someone simply looks at the 'compare selected versions' window that it appears that I am the vandal.
Is this a known problem that someone is looking at? And can the current record be changed ?
forgot to sign previously Johnmarkh 17:40, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
final entry on http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Pentecostalism&oldid=52903809 Johnmarkh
Global brain (see the discussion immediately below this one) is an example of what I consider an "article unlikely to ever be cleaned up" just like Computer and video game clichés. These sorts of articles are perhaps never fully cleaned up, yet AfDs often fail for them. What can be done about such articles in general? -- unforgettableid | talk to me 13:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Global brain is a popular article, but is it not a fringe theory as per WP:FRINGE? Shouldn't someone AfD it? Also, someone on the talk page mentions "A lot of this article is directly taken from "The Global Brain FAQ" at http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAIFAQ.html" but I am not sure if that is true. Does Google even index that FAQ? Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 13:44, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
How would I have my old user page changed? I recently changed user names, and am now stepping away from Wikipedia per meta:Right to Vanish. Thanks. | Mr. Darcy talk 22:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I recently created an account with the Swedish Wikipedia: being equally fluent in English and Swedish, I thought that your members might want to see articles translated. Unfortunately, the English Wikipedia keeps telling me that my account (username: ISNorden) doesn't exist. Will I need to create a second account for use with the English pages? If any of you could help, I'd be very grateful.
I have just discovered that the pixel width of pictures on Wikipedia can be set to any reasonable value I like in WP Preferences. The default is 180px which is too small for my 1024 by 768 screen (an old CRT) so I have set it to 250px. My question is: in future should I cease to put a px value in the pic syntax when I place a pic in an article and let the readers Prefs do the work? (If they know nothing of Prefs then they will get the default of 180px which would, for me, be a rather small pic). In other words which syntax should I now use?
[[Image:minchinhampton.church.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The parish church, Minchinhampton]]
or
[[Image:minchinhampton.church.arp.jpg|thumb|right|The parish church, Minchinhampton]]
Thanks for any answers -
Adrian Pingstone
17:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
And very obviously so. But where is this stated? Looking at (for example) Category:Wikipedia style guidelines, I can't find it. I know it's somewhere, and probably right under my nose. Link, please! Thanks -- Hoary 06:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Some newbie ( User:Brendenhull) who is apparently unfamiliar with the policy on naming conventions and the common names guideline put United States up for a move vote again. If you care about enforcing Wikipedia policies and maintaining the encyclopedia's quality, then vote against at Wikipedia:Requested moves/United States.
Wikipedia policy is to use common names. In this case, "United States" is the common name of the United States of America. It is used as such in the U.S. Constitution, in thousands of federal and state laws, in millions of American newspaper and magazine articles, and in all major encyclopedias (including Britannica and Encarta).
I believe Brendenhull is apparently attempting to bypass existing policy in bad faith. If he has a good faith argument that the common names guideline should have an exception for official names for countries, he should have raised that issue on the appropriate talk page for Naming conventions rather than requesting a vote so quickly on United States (if he had checked the Talk:United States archive, he would have realized that the issue has been heavily debated at least twice in the past two years and consensus was to keep the existing title). If any admins are following this, I recommend a temporary block on Brendenhull. -- Coolcaesar 00:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
In the future, I would strongly suggest that when announcing a poll of interest on the village pump, you just post a link rather than a tirade. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 05:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, what started out as a simple disagreement I now beginning to spiral out of control. It started with the image Image:Rbreich.jpg. I posted the image, listed it as Public Domain, went and got additional permission from the artist because the electronic image was from his website. User:Jiang disgreed with me, but instead of instead of engaging in some sort of dialog, went and posted it as PUI, the discussion is here.
Not only as Jiang threatened to try and have all portraits of government officials removed because they are not in the public domain, but he is expanding the argument to other pages he seems to think are affected by this dispute.
What do I want
-- evrik 23:30, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
There is now a campaign to have all the PD portatis of public officials removed? Jiang tagged two more images for deletion.
Jiang, you're wrong on this issue. Rather than wrecking havoc, why don't you start a new topic at the village pump and get some clarity on the issue. -- evrik 18:16, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I spoke to Bill Alman, the White House curator, who said the following.
Generally, the portraits are property of the federal government and are in the public domain. In the case of the White House portraits, the photograph of the portrait may have copyright restrictions, but that it should be generally okay to use the images as long as the publisher of the electronic image is credited.
Shall we revive Wikipedia:What's in, what's out? It will never become policy, but it is a useful reference as to whether certain things, like, say, most radio stations should normally be AfDed or not. Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 19:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Happened to stumble upon Ruby Fradkin tonight, and did a basic revert after seeing the shape it was in. User User:Dmfrjf did most of the edits, which I wouldn't call purposeful vandlism; but it does make the page messy.
Placed the basic 'subst:test', and reverted the page again. Then a third time. Not sure what to do because of the 3RR, and it doesn t seem to be blatant vandlism. Landeyda 08:52, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
There are two different entries for the film "Hell Comes to Frogtown", I didnt want to blank one entry by making it a redirect so what is the proper way to handle this? The entires in question are Hell Comes to Frogtown and Hell Comes To Frogtown ...thanks in advance SkaTroma 00:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Ahha, many thanks! SkaTroma 03:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Is a picture in the commons shared in all wikis? I'm sorry, I'm very new to this thing. --JD
Sweet. Thanks. --JD
This is a revised entry of the original question I posted on Technical so I can make it clearer and maybe find an answer.
I want to create a template which is used to get either a specific entry or all of them depending on the parameter.
Let's say I have a list like this
And I want to put it into a template, let's call it FUZZ so that if I simply use a macro call of {{FUZZ}} I get
But if I use {{FUZZ|01}} I get
But if I use {{FUZZ|02}} I get
I know in some way this requires {{#if:}} or some macro, but I'm not sure how.
Is there a way I can do this? Second, is there a way I can have the macro generate text only if the parameter is null? So that I could put a header if the parameter is null but no header if the value of {{{1}}} is not null.
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 = *Item 01 - May | 02 = *Item 02 - Critical | 03 = *Item 03 - Exact | #default = *Item 01 - May *Item 02 - Critical *Item 03 - Exact }}
{{#if: {{{1|}}}|do this if it is set|do this if it is unset (null)}}
, is that what you're looking for? Hope that helps!
Jude (
talk)
02:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC){{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01,#default = *Item 01 - May | 02,#default = *Item 02 - Critical | 03,#default = *Item 03 - Exact }}
or
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 | #default = *Item 01 - May | 02 | #default = *Item 02 - Critical | 03 | #default = *Item 03 - Exact }}
I have tried this in the sandbox and a couple of X templates and it does not do what I want, I either only get one of them for the default or nothing at all.
Doing it the way I stated I can get both modes with only one entry for each item, as opposed to having to do them twice. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 23:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
{{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}1 = 1 or {{{1|}}}1 = 11 | *Item01 - May }} {{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}2 = 2 or {{{1|}}}2 = 22 | *Item02 - Critical }} {{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}3 = 3 or {{{1|}}}3 = 33 | *Item03 - Exact }}
I am working (in Commons) on a system for classifying images according to content. You can find the system at [ Image Classification System] . It is borrowed from the public domain Design Search Code Manual developed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The system provides a 2 digit classification, a two digit division, and a 2 digit section, which together provide an exact class for an image or image fragment. For example, if you have a 5-pointed star, it is classified as Classification 01 (celestial bodies, natural phenomena and geographical maps), division 01 (stars), and section 03 (five-pointed stars), so an image which was, or a significant part of the image included a five-pointed star, would be classified as 01.01.03.
I have several macros defined to reference codes.
I have a macro called ICS which is used in the form {{ICS|01|01|03}} to allow images to be marked with their classification. (This is in addition to normal categories people might put images into.) Now, I can just drill-down through each classification, division and section to get the identifier. But I would like to create, for the description pages, the same list of items. So that, on the description page for stars, I have
{{ICS DIV|01}}
Which could expand to
Divisions in Classification 01 Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps * 01.01 Stars, comets * 01.03 Constellations, starry sky * 01.05 Sun * 01.07 Globes * 01.09 Planets, asteroids, meteors, the solar system and atomic or molecular models * 01.11 Moons * 01.15 Natural phenomena * 01.17 Maps or outlines of continents, countries, and other geographical areas
Now, what I would like to do is use the same macro so if I do
{{ICS DIV|01|01}}
I can get something like the following:
Divisions in Classification 01 Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps 01.01 Stars, comets Division 01.01 Stars, comets :01.01.01 Stars with three points :01.01.02 Stars with four points :01.01.03 Stars with five points :01.01.04 Stars with six points :01.01.05 Stars with seven or more points :01.01.06 Stars with rays or radiating lines :01.01.07 Stars with tails or comets :01.01.08 Stars representing a human face or head of an animal :01.01.09 Two stars :01.01.10 Three or more stars :01.01.11 Incomplete stars
And then, if I do
{{ICS DIV|01|01|03}}
I get, simply
I suppose, what I can do, is use the label "all" instead of blank for entries to produce all items so that (using a shortened form of the list for brevity):
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 = Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 01.01 Stars, comets {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.01.01 Stars with three points}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.01.02 Stars with four points}}}} {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 03 or {{{1|}}} = all |* 01.03 Constellations, starry sky {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.03.01 ...etc...}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.03.02 ...}}}} | 02 = Image classification 02 — ... {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 02.01 ... {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :02.01.01 ...}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :02.01.02 }}}} {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 02.02 ...}}}} | 03 = Image classification 03 — ... ... etc ... }}
So, by this, one macro has all the entries and thus a single call returns the exact items I want (or someone else using this system would want) without the problem of copying from multiple places and potentially getting them incorrect, or having to create dozens of macros for each classification (which is, at the moment, what I'm faced with now.) I will try this and see if I can get it from that. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 13:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Request expert review of Participatory Epistemology, which seems, from a cursory Google search, to involve providing a philosophical basis for astrology. I encountered this as a new article, and I'm not sure whether it is nonsense, needs neutral point of view work, or actually makes sense. This is either advanced post-Derrida work, or totally bogus. I can't tell. -- John Nagle 04:55, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Insertion sort implementations went through one AfD, and the result was "transwiki and delete." Well, I've done the transwikification, and now it needs to be deleted. The afd template links to the old afd discussion, though. How does one re-list an afd? ~ Booya Bazooka 04:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
One of the things I do every now and again, is to clear up (delete) the crap that links to unencyclopedic pieces of rubbish like YTMND from legitimate articles. And that's how I came across the Drawball. It is literally one of the worst pieces of shit articles on Wikipedia right now. Every day, it gets dozens of edits, almost all from anons, and they're all rubbish.
The drawball is a large collaborative graffiti board, anyone can put stuff on apparently. Which incidentally leads to every online group out there (SA, GenMay, YTMND etc etc) trying to cover the thing with their logo. It also leads them onto Wikipedia to show it off, and the majority of the article is comprised of tiny pieces of unencyclopedic subtrivia detailing every online foray onto the ball. Here is an example:
This reminds me of the rubbish that was in List of YTMND fads, which in my eyes was rightly deleted. They're adding new images to the page every day or so, and uploading a new fair use picture of the drawball every few days. I think those sections should be deleted, but I'm asking here, because due to the massive amount of anons on that article, I doubt any registered user or admin who's seen the article could do enough on their own. Let's do something about this. - Hahnch e n 15:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Article: Citizens Area Transit: Routes. Question: Delete? Or transwiki to Wikibooks? Although I wonder: does Wikibooks want cruft like transit routes? But then again, Wikibooks is not paper. Cheers, -- unforg e ttabl e id | talk to m e 01:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
It appears the first article has been nominated for deletion. The quite sensible view devloping there seems to be that the Bus Company's own website is the best place to put that information (and likely to be the most up to date). I don't know about the other articles, maybe wait for the outcome of this AfD and Prod them? Or mass nominate them for AfD? Anyway, if they are anything like the first I would support deleting/redirecting them to an article about the company (with a link to its website which will have an up to date time table!) Captainj 10:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking to split the Hip fracture article in half, but I don't know how to preserve the edit history for the article created by the split. Is it possible for a sysop to make a copy of the whole edit history, so that the newly-created split article will have a copy too? ~ Booyabazooka 00:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually I don't think that would work. The history moves with the page, so there would be no way to duplicate it unless a developer does it. Prodego talk 01:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Recently some facts were added to the article River Teme quoting a BBC source. As the source seemed to contradict the current sources and there was an email address, I sent an email asking for clarification. Much to credit of the BBC they responded within hours. I have posted their response to the talk page Talk:River Teme#BBC source. But I have never had an email response on a question of clarification, so I was wondering how such things are usually integrated into an article. If you have any suggestions or can point me to the guideline, then please tell me in the section Talk:River Teme#BBC source. -- Philip Baird Shearer 13:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
hello, I'm a French contributor registered on French wiki as fr:Utilisateur:120 and I would like to use "120" as username to register on English wiki. I can't create my account even if it seems there is no User:120 already registered. What should I do ? (apart from choosing another nick...). Thanks, (you can either answer here or on French wiki)
I added ((citations missing)) to article Zam because, whilst there are many wikipedia links in the article, there are no external links validating all the "facts" in the article. The original author then removed the template stating that the references were the wikipedia see alsos.
How should things like this be handled? Is a wikipedia link a valid reference? I don't want to start anything, but I'm not convinced, especially since google on Zam appears to bring up nothing relevant.
This question is more about the principles involved here rather than the specific article mentioned - though that is a good example. -- SGBailey 10:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
How do I get popups — Preceding unsigned comment added by NikkiWolfe ( talk • contribs)
A paragraph from the article Anti-French sentiment in the United States has been deleted by User:Tocquevil. The paragraph is about "popular anti-French allegations" and lists several news events relating to France which Americans have objected to.
He just deleted it with no explanation and no comment in the talk page. He doesn't seem to have a user page either; I'm not sure if he even exists, since user pages are normally deleted when a user leaves. I believe this deletion is questionable, but if I keep restoring it it violates the 3RR. Exactly how can I handle putting the paragraph back? Ken Arromdee 17:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Anybody who can help me with making some great articles please zip me a note at my user page my login name is Annahly. or type Annahly in search you should be able to post me a note.
THNXZ Evry1! Lter! ;)
Annahly
I have set my prefs to enable popups, and they work fine on my PC at work. At home on my Mac, though, it's another story - the popups appear, but without the actions. All I get is the word "actions", and nothing happens when I click on it. Am I missing something? D e nni ☯ 00:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
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It's been proposed on Talk: List of articles all languages should have, the Meta-based hub page for the Wikipedia page Wikipedia:Vital articles, that because homosexuality is potentially controversial or offensive, it is not important for many language Wikis to have it (unlike, apparently, The Holocaust, abortion, evolution, etc.), and it's unacceptable for anyone to even recommend (the list is purely optional) that comprehensive encyclopedias address the topic. User:Blockinblox, claiming to be enforcing consensus, has argued that homosexuality (unlike heterosexuality) cannot be listed on the page because it is "widely viewed as a deviancy around the world" and dismissed any discussion of adding an article on homosexuality to the list of important articles with comments like "DO NOT force your agenda on the rest of the world. What you do in your country is your country's problem." (I had not been aware that my country was the only one with homosexuals, nor that I had an "agenda" on the issue, but I stand corrected.)
What I'd love more than anything is some fresh perspectives on the matter, whether they agree or disagree with my recommended additions and changes; it will be difficult to keep discussion from getting stuck in the mud with only two users with strongly differing opinions talking the matter over. So, anyone at all who's willing, I'd love some outsiders' views and arguments. - Silence 07:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
"Hasn't spread to many places yet"! Rick Norwood 23:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I can only say that everything you write indicates how limited your experience is. Homosexuals have existed in every society throughout recorded history. Sometimes they have been accepted, sometimes they have been persecuted. There is nothing new about either attitude. Rick Norwood 01:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, since it's Wikipedia's self-proclaimed goal to build the self-feeding omni-über-encyclopedia, you need an article on every topic in every language. That being said, I'm sure the articles on Abortion, Racism, Genocide, Homosexualtiy etc. will be different on each wikipedia, because each of these things has a different place with different examples in each society. All you have to do is appeal to the types of people who read the article, you don't just translate a bunch of text about gays in America, England, and Australia to the french and japanese wikipedia, because it wouldn't be relevant to the people reading it. You'd find examples of LGBT culture in France and Japan.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 01:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Have you ever stopped to wonder why you spend so much time thinking about homosexuality? Rick Norwood 15:18, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry Blockinblox, I was not aware of the cabal-esque situation on the metapage. This suggests a much larger issue is at work here. Perhaps this discussion should be moved the page's talkpage.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 18:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, based on what Silence just said and contributions like this [1], I'm led to question the motives of Blockinblox. He stated earlier in this post that the article on homosexuality shouldn't be there because it does not affect the world on a global scale. But in his earlier posts, he makes a case for it corrupting free speech around the world. I'm assuming he doesn't want Wikipedia to be corrupted by politically correct BS, which I understand and support, but he's just not going about it very well.-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 02:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you tell us who the admin is and provide links to the talkpage you're talking about? I wasn't trying to put words in your mouth, I was trying to correctly address what your issue was (sorry).-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 14:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Blockinblox, may the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ, which passeth all understanding, be upon you. Rick Norwood 21:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Will somebody please edit this page? For my money it could be deleted; there is no value in listing everything that happens to come in groups of two. But there is one link in it that I'd like to correct -- assuming the page must stand -- and I can't even fully load the page, let alone edit it. It is far, far too long.
I'd like to ask some kind soul to split the page into 3 or more manageable pages. Thank you. John Reid 21:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm indifferent as to method. Right now I can't load it past Me-Mo. Too long. Please fix. John Reid 08:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you; I made the required edit. John Reid 23:13, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The article Michael cleaver appears to be a well-written short bio of a deceased Austrialian pro rugby player and war hero, not something that ordinarily would draw much editor attention. But it doesn't check out. A quick look in Google doesn't show a relevant hit. According to the official New Zealand Allblacks list of all players, past and present, there has been no player named "Cleaver" on the team at any time. I added a "Hoax" tag, put a message on the user's talk page, and there's no denial. So I added a "prod" tag.
It's the first and only contribution by User:J-rich.
Am I wrong, or is this subtle vandalism? -- John Nagle 17:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I tried to add a cultural references section to the article Christian views on contraception, but they were reverted by Alienus. Cultural references are very, very common on countless Wikipedia article.
User:Alienus also threatened to ban me even though I was not violating any Wikipedia rules (just his preferences) and he does not have administrative status.
Captain Jackson 00:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
You are being ignored because you typoed the name of the article you wanted people to look at. Also, looking at the article, I discover that Alienus did not threaten to ban you, but only informed you that you were apt to be banned if you keep reverting. Rick Norwood 20:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that in wikihtml, when we edit, formating has extra space, for example, when we edit a comment, there's a space between the $Subject/headline:$ & the content of the message. Another example is == Extra Space ==$ is also the same as ==Extra Space==$. Does this make comments larging in size as bytewise? Even if not, it could create confusion. So I guess Mediawiki needs to be tweaked/the devlopers\the codes needs a little editing?
Please leave one if you'd like more clarification on this issue. You could also contact me <redacted> [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNUL hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].
thanks
24.70.95.203 20:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia serves as all Wiki Projects' highest form of governemnt; I don't think that's right. I think that Wikimedia should be where Help, Reference Desk, Proposals, Policy, etc. should be located. Also, Beer Parlour & Tea Room should be deleted, etc. & if there are any other institutions like as mentioned in this comment, then they should be deleted to. User pages should also be consolidated into 1 central location, namely Wikimedia, or a separate place, but these are draft ideas, but the general idea, would organize Wikimedia & save resources. Taking the point of saving resources, Accounts should be allowed to be deleted.
Please leave one if you'd like more clarification on this issue. You could also contact me iooiioioo@hotmail.com [since they haven't instituted the option to delete your account, made their own licence, or the GNU licence hasn't changed yet, I haven't signed up].
thanks
24.70.95.203 14:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to redirect Heinrich der Zänker but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Sumergocognito 17:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Henry II, Duke of Bavaria
Henry_II%2C_Duke_of_Bavaria
Zzyzx11 (Talk) 21:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Astrotrain has unilaterally moved Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom for use in Scotland to Royal Coat of Arms in Scotland. I have just moved it back.
This move is part of an ongoing campaign by this User to try to claim that these are not the Arms of the United Kingdom, but rather that they are the Arms of Scotland. Note the (presumably intentional) similarity to the separate Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland article (if you can't see the difference, compare in with of).
I urge other Users to Watch this article and User like a hawk. I personally have a poor relationship with the User in question and want to get involved as little as possible with their edits. I would appreciate it if calmer heads than mine were to monitor the situation. -- Mais oui! 01:21, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hiya! I was wondering if anyone could redirect the search "bananalamb" to go to the "Super Lamb Banana" page. I don't have enough wikiskills to do it myself. Thanks!
~mikokit
Type "#REDIRECT Super_lamb_banana_page" as the first and only line of your page PiAndWhippedCream 12:39, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Merecat has posted complaints to Talk:Killian documents and Talk:Rationales to impeach George W. Bush that he does not like the new footnote format introduced with Cite.php ( WP:FOOTNOTE) and wants citations to web sources to be listed only as inline URL links. He also posted to VPT that he didn't like the new system, but did not get any sympathy (it's out of the archive but here's one diff [3]). Now he has tagged Killian documents and Rationales to impeach George W. Bush with {{ Template:Citation style}}. I worked very hard to move all the references in Killian documents (about 75) to the new format because under the old {{ note}} and {{ ref}} system, the numbers didn't match and it was very difficult to edit the citations since they were separate from the text. Clearly I am not a neutral party and I will not remove his tag for that reason. However, I would appreciate a discussion of whether one editor can unilaterally decide that the citation format is wrong. Thanks. Thatcher131 03:20, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Could some more people take a look at this, and read the article? I'm worried by the standard of comment on the deletion nomination that people are voting based on their POV on the video game / violence debate, not on whether or not this is a well sourced, NPOV article. Thanks, For great justice. 19:19, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to edit the image description of Image:Closeup_of_an_blue-green_human_eye.jpeg to indicate its correct licensing info, which is { { noncommercial } }, as can easily be verified from the source web page. (Click on "view image license.") However, when I click on "edit this page," I get a message saying that the article doesn't exist. Is this because I don't have an account? Anyhow, the correct licensing info is easy to verify, and I'd be grateful to anyone who could make the correction. TIA! -- 24.52.254.62 23:19, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I am no novice to Latex, but the exact placement of the generated pictures is not clear to me in wiki. Please have a look at Petri_net#Basic_mathematical_properties. It looks very strange on my Konqueror. I would like to hear how it looks in other browsers. Please repair it if you can! Thx, Msoos 20:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
...to copy in order to have a userbox template work on an intranet wiki? Alternately (if I've posted this in the wrong place), can I get a redirect to the proper place to ask this question? Ecophreek 05:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
I previously posted this on the proposal section as i've no idea where it really should go.
While looking around i noticed the Zoological medicine stubs category.
This of course is of great interest to me as i am a current vet student.
However it seemed like most of the subcats pointed solely to human related articles. Is there any way i'd be able to somehow integrate a purely veterinary perspective on existing stubs or create new ones with a veterinary slant?
eg. if i were to go category:animal anatomy and then click on the "subcategories" cardiovascular system, Arteries and finally selecting Radial artery as a layman and inexperienced wiki user (which i am) i would expect to see the radial artery as described in an animal system, however that is not the case
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Biliskner 22:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently moved the article Country rock to Country rock (music) (and added a disambiguation page at the old location). Is there an easy way to change all 4-500 links to the original country rock page so that they link directly to the new location? Hgilbert 10:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
A Wikipedian zh:User:Martinoei recently kept deleting all negative contents in the article about himself zh:黄世泽 as well as other's sayings in the talk page. He calls those contents slander and announced he would accuse MediaWiki or a particular administrator for defaming him. However, most of those contents are just search results from google. Some sugguestions were proposed such as to delete that article, to redirect that article to his user page, and/or to ban him, etc. Please refer to zh:talk:黄世泽(talk page of that article), zh:Wikipedia:删除投票和请求/2006年4月7日 (Afd discussion), zh:User talk:Martinoei (talk page of that wikipedian) or contact me for further info. Did similar cases ever happen in English Wikipedia? If yes, please provide us as a reference. And welcome to join the discussion in Chinese Wikipedia or give some thoughts here. Thanks. - Xiaojeng 22:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm sysop in Italian Wikipedia and Italian Wikitionary, but I don't know how I can have assistance here (it's very difficult to add something in English Wikipedia!!!). There is this user kwami who rollbacks all my contributions here. He has asked me some references and I've given references Talk:List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers#Italian_language, actually he says that I've given as references Wikipedia (US CENSUS!!!) and "blank pages" like this Italian Foreign Office (if people follows the links he should have statistics divided by consulate). Excuse me, it's not my sin if this user don't know how read statistics or how read web pages. It should exhibit me his references (not web sites or phylological studies i.e. Ethnologue, but official statistics). I don't know where is my "original" research!!!!!!! No numbers are dreamed by me. -- Ilario 22:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, since I have entirely too many user names on different wikis, I would like to be renamed from "Caesarion" to "Steinbach". Being a bureaucrat on the Limburgic Wikipedia myself I have done the same there quite recently and all new wiki account I create bear this name. Just a matter of uniformity, and it would be much clearer that way. So can some bureaucrat rename me asap? Caesarion 20:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
This is an offer of assistance, not a request. It is a repeat from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject#Best_practices_around_article_classification
Although I am not QUITE ready to go public with a generic solution (and may never be) if your project wants to do classification but is daunted by the work in generating tables like these Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Article_Classification, or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America#Partial_list_of_pages_covered_by_the_project I have a tool that I can run for you to generate these tables. It is driven by categories. I am interested in doing this for a few projects (you can see an example of what it generates at User:Lar/Sandbox2). To use it you/I need to know what categories the articles your project is interested in classifying are. Either make up a table like this one: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Categories on a page somewhere and let me know where, or give me a text list of categories. If you're interested, drop me a message on my talk page with the name of the project and the name of the subpage where you would like the classification info placed. What I find out doing this for the first few projects to respond will be used to improve the tool. Suggestions where else to publicise this accepted as well.
One question I thought of, though... should the templates the tables embed be made regular templates instead of being subpages of the projects page? ++ Lar: t/ c 18:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me why I get the same home page everytime I open Wiki - I keep getting the same page from late March. I was hoping to move on with my life but I seem destined to read it over and over!!!
Hi!
There are alot of world maps flooting around on Wikipedia, but I wonder if there is any that includes all the small islands. The oned used for maps of bigger countries dosen't. -- 217.210.194.14 15:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I have a question that I think is about redirects, but I'm not sure. At 14:43, 12 April 2006, I edited the IPPF article. (copyedit: Corrected grammar and usage, added headings, added internal links). It appears that shortly after that someone added a redirect to International Planned Parenthood Federation. Here is the diff location: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IPPF&curid=3089555&diff=48153384&oldid=48152236
My edits do not show up at the redirect (obviously), so what should I do?
Any help would be appreciated. My technical knowledge of Wikipedia is not yet deep enough to know the appropriate procedure to employ. Thanks in advance.
A. Kohler 17:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
-- Akohler Talk @ 21:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
I am a student at the Unversity of Utah working on a thesis to study wikipedia. I am seeking any administrators or other experienced wikipedians who would be willing to grant me an IM interview. Any suggestions you might have would be helpful. 155.97.209.58 06:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)U of U Student
Okay, I created an account and you can email any ideas to me at utestudent@gmail.com Thank you in advance for any help you give Utestudent 05:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Can anyone help me with the four tildes problem? I've no idea if this is common - as I am now beginning to use Wikipedia more than ever before, I'm having to post on talk pages more frequently, as well as places like this. And therefore sign and date my posts in the usual way. That no longer seems to work as it should, and I always have to go back in a second time to correct the coding for the vertical line and the square brackets on my 'Talk' part of my signature. Anyone out there know what I mean? It looks like this: Bruce, aka Agendum | [[User_talk:Agendum|Talk]] 15:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC) - I've checked my preferences and updated my signature multiple times, but nothing seems to work! No doubt it will do the same again here: Bruce, aka Agendum | [[User_talk:Agendum|Talk]] 15:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm requesting a pronunciation audio file for "sake" in the Sake article.
It may be rice wine to you, but it's sake to me. Rick Norwood 22:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
I created a new page for The Mooney Suzuki's album Alive & Amplified. There is an older version of the same page entitled Alive and Amplified. I would like to remove the old page completely in favour of the new page.
I have trouble editing some long articles
What can be done about an editor repeatedly disrupting pages by objecting to the new link style? Se
Talk:Rationales to impeach George W. Bush.
Nomen Nescio
21:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
The Talk page Talk:Pantheism somehow has had categories assigned to it (not from templates). The normal talk page editor does not display them, so they cannot be removed. Can an admin assist with this task, or is there a way for any editor to do this? -- Blainster 00:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
but can't find or figure out how to archive my user talk page. Last time someone else did it for me but I'll be damned if I can remember how. Any ideas? Theories? Opinions? Suggestions? Carptrash 06:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation!
There's a List of Linux computer viruses, but it's grossly incomplete, with about ten entries (a complete list would have hundreds if not thousands), and years out of date. There are virus databases that have current info on that subject. What should be the fate of the article? I'm considering a move to "Notable Linux computer viruses". Presumably virus notability comes under WP:SOFTWARE, although the criteria don't quite fit. Comments? -- John Nagle 17:51, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Image:Blueship.JPG is a blatant violation of the Image Upload Policy which outlaws the watermarking of images. I'm not sure what to do about this.-- Keycard ( talk) 17:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've posted this in a number of other places, but I figured that one more couldn't hurt... Since very recently -- the change must have happened in the last two or three days -- I can only see the last 500 changes in my watchlist, which poses a problem if I want to see the changes made *before* 14 hours ago (which I have to in order to catch up to the last three days of activity). Help? Thanks in advance; a notice on my talk page that you've answerred would be appreciated, too. — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 20:07, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I’m a 24 year old, multicultural individual fascinated by the Wikipedia project. As I will start a Master program this fall, I will have 3.5 months of free time. I have seen that Wikipedia requires help in various ways. I’m highly interested in working on this help on a regular schedule during these months. However it is not possible for me to help for such a duration without any monetary compensation. Is there any possibility to help the Wikipedia project and get some monetary compensation for it?
Thanks in advance.
Jeronimomh 16:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to become a developer for some months? ... posted at 13:19, 18 April 2006 by Jeronimomh
Is it my imagination, or have I come across pages on Wikipedia in which Bibtex has been used to cite external sources? I had assumed this was possible, but now I can't find any evidence by searching through the site! A fault brain on my part? Thanks in advance anyone! - Chris Wood 13:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there
How do you delete your own account? I have no need of a Wikipedia account anymore.
Thanks.
Afterthought.cjb.cc 22:02, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
So you just spammed your own site and then you decide to leave? You could have done the same thing with an anonymous IP address.-- The i kiro id ( talk parler hablar paroli 说 話し parlar) 01:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
You should sign in, even if it's just for little edits. You could turn over a new leaf, be a wikignome or something. You can stay here, just be constructive.-- The i kiro id ( talk parler hablar paroli 说 話し parlar) 02:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Please help with any instructions on how I can add an image that I took to the text that I wrote.
The image was uploaded but Idon't know how to make it appear on the page with the appropriate text.
Thank you User:Wildflowers00
Greetings. If anyone happens to feel inspired to help with consensus-building on a couple of very low-traffic articles, would you please have a look at the recent edit histories and talk pages of Appalachia, Virginia and Wise County, Virginia? Looking at User talk:Davins111 may also be helpful in this instance. It can be very tough to build consensus on articles with very light traffic, so the articles could certainly use anyone who might be inspired to help. Thank you. -- Takeel 13:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
The page Crystal Gail Mangum has been locked by office action, and even its history has been deleted. Supposedly actions by "Dannyisme" are official "office actions". But why? The article was in the AfD process anyway, and earlier today, sources in the mainstream press had been found for the info. So it was safe from a libel perspective. Wierd. -- John Nagle 04:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
A user I blocked apologized and asked to be unblocked. I unblocked him, but he claims he still can't edit. I've checked logs for both his username and his IP and I don't see blocks on either of them. Can someone help me figure out what's going on? The user is Itchybowwow ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), his IP is 192.198.151.130 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). -- Woggly 12:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
In a bizarre twist to the long-running controversy over the
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy article,
an editor involved in that dispute has begun unilaterally altering the
Good Article Nomination and
Dispute subarticles to eliminate the "everyone can veto" stipulation. His
first change was made on 22-April (edit comment "why should partial editors be able to fail an article when they cannot pass it"), with an rapid-fire
followup and resultant edit-war with another editor from the cartoon article following soon after. After involving
a third party (who seems to be acting in good faith, if apparently without carefully reviewing the situation) the user has
now begun attempting to extend the change to the related subarticles "for consistency". Editors with an interest in the maintenance of a well-established consensus position on this matter might like to watch the page for further such attempts. —
JEREMY
20:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there any tool that will list all of the pages/articles I have created? ~Linuxerist E/ L/ T 14:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to create a userbox, and I've noticed that there's a lot of inconsistency in current userboxe templates regarding categorisation. Specifically, some templates have <noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia userboxes]]</noinclude>
and others don't. Is there any policy or guideline on whether userbox templates should contain this code? Thanks. --
David Scarlett(
Talk)
06:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I was looking at [ Georg Antonius of Liechtenstein]. It's a redirect page with categories. Should the cats have been removed when the page was turned into a redirect? Since he is a person he belongs in certain cats, however now that the page is a reirect it seems odd to have cats on a redirect, however it's certainly not hurting anyone to have them there. Is there a wikipedia policy on this? -- Bachrach44 18:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
My office has named our conference rooms after presidents, scientists or inventors. I would like to use images from this site for our signs. If the images are listed as in the Public Domain, am I able to use the images for that purpose? This site has been a great reference!
Hi, I'm just curious to know what does the (top) on my contributions page mean. It is placed next to some of the articles I've edited. Thanks. GeoW 19:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I don't think so.There are some much older edits. GeoW 18:55, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I think a couple of small changes need making to the opening para of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamera (Another well known cover version with link, and a link to The Sandpipers page which it looks like I shall have to supply).
Unfortunately I can find no 'edit' button for this para. Is this something intentional, a bug, or a quirk of Firefox/Linux? Deke42 13:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
A new user using my real name erased my talk page and posted a harassing message [4]. Is there anything I can do about this?-- Prosfilaes 05:11, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Stumbled accross Fermat computer algebra system while doing RC patrol today. The page is essentially straight form the manual for Fermat. I initially flagged it as a copyvio, but on the talk page the author claims that he is the author of fermat (and therefore, presumably, the author of the manual). Since IANAL my main question is this: does this get around our copyright problems? Beyond that the article clearly needs some cleanup and wikification (it was, after all, taken straight from the manual), but I want to make sure we're okay on the copyright issues before proceding much further. -- Bachrach44 20:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
The Clone troopers article is composed of completely fictional content. I can't see how it is appropriate for an encyclopedia. It does have a template warning of unverified sources, but I don't think this is sufficient; fictional material is not verifiable, so this article appears to violate Wikipedia policy. IMHO, the entire article should be removed, except for the beginning paragraph, however, I'm reluctant to do so because it's likely to be reverted. So I'm seeking the opinion and/or action of an experienced administrator. Thanks.
-- Lostart 19:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
crosspost from WP:AN, where I haven't had a response.
A user has asked me if he can have some personal information deleted from a talk page archive, which he regrets leaving. The trouble is that he made the edits in question months ago and never removed it, and the archive contains many more edits on top of it, all containing the personal information. So far as I can see the only way to delete the personal information altogether is to edit the page to remove it, then delete all the revisions leading up to it. Would that be acceptable? It's a talk page archive rather than an article, so would the signatures be sufficient to avoid breaking the GFDL? -- Sam Blanning (talk) 18:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there a tool that allows a user to see a map of pages linked to a particular page? Metaquestion: Where should I have looked or searched within Wikipedia to answer this question myself? David.Throop 04:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I am working with another student on a research paper to explore Wikipedia as a means of constructing knowledge. I would greatly appreciate any response to the following questions: (Feel free to email your responses to me at utestudent@gmail.com or post comments here)
Have you cited wikipedia as a source in your own work/projects?
How do you view Wikipedia in terms of credibility?
Do you condone or support the use of wikipedia as an academic source?
How does wikipedia ensure the credibility and validity of the information posted?
What about the Wikipedia ‘peer review process’ validates the work posted?
What authority/experience/credibility/credentials do those who contribute possess in the area of their contributions?
Should people who post on certain subjects (such as science) be required to have some sort of verifiable educational status?
What methods of validating the credibility of the contributors are used, or are there any methods?
Utestudent 01:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you want me to create a seperate page for this survey and post a message on the Community Bulletin Board? You'll get more responses that way. -- Osbus 21:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Basically, there is a section of the article called God's 40 Day Warning of the Rapture. The whole thing is copied verbatim from http://truthroom.com/farticle/3#24 http://truthroom.com/farticle/3#24 .
If you google it, the only references on the internet are either from truthroom.com itself, chn-net.com (run by the same organization), Wikipedia, or someone quoting one of the three. It is a new doctrine - not at all mainstream. It's just the opinion of one person.
Even if it were a mainstream topic and even if it were not just copied verbatim, the whole thing is incredibly POV.
I removed the segment and the original author reverted it back. I detailed a number of problems with the segment, including copyright violation, POV, factual errors, original research, and non-notable. The original author only responds to anything I say by accusing me of censorship.
I posted a RFC but that hasn't gotten any authoritative help. What exactly do I do from here?
There are a great plenty problems with the article. Rapture#Scriptural_basis and Rapture#Expected_events are both in desparate need of a rewrite. So this certainly isn't the only problem with the article, but removing a segment that is non-notable, a copyright violation, etc, would seem to be a good place to start.
What do I do from here? BigDT 22:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I posted a message at User talk:129.210.13.31 after reverting this anon's edit to Classical Chinese(not malicious, more of a content dispute). Before I was going to post the message, however, I looked up the IP to make sure it wasn't some dynamic AOL address. I found out via WHOIS IP lookup that Santa Clara University holds all IPs in the range of 129.210.0.0 - 129.210.255.255. There are active editors from that college, though no malicious contribs. However, as an FYI, I want to post a notice of the school on all possible IPs from that range in the future, so if any vandalism happens, anyone considering a block will know this is a relatively public IP range. Is there a way I can do that, label a whole IP range?-- The i kiro id ( talk )( Help Me Improve) 18:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I was working on an article for quite a while, and my login timed out. I saved the article without realizing, and now the edit is attributed to an anonymous IP address. I realize no one is going to give me a pulitzer for my wikipedia edits, but it's a little bit annoying to not get any credit. Is there a way to retroactively claim an edit? Thanks. AAMiller 10:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I need more!!! Please help me. Thank you, brainybassist 23:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
A couple of hours ago I created a goofy little user template. When I looked at my user profile I noticed that the template I created disappeared. The page is not just deleted it is as if it never existed: it is not listed under my user contribution log. Any ideas what happened? User:mdozturk
Rember that the cabal knows what is best for you.-- God Ω War 05:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify on the nature of deletion: the kind of "deletion" that you or I can carry out is generally referred to as "blanking" or "removing" or something of the sort. Proper deletion of contributions can be carried out by any one of 800+ admins, according to various policies that you'll find through perusal of my last two links. The difference is that if something is just removed, it remains in the page's edit history, user contributions, logs, etc. If something is actually deleted, then to any non-admin, for all intents and purposes it never existed (except that you can always try to suggest its undeletion, since it's still in the database but only accessible/undeletable by admins; also, it isn't removed from logs, in the case of uploads and moves). — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 04:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I can't put my finger on what's wrong with the tone on this page, and what I should do to rectify it. Any suggestions? Thanks-- Keycard ( talk) 12:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia policy is currently attacked by users on the SVG page. We need support so we can apply the Wikipedia rules against users that do not accept the guidelines. Spankman 06:15, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Image:Al-Hadba Minarate of the Big Mosque in Mosul, IRaq.jpg - the border round the edge suggests that the source is an online encyclopedia or travel website. What should I do about it, or should I just leave it?-- Keycard ( talk) 17:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
So what action should I take? Thanks-- Keycard ( talk) 10:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I {{ prod}}-ed this, stating concerns over both copyright and OR, and the page author seems to have removed bits of the page, though I'm concerned that it's still someone trying to use WP as a publishing platform. Can someone check it out and AfD as appropriate? 81.104.165.184 10:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that the Pheromones entry contained a spammy link to Pherlure, which seems to be a fraudulently marketed product.
I removed the link and followed it to a redirect page on the supposed active ingredient of Pherlure, Di-dehydroepiandrosterone.
I edited this page to include the very concrete evidence that there is no such compound and that the study which is cited by Pherlure as proof that it works is not only fake, but is mentioned on fake web sites which they apparently created -- the only content on the websites are descriptions of the fake study (as shown by Google: there are no other pages on these sites).
No sooner than I had added this info, the page was deleted entirely.
Whomever added it in the first place and deleted it is very likely a shill working for Pherlure and should be watched.
Also, this page should be added back in so that unsuspecting would-be customers can be informed about the fake study.
What do you all advise?
Thanks. -- Jahat 01:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
A while ago, the WikiProject Saints set up an infobox template. The last part of that template included a space for a sample prayer.
Recently, there has been some commentary on the talk page about the inclusion of prayers on the articles about the Saints. Two editors in particular, Attilios and Ian Spackman, have been editing the articles pretty heavily. I think they both have an agenda and are pursuing it despite the consensus of the Wikiproject.
It is my belief that prayers in a literary or historic context are NPOV. I can understand that some may consider the inclusion of a prayer to be hagiographic, but freedom of religion is not freedom from religion.
There is a 3RR about to happen on a number of these articles. I am trying to be philosophical about this, but don’t want to yield the point when what is happening goes against the consensus and borders on vandalism. One editor is an Italian atheist who uses very poor English, didn't understand what are NPOV was and left nasty notes in the edit summaries and in the articles themselves.
This on the heals of the edit war on John Bosco and homosexuality. How do we reign this in before it gets out control?
Thanks! -- evrik 14:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
How long are these prayers? If we're talking about one or two sentences, and they're mentioned in a historical context, then I have no problem with including them (and I'm agnostic). But if they're long, they should go to Wikisource and a link included in the article. User:Zoe| (talk) 22:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Offensiveness is not grounds for removing something from Wikipedia (although in more serious cases than this, where many people would be severely offended, it could be grounds for giving the user a choice in advance as to whether to view it; see, e.g., Goatse). Since it should be extremely clear that quoting the prayers does not imply a belief in their efficacy, there's no issue of POV. Therefore, the only question is whether they're useful or informative to our readers. Taking Saint Peter as an example, I think they don't really add much to the articles. Maybe Wikisource would be a good place for them, though, assuming the Catholic Church doesn't claim copyright.
I should note, however, that you would do well to assume good faith and not attack your fellow editors. Argumentum ad rem, please. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC) I notice that Mr Evrik has yet to make an apology for his racist attack and feel that he should be reminded that it is not too late. — Ian Spackman 17:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
When I looked into why the History of beaker (glassware) was so short, I found it was created by cut and paste by User:Snow1215 [7]. 24.18.215.132 21:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
If "legend of stafy" is entered into the search box, the article of the same name does NOT appear. Perhaps it's a glitch in the search software? Also, regarding the same article: there's four commonly used English spellings of "Stafy," and two different forms of the games' title; as such, there's technically eight different ways to search for the game. I propose that the following search terms all redirect to Legend of Stafy:
This is will make it much easier for people seeking information on this topic to find it. Can someone show me how to accomplish this? Many thanks in advance! -- Liquidcross 15:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello Im trying to make a category and subcategory for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia_Scholastic_Hockey_League I would appreciate some help Thanks. John R G 07:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I think I have it figured out but I would still like someone to check it over to make sure it is correct. Thanks John R G 07:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
How do I get my infoboxes in my user page to line up the way I want to? -- Micahbrwn 07:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I love the name 'encyclopedsit' for Login ID.
May I use it? 59.148.129.20 17:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I have tried to regiter the Login ID 'encyclopedist', but the page show out that Login error:Username entered already in use. Please choose a different name.
59.148.129.20 17:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I originally created this article, as you can see by looking at its history. A new article, which is a cut-and-paste of mine, was created at Canadair CL-215, and my article was changed to a redirect, but because it was a cut-and-paste, my history did not follow. Is there any way to rectify this? D e nni ☯ 01:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
The Template:Election box metadata used to work simply by posting {{Election box metadata}} on the relevant party's article talk page. I have tried with One London and it doesn't seem to be working at all. Is this a problem with my account or a technical issue? Cheers doktorb | words 17:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I did an audio reading for the Julie Brown article. I am just looking for someone's input as to what I should put for accent in the information, as I am American but don't feel I have any particular regional accent. Your input is appreciated. Please see Audio Info
God help me, I'm looking for a userbox. Specifically, a userbox that would help locate people who take photographs for Wikipedia. Not particularly "photography as a hobby" or "professional photographer", but simply "I take photos for Wikipedia - do you". I can't find any photo-related userboxes except "I took this featured photo". Stevage 15:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
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I created a little wiki page, and I've been using it for a couple of days now. Today, I edited the page for perhaps 15-25 times. And now I wasn't able to view the page any more, and got this error message:
"Reason: too many requests by this IP in a 24 hour period"
After that I turned on the proxy and that's how I'm able to view pages again. My question is, how many requests per IP can I make in a 24 hour period? I was quite surprised that my moderate use caused this. If it is restricted like that, at least there should be some active warning?
This is particularily disturbing because I loose my new edits if this error message appears (I have to start copy pasting everything I write for a backup.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.251.240.117 ( talk • contribs) 15:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, there is an obvious problem to which I see no obvious solution. On the Clive Barker page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Barker) there is a bibliography of his novels that have been converted into links to the page for each book. That's fine and dandy until one gets to the last item: "Galilee #2" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee#2_.28book.29) Somehow it has been linked to a copy of the main page for "Galilee" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee) the geographic location. Where it becomes confusing is that according to the history page for "Galilee #2", it has always contained content on the location, going back to 2001. In fact, both pages appear to share all history. But that is nuts, because the novel won't be released until 2007, and was not even announced in 2001. I suspect that since the novel is not yet released, the bibliography list item on "Clive Barker" page should not be linked at all. I don't know if there is a way to kill the link, since it may be automatic. Alternatively, I don't know if it is proper form to delete the linked page, even though it duplicates the legitmate Galilee page (or whether this would nuke the "real" Galilee page as well) Anyone run into this before, and have a solution?
-Samiam
Is there somewhere I can flag up an article like Mike Bickle, so that an experienced Wikipedian can clean it up? I found this page while searching for another Mike Bickle who is an esteemed geologist. Also, if an article were to be created for the geologist, are there rules which would decide which person the link "Mike Bickle" directs to? 82.36.110.118 17:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible an Admin blocks this user for several hours ? If you wonder why I ask just look at his contributions, it seems like he/she does not know how to use the preview button. There are lots of edits to single article within several minutes creating lots of restore points not really needed if the preview button had been used. I asked him on his discussion page to use the preview button but it does not look like he is reading it. -- Denniss 21:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
How exactly do you make them? 60.227.18.35 05:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I've done a fair bit of editing in the Clinical Surveillance article now, and currently have the article divided into two sections. I believe the first part of the article is fine, although it could be expanded, and reflects the established definition of the term. However, the second part of the article is really problematic, as I believe it may have been written by an account made primarily for distributing a certain type of information within Wikipedia. I think it's fine to reflect these alternate points of view, and I propose that it be done by creating an article called clinical sousveillance and making links from one to the other. But I don't think they should be in the article.
What I need help with is 1) what is the established way to fork an article and keep the edit history? 2) I believe that since these are two separate terms this is NOT POV forking, but I would like to make sure before I do a giant edit. Museumfreak 06:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Silver Sonic Shadow ( talk · contribs) is busily importing dozens of articles from the Star Wars wiki into Wikipedia. These include Sun djem (details of one style of light-saber combat), Form IV: Ataru (details of another style of light-saber combat), Form V: Shien / Djem So (details of yet another style of light-saber combat), Form VI: Niman (details of, guess what)), and Trispzest (details of aerial lightsaber combat). About forty such articles have been created in the last eight hours.
It looks like this user's intention is to import a sizable chunk of the Star Wars wiki into the main Wikipedia. Most of the articles wouldn't pass WP:FICT; they're about minor Star Wars subjects. Should something be done about this? -- John Nagle 04:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I recently put torrent shocking up for AfD. After doing quite a bit of research, and previously knowing about bittorrent, I believe it is without basis, and also doesn't come up on google. The result of the AfD was "merge with bittorrent". I do not think that any of the text on torrent shocking is worth saving, so what I want to do is just blank the page and redirect to bittorrent. However, is this against the decided outcome? Do I have to either get a "full delete", or somehow save the text? Mrjeff 12:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
As currently we have a discussion in the german wiki about how to deal with different standards regarding correct spelling (german, swiss, and austrian rules show some minor differences) I would like to know whether there ever has been a similar discussion regarding e.g. the use of american or british english? Nico b. 08:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone happen to know who I should talk to about rebuilding the uncategorized categories list? Is it something a non-admin can do? -- ProveIt (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a limit on the number of Userboxes you can have on your page? Thanks... Scalene 08:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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Would it be against fair use or copyright to include a zagat rating (not the decsription just the numbers) for articles about clubs or resteraunts and what not? -- larsinio (poke) (prod) 19:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I got this email from someone who I believe is User:ElizabethMckenzie / User talk:ElizabethMckenzie. This info is not on "my site", it's on Wikipedia. Basically, she wants these warnings (they were for self-promotion, vanity, and recreation of deleted content) removed. In question is User talk:67.86.180.171, which is the IP address of User:ElizabethMckenzie / User talk:ElizabethMckenzie. In addition, this affects User:Johnlekay.
email content removed 17:39, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Not sure how to proceed. WP:VAND says "users generally are permitted to remove and archive comments at their discretion, except in cases of warnings, which they are generally prohibited from removing". Nationalparks 22:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Searching for John LeKay in Google, he seems to be a minor artist into self-promotion, with Elizabeth McKenzie his PR person. He has a web site, a blog, and a magazine. He did have some work in a reviewed art show in New York in 1993-1994, but the reviews, with lines like "John LeKay's found object sculptures exhibit a failing common to the genre in that the objects that make up the work have their own social context that is difficult to transcend." [9] [10] don't indicate much notability. Just give McKenzie a reading list of Wikipedia policies if there's further complaint from that direction. -- John Nagle 21:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
My understanding is:
Prodego talk 02:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I am looking for information about a Polish town named Siemiatycze. There is a very small reference in the English version of Wikipedia, but quite a long one in the Polish version. I would like to get an English translation of the Polish article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bocamark ( talk • contribs) AmiDaniel ( talk) 23:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC).
I just created a page ' Blake Parlette '. The thing is, it's about a person named ' Blake Parlett ' with no E on the end.
Please help. thank you all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ColtsScore ( talk • contribs) 21:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC).
I'm working on a table in my sandbox, and I can't find the three-letter template for French Guiana. (For example, typing {{NGA}} gives the name Nigeria and its flag.) Can anyone help? Is there a list of these three-letter templates anywhere? Thanks, — BrianSmithson 14:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
According to Plaid Cymru the colour of that party has changed from green to yellow. I have changed the {{Election box metaddata}} template to reflect this, so all instances of Plaid in election results boxes has automatically changed to yellow.
It seems the metadata info for the Liberal Democrats is a very similar shade of yellow, which I understand should be altered to a golden colour. However their election box name is "Liberal Democrats (UK)" which re-directs to "Liberal Democrats", so I can't access the metadata (or I don't think I can) to change it.
How can the LibDem template be changed to alter the colour if the template article is a redirect?
doktorb | words 10:16, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Is there a template that says something like, "No other articles link to this one. Please add links accordingly to this article in similar ones, if possible."? I'm finding a lot of crappy articles that need wikifying are largely ignored because no one can find them.-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 02:35, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Not particularly. After people fix an article they often forget that they have to "advertise" its existence on other pages, or else it won't be any help to anyone. Perhaps I'll create a new template for it.-- The i kiro id ( talk)( Help Me Improve) 00:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
i am a new wikipedian an i want to know how to issue warnings to vandals.
thankyou Joshuarooney 14:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Half way down the Organometallic chemistry page, there's a link to Zeise's salt that works, but the one half way down eighteen electron rule doesn't. And this one doesn't either! Any ideas why not? Thanks.
Nope, that's not it. The Organometallic chemistry page doesn't have an underscore but works, whilst the eighteen electron rule page does but doesn't work!! -- Brichcja 22:15, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I've changed them all to a curved quote, just to make it work!-- Brichcja
There is an edit war in progress at Rotary_International over the addition of text that explains to the blind how to use links in the lists of members. You can see the text in this diff. The reason for its inclusion is stated to be that blind users are unable to know that the links in the lists are links and not plain text. An editor wrote that the French Wikipedia includes similar types of text. The debate can be read on the article's talk page. There was an RfC but I think that did not help much. Assistance anyone? Thanks. -- 127. *. *. 1 02:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
When comparing versions of a particular document it shows my user name as the editor of some vandalism.
It does not show up in my list of contributions and the 'Article History' shows that the contribution was made by an anonymous IP (131.137.245.200). It was quickly removed by someone else and a little investigation will show that I didn't add the comments.
But it still concerns me that if someone simply looks at the 'compare selected versions' window that it appears that I am the vandal.
Is this a known problem that someone is looking at? And can the current record be changed ?
forgot to sign previously Johnmarkh 17:40, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
final entry on http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Pentecostalism&oldid=52903809 Johnmarkh
Global brain (see the discussion immediately below this one) is an example of what I consider an "article unlikely to ever be cleaned up" just like Computer and video game clichés. These sorts of articles are perhaps never fully cleaned up, yet AfDs often fail for them. What can be done about such articles in general? -- unforgettableid | talk to me 13:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Global brain is a popular article, but is it not a fringe theory as per WP:FRINGE? Shouldn't someone AfD it? Also, someone on the talk page mentions "A lot of this article is directly taken from "The Global Brain FAQ" at http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAIFAQ.html" but I am not sure if that is true. Does Google even index that FAQ? Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 13:44, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
How would I have my old user page changed? I recently changed user names, and am now stepping away from Wikipedia per meta:Right to Vanish. Thanks. | Mr. Darcy talk 22:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I recently created an account with the Swedish Wikipedia: being equally fluent in English and Swedish, I thought that your members might want to see articles translated. Unfortunately, the English Wikipedia keeps telling me that my account (username: ISNorden) doesn't exist. Will I need to create a second account for use with the English pages? If any of you could help, I'd be very grateful.
I have just discovered that the pixel width of pictures on Wikipedia can be set to any reasonable value I like in WP Preferences. The default is 180px which is too small for my 1024 by 768 screen (an old CRT) so I have set it to 250px. My question is: in future should I cease to put a px value in the pic syntax when I place a pic in an article and let the readers Prefs do the work? (If they know nothing of Prefs then they will get the default of 180px which would, for me, be a rather small pic). In other words which syntax should I now use?
[[Image:minchinhampton.church.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The parish church, Minchinhampton]]
or
[[Image:minchinhampton.church.arp.jpg|thumb|right|The parish church, Minchinhampton]]
Thanks for any answers -
Adrian Pingstone
17:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
And very obviously so. But where is this stated? Looking at (for example) Category:Wikipedia style guidelines, I can't find it. I know it's somewhere, and probably right under my nose. Link, please! Thanks -- Hoary 06:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Some newbie ( User:Brendenhull) who is apparently unfamiliar with the policy on naming conventions and the common names guideline put United States up for a move vote again. If you care about enforcing Wikipedia policies and maintaining the encyclopedia's quality, then vote against at Wikipedia:Requested moves/United States.
Wikipedia policy is to use common names. In this case, "United States" is the common name of the United States of America. It is used as such in the U.S. Constitution, in thousands of federal and state laws, in millions of American newspaper and magazine articles, and in all major encyclopedias (including Britannica and Encarta).
I believe Brendenhull is apparently attempting to bypass existing policy in bad faith. If he has a good faith argument that the common names guideline should have an exception for official names for countries, he should have raised that issue on the appropriate talk page for Naming conventions rather than requesting a vote so quickly on United States (if he had checked the Talk:United States archive, he would have realized that the issue has been heavily debated at least twice in the past two years and consensus was to keep the existing title). If any admins are following this, I recommend a temporary block on Brendenhull. -- Coolcaesar 00:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
In the future, I would strongly suggest that when announcing a poll of interest on the village pump, you just post a link rather than a tirade. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 05:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, what started out as a simple disagreement I now beginning to spiral out of control. It started with the image Image:Rbreich.jpg. I posted the image, listed it as Public Domain, went and got additional permission from the artist because the electronic image was from his website. User:Jiang disgreed with me, but instead of instead of engaging in some sort of dialog, went and posted it as PUI, the discussion is here.
Not only as Jiang threatened to try and have all portraits of government officials removed because they are not in the public domain, but he is expanding the argument to other pages he seems to think are affected by this dispute.
What do I want
-- evrik 23:30, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
There is now a campaign to have all the PD portatis of public officials removed? Jiang tagged two more images for deletion.
Jiang, you're wrong on this issue. Rather than wrecking havoc, why don't you start a new topic at the village pump and get some clarity on the issue. -- evrik 18:16, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I spoke to Bill Alman, the White House curator, who said the following.
Generally, the portraits are property of the federal government and are in the public domain. In the case of the White House portraits, the photograph of the portrait may have copyright restrictions, but that it should be generally okay to use the images as long as the publisher of the electronic image is credited.
Shall we revive Wikipedia:What's in, what's out? It will never become policy, but it is a useful reference as to whether certain things, like, say, most radio stations should normally be AfDed or not. Cheers, -- unforgettableid | talk to me 19:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Happened to stumble upon Ruby Fradkin tonight, and did a basic revert after seeing the shape it was in. User User:Dmfrjf did most of the edits, which I wouldn't call purposeful vandlism; but it does make the page messy.
Placed the basic 'subst:test', and reverted the page again. Then a third time. Not sure what to do because of the 3RR, and it doesn t seem to be blatant vandlism. Landeyda 08:52, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
There are two different entries for the film "Hell Comes to Frogtown", I didnt want to blank one entry by making it a redirect so what is the proper way to handle this? The entires in question are Hell Comes to Frogtown and Hell Comes To Frogtown ...thanks in advance SkaTroma 00:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Ahha, many thanks! SkaTroma 03:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Is a picture in the commons shared in all wikis? I'm sorry, I'm very new to this thing. --JD
Sweet. Thanks. --JD
This is a revised entry of the original question I posted on Technical so I can make it clearer and maybe find an answer.
I want to create a template which is used to get either a specific entry or all of them depending on the parameter.
Let's say I have a list like this
And I want to put it into a template, let's call it FUZZ so that if I simply use a macro call of {{FUZZ}} I get
But if I use {{FUZZ|01}} I get
But if I use {{FUZZ|02}} I get
I know in some way this requires {{#if:}} or some macro, but I'm not sure how.
Is there a way I can do this? Second, is there a way I can have the macro generate text only if the parameter is null? So that I could put a header if the parameter is null but no header if the value of {{{1}}} is not null.
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 = *Item 01 - May | 02 = *Item 02 - Critical | 03 = *Item 03 - Exact | #default = *Item 01 - May *Item 02 - Critical *Item 03 - Exact }}
{{#if: {{{1|}}}|do this if it is set|do this if it is unset (null)}}
, is that what you're looking for? Hope that helps!
Jude (
talk)
02:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC){{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01,#default = *Item 01 - May | 02,#default = *Item 02 - Critical | 03,#default = *Item 03 - Exact }}
or
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 | #default = *Item 01 - May | 02 | #default = *Item 02 - Critical | 03 | #default = *Item 03 - Exact }}
I have tried this in the sandbox and a couple of X templates and it does not do what I want, I either only get one of them for the default or nothing at all.
Doing it the way I stated I can get both modes with only one entry for each item, as opposed to having to do them twice. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 23:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
{{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}1 = 1 or {{{1|}}}1 = 11 | *Item01 - May }} {{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}2 = 2 or {{{1|}}}2 = 22 | *Item02 - Critical }} {{#ifexpr: {{{1|}}}3 = 3 or {{{1|}}}3 = 33 | *Item03 - Exact }}
I am working (in Commons) on a system for classifying images according to content. You can find the system at [ Image Classification System] . It is borrowed from the public domain Design Search Code Manual developed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The system provides a 2 digit classification, a two digit division, and a 2 digit section, which together provide an exact class for an image or image fragment. For example, if you have a 5-pointed star, it is classified as Classification 01 (celestial bodies, natural phenomena and geographical maps), division 01 (stars), and section 03 (five-pointed stars), so an image which was, or a significant part of the image included a five-pointed star, would be classified as 01.01.03.
I have several macros defined to reference codes.
I have a macro called ICS which is used in the form {{ICS|01|01|03}} to allow images to be marked with their classification. (This is in addition to normal categories people might put images into.) Now, I can just drill-down through each classification, division and section to get the identifier. But I would like to create, for the description pages, the same list of items. So that, on the description page for stars, I have
{{ICS DIV|01}}
Which could expand to
Divisions in Classification 01 Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps * 01.01 Stars, comets * 01.03 Constellations, starry sky * 01.05 Sun * 01.07 Globes * 01.09 Planets, asteroids, meteors, the solar system and atomic or molecular models * 01.11 Moons * 01.15 Natural phenomena * 01.17 Maps or outlines of continents, countries, and other geographical areas
Now, what I would like to do is use the same macro so if I do
{{ICS DIV|01|01}}
I can get something like the following:
Divisions in Classification 01 Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps 01.01 Stars, comets Division 01.01 Stars, comets :01.01.01 Stars with three points :01.01.02 Stars with four points :01.01.03 Stars with five points :01.01.04 Stars with six points :01.01.05 Stars with seven or more points :01.01.06 Stars with rays or radiating lines :01.01.07 Stars with tails or comets :01.01.08 Stars representing a human face or head of an animal :01.01.09 Two stars :01.01.10 Three or more stars :01.01.11 Incomplete stars
And then, if I do
{{ICS DIV|01|01|03}}
I get, simply
I suppose, what I can do, is use the label "all" instead of blank for entries to produce all items so that (using a shortened form of the list for brevity):
{{#switch: {{{1|}}} | 01 = Image classification 01 — Celestial bodies, natural phenomena, geographical maps {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 01.01 Stars, comets {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.01.01 Stars with three points}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.01.02 Stars with four points}}}} {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 03 or {{{1|}}} = all |* 01.03 Constellations, starry sky {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.03.01 ...etc...}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :01.03.02 ...}}}} | 02 = Image classification 02 — ... {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 02.01 ... {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 01 or {{{3|}}} = all | :02.01.01 ...}} {{#ifexpr: {{{3|}}} = 02 or {{{3|}}} = all | :02.01.02 }}}} {{#ifexpr: {{{2|}}} = 01 or {{{2|}}} = all |* 02.02 ...}}}} | 03 = Image classification 03 — ... ... etc ... }}
So, by this, one macro has all the entries and thus a single call returns the exact items I want (or someone else using this system would want) without the problem of copying from multiple places and potentially getting them incorrect, or having to create dozens of macros for each classification (which is, at the moment, what I'm faced with now.) I will try this and see if I can get it from that. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 13:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Request expert review of Participatory Epistemology, which seems, from a cursory Google search, to involve providing a philosophical basis for astrology. I encountered this as a new article, and I'm not sure whether it is nonsense, needs neutral point of view work, or actually makes sense. This is either advanced post-Derrida work, or totally bogus. I can't tell. -- John Nagle 04:55, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Insertion sort implementations went through one AfD, and the result was "transwiki and delete." Well, I've done the transwikification, and now it needs to be deleted. The afd template links to the old afd discussion, though. How does one re-list an afd? ~ Booya Bazooka 04:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
One of the things I do every now and again, is to clear up (delete) the crap that links to unencyclopedic pieces of rubbish like YTMND from legitimate articles. And that's how I came across the Drawball. It is literally one of the worst pieces of shit articles on Wikipedia right now. Every day, it gets dozens of edits, almost all from anons, and they're all rubbish.
The drawball is a large collaborative graffiti board, anyone can put stuff on apparently. Which incidentally leads to every online group out there (SA, GenMay, YTMND etc etc) trying to cover the thing with their logo. It also leads them onto Wikipedia to show it off, and the majority of the article is comprised of tiny pieces of unencyclopedic subtrivia detailing every online foray onto the ball. Here is an example:
This reminds me of the rubbish that was in List of YTMND fads, which in my eyes was rightly deleted. They're adding new images to the page every day or so, and uploading a new fair use picture of the drawball every few days. I think those sections should be deleted, but I'm asking here, because due to the massive amount of anons on that article, I doubt any registered user or admin who's seen the article could do enough on their own. Let's do something about this. - Hahnch e n 15:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Article: Citizens Area Transit: Routes. Question: Delete? Or transwiki to Wikibooks? Although I wonder: does Wikibooks want cruft like transit routes? But then again, Wikibooks is not paper. Cheers, -- unforg e ttabl e id | talk to m e 01:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
It appears the first article has been nominated for deletion. The quite sensible view devloping there seems to be that the Bus Company's own website is the best place to put that information (and likely to be the most up to date). I don't know about the other articles, maybe wait for the outcome of this AfD and Prod them? Or mass nominate them for AfD? Anyway, if they are anything like the first I would support deleting/redirecting them to an article about the company (with a link to its website which will have an up to date time table!) Captainj 10:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking to split the Hip fracture article in half, but I don't know how to preserve the edit history for the article created by the split. Is it possible for a sysop to make a copy of the whole edit history, so that the newly-created split article will have a copy too? ~ Booyabazooka 00:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually I don't think that would work. The history moves with the page, so there would be no way to duplicate it unless a developer does it. Prodego talk 01:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Recently some facts were added to the article River Teme quoting a BBC source. As the source seemed to contradict the current sources and there was an email address, I sent an email asking for clarification. Much to credit of the BBC they responded within hours. I have posted their response to the talk page Talk:River Teme#BBC source. But I have never had an email response on a question of clarification, so I was wondering how such things are usually integrated into an article. If you have any suggestions or can point me to the guideline, then please tell me in the section Talk:River Teme#BBC source. -- Philip Baird Shearer 13:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
hello, I'm a French contributor registered on French wiki as fr:Utilisateur:120 and I would like to use "120" as username to register on English wiki. I can't create my account even if it seems there is no User:120 already registered. What should I do ? (apart from choosing another nick...). Thanks, (you can either answer here or on French wiki)
I added ((citations missing)) to article Zam because, whilst there are many wikipedia links in the article, there are no external links validating all the "facts" in the article. The original author then removed the template stating that the references were the wikipedia see alsos.
How should things like this be handled? Is a wikipedia link a valid reference? I don't want to start anything, but I'm not convinced, especially since google on Zam appears to bring up nothing relevant.
This question is more about the principles involved here rather than the specific article mentioned - though that is a good example. -- SGBailey 10:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
How do I get popups — Preceding unsigned comment added by NikkiWolfe ( talk • contribs)
A paragraph from the article Anti-French sentiment in the United States has been deleted by User:Tocquevil. The paragraph is about "popular anti-French allegations" and lists several news events relating to France which Americans have objected to.
He just deleted it with no explanation and no comment in the talk page. He doesn't seem to have a user page either; I'm not sure if he even exists, since user pages are normally deleted when a user leaves. I believe this deletion is questionable, but if I keep restoring it it violates the 3RR. Exactly how can I handle putting the paragraph back? Ken Arromdee 17:21, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Anybody who can help me with making some great articles please zip me a note at my user page my login name is Annahly. or type Annahly in search you should be able to post me a note.
THNXZ Evry1! Lter! ;)
Annahly
I have set my prefs to enable popups, and they work fine on my PC at work. At home on my Mac, though, it's another story - the popups appear, but without the actions. All I get is the word "actions", and nothing happens when I click on it. Am I missing something? D e nni ☯ 00:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)