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I am unaware of the exact nature of what music files are permitted to be uploaded and which ones aren't. I want to upload the Law and Order orchestral sting, as the current host for the sound file that I'm trying to upload is a Tripod site, which is unnecessarily irritating. Am I allowed to upload this file, or do I need to find some alternate host for it? Thanks in advance, Mo0[ talk] 02:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
The box is open. — Xiong 熊 talk * 01:26, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
What do I do with this? — Xiong 熊 talk * 16:57, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
Is it possible to view a previous version of Wikipedia, similar to the Wayback Machine? www.archive.org/ This service can narrow it down to a few days, but I wanted to see what the Main Page looked like on a particular date. Thanks, Percolator 18:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I find many little errors like links to pages that actually concern something completely unrelated. I don't know where I should report them, and I don't feel confident enough to fix them myself. One example: the link See also: Maersk Sealand on the page Maersk sends you back to the same page. Apparently, there's no separate article for Maersk Sealand (yet?) but why create a link without an article?
I resisted the temptation for a mass-VfD, but seriously: Is Category:Airline destinations and the 41 articles in this category in any way encyclopedic? -- Pjacobi 14:08, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
perhaps, (i have no sources for this), Wikipedia is an abbriviation for (Wickid Encyclopedia? please tell me if u know. Supersaiyanplough| (talk) 08:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Check out this article, especifically the image illustrating it. Is that considered fair play? Looks unnecessary to me...but I'm in doubt, since I'm aware that images of nudity are acceptable if justified by the content and the need to illustrate it. Doesn't seem to be the case here though. Regards, Redux 03:09, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Man, I hope Jimbo doesn't find out that images like this are on his servers...oh wait, never mind. -- Arcadian 01:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a method to automatically send an email to me when articles on my watchlist has changed. I have created a number of articles and I would like to receive notification when they are modified.
User: HJKeats
Can editing Wikipedia count as community service hours? as in work for a not-for-profit for college applications? I'm wondering how it all works, this tricky community service thing... -- Mazin07 18:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
lots of issues | leave me a message 07:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
ik zou iedereen graag willen uitnodigen te overwegen of zij een rol willen en/of kunnen spelen in de oprichting van een nederlandse wikimedia-organisatie. een eerste ontmoeting wordt momenteel georganiseerd, zie daarvoor hier, op de nl.wikimedia.org wiki. er zijn nog vele stappen te nemen, en meer wikianen nodig, om e.e.a. op verantwoorde wijze verder te ontwikkelen. oscar 12:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to invite everyone to consider if they want and/or are able to play a role in the establishment of a Dutch wikimedia organisation. A first meeting is presently being organised, see for that here, on the nl.wikimedia.org wiki. There are still a lot of steps to take, and more wikians necessary, to develop things in a responsible manner further.
Bovlb 13:23, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC) (via Babelfish), Eugene van der Pijll 13:31, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) (cleanup)
I love Wikipedia! I live in Kelowna (BC), and discovered the entry in Wikipedia, and I am quite happy with it. It has an incomplete link for the 2003 fire, though. I have the information, but not the discernment on what to post. Can I leave the info here, and hope that someone who knows what information is useful will take it over? ^_^
Here is what I have:
http://www.dotcommediainc.com/slideshow/mixed/index.php3
http://castanet.firewatch.net/
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/protect/reports/2003Review/Okanagan_Fire_Review_K50628.pdf
http://www.highwaylodge.com/fire.htm
so - a lot of links and info. Hoping someone will take it on. Thanks!
I wanted to thank you guys for creating such a versatile tool. I myself have just updated an article on Albert von Le Coq, who I wrote my term paper on earlier this year. I can't describe the pride or the feeling of worth I get out of helping spread knowledge. Thank you for this opportunity to both learn and teach.
May you never thirst, heh.
Hi,
My name is Noor Dahlvi Khan and I am new here! Is there also a place where members introduce themselves to each other?
Well, the question sums it up. I have no idea what it means.
I appear to be aware that there must be a user whose IP address changes among various IP's that start with 131.96 and I want to make sure I know exactly who this is. He appears to sign Wikipedia as Robert rather than ~~~~ . Georgia guy 21:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The following may be of interest to your James Joyce readers, on this this historic day 16th June 2004
2004 - A Superstore Odyssey By Brian Moore, CEO, EMR-NAMNEWS, bmoore@namnews.com
How do I use the contributions tag?
Admiral Roo Talk to me My Contributions Admiral Roo 13:46, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
I talked to my psychologist Monday and told him that perhaps I would do better getting in the Engineering field. He told me I might do better with a degree in Veterinary Technology. He knows I am better at science ( Chemistry, Biology, and Medicine) then I am at Math, and getting a Bachelor's degree in engineering is more relient on higher math then veterinary technology. What do you think? And what are the advantages/disadvantages in being in these fields and getting an education in them (through comparing the two for the advantages/disadvantages)?
The engineering I want to take in school is Electrical/Electronic and Mechanical engineering.
Thank you.
-- Admiral Roo 11:37, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to let everyone here know about a new Wikipedia group at StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is an increasingly well-known social networking site that its members mainly use to browse, review and share websites in a very innovative mannner (you literally stumble onto sites you might not have ever found otherwise).
Another long-standing group is the Wikipedia tribe at Tribe.net, a somewhat more standard social networking site.
I wasn't sure if anyone here was knowledgeable about the goings-on with regards to the Wikipedia outside of the Wikipedia, so hopefully the above two links will be helpful. And I'm sure there are other groups elsewhere that others might want to bring up.
Disclaimer: I am merely a member of the above two services I mention.
— Stevie is the man! Talk | Work</span> 22:54, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
I just recently added (Answers.Com) on to my website that is a KISS FAN SITE re: http://cosmicgarden.tripod.com. My question is when I looked up the rock group KISS or Gene Simmons, I was wondering how can I have my link from my website posted on them pages? Thanks for your assistance...
Mary Esther
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As written in 123 Football copyright: "The photos and information contained on this Site are submitted by our visitors and/or believed to be public domain". Does all the photos in 123 Football are good for use in wikipedia? Roeeyaron 3 July 2005 12:41 (UTC)
Isn't there a WP project that sorts out wildlife articles and conforms them to one style? Jaberwocky6669 July 3, 2005 06:45 (UTC)
Is there anyone who is familar with the Seychelles? The Farquhar article has a list of islands added recently, including Ile Gumball, Partie Island, and Polyfoam Island. Can someone confirm that these actually exist? Joyous (talk) July 3, 2005 01:23 (UTC)
Is there any meaningul distinction between Category:Culture, Category:Personal life and Category:Society? Maurreen 2 July 2005 20:55 (UTC)
This topic has been moved to the discussion page specific to the race and intelligence article
Is anyone aware that the term 'Village Pump' has some negative connotation? They are both somewhat archaic, but here goes: in medicine the term has been used to refer to a common source of disease, diseases have been traced to a central well or pump in rural epidemics, fairly frequently, so 'the village pump' has been used to refer to any common source of infection. Also, it is an American idiom for the loose woman in the community who will lay with anyone. ( a related meaning if you look at it right ) Sorry I can't cite sources off the top of my head, but I'm not writing an article about it. As I said, both are somewhat archaic and out of general use, but I just thought other Wikipedians might be interested. (PS I'm not advocating changing anything, just sharing) Pedant 2005 July 2 05:06 (UTC)
Could anybody that knows copyright law answer this question? The user who uploaded this image claims this under GFDL. Unfortunately, it is basically a photo of a copyrighted sign - the printed menu of the In-N-Out burger chain. So would it actually fall under fair use instead? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 1 July 2005 23:04 (UTC)
I received an email today from wiki@wikimedia.org with the following message:
I made no such request and am not associated with that IP address. When I tested the "new" password both it and my password worked. When I responded to the email, it was rejected by MAILER-DAEMON@mail.wikimedia.org. Any idea what this is about? - Marshman 1 July 2005 19:39 (UTC)
WHat's the difference between knowledge, wisdom, and information? Of these three, which one does an encyclopedia provide? That encyclopedia may be paper or digital. I bet you thought this was gonna be about the diff function huh? Jaberwocky6669 July 1, 2005 13:30 (UTC)
I've been running into more and more pages that render poorly, or are just outright broken. Please test any fancy formatting you use by viewing it at a large font size before you save your changes. Test your pages with a font size of 24pt at minimum. If you test at multiple sizes, all the better.
I've created a mock-up of things I, and others using large fonts, typically see at User:Mark/temp (Mark has given me permission to use his page temporarily). Just because a page looks fine at 12pt, doesn't mean it's going to look the same at 24pt.
Darrien July 1, 2005 12:31 (UTC)
Is it me or has Wikipedia just stopped churning? Has everyone dedicated solely to creating new articles? What happened?!?!?!?!?! Jaberwocky6669 July 1, 2005 11:21 (UTC) I know what it is! Everyone is too involved playing wikigames and watching their watchlists! Give me my fix--EDIT A PAGE!
A Friday column in a Virginian newspaper requested three professors review sample content from Wikipedia. The only unsatisfied professor was a biologist who reported the pupa entry was filled with errors. The professor may have himself corrected many problems yesterday, but can someone who has a good grasp of the sujbect look it over?
lots of issues | leave me a message 30 June 2005 14:20 (UTC)
lots of issues | leave me a message 30 June 2005 17:15 (UTC)
Here it is: [2]
The columnist is still skeptical, but a fair story. Casual users might think Wikipedia is worthy enough to help with the crossword puzzle.
lots of issues | leave me a message 1 July 2005 12:57 (UTC)
(from meta:Elections for the Board...)
Is it just me, or are most of the good contributors really leaving? And they don't seem to have any intention of coming back. JM Bell ° 20:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi. In many tv-related articles we have been listing the website TV Tome as a reference for readers. As of this week, it appears that TV Tome no longer exists. Apparently, it's been incorporated by another website, TV.com. This was not a simple layout change, only the general scope is similar to the original TV Tome. I've checked some articles that carried links to the website, and it seems that many different users have already started to change the links to reflect the new website. The potential problem is that this effort is probably not coordinated, so many articles may be left with the old link. Maybe we could set up a bot to perform the change in all articles, so none would be left behind. I have no idea whatsoever of how to set up something like this, so maybe someone more knowledgeable could do this. But even before that, I was wondering if this new website is sufficiently accountable to deserve as wide a reference as TV Tome did. This new thing seems much more unstable, as it now allows for any registered person to edit the pages on the tv shows (a wiki-like system, but I doubt they have as wide and efficient peer review as we have here). I simply cannot account for its credibility. Regards, Redux 03:51, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On the english WP I have way more than 400 edits does this still mean that I am excluded from voting??? Jaberwocky6669 June 30, 2005 07:06 (UTC)
For the past month or so, I have been using a "wikimood" to express my current emotional state on Wikipedia. If you recall, a "wikimood" is a position on a 21-point signed integer scale that expresses how you think your current behaviour on Wikipedia can be described. Well now, I have changed the wikimood meter into graphical form. You may feel free to use these on your User or User Talk pages.
To refresh your memory, here's the wikimood scale again:
-10: Explosive, -9: Violent, -8: Enraged, -7: Hostile, -6: Ornery, -5: Frustrated, -4: Distressed, -3: Upset, -2: Depressed, -1: Withdrawn, 0: Neutral, +1: Calm, +2: Content, +3: Happy, +4: Cheerful, +5: Enthusiastic, +6: Zealous, +7: Mental, +8: Insane, +9: Crazy, +10: Chaotic
-- Denelson83 30 June 2005 03:15 (UTC)
I am done with this code. Starts to moonwalk while singing MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.
Could someone edit this code so I can make a templet (sp?) in Wikibooks? I need everything that says Merit Badge that is outside of the [[]] code. If you can quickly program a bot to do this, that would be great, because it would take an awfull lot of time to edit the code by hand. Here it is:
{| style="margin:0 auto" align=center id=toc |align=center| '''[[BSA Merit Badges|Earning merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America]]''' |- |align=center| [[Scouting:BSA - American Business|American Business]]| [[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - American Heritage Merit Badge|American Heritage]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - American Labor Merit Badge|American Labor]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Animal Science Merit Badge|Animal Science]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Archaeology Merit Badge|Archaeology]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Archery Merit Badge|Archery]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Architecture Merit Badge|Architecture]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Art Merit Badge|Art]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Astronomy Merit Badge|Astronomy]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Athletics Merit Badge|Athletics]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Atomic Energy Merit Badge|Atomic Energy]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Auto Mechanics Merit Badge|Auto Mechanics]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Aviation Merit Badge|Aviation]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Backpacking Merit Badge|Backpacking]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Basketry Merit Badge|Basketry]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Bird Study Merit Badge|Bird Study]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Bugling Merit Badge|Bugling]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Camping Merit Badge|Camping]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Canoeing Merit Badge|Canoeing]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Chemistry Merit Badge|Chemistry]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Cinematography Merit Badge|Cinematography]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge|Citizenship in the Community]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| Merit Badge|}
Thank you. -- Admiral Roo June 29, 2005 12:05 (UTC)
I assume that this is what you ask for? I used wordpad for this and it took no time at all. You wanted this: [[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] Merit Badge| to become this :[[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] | ? I hope I didn't make any mistakes. Jaberwocky6669 June 29, 2005 16:16 (UTC)
I had Wordpad find every instance of merit badge. It then gave me a Find Next window and then I left clicked on the Fnd Next button and then I clicked the Wordpad background and hit Backspace because wordpad instantly highlights every instance of the word it finds. I kept in mind to see if I was about to delete the correct instance of Merit badge (and not every instance) ;) lol I'm not exactly good at using words to explain myself. Maybe thats why I dont contribute many articles. lol Jaberwocky6669 June 29, 2005 16:30 (UTC)
Competition is needed at User:Tparker393/Team Game 1. Thanks, Nathan256 29 June 2005 18:18 (UTC)
I want to place the logo of Paragon Vision Sciences on Wikipedia but i don't know what html to type to get the picture.How can i put the logo? 203.124.2.14 29 June 2005 06:45 (UTC)
I've noticed a disturbing amount of Wikipedia mirrors when I'm searching Google recently, even sometimes mistakenly clicking on the mirrors. And it seems to me that many of those that copy WP content do so without crediting Wikipedia, which is a big violation of Wikipedia's copyright. To test this theory, I did a Google search of the first sentence of Parthenon, a featured article. Among the results, there is fact-archive.com's copy, which claims "Copyright 2005 Fact Archive.com" at the bottom; physicsdaily.com's which claims "Copyright 2005 PhysicsDaily.com"; mathdaily.com's, which claims "Copyright 2005 MathDaily.com"; definitioncenter.com's, whic claims "Copyright © 2005 DefinitionCenter"; essaycrawler.com's which claims "© 2000-2004 essaycrawler.com"; wikimirror.com's, which has no copyright info; and definition-info.com's which has no copyright info. I'm sure there are more out there. What is going on here? -- Dmcdevit 28 June 2005 22:59 (UTC)
Wikibooks is severly screwed up. It takes multiple times to hit the save page button for it to finnally submit, and my contributions page is not working in their. I think it needs the admins attention. -- Admiral Roo June 28, 2005 14:20 (UTC)
Oh brave new world that has such entities in it.
Now we have wikimedia 1.5 running English wikipedia can we say goodbye to character entities? And can existing character entities be converted to real unicode characters. Is this a job for a bot? Zeimusu | (Talk page) 28 June 2005 13:07 (UTC)
Okay, who else things that the new style for broken links is ugly? Get rid of the question mark, and bring back redlinks! (At least give us the option...) AиDя01D TALK EMAIL June 28, 2005 12:07 (UTC)
I have a new project that I am doing. I am creating the history of the Boy Scout Handbook and I need serious help. If anyone can contribute, then thank you. -- Admiral Roo June 28, 2005 11:28 (UTC)
Anyone know why - since yesterday's change to 1.5 - my watchlist now contains "209.5 pages"? Grutness... wha? 28 June 2005 04:59 (UTC)
Will the two special pagws be back on the toolbar, or are we going to have to go to the Special pages section each time? -- Ixfd64 2005 June 28 03:59 (UTC)
Just found this page and im unsure of where to post it so that it can get appropiate attention. Fantacular I dont know if it should be deleted or if it happens to be a notable subject then should it be expanded? As it stands it is just an advertisement.
Just thought I'd make it "public" here. I've just opened the Brazil Portal. The layout was inspired in the already-existing Australia portal. Zscout370 created the color scheme I followed and the entire first box. Not to blow my own horn, but I believe it's looking quite good! Regards, Redux 23:55, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the known mirror of Wikipedia, Indopedia.org states that "Indopedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." [3]? I certainly can't find any evidence to support that. -- Dmcdevit 23:33, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A mirror, all instances of Wikipedia auto changed to Indopedia.
lots of issues | leave me a message 29 June 2005 06:41 (UTC)
Hi...we're starting a mini-collaboration over at the FOX News article. We need some people to come over and help, from both sides (pro- and anti-FOX). Please post on the Talk page — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 15:03, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi all,
I'm a relatively new but already addicted wiki-bod. I've just got done re-writing the beetle page, which was a bit sad considering the number of species. Would be great if someone could cast a (nice) critical eye over it.
There is a list connected to that page of families within the order of beetles, and few of them are populated! - I'd really like to start banging through them but it would take some time, any one else out there a bit of a beetle nut who'd like to help me out, trade ideas, and maybe act as a wiki-style mentor??
Anyone out there with pictures of beetles, also somewhat lacking?
Thanks
John
-- John-Nash 16:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You might be able to get some people interested at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. Grutness... wha? 00:37, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There has been an anon editing that page and a large amount of wrinkles/reverts appearing. There has been a proposal on the Talk page to move back to the 24 Jun 13:23 UTC edit and protect the page until this can be sorted out. I'd like to do it, but would like to consult with some other admins before acting single-handedly. If you can, please comment on the Talk Page of said article. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 04:05, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I ask all of you to pay attention to the VfD of this page and its two VfD nominations: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chung Tat-chi, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chung Tat-chi (2nd nomination). The discussion result is clear: a majority think this person is too insignificant to be included in wikipedia and this page should be deleted. However, an admin has exercised partiality in this VfD, ignoring the content of discussion and keeping the page with reasons of no consensus and invalid. I strongly question his judgement. (It is not written in the official pollcy about any time period between the end of first VfD and the start of second VfD. Please point out if I'm wrong.) This is unfair and I ask all of you to comment on the deletion of this page. -- 218.103.251.125 02:51, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your goal of eliminating that vanity article, however, the admin properly followed policy. Wikipedia VFD outcomes are determined by consensus. 5 keep to 3 valid deletes = no change to the status quo. Please wait a little longer before resubmitting. If you drop me a message then I'll vote to delete.
lots of issues | leave me a message 03:18, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Because Anthere told me to:
Freenode hosts the IRC channels for all Wikimedia projects. They're an invaluable resource. Help if you can. -- Slowking Man 21:56, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
Listing - relocation to Japan required
lots of issues | leave me a message 03:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I mention the issue to the juriwiki list. Anthere 05:37, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I am seeking to enter in contact with editors on the english wikipedia, living in African countries. This is at the same time for Wikimania and to prepare a report on African participation to Wikipedia. If you fit the profile, or know someone who fits the profile, please contact me on my user talk page or by email at anthere9ATyahoo.com
Thanks.
11:13, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone have Visual Music, a free program that helps people like me create MIDI music? If you do, can you pleas put together a better help file, for Shitil is obviously not a good english speaker, and I don't understand his instructions. I think he came from the middle east, and I seriously need help with the programming aspect of Visual Music. Thanks. Admiral Roo ( Talk to me)( My Contributions) 20:03, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
I have made several lyrics now, but this is what many consider my best. To see them, go here. -- Admiral Roo 19:37, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
I'm thinking of putting something into Wikipedia:Your first article to suggest that Wikipedia articles should be distillations involving a certain amount of real work. Unless you're a bona fide subject matter expert they should not be just written off the top of the head. Facts should get at least a cursory check, and so forth.
When I was in college, it was helpful to me that my school had a very explicit statement that it was expected that students would spend two to three hours in preparation for each hour spent in lecture. Thus a nominal "fifteen-hour" load represented a 45 to 60-hour work week. I was very surprised when I was a TA at a big state university to find that nobody had ever told the students there anything similar and that many students did NOT realize what was expected of college-level study.
So... just as the roughest guess.... How long does it take YOU to write a typical paragraph? And how many times during the writing of a paragraph do you stop to check a fact, even if very casually?
I'd say it takes ME ten minutes to an hour, and I stop to check facts one to five times. (Let the flames from those who work harder begin!) Dpbsmith (talk) 10:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Here is a piece of string; please estimate the length. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:23, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Forgive me if this is covered somewhere or this isn't the proper forum but I'm squirming and yelping from intense itching and almost body wide welts from bites. I live in Florida (am hoping to move to a drier climate, at least less mosquitoe infested soon) and this season is particularly bad. I've tried ice, cold water, alcohol (applied to the skin) benadryl spray and am still covered in welts and going nuts. Any help would be appreciated. I'm at JSOkazaki@hotmaill.com or call 305-793-8527 (I'll call you back and reimburse any long distance charges).
Thanks! Suffering in Miami, Jean
Hi, Im new to Wiki and I have just finished re-writing Saint John, United States Virgin Islands, it used to be a stub. It is my first real article and I was wondering if I could get some feedback and suggestions for the future. Thanks
Thanks-yeah I wasnt quite sure about formatting but now I know Gpyoung 19:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
WERE BACK ONLINE HOOORAY!!-- Jondel 28 June 2005 04:00 (UTC)
Read here Apparently a Belfast radio program devoted a segment to Ballymena article because of 5 highly sarcastic lines in the introduction. The B.Telegraph follows up with an entire article. Slow newsday. This article must be responded to and our article should be scrutinized. Please join me. lots of issues | leave me a message 06:28, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
I occasionally see the {{cleanup}} posted on articles that look perfectly all right to me. Checking the links given within the notice does not help. Requests to the person who has posted the cleanup request occasionally result in sarcastic and unhelpful replies. It is easy for the person who posts the notice to vent his/her irritation with something that seems less than ideal, but I have yet to see a case where I have been able to figure out what the gripe is, much less what needs to be done to correct the problem. A brief indication, perhaps involving one's own boilerplate, on the discussion page of the article would IMHO be much more useful and less likely to provoke frustration. P0M 14:57, 23 July 2005 (UTC) P.S. The specific notice was added by 24.29.141.167 who has vandalized the user page of another contributor as well as making a few fairly reasonable looking changes. P0M 15:19, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
Any suggestions of what to do with Concert-master? As it stands, it's just a dicdef, and has been that way for almost a year. Being listed as a stub doesn't seem to have attracted anybody to fix it up. On the other hand, while the article clearly fits into VfD territory, the topic seems like it could certainly have a good article written about it by somebody who knows the field (which I do not). RoySmith 13:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
I was recently looking at "My Contributions" and noticed that next to some of my entries, it's listed as (top). What does this signify? Fieari 23:36, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
Which program can i download to play Ogg Vorbis files?Which program can let me record Ogg Vorbis files?How can I post them? Tdxiang 07:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
2005 is 60 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
I felt it would be a good use of WNN (and Wiki ideas in general) if someone was able to produce a NPOV documentaty concerning the events.
A rough proposal is at: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WNN:Hiroshima_60_Programme_Idea
If this is best directed at a different forum please redirect me in the appropriate direction.
I love this site. I wish I could get every christian I know to read it. Christians do not realize just how much has gone into the making of the Christian religion or the putting together of the bible. They seem to think that the bible and the church just popped out of thin air as soon as Jesus went to be with the father. Thank you so much for being here and for allowing those of us who cannot afford to pay for such information, to utilize this site all the same. I am not able at this present moment to contribute, but be rest assured that in the future, this will be the first place I send a donation, to express my extreme gratitude.
I got this message at my private e-mail address today.
"Someone (probably you, from IP address XXXXXXXXX) requested that we send you a new Wikipedia login password. The password for user "Richman" is now "XXXXXXXXX". You should log in and change your password now."
I had not requested a password change at all. When I went to Wikipedia my old password worked fine. What is going on? Is this some sort of a phishing or scam?
David Richman
I don't know what is going on. The IP number is wrong for me and the return address for the e-mail was wiki@wikimedia.org. Of course that could be a cover and if I had answered the e-mail they might have gotten some information. If I did change my password I'm not sure how anybody could steal my account. As a matter of fact, since my old password worked I don't know how this would operate. Is Wikipedia so insecure that someone could know when you changed a password and what it was? How can I contact anybody at Wikipedia (I could not find a way) to find out if my account has been stolen?
Well, I hope so. I did not try the password they sent because I was afraid that it might work, but my old password did work. Is it possible that they have an alternate password into my account? My guess is that the phishers (assuming that is what they were) assumed that I would think it was a real message from Wikipedia- answer it and somehow give away my password. They did send it to my correct e-mail address. How did that happen?
May I also ask why you are "Master Thief"??
Yes, I thought about that later. However that password does not work anyway (I did change it before I posted to here- the only way the first password could have worked, I think, was if there could have been two passwords at the same time). At the time I did not mention that I had altered my password because I did not understand what had happened. I'm still not sure as I don't know who would have requested a new password in my name!
I have hopes that all is well. I should have blanked it out myself, but I did not think that it was actually from you. I still do not know how I got the message as I have not been on Wikipedia for a while to actually work on anything.
I might add that I DID NOT try the password that was sent to me bewfore I changed it, only my old one.
Sorry about not signing and dating- just noticed the tool bar mark.
I guess that is the end of it- sorry for being such a computer illiterate! After several bad experiences I tend to be a bit careful (although perhaps not careful enough.)
-- Richman 13:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at Flaccus (composer). The only Google refs I can find for this guy are at Wikipedia and mirror sites. I admit I'm not a Roman scholar, and that we learn something new every day, but it seems very suspicious to me. Moriori 00:29, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
I think the community needs to consider how acceptable is, and what to do, as
User:Deb when making a RM regarding article
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, represents the case in the page "Requests to Move" by alleging that the move would be "back" to
Alix of Hesse. However it is very clear that Deb misrepresents the issue by such allegation: the article has never been at
Alix of Hesse and such address does not yet exist (as everyone can check). Thus the proposed move cannot be "back" to that.
And, Deb claims as her reason for move, by the brief presentation space in general page RM that "The present article title is untenable. However, being "untenable" is an opinionated allegation and does not have any place in proper representation of renaming need. There Deb fails to present the proposal in neutral terms.
Moreover, in the Talk page (
Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse) when giving her grounds for proposed move, Deb says "Arrigo, who carried out the move to the present name, evidently has no understanding of these standards". That is clearly a personal attack. And moreover, has no solid grounds. The answer, predictably, was "In my opinion, evidently Deb has no understanding of these standards".
Deb has done this as a user. IMO it is important to remember that she is also a sysop, from whom exemplary behavior should be required.
In that short space, Deb has apparently misrepresented a case in general RM page, also used only an opinionated opinion in general RM page as the only reason for move, and also made a personal attack.
As RfC-procedure is too heavy to go through, I am asking what are means of community to make the said Deb behave better / and could someone withdraw her powers.
217.140.193.123
16:03, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
I don't know which name is correct, but from the mess of redirects and double redirects I beleive that at one time or another the article has been called:
I have protected the page against moves, which will stop normal users moving the page again. Removing a users' admin power can only be done by a Steward or Developer I belive, and unless this is self-requested is always controversial. If the talk page and requested moves pages arent' enough then an RfC is the best way to go.
In the mean time though, somebody should correct all the links so they point to the current location. Thryduulf 16:23, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Tdxiang 07:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Who wrote the wonderful widget which weeded through the wiki and generated "edit suggestions" for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax? I'd like to have a word with you on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation. -- Smack ( talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
I believe this article is getting a bit out of hand. The list of "variants" has grown to 55 (including "lolbow" and "lolasagna"), and now we have an animated "lollercoaster." Are all the variants really in wide use? Joyous (talk) 21:26, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Anybody want a gmail invites? -- Kiba 19:22, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello all. I have been going through the dates list i.e July 16 etc. and find that nearly half the births an deaths are filled with americans who would not be known outside USA. For instance american football players are barely known unless they commit a crime like O.J. Simpson. It's alright to include hollywood heroes and other sports which are followed by the whole world, but including american football and baseball etc. smacks of a bias (systemic probably). So if there is any possibility to cut down the american heavy list and ensure there is equal representation I suggest anyone come up with ideas. With all due respect, this is an universal encyclopedia not Encyclopedia Americanna. Thanks.-- Idleguy 16:46, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I thought I'd post here so this may get a broader consideration. It has been brought to my attention (meaning, a user who thought I was an admin informed me of this) that the accounts Arrigo ( talk · contribs) and Bhinneka ( talk · contribs) may be sockpuppets of an anon contributor under the IP address 217.140.193.123 ( talk · contribs) — this is actually accurate, since the anon contributes anonymously regularly, almost exclusively in biographic articles about noblesmen and royals. I lack the means (or the expertise) to confirm this, all I can say is that the "style" of writing is awfully similar, whatever that might mean. What prompted me to post this here, however, is that something rather serious has started happening: the user Antares911 has just been informed in his talk page, by Aoi, that Bhinneka has posted at least twice impersonating him (evidence provided: here and here). For all I know, this could be happening to other unaware users too. What now? Regards, Redux 14:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
On this page in a section called "RFC on SlimVirgin", I find I happen to think you're an asshole who fucks up everything he touches, you foolish, time-wasting bully!! [...] go ahead and complain about me if you want. It Is A Poor Example By An Ed. A Laughably Poor Example. 4.250.201.29 01:56, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
What Ed wrote can be taken at least two ways (an example of what not to do or a technique to get away with being insulting) as is what I wrote (a pun or a critisism of Ed). Is the ambiguity on purpose? Wikipedia likes to let the reader decide. 4.250.33.49 08:22, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
How can I propose a new article? - In Danish Wikipwdia I've written about krøs = crooze.
-- Baskholm 14:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
The common concensus is that the Wikipedia process involves articles that start out short and coarse, and are gradually improved, until perfection is achieved; If there are disputes, after a few edits the article will settle on an agreed-upon wording that will please all the factions.
Unfortunately, after editing in Wikipedia for almost two years, I have reached a conclusion that this view might be a bit too optimistic. Instead of articles converging towards perfection, articles "drift" aimlessly, with numerous editors making changes that improve nothing and are nothing more than a "change for the sake of changing". Unless good editors come along once in a while to steer the article back into the "perfection" direction, the articles will drift into random crap.
My case study is Ariel Sharon, an article on the controversial Israeli prime minister. I have been following this article for over a year, and summarized my observations in Talk:Ariel Sharon (the first section, titled "First Paragraph"). I showed how a certain paragraph I added was randomly mutated for no real reason, and kept on mutating for a year, until someone simply came along and deleted it entirely. And I predict this cycle to continue.
Just checking, is there a RSS feed for the article of the day? I like to read it, but a lot of stuff I get off a RSS feed to my PDA and read at work. I cannot find a RSS feed for anthing wiki but I do thing it might be a good Idea for at least the article of the day. -- 198.190.160.3 09:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
-- 220.235.42.134 15:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)Is there a Wiki policy on the use of the apostrophe in, for instance, 1970s? I notice that there are articles that say "1970's" and, as an English speaking Australian, I would say that is an unnecessary use of the apostrophe, but realise it is a 'style' thing. Richard Clark
Is a writeup on J. Random PC App considered encyclopedic? I just came across Scientific Letter which is hideously badly written, which I could clean up very easily, but which I am not sure is worth the effort, if it should't be on WP in the first place. Steve Summit 12:40, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
(not sure if this is news or misc. so posting in both)
CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE ARTICLES
In less than a month, the first WIKIMANIA wiki convention will be held. During the convention, they will award "best of" prizes for the different projects. Be sure to click the above link to nominate Wikipedia articles you think are worthy of consideration. Deadline is Aug 1, 2005 DAVODD 18:02, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at this. Comments being selectively deleted off of talk pages!
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Snowspinner&action=history
See July 14th. Ardonik's sarcastic comment is kept while the response is deleted.
Why dont we add CSS templates to wikipedia for new looks? -- Simple Man 15:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
If i can learn CSS good enough, yeah. -- Simple Man 20:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
With a little research you will see that AGWIII is Alvan Grayson Walker is REXJUDICATA is VATRAY is Babbie is Barbara Diaz is Barbara Rodriguez and morphes into many other aliases. He is NO expert on Parents Without Rights..... research why he has no Parental Rights with his son... was his own behvior involved? Those poor people who follow Parents Without Rights.... if they knew the truth, would they still subscribe.....
i need william rehnquists address o i can end a letter and card virginia jeffers
Send it to:
William Rehnquist United States Supreme Court Washington DC
It will find its way to the right pile. lots of issues | leave me a message 21:24, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
""Paddy" is a common Irish name and was used in the past as a pejorative to insult Irish people." from [5]
compare to the sentence also appearing in paddy wagon -- generated long before the story.
lots of issues | leave me a message 22:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
This is a call for anyone who wants to help stop a cabal attempting to subvert all notable and non-vanity topics in Wikipedia. Under a thin accusation of "vanity", a cabal has nominated an article about the famous site The Mushroom Kingdom. Not only has this "vanity" claim been discredited, it was also revealed that the "delete" participants nominated this for deletion because they hate that The Mushroom Kingdom's equivalence to IMDB. Most of the voters have discussed the issue and found out these factors were the main reason The Mushroom Kingdom is on vfd. Please vote "keep" on this particular listing as a blow against conspiracy that is not only openly hostile, but "vanity"-crying and anti-TMK as well. Wikipedia should be a place where notable topics can have articles without being deleted by a vast anti-TMK conspiracy. Youngblood 23:37, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
http://www.1-electric.com/articles/Richard_Rood
I ran across this on a search for the wrestler Rick Rude. Looks awfully familiar to me. Too familiar.
Can I do that?Will I infringe copyright? Tdxiang 9 July 2005 03:51 (UTC)
Antonio The Explosive Fat Man...or is that woman? Martin
Hi! Seeing that I originated the article on the Deaths in Ciudad Juarez, and, as Puerto Rican, I worry about the wellfare of all fellow Latin Americans in general, I wonder if anyone has written an article about the deaths and dissapearances of people during the Pinochet p[residency. If not, Im interested in making an npov, very well researched article about it.
Thanks and God bless!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Latinos unidos por Siempre Martin
I've started the Pornography Portal and I need your help in order to complete it. thanks. -- Haham hanuka 8 July 2005 11:53 (UTC)
In response to a discussion on wikien-l [6] [7], I've experimentally enabled a feature to allow blocked users to edit their own user talk page. I'm not expecting this to be controversial, I just wanted to let you know so that you wouldn't be confused when you see it happen. -- Tim Starling July 7, 2005 22:50 (UTC)
I see several dis-ambiguation pages that people want moved in WP:RM that I disagree with for the following reason:
All dis-ambiguation pages that are large (specifially, too large to reach the {{disambig}} footer template without scrolling down should have the "(disambiguation)" suffix in their article title to clarify that it is a dis-ambiguation page, not a list. Georgia guy 5 July 2005 22:09 (UTC)
I don't really understand the problem. I was under the impression that {{ disambig}} was meant to be a header, not a footer. Grutness... wha? 7 July 2005 23:57 (UTC)
I tried to vote today but I was shown a message saying: "Sorry, you made only 128 edits before 00:00, May 30, 2005. You need at least 400 to be able to vote." My question is, how do I find out how many edits have I made until today ? Is manually counting the number of pages under 'my contributions' the only way ? Thanks. - sikander July 5, 2005 13:34 (UTC)
I, tdxiang,would like to know if there are any articles on this kidney tumour? Tdxiang 4 July 2005 03:32 (UTC)
A friend, who I have been trying to introduce to Wikepedia, has just emailed the following: Logged in as suggested. First reaction: unnecessarily complicated compared with Google. Tony, please tell me again, briefly please, why you think its better than Google. Bless you. Thanks, Peter I am stumped for a snappy answer, apart from saying they are not the same and WP does allow the reader to contribute. Apwoolrich 2 July 2005 08:56 (UTC)
Err, that likelyhood of Wikipedia having a well-written, detailed article has become somewhat diluted. It's actually not that often. Here's a story of my own: a while back, a friend of mine was doing research for a paper (for University) on the general topic of business administration. When he researched online, he told me that he was having difficulties finding interesting, free sources. I immediately recommended Wikipedia, and since he was new to it, I helped him research here. We found the articles, but he told me that it was way too superficial and would add nothing to the basics that he already had. Since I had been boasting about Wikipedia for a while before we actually researched it, which led him to take a closer look at the project, he ended up hitting me with the following sentence: too many people writing about tv shows, not nearly enough writing about the relevant topics. Oh, the infamy! Redux 4 July 2005 04:15 (UTC)
You think one should be able to "edit" the Encyclopaedia Brittanica? Ouch!
The ultimate DIY? I prefer the work of the experts, even though they were paid! You'd rather trust a bunch of volunteers?
See " Wikification of Knowledge" by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine, excerpt: "Ward Cunningham invented the current iteration of wikis in 1995, naming them WikiWikis after the Hawaiian word for fast. Anyone who has ever been to Honolulu knows this term, since it's the name of the bus line that runs from the airport. By now, the term has been shortened by the community to wiki. To understand some of the basics of the wiki concept you have to read the entry in the Wikipedia on the consensus theory of truth—a very odd idea." -- Dvorak
A very odd idea indeed. -- 172.191.164.201 14:30, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
An article on my watch list had an edit recently. When I looked at it I found it was insertion of {{TOCright}}. Fine.
A glance at the user contributions page of the editor Special:Contributions/Ian_Pitchford though showed 90% (or lots anyway) of their edits were solely addition of {{TOCright}} to articles??
I wasn't sure where to flag this editor inserting {{TOCright}} "everywhere" (one article at a time?) for other wikipedians to cast an appraising eye. Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts are supposedly for mild-to-moderate conflict. Likewise, RFC is to complain about users/articles. I really just wish to raise his contributions for discussion for others to see if they think they're problematic or not. I don't wish to create conflict where none exists. Hence, making an RFC which'd imply a 'complaint' about him is unsuitable. It seems harmless albeit odd? He does make occasional valid contributions too. He just seems to have a a mission 90% of time involving Table of Contents - {{TOCright}}. My reaction was "huh??" Thoughts? Whitehorse1 | 28 June 2005 14:03 (UTC)
Hi,i am applying for adminship but i don't know how.How can we?I clicked on to edit but i don't know how.How can we nominate ourselves,then? tdxiang 203.124.2.14 28 June 2005 09:16 (UTC)
As a relative newcomer to Wikipedia I'm putting this here pending your telling me of betters ways.
I added a note to the article on Torsional Vibration which I include below.
{NOTE: the terms "dampener" for "damper" and "dampening" for "damping" began to gain acceptance among students of engineering as early as the middle 1970's. The meaning attached to the verb "damp" is stripped off and attached to "dampen", because of their similarity of sound and the fact that "dampen" is more familiar. Reduction of vocabulary can lead to confusion of thought as precise forms are eliminated. In later years thinking minds may well ponder how fireplace "dampeners" came to be constructed with no supply of liquid. The expanded use of "dampen" now regularly appears in engineering journals and even in NASA press releases (July, 2005 Shuttle Discovery mission)}
Wikipedia now redirects a search for "dampening" to the article on "damping" [good for you and for all users!]. However, a number of articles such as "Acoustic Dampening" could all use access to the above NOTE.
Would a general article about the misuse of terms be the best way to proceed? This could then be linked to all articles containing such terms as have been identified. Conversely, offending words could simply be changed to the correct one wherever they occur, but this would tend to leave people unaware of the change (the eye so often sees what it expects).
It may seem trivial, but I strongly believe that precision of terms is a valuable resource that we should not relinquish lightly.
Direct responses to <david_r_king at hotmail dot com> are most welcome. -- 66.72.90.149 04:25, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
If you believe a term has multiple meanings that span across articles then I suggest creating a disambugation page (a link junction) to all the articles that would fit those terms. (emailing response) lots of issues | leave me a message 23:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I've trimmed several (for want of a better term) crufty paragraphs from this article that didn't add much. I started to cut the last section, on Notable Essential Magic Traditions, but then realized I'd like a second or third or fourth opinion before I slice it. The "traditions" don't seem "notable" to me, unless someone is already a member of the forum. Joyous (talk) 03:21, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
I just read the article on Wikipedia in the July issue of Canada's Readers Digest. Your fonders, if not aware of the article, should read it. It says a lot for you guys & gals, whoever you may be. I was impressed and after visiting your website, will use it a lot more. So will my kids. And I will refer it to others as it sure beats Britannica & Encarta all to hell!!! D.B. Reid
What do you do when the pages you are making a dab for should have the same page name? e.g. Personology is both a New Age idea and the name Henry Murray gave to his type of personality psychology. However, they have nothing to do with each other. So I make a dab and since there can't be two pages with the exact name (correct), then what? Have each page be Personology (New Age) and Personology (Personality Psychology)? or some such? Thanks. Rsugden 19:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear all
I am writting about the issue of Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Slavs (like Wikipedia calls the Macedonians) and the problem between Macedonia and Greece about the term Macedonia.
giant rant snipped
Yes, you are right, I am a newbie. Don't know how Wikipedia works and don't know what is best to do. And, I am sure I am not the first one thatreacts on this issue. Obviously, it didn't change much. I noticed that many people reacted on this, including a famous USA historian (Aleksandar Donski). I even found several non-Macedonian forums characterising Wikipedia as pro-Bulgarian and pro-Greek, concerning the Macedonian issue. I have to be honest that Wikipedia helped me several times before, mostly about my IT studies. But, this was a great dissapointment. And I could see that I am not the only one. With all the respect, 62.162.196.48 15:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia is being updated constantly, and all help is welcome in our struggle to be as complete, accurate and impartial as we hope to be. A tip: now that you have created an account, please prefer editing logged in. This way, all your work will be credited to your user account, which ensures that you alone get the credit (or take the heat) for your work in Wikipedia (this is important, since IP addresses may be shared by a number of people). This will also make it much easier for people to contact you on the issues you want to discuss in the encyclopedia. Welcome to Wikipedia! Regards, Redux 18:20, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the Welcome message. I already tryed to change some things in the texts, in a very neutral way. Actually, I never erased anything, just added little text and made it more neutral. The next day EVERYTHING was deleted and the previous version was taken back. And even if I fix some things (neutrally), how will I know that some pro-Bulgarian or pro-Greek user won't change it and leave only his "side of the story"? And what about the things that I am not allowed to change? Wikipedia still calls us "Macedonian Slavs". We are partly Slavs, that is truth and noone denies that. But, we are mixure between Slavs and the Antique Macedonians that lived here before the Slavs settled (6th century). Even the CIA's factbook (which is very often used as reference in Wikipedia) doesn't deny our name: Macedonians. Why Wikipedia does? As far as I could see, there was even a voting on this issue. IT was draw: 29:29. According to the nicknames, 2/3 of the votes agains use of the name Macedonia were from Greeks or Bulgarians. On the other side, just 4 votes were by Macedonian nicknames. How can we outnumber the Greeks and Bulgarians, which together are more than 20 million people around the world, when there are just 2,5 million Macedonians all over the world? Just a Note: I am not claiming that we are the only ancestors of the Antique Macedonians. They were living in the area and they got mixed with the Greeks and with the Slavs. I beleive we both (Greeks and nowdays Macedonians) have an origin from those people (more or less) and we both should share that history. Only a fool can deny that there were great mixings between the nations on a such a little teritory, like the Balcany is. Especially when they all were of the same religion (Cristian Ortodox).
Or simply Wikipedia:Britannica mistakes If we can get this list over 100, it will be presentable as a media retort aide. I've found 2 myself. Mistakes are more common than you think. Signup for a free trial at Britannica and start fact checking our content and their content. lots of issues | leave me a message 22:38, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
hi I was reading about the Balfour Declaration, the white paper of 1939 and the many consequences of them in the creation of Israel and the instable situation over there. I thought it would be very helpfull to be able to see historical maps (in this case, of the Palestinian region in 1917, 1939, 1949 for example..) along with the articles.
Regards, Loic Ledernez loic.ledernez@gmail.com
Tomorrow 2 August will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing at Bologna, Italy railway station. I have just translated the article from the Italian Wikipedia, using the title Strage di Bologna (Italian for Bologna massacre) as mentioned in both Bologna and Bologna Central Station. However I assume a title in English - rather in Italian - would be more meaningful. Please rename it to any appropriate title you can think of. Ary29 18:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Why doesn't search show my latest updates seems to come up fairly frequently (both here and at Wikipedia:Help desk). Is the date when the search index last rebuilt available anywhere? Can we show it fairly prominently, perhaps with a link to a page that answers Why doesn't my change show up in search, on the search results page? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:04, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
Recently my friends and I have been filling alot of time (or misusing alot of time if you prefer) with a "wikigame." What one does is choose a random article (we've been doing of our own design, but using the "random article" feature should work just as well) and connecting it to another article through links in the wikipedia articles. For example, Zucchini to John Lennon turned out: " Zucchini->Britain (United Kingdom)->The Beatles->John Lennon." Hawaii to Leviticus became: "hawaii->father damien statue->catholicism->old testament->old testament books->leviticus." It's much fun, and I just thought I'd spread the love.
Top 200+ Classic Rock Songs I'm on a mission to find out what the worlds top 200 (or more) favorite Classic Rock songs are. What I want you to do is to tell me on my talk page ( click here) what your favorite Classic Rock songs are. They should be numbered 1 - 20. Your favorite song gets twenty points, second favorite 19 etc. Participation is needed and a report of the twenty top songs at the time will be on my user page. When the number of songs on the list gets past 200, I will post all of them on my user page. If you have any questions or you want to submit your favorites post it on my talk page. Long live ROCK N' ROLL. Rentastrawberry |
I have a question, I don't know where to post it, so I'm putting it here. A List of drugs was compiled and since it was a very long list (thousands of entries) was broken down into sections of a couple hundred entries each (with dividing points being at a reasonable alphabetical point) and put on wikipedia. It was a fairly simple setup and I didn't think it needed restructuring. Though someone else came along and restructured it, and now (to me) it seems to be a bit of a mess. There are many "navigation only" pages which I feel are unneccissary, and when I tried to edit the indexes (to put back in some pages that were lost in the reorganization) I found that the index pages were made of templates of templates (which made it a bit annoying to edit). So my question is, what is the best way to structure long lists such as this? I'm wary to revert the changes because some work has been done since the change and it would be an awful bother to fix up. Plus the histories of the pages would be quite a job to glue back together (the histories are already a bit of a mess now due to the changes). Thanks for any opinions. Matt 22:01, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
The big red scaring WARNING is /very/ annoying when one reverts a vandal. Every User interface design guide stresses to use such tools only in situations when something awful had happened. Overuse it and it will get ignored as nuisance. Pavel Vozenilek 19:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I was just curious how many volunteers/admins monitor this site? We're considering setting up a much smaller wiki and are just curious on the amount of involvement and maintenance it will entail.
Also, is there a list of Wiki developers we could contact to assist us in setting up our Wiki and helping us with, "Best practices"?
Thanks
Get rid of this phrase "Sorry, there were no exact matches to your query," to me is too CORNY.
Spencer Karter
The stalinist manner of voting regarding the deleting of entries needs to be improved, but how?
I was fortunate enough to visit a Hutterite Colony in Manatoba last year with a group of Australian Farmers, several of us are sorry that we did not buy some of your wonderful cotton mats (woven or crochet I think. Could you email some information to me regarding size, colour and the possability of sending our to Australia. I did buy MukLuks slippers for my grandaughter, they are a big hit. A list of other craft for sale and suitable to post would be appreciated. I wish you well and hope to have a reply from you soon.
I am not sure where to post this but I would like people to watch User:129.173.105.28. This user has removed metric units and left no comment. See Marblehead Lighthouse and Shasta Lake. There are a few users hostile to metric units that remove them. Some users claim support from the current version Manual of Style and/or have revised it to be consistent with such action.
Ironically, a revised wording was proposed to deal with this problem. In order to get agreement, the proposal is now in the 10th version. Feel free to join in. Bobblewik 09:15, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
How can I take a look at new Images is some kind of gallery? -- 84.154.133.130 22:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Concerning the image on the right:
Is that smiley supposed to be here? I'm thinking this is some sort of joke and I'm not sure if this is the way it's supposed to be or not, but if you could help me figure this out, that'd be great. Nameneko 07:06, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I am removing text that appears to be website spam and or POV rant. Here is the original posting: [11]. Func( t, c ) 16:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
My first relative to America came from Hamburg, on a ship named Neptune, December 12, 1754 at age 18. I am a seeker of truth and want to know if my last name David is of jewish orgin. Is there any lists of names anywhere those entering Germany at that century and form where? So much religious uphevel at this time in history and changes for unknown reasons. Can anyone help in my quest? Sincerly, Ronald David
What can i do when my account is hijacked?Someone hijacked it to vandalise articles.What can i do? Tdxiang 06:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I was playing around with a few things, and created this User Infobox.
Born | November 10th, 1990 |
Current Age | 14.5 |
Locale | Brooklyn, New York |
Country | United States |
Date Joined Wikipedia | April 2005 |
Education (Current/Former) | Benjamin Banneker Academy; 10th Grade as of Fall |
Could this be expanded? Pacific Coast Highway; Temporarily 165.155.128.134 17:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has there been a large influx recently of anonymous editors with an antisemitic agenda? I've noticed quite a few nasty edit wars going on. JFW | T@lk 14:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I've just created the article Bad wolf mentions in Doctor Who, but obviously nothing links to it yet. It needs to be linked to from all of the 2005 episodes of Doctor Who, from Fictional websites in Doctor Who, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Ninth Doctor and possibly Dalek. I will do some myself, of course.-- 84.51.149.80 07:05, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Er - it's not out of the way. One of the sites it linked too says that all its bandwidth got used up on a discussion about it. There has been intense speculation about it. It is an important part of the series, affecting all the characters etc mentioned.-- 84.51.149.80 06:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
It's being dealt with by the Doctor Who Wikiproject. -- khaosworks 06:17, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
I have noticed that as an user I've lost the right to move an article. What was the reason ? Ericd 21:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thanks so much for the link to the farsi wikipedia :)
~*~ ApPrEcIaTe It ~*~
gosh i think that Wikipedia is definitely the BEST resource on the internet! i love it soo much! you have the best most interesting most detailed information on EVERYTHING!!! everything i searched for: oprah winfrey, norooz (persian new year), bandari, persian music, LOL (internet slang), EVERYTHING! and for that i just LOVE this site. i would like to make a tiny request: could you PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE have Farsi (persian) as one of your languages to view this site in? you have almost every other language so i was hoping you would put Farsi as a way to view the site too. Not only would i be grateful, Iranians all around the world would be very happy to know that the coolest site on the internet is in Farsi too! Thanks soooooo much!
thanks so much :)
~*~ ApPrEcIaTe It ~*~
Can someone tell me if this redirect was needed? The page already existed, yet the user created a new page of the same topic, and redirected the older page. [13] -- 69.204.190.91 17:01, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Beta m and his freenet spamming. mikka (t) 19:52, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
I thought this up while reading a recent RfC. I think it expresses a difference of attitude well. It may also be a simple small/large dichotomy. I'm not a sociologist or a psychologist, and maybe someone else has said it better before. I still wanted to share it with the rest of you. The exposition is intended to be neutral; I'm not trying to imply one is right and the other is wrong—as presented I'm pretty sure they're both wrong when consistently applied, for different reasons.
JRM · Talk 11:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Will someone please comment on the selective removal of my vote from a poll? I have summarized it on the relevant discussion page. Maurreen (talk) 06:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
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I am unaware of the exact nature of what music files are permitted to be uploaded and which ones aren't. I want to upload the Law and Order orchestral sting, as the current host for the sound file that I'm trying to upload is a Tripod site, which is unnecessarily irritating. Am I allowed to upload this file, or do I need to find some alternate host for it? Thanks in advance, Mo0[ talk] 02:51, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
The box is open. — Xiong 熊 talk * 01:26, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
What do I do with this? — Xiong 熊 talk * 16:57, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
Is it possible to view a previous version of Wikipedia, similar to the Wayback Machine? www.archive.org/ This service can narrow it down to a few days, but I wanted to see what the Main Page looked like on a particular date. Thanks, Percolator 18:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I find many little errors like links to pages that actually concern something completely unrelated. I don't know where I should report them, and I don't feel confident enough to fix them myself. One example: the link See also: Maersk Sealand on the page Maersk sends you back to the same page. Apparently, there's no separate article for Maersk Sealand (yet?) but why create a link without an article?
I resisted the temptation for a mass-VfD, but seriously: Is Category:Airline destinations and the 41 articles in this category in any way encyclopedic? -- Pjacobi 14:08, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
perhaps, (i have no sources for this), Wikipedia is an abbriviation for (Wickid Encyclopedia? please tell me if u know. Supersaiyanplough| (talk) 08:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Check out this article, especifically the image illustrating it. Is that considered fair play? Looks unnecessary to me...but I'm in doubt, since I'm aware that images of nudity are acceptable if justified by the content and the need to illustrate it. Doesn't seem to be the case here though. Regards, Redux 03:09, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Man, I hope Jimbo doesn't find out that images like this are on his servers...oh wait, never mind. -- Arcadian 01:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a method to automatically send an email to me when articles on my watchlist has changed. I have created a number of articles and I would like to receive notification when they are modified.
User: HJKeats
Can editing Wikipedia count as community service hours? as in work for a not-for-profit for college applications? I'm wondering how it all works, this tricky community service thing... -- Mazin07 18:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
lots of issues | leave me a message 07:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
ik zou iedereen graag willen uitnodigen te overwegen of zij een rol willen en/of kunnen spelen in de oprichting van een nederlandse wikimedia-organisatie. een eerste ontmoeting wordt momenteel georganiseerd, zie daarvoor hier, op de nl.wikimedia.org wiki. er zijn nog vele stappen te nemen, en meer wikianen nodig, om e.e.a. op verantwoorde wijze verder te ontwikkelen. oscar 12:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to invite everyone to consider if they want and/or are able to play a role in the establishment of a Dutch wikimedia organisation. A first meeting is presently being organised, see for that here, on the nl.wikimedia.org wiki. There are still a lot of steps to take, and more wikians necessary, to develop things in a responsible manner further.
Bovlb 13:23, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC) (via Babelfish), Eugene van der Pijll 13:31, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) (cleanup)
I love Wikipedia! I live in Kelowna (BC), and discovered the entry in Wikipedia, and I am quite happy with it. It has an incomplete link for the 2003 fire, though. I have the information, but not the discernment on what to post. Can I leave the info here, and hope that someone who knows what information is useful will take it over? ^_^
Here is what I have:
http://www.dotcommediainc.com/slideshow/mixed/index.php3
http://castanet.firewatch.net/
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/protect/reports/2003Review/Okanagan_Fire_Review_K50628.pdf
http://www.highwaylodge.com/fire.htm
so - a lot of links and info. Hoping someone will take it on. Thanks!
I wanted to thank you guys for creating such a versatile tool. I myself have just updated an article on Albert von Le Coq, who I wrote my term paper on earlier this year. I can't describe the pride or the feeling of worth I get out of helping spread knowledge. Thank you for this opportunity to both learn and teach.
May you never thirst, heh.
Hi,
My name is Noor Dahlvi Khan and I am new here! Is there also a place where members introduce themselves to each other?
Well, the question sums it up. I have no idea what it means.
I appear to be aware that there must be a user whose IP address changes among various IP's that start with 131.96 and I want to make sure I know exactly who this is. He appears to sign Wikipedia as Robert rather than ~~~~ . Georgia guy 21:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The following may be of interest to your James Joyce readers, on this this historic day 16th June 2004
2004 - A Superstore Odyssey By Brian Moore, CEO, EMR-NAMNEWS, bmoore@namnews.com
How do I use the contributions tag?
Admiral Roo Talk to me My Contributions Admiral Roo 13:46, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
I talked to my psychologist Monday and told him that perhaps I would do better getting in the Engineering field. He told me I might do better with a degree in Veterinary Technology. He knows I am better at science ( Chemistry, Biology, and Medicine) then I am at Math, and getting a Bachelor's degree in engineering is more relient on higher math then veterinary technology. What do you think? And what are the advantages/disadvantages in being in these fields and getting an education in them (through comparing the two for the advantages/disadvantages)?
The engineering I want to take in school is Electrical/Electronic and Mechanical engineering.
Thank you.
-- Admiral Roo 11:37, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to let everyone here know about a new Wikipedia group at StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is an increasingly well-known social networking site that its members mainly use to browse, review and share websites in a very innovative mannner (you literally stumble onto sites you might not have ever found otherwise).
Another long-standing group is the Wikipedia tribe at Tribe.net, a somewhat more standard social networking site.
I wasn't sure if anyone here was knowledgeable about the goings-on with regards to the Wikipedia outside of the Wikipedia, so hopefully the above two links will be helpful. And I'm sure there are other groups elsewhere that others might want to bring up.
Disclaimer: I am merely a member of the above two services I mention.
— Stevie is the man! Talk | Work</span> 22:54, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
I just recently added (Answers.Com) on to my website that is a KISS FAN SITE re: http://cosmicgarden.tripod.com. My question is when I looked up the rock group KISS or Gene Simmons, I was wondering how can I have my link from my website posted on them pages? Thanks for your assistance...
Mary Esther
Dear Wikipedians,
We cordially invite you to answer a short questionnaire which is a
part of a non-commercial cross-cultural research project conducted at
INFOSOC (The Center for the Study of the Information Society),
exploring Wikipedia community aspects.
The findings of this study will be published in Wikipedia to the benefit of everyone, personal copies will be also available via e-mail (wiki@shil.info).
Click here for the questionnaire: http://wikien.shil.info/
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As written in 123 Football copyright: "The photos and information contained on this Site are submitted by our visitors and/or believed to be public domain". Does all the photos in 123 Football are good for use in wikipedia? Roeeyaron 3 July 2005 12:41 (UTC)
Isn't there a WP project that sorts out wildlife articles and conforms them to one style? Jaberwocky6669 July 3, 2005 06:45 (UTC)
Is there anyone who is familar with the Seychelles? The Farquhar article has a list of islands added recently, including Ile Gumball, Partie Island, and Polyfoam Island. Can someone confirm that these actually exist? Joyous (talk) July 3, 2005 01:23 (UTC)
Is there any meaningul distinction between Category:Culture, Category:Personal life and Category:Society? Maurreen 2 July 2005 20:55 (UTC)
This topic has been moved to the discussion page specific to the race and intelligence article
Is anyone aware that the term 'Village Pump' has some negative connotation? They are both somewhat archaic, but here goes: in medicine the term has been used to refer to a common source of disease, diseases have been traced to a central well or pump in rural epidemics, fairly frequently, so 'the village pump' has been used to refer to any common source of infection. Also, it is an American idiom for the loose woman in the community who will lay with anyone. ( a related meaning if you look at it right ) Sorry I can't cite sources off the top of my head, but I'm not writing an article about it. As I said, both are somewhat archaic and out of general use, but I just thought other Wikipedians might be interested. (PS I'm not advocating changing anything, just sharing) Pedant 2005 July 2 05:06 (UTC)
Could anybody that knows copyright law answer this question? The user who uploaded this image claims this under GFDL. Unfortunately, it is basically a photo of a copyrighted sign - the printed menu of the In-N-Out burger chain. So would it actually fall under fair use instead? Zzyzx11 (Talk) 1 July 2005 23:04 (UTC)
I received an email today from wiki@wikimedia.org with the following message:
I made no such request and am not associated with that IP address. When I tested the "new" password both it and my password worked. When I responded to the email, it was rejected by MAILER-DAEMON@mail.wikimedia.org. Any idea what this is about? - Marshman 1 July 2005 19:39 (UTC)
WHat's the difference between knowledge, wisdom, and information? Of these three, which one does an encyclopedia provide? That encyclopedia may be paper or digital. I bet you thought this was gonna be about the diff function huh? Jaberwocky6669 July 1, 2005 13:30 (UTC)
I've been running into more and more pages that render poorly, or are just outright broken. Please test any fancy formatting you use by viewing it at a large font size before you save your changes. Test your pages with a font size of 24pt at minimum. If you test at multiple sizes, all the better.
I've created a mock-up of things I, and others using large fonts, typically see at User:Mark/temp (Mark has given me permission to use his page temporarily). Just because a page looks fine at 12pt, doesn't mean it's going to look the same at 24pt.
Darrien July 1, 2005 12:31 (UTC)
Is it me or has Wikipedia just stopped churning? Has everyone dedicated solely to creating new articles? What happened?!?!?!?!?! Jaberwocky6669 July 1, 2005 11:21 (UTC) I know what it is! Everyone is too involved playing wikigames and watching their watchlists! Give me my fix--EDIT A PAGE!
A Friday column in a Virginian newspaper requested three professors review sample content from Wikipedia. The only unsatisfied professor was a biologist who reported the pupa entry was filled with errors. The professor may have himself corrected many problems yesterday, but can someone who has a good grasp of the sujbect look it over?
lots of issues | leave me a message 30 June 2005 14:20 (UTC)
lots of issues | leave me a message 30 June 2005 17:15 (UTC)
Here it is: [2]
The columnist is still skeptical, but a fair story. Casual users might think Wikipedia is worthy enough to help with the crossword puzzle.
lots of issues | leave me a message 1 July 2005 12:57 (UTC)
(from meta:Elections for the Board...)
Is it just me, or are most of the good contributors really leaving? And they don't seem to have any intention of coming back. JM Bell ° 20:07, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi. In many tv-related articles we have been listing the website TV Tome as a reference for readers. As of this week, it appears that TV Tome no longer exists. Apparently, it's been incorporated by another website, TV.com. This was not a simple layout change, only the general scope is similar to the original TV Tome. I've checked some articles that carried links to the website, and it seems that many different users have already started to change the links to reflect the new website. The potential problem is that this effort is probably not coordinated, so many articles may be left with the old link. Maybe we could set up a bot to perform the change in all articles, so none would be left behind. I have no idea whatsoever of how to set up something like this, so maybe someone more knowledgeable could do this. But even before that, I was wondering if this new website is sufficiently accountable to deserve as wide a reference as TV Tome did. This new thing seems much more unstable, as it now allows for any registered person to edit the pages on the tv shows (a wiki-like system, but I doubt they have as wide and efficient peer review as we have here). I simply cannot account for its credibility. Regards, Redux 03:51, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On the english WP I have way more than 400 edits does this still mean that I am excluded from voting??? Jaberwocky6669 June 30, 2005 07:06 (UTC)
For the past month or so, I have been using a "wikimood" to express my current emotional state on Wikipedia. If you recall, a "wikimood" is a position on a 21-point signed integer scale that expresses how you think your current behaviour on Wikipedia can be described. Well now, I have changed the wikimood meter into graphical form. You may feel free to use these on your User or User Talk pages.
To refresh your memory, here's the wikimood scale again:
-10: Explosive, -9: Violent, -8: Enraged, -7: Hostile, -6: Ornery, -5: Frustrated, -4: Distressed, -3: Upset, -2: Depressed, -1: Withdrawn, 0: Neutral, +1: Calm, +2: Content, +3: Happy, +4: Cheerful, +5: Enthusiastic, +6: Zealous, +7: Mental, +8: Insane, +9: Crazy, +10: Chaotic
-- Denelson83 30 June 2005 03:15 (UTC)
I am done with this code. Starts to moonwalk while singing MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.
Could someone edit this code so I can make a templet (sp?) in Wikibooks? I need everything that says Merit Badge that is outside of the [[]] code. If you can quickly program a bot to do this, that would be great, because it would take an awfull lot of time to edit the code by hand. Here it is:
{| style="margin:0 auto" align=center id=toc |align=center| '''[[BSA Merit Badges|Earning merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America]]''' |- |align=center| [[Scouting:BSA - American Business|American Business]]| [[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - American Heritage Merit Badge|American Heritage]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - American Labor Merit Badge|American Labor]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Animal Science Merit Badge|Animal Science]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Archaeology Merit Badge|Archaeology]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Archery Merit Badge|Archery]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Architecture Merit Badge|Architecture]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Art Merit Badge|Art]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Astronomy Merit Badge|Astronomy]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Athletics Merit Badge|Athletics]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Atomic Energy Merit Badge|Atomic Energy]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Auto Mechanics Merit Badge|Auto Mechanics]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Aviation Merit Badge|Aviation]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Backpacking Merit Badge|Backpacking]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Basketry Merit Badge|Basketry]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Bird Study Merit Badge|Bird Study]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Bugling Merit Badge|Bugling]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Camping Merit Badge|Camping]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Canoeing Merit Badge|Canoeing]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Chemistry Merit Badge|Chemistry]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Cinematography Merit Badge|Cinematography]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge|Citizenship in the Community]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| [[Scouting:BSA - Merit Badge|]] Merit Badge| Merit Badge|}
Thank you. -- Admiral Roo June 29, 2005 12:05 (UTC)
I assume that this is what you ask for? I used wordpad for this and it took no time at all. You wanted this: [[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] Merit Badge| to become this :[[Scouting:BSA - American Cultures Merit Badge|American Cultures]] | ? I hope I didn't make any mistakes. Jaberwocky6669 June 29, 2005 16:16 (UTC)
I had Wordpad find every instance of merit badge. It then gave me a Find Next window and then I left clicked on the Fnd Next button and then I clicked the Wordpad background and hit Backspace because wordpad instantly highlights every instance of the word it finds. I kept in mind to see if I was about to delete the correct instance of Merit badge (and not every instance) ;) lol I'm not exactly good at using words to explain myself. Maybe thats why I dont contribute many articles. lol Jaberwocky6669 June 29, 2005 16:30 (UTC)
Competition is needed at User:Tparker393/Team Game 1. Thanks, Nathan256 29 June 2005 18:18 (UTC)
I want to place the logo of Paragon Vision Sciences on Wikipedia but i don't know what html to type to get the picture.How can i put the logo? 203.124.2.14 29 June 2005 06:45 (UTC)
I've noticed a disturbing amount of Wikipedia mirrors when I'm searching Google recently, even sometimes mistakenly clicking on the mirrors. And it seems to me that many of those that copy WP content do so without crediting Wikipedia, which is a big violation of Wikipedia's copyright. To test this theory, I did a Google search of the first sentence of Parthenon, a featured article. Among the results, there is fact-archive.com's copy, which claims "Copyright 2005 Fact Archive.com" at the bottom; physicsdaily.com's which claims "Copyright 2005 PhysicsDaily.com"; mathdaily.com's, which claims "Copyright 2005 MathDaily.com"; definitioncenter.com's, whic claims "Copyright © 2005 DefinitionCenter"; essaycrawler.com's which claims "© 2000-2004 essaycrawler.com"; wikimirror.com's, which has no copyright info; and definition-info.com's which has no copyright info. I'm sure there are more out there. What is going on here? -- Dmcdevit 28 June 2005 22:59 (UTC)
Wikibooks is severly screwed up. It takes multiple times to hit the save page button for it to finnally submit, and my contributions page is not working in their. I think it needs the admins attention. -- Admiral Roo June 28, 2005 14:20 (UTC)
Oh brave new world that has such entities in it.
Now we have wikimedia 1.5 running English wikipedia can we say goodbye to character entities? And can existing character entities be converted to real unicode characters. Is this a job for a bot? Zeimusu | (Talk page) 28 June 2005 13:07 (UTC)
Okay, who else things that the new style for broken links is ugly? Get rid of the question mark, and bring back redlinks! (At least give us the option...) AиDя01D TALK EMAIL June 28, 2005 12:07 (UTC)
I have a new project that I am doing. I am creating the history of the Boy Scout Handbook and I need serious help. If anyone can contribute, then thank you. -- Admiral Roo June 28, 2005 11:28 (UTC)
Anyone know why - since yesterday's change to 1.5 - my watchlist now contains "209.5 pages"? Grutness... wha? 28 June 2005 04:59 (UTC)
Will the two special pagws be back on the toolbar, or are we going to have to go to the Special pages section each time? -- Ixfd64 2005 June 28 03:59 (UTC)
Just found this page and im unsure of where to post it so that it can get appropiate attention. Fantacular I dont know if it should be deleted or if it happens to be a notable subject then should it be expanded? As it stands it is just an advertisement.
Just thought I'd make it "public" here. I've just opened the Brazil Portal. The layout was inspired in the already-existing Australia portal. Zscout370 created the color scheme I followed and the entire first box. Not to blow my own horn, but I believe it's looking quite good! Regards, Redux 23:55, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the known mirror of Wikipedia, Indopedia.org states that "Indopedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." [3]? I certainly can't find any evidence to support that. -- Dmcdevit 23:33, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
A mirror, all instances of Wikipedia auto changed to Indopedia.
lots of issues | leave me a message 29 June 2005 06:41 (UTC)
Hi...we're starting a mini-collaboration over at the FOX News article. We need some people to come over and help, from both sides (pro- and anti-FOX). Please post on the Talk page — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 15:03, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi all,
I'm a relatively new but already addicted wiki-bod. I've just got done re-writing the beetle page, which was a bit sad considering the number of species. Would be great if someone could cast a (nice) critical eye over it.
There is a list connected to that page of families within the order of beetles, and few of them are populated! - I'd really like to start banging through them but it would take some time, any one else out there a bit of a beetle nut who'd like to help me out, trade ideas, and maybe act as a wiki-style mentor??
Anyone out there with pictures of beetles, also somewhat lacking?
Thanks
John
-- John-Nash 16:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You might be able to get some people interested at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life. Grutness... wha? 00:37, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There has been an anon editing that page and a large amount of wrinkles/reverts appearing. There has been a proposal on the Talk page to move back to the 24 Jun 13:23 UTC edit and protect the page until this can be sorted out. I'd like to do it, but would like to consult with some other admins before acting single-handedly. If you can, please comment on the Talk Page of said article. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 04:05, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I ask all of you to pay attention to the VfD of this page and its two VfD nominations: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chung Tat-chi, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Chung Tat-chi (2nd nomination). The discussion result is clear: a majority think this person is too insignificant to be included in wikipedia and this page should be deleted. However, an admin has exercised partiality in this VfD, ignoring the content of discussion and keeping the page with reasons of no consensus and invalid. I strongly question his judgement. (It is not written in the official pollcy about any time period between the end of first VfD and the start of second VfD. Please point out if I'm wrong.) This is unfair and I ask all of you to comment on the deletion of this page. -- 218.103.251.125 02:51, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your goal of eliminating that vanity article, however, the admin properly followed policy. Wikipedia VFD outcomes are determined by consensus. 5 keep to 3 valid deletes = no change to the status quo. Please wait a little longer before resubmitting. If you drop me a message then I'll vote to delete.
lots of issues | leave me a message 03:18, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Because Anthere told me to:
Freenode hosts the IRC channels for all Wikimedia projects. They're an invaluable resource. Help if you can. -- Slowking Man 21:56, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
Listing - relocation to Japan required
lots of issues | leave me a message 03:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I mention the issue to the juriwiki list. Anthere 05:37, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
I am seeking to enter in contact with editors on the english wikipedia, living in African countries. This is at the same time for Wikimania and to prepare a report on African participation to Wikipedia. If you fit the profile, or know someone who fits the profile, please contact me on my user talk page or by email at anthere9ATyahoo.com
Thanks.
11:13, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone have Visual Music, a free program that helps people like me create MIDI music? If you do, can you pleas put together a better help file, for Shitil is obviously not a good english speaker, and I don't understand his instructions. I think he came from the middle east, and I seriously need help with the programming aspect of Visual Music. Thanks. Admiral Roo ( Talk to me)( My Contributions) 20:03, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
I have made several lyrics now, but this is what many consider my best. To see them, go here. -- Admiral Roo 19:37, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
I'm thinking of putting something into Wikipedia:Your first article to suggest that Wikipedia articles should be distillations involving a certain amount of real work. Unless you're a bona fide subject matter expert they should not be just written off the top of the head. Facts should get at least a cursory check, and so forth.
When I was in college, it was helpful to me that my school had a very explicit statement that it was expected that students would spend two to three hours in preparation for each hour spent in lecture. Thus a nominal "fifteen-hour" load represented a 45 to 60-hour work week. I was very surprised when I was a TA at a big state university to find that nobody had ever told the students there anything similar and that many students did NOT realize what was expected of college-level study.
So... just as the roughest guess.... How long does it take YOU to write a typical paragraph? And how many times during the writing of a paragraph do you stop to check a fact, even if very casually?
I'd say it takes ME ten minutes to an hour, and I stop to check facts one to five times. (Let the flames from those who work harder begin!) Dpbsmith (talk) 10:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Here is a piece of string; please estimate the length. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:23, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Forgive me if this is covered somewhere or this isn't the proper forum but I'm squirming and yelping from intense itching and almost body wide welts from bites. I live in Florida (am hoping to move to a drier climate, at least less mosquitoe infested soon) and this season is particularly bad. I've tried ice, cold water, alcohol (applied to the skin) benadryl spray and am still covered in welts and going nuts. Any help would be appreciated. I'm at JSOkazaki@hotmaill.com or call 305-793-8527 (I'll call you back and reimburse any long distance charges).
Thanks! Suffering in Miami, Jean
Hi, Im new to Wiki and I have just finished re-writing Saint John, United States Virgin Islands, it used to be a stub. It is my first real article and I was wondering if I could get some feedback and suggestions for the future. Thanks
Thanks-yeah I wasnt quite sure about formatting but now I know Gpyoung 19:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
WERE BACK ONLINE HOOORAY!!-- Jondel 28 June 2005 04:00 (UTC)
Read here Apparently a Belfast radio program devoted a segment to Ballymena article because of 5 highly sarcastic lines in the introduction. The B.Telegraph follows up with an entire article. Slow newsday. This article must be responded to and our article should be scrutinized. Please join me. lots of issues | leave me a message 06:28, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
I occasionally see the {{cleanup}} posted on articles that look perfectly all right to me. Checking the links given within the notice does not help. Requests to the person who has posted the cleanup request occasionally result in sarcastic and unhelpful replies. It is easy for the person who posts the notice to vent his/her irritation with something that seems less than ideal, but I have yet to see a case where I have been able to figure out what the gripe is, much less what needs to be done to correct the problem. A brief indication, perhaps involving one's own boilerplate, on the discussion page of the article would IMHO be much more useful and less likely to provoke frustration. P0M 14:57, 23 July 2005 (UTC) P.S. The specific notice was added by 24.29.141.167 who has vandalized the user page of another contributor as well as making a few fairly reasonable looking changes. P0M 15:19, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
Any suggestions of what to do with Concert-master? As it stands, it's just a dicdef, and has been that way for almost a year. Being listed as a stub doesn't seem to have attracted anybody to fix it up. On the other hand, while the article clearly fits into VfD territory, the topic seems like it could certainly have a good article written about it by somebody who knows the field (which I do not). RoySmith 13:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
I was recently looking at "My Contributions" and noticed that next to some of my entries, it's listed as (top). What does this signify? Fieari 23:36, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
Which program can i download to play Ogg Vorbis files?Which program can let me record Ogg Vorbis files?How can I post them? Tdxiang 07:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
2005 is 60 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
I felt it would be a good use of WNN (and Wiki ideas in general) if someone was able to produce a NPOV documentaty concerning the events.
A rough proposal is at: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/WNN:Hiroshima_60_Programme_Idea
If this is best directed at a different forum please redirect me in the appropriate direction.
I love this site. I wish I could get every christian I know to read it. Christians do not realize just how much has gone into the making of the Christian religion or the putting together of the bible. They seem to think that the bible and the church just popped out of thin air as soon as Jesus went to be with the father. Thank you so much for being here and for allowing those of us who cannot afford to pay for such information, to utilize this site all the same. I am not able at this present moment to contribute, but be rest assured that in the future, this will be the first place I send a donation, to express my extreme gratitude.
I got this message at my private e-mail address today.
"Someone (probably you, from IP address XXXXXXXXX) requested that we send you a new Wikipedia login password. The password for user "Richman" is now "XXXXXXXXX". You should log in and change your password now."
I had not requested a password change at all. When I went to Wikipedia my old password worked fine. What is going on? Is this some sort of a phishing or scam?
David Richman
I don't know what is going on. The IP number is wrong for me and the return address for the e-mail was wiki@wikimedia.org. Of course that could be a cover and if I had answered the e-mail they might have gotten some information. If I did change my password I'm not sure how anybody could steal my account. As a matter of fact, since my old password worked I don't know how this would operate. Is Wikipedia so insecure that someone could know when you changed a password and what it was? How can I contact anybody at Wikipedia (I could not find a way) to find out if my account has been stolen?
Well, I hope so. I did not try the password they sent because I was afraid that it might work, but my old password did work. Is it possible that they have an alternate password into my account? My guess is that the phishers (assuming that is what they were) assumed that I would think it was a real message from Wikipedia- answer it and somehow give away my password. They did send it to my correct e-mail address. How did that happen?
May I also ask why you are "Master Thief"??
Yes, I thought about that later. However that password does not work anyway (I did change it before I posted to here- the only way the first password could have worked, I think, was if there could have been two passwords at the same time). At the time I did not mention that I had altered my password because I did not understand what had happened. I'm still not sure as I don't know who would have requested a new password in my name!
I have hopes that all is well. I should have blanked it out myself, but I did not think that it was actually from you. I still do not know how I got the message as I have not been on Wikipedia for a while to actually work on anything.
I might add that I DID NOT try the password that was sent to me bewfore I changed it, only my old one.
Sorry about not signing and dating- just noticed the tool bar mark.
I guess that is the end of it- sorry for being such a computer illiterate! After several bad experiences I tend to be a bit careful (although perhaps not careful enough.)
-- Richman 13:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Can someone have a look at Flaccus (composer). The only Google refs I can find for this guy are at Wikipedia and mirror sites. I admit I'm not a Roman scholar, and that we learn something new every day, but it seems very suspicious to me. Moriori 00:29, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
I think the community needs to consider how acceptable is, and what to do, as
User:Deb when making a RM regarding article
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, represents the case in the page "Requests to Move" by alleging that the move would be "back" to
Alix of Hesse. However it is very clear that Deb misrepresents the issue by such allegation: the article has never been at
Alix of Hesse and such address does not yet exist (as everyone can check). Thus the proposed move cannot be "back" to that.
And, Deb claims as her reason for move, by the brief presentation space in general page RM that "The present article title is untenable. However, being "untenable" is an opinionated allegation and does not have any place in proper representation of renaming need. There Deb fails to present the proposal in neutral terms.
Moreover, in the Talk page (
Talk:Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse) when giving her grounds for proposed move, Deb says "Arrigo, who carried out the move to the present name, evidently has no understanding of these standards". That is clearly a personal attack. And moreover, has no solid grounds. The answer, predictably, was "In my opinion, evidently Deb has no understanding of these standards".
Deb has done this as a user. IMO it is important to remember that she is also a sysop, from whom exemplary behavior should be required.
In that short space, Deb has apparently misrepresented a case in general RM page, also used only an opinionated opinion in general RM page as the only reason for move, and also made a personal attack.
As RfC-procedure is too heavy to go through, I am asking what are means of community to make the said Deb behave better / and could someone withdraw her powers.
217.140.193.123
16:03, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
I don't know which name is correct, but from the mess of redirects and double redirects I beleive that at one time or another the article has been called:
I have protected the page against moves, which will stop normal users moving the page again. Removing a users' admin power can only be done by a Steward or Developer I belive, and unless this is self-requested is always controversial. If the talk page and requested moves pages arent' enough then an RfC is the best way to go.
In the mean time though, somebody should correct all the links so they point to the current location. Thryduulf 16:23, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Tdxiang 07:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Who wrote the wonderful widget which weeded through the wiki and generated "edit suggestions" for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax? I'd like to have a word with you on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disambiguation. -- Smack ( talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
I believe this article is getting a bit out of hand. The list of "variants" has grown to 55 (including "lolbow" and "lolasagna"), and now we have an animated "lollercoaster." Are all the variants really in wide use? Joyous (talk) 21:26, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Anybody want a gmail invites? -- Kiba 19:22, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello all. I have been going through the dates list i.e July 16 etc. and find that nearly half the births an deaths are filled with americans who would not be known outside USA. For instance american football players are barely known unless they commit a crime like O.J. Simpson. It's alright to include hollywood heroes and other sports which are followed by the whole world, but including american football and baseball etc. smacks of a bias (systemic probably). So if there is any possibility to cut down the american heavy list and ensure there is equal representation I suggest anyone come up with ideas. With all due respect, this is an universal encyclopedia not Encyclopedia Americanna. Thanks.-- Idleguy 16:46, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I thought I'd post here so this may get a broader consideration. It has been brought to my attention (meaning, a user who thought I was an admin informed me of this) that the accounts Arrigo ( talk · contribs) and Bhinneka ( talk · contribs) may be sockpuppets of an anon contributor under the IP address 217.140.193.123 ( talk · contribs) — this is actually accurate, since the anon contributes anonymously regularly, almost exclusively in biographic articles about noblesmen and royals. I lack the means (or the expertise) to confirm this, all I can say is that the "style" of writing is awfully similar, whatever that might mean. What prompted me to post this here, however, is that something rather serious has started happening: the user Antares911 has just been informed in his talk page, by Aoi, that Bhinneka has posted at least twice impersonating him (evidence provided: here and here). For all I know, this could be happening to other unaware users too. What now? Regards, Redux 14:49, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
On this page in a section called "RFC on SlimVirgin", I find I happen to think you're an asshole who fucks up everything he touches, you foolish, time-wasting bully!! [...] go ahead and complain about me if you want. It Is A Poor Example By An Ed. A Laughably Poor Example. 4.250.201.29 01:56, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
What Ed wrote can be taken at least two ways (an example of what not to do or a technique to get away with being insulting) as is what I wrote (a pun or a critisism of Ed). Is the ambiguity on purpose? Wikipedia likes to let the reader decide. 4.250.33.49 08:22, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
How can I propose a new article? - In Danish Wikipwdia I've written about krøs = crooze.
-- Baskholm 14:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
The common concensus is that the Wikipedia process involves articles that start out short and coarse, and are gradually improved, until perfection is achieved; If there are disputes, after a few edits the article will settle on an agreed-upon wording that will please all the factions.
Unfortunately, after editing in Wikipedia for almost two years, I have reached a conclusion that this view might be a bit too optimistic. Instead of articles converging towards perfection, articles "drift" aimlessly, with numerous editors making changes that improve nothing and are nothing more than a "change for the sake of changing". Unless good editors come along once in a while to steer the article back into the "perfection" direction, the articles will drift into random crap.
My case study is Ariel Sharon, an article on the controversial Israeli prime minister. I have been following this article for over a year, and summarized my observations in Talk:Ariel Sharon (the first section, titled "First Paragraph"). I showed how a certain paragraph I added was randomly mutated for no real reason, and kept on mutating for a year, until someone simply came along and deleted it entirely. And I predict this cycle to continue.
Just checking, is there a RSS feed for the article of the day? I like to read it, but a lot of stuff I get off a RSS feed to my PDA and read at work. I cannot find a RSS feed for anthing wiki but I do thing it might be a good Idea for at least the article of the day. -- 198.190.160.3 09:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
-- 220.235.42.134 15:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)Is there a Wiki policy on the use of the apostrophe in, for instance, 1970s? I notice that there are articles that say "1970's" and, as an English speaking Australian, I would say that is an unnecessary use of the apostrophe, but realise it is a 'style' thing. Richard Clark
Is a writeup on J. Random PC App considered encyclopedic? I just came across Scientific Letter which is hideously badly written, which I could clean up very easily, but which I am not sure is worth the effort, if it should't be on WP in the first place. Steve Summit 12:40, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
(not sure if this is news or misc. so posting in both)
CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE ARTICLES
In less than a month, the first WIKIMANIA wiki convention will be held. During the convention, they will award "best of" prizes for the different projects. Be sure to click the above link to nominate Wikipedia articles you think are worthy of consideration. Deadline is Aug 1, 2005 DAVODD 18:02, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at this. Comments being selectively deleted off of talk pages!
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Snowspinner&action=history
See July 14th. Ardonik's sarcastic comment is kept while the response is deleted.
Why dont we add CSS templates to wikipedia for new looks? -- Simple Man 15:11, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
If i can learn CSS good enough, yeah. -- Simple Man 20:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
With a little research you will see that AGWIII is Alvan Grayson Walker is REXJUDICATA is VATRAY is Babbie is Barbara Diaz is Barbara Rodriguez and morphes into many other aliases. He is NO expert on Parents Without Rights..... research why he has no Parental Rights with his son... was his own behvior involved? Those poor people who follow Parents Without Rights.... if they knew the truth, would they still subscribe.....
i need william rehnquists address o i can end a letter and card virginia jeffers
Send it to:
William Rehnquist United States Supreme Court Washington DC
It will find its way to the right pile. lots of issues | leave me a message 21:24, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
""Paddy" is a common Irish name and was used in the past as a pejorative to insult Irish people." from [5]
compare to the sentence also appearing in paddy wagon -- generated long before the story.
lots of issues | leave me a message 22:25, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
This is a call for anyone who wants to help stop a cabal attempting to subvert all notable and non-vanity topics in Wikipedia. Under a thin accusation of "vanity", a cabal has nominated an article about the famous site The Mushroom Kingdom. Not only has this "vanity" claim been discredited, it was also revealed that the "delete" participants nominated this for deletion because they hate that The Mushroom Kingdom's equivalence to IMDB. Most of the voters have discussed the issue and found out these factors were the main reason The Mushroom Kingdom is on vfd. Please vote "keep" on this particular listing as a blow against conspiracy that is not only openly hostile, but "vanity"-crying and anti-TMK as well. Wikipedia should be a place where notable topics can have articles without being deleted by a vast anti-TMK conspiracy. Youngblood 23:37, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
http://www.1-electric.com/articles/Richard_Rood
I ran across this on a search for the wrestler Rick Rude. Looks awfully familiar to me. Too familiar.
Can I do that?Will I infringe copyright? Tdxiang 9 July 2005 03:51 (UTC)
Antonio The Explosive Fat Man...or is that woman? Martin
Hi! Seeing that I originated the article on the Deaths in Ciudad Juarez, and, as Puerto Rican, I worry about the wellfare of all fellow Latin Americans in general, I wonder if anyone has written an article about the deaths and dissapearances of people during the Pinochet p[residency. If not, Im interested in making an npov, very well researched article about it.
Thanks and God bless!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Latinos unidos por Siempre Martin
I've started the Pornography Portal and I need your help in order to complete it. thanks. -- Haham hanuka 8 July 2005 11:53 (UTC)
In response to a discussion on wikien-l [6] [7], I've experimentally enabled a feature to allow blocked users to edit their own user talk page. I'm not expecting this to be controversial, I just wanted to let you know so that you wouldn't be confused when you see it happen. -- Tim Starling July 7, 2005 22:50 (UTC)
I see several dis-ambiguation pages that people want moved in WP:RM that I disagree with for the following reason:
All dis-ambiguation pages that are large (specifially, too large to reach the {{disambig}} footer template without scrolling down should have the "(disambiguation)" suffix in their article title to clarify that it is a dis-ambiguation page, not a list. Georgia guy 5 July 2005 22:09 (UTC)
I don't really understand the problem. I was under the impression that {{ disambig}} was meant to be a header, not a footer. Grutness... wha? 7 July 2005 23:57 (UTC)
I tried to vote today but I was shown a message saying: "Sorry, you made only 128 edits before 00:00, May 30, 2005. You need at least 400 to be able to vote." My question is, how do I find out how many edits have I made until today ? Is manually counting the number of pages under 'my contributions' the only way ? Thanks. - sikander July 5, 2005 13:34 (UTC)
I, tdxiang,would like to know if there are any articles on this kidney tumour? Tdxiang 4 July 2005 03:32 (UTC)
A friend, who I have been trying to introduce to Wikepedia, has just emailed the following: Logged in as suggested. First reaction: unnecessarily complicated compared with Google. Tony, please tell me again, briefly please, why you think its better than Google. Bless you. Thanks, Peter I am stumped for a snappy answer, apart from saying they are not the same and WP does allow the reader to contribute. Apwoolrich 2 July 2005 08:56 (UTC)
Err, that likelyhood of Wikipedia having a well-written, detailed article has become somewhat diluted. It's actually not that often. Here's a story of my own: a while back, a friend of mine was doing research for a paper (for University) on the general topic of business administration. When he researched online, he told me that he was having difficulties finding interesting, free sources. I immediately recommended Wikipedia, and since he was new to it, I helped him research here. We found the articles, but he told me that it was way too superficial and would add nothing to the basics that he already had. Since I had been boasting about Wikipedia for a while before we actually researched it, which led him to take a closer look at the project, he ended up hitting me with the following sentence: too many people writing about tv shows, not nearly enough writing about the relevant topics. Oh, the infamy! Redux 4 July 2005 04:15 (UTC)
You think one should be able to "edit" the Encyclopaedia Brittanica? Ouch!
The ultimate DIY? I prefer the work of the experts, even though they were paid! You'd rather trust a bunch of volunteers?
See " Wikification of Knowledge" by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine, excerpt: "Ward Cunningham invented the current iteration of wikis in 1995, naming them WikiWikis after the Hawaiian word for fast. Anyone who has ever been to Honolulu knows this term, since it's the name of the bus line that runs from the airport. By now, the term has been shortened by the community to wiki. To understand some of the basics of the wiki concept you have to read the entry in the Wikipedia on the consensus theory of truth—a very odd idea." -- Dvorak
A very odd idea indeed. -- 172.191.164.201 14:30, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
An article on my watch list had an edit recently. When I looked at it I found it was insertion of {{TOCright}}. Fine.
A glance at the user contributions page of the editor Special:Contributions/Ian_Pitchford though showed 90% (or lots anyway) of their edits were solely addition of {{TOCright}} to articles??
I wasn't sure where to flag this editor inserting {{TOCright}} "everywhere" (one article at a time?) for other wikipedians to cast an appraising eye. Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts are supposedly for mild-to-moderate conflict. Likewise, RFC is to complain about users/articles. I really just wish to raise his contributions for discussion for others to see if they think they're problematic or not. I don't wish to create conflict where none exists. Hence, making an RFC which'd imply a 'complaint' about him is unsuitable. It seems harmless albeit odd? He does make occasional valid contributions too. He just seems to have a a mission 90% of time involving Table of Contents - {{TOCright}}. My reaction was "huh??" Thoughts? Whitehorse1 | 28 June 2005 14:03 (UTC)
Hi,i am applying for adminship but i don't know how.How can we?I clicked on to edit but i don't know how.How can we nominate ourselves,then? tdxiang 203.124.2.14 28 June 2005 09:16 (UTC)
As a relative newcomer to Wikipedia I'm putting this here pending your telling me of betters ways.
I added a note to the article on Torsional Vibration which I include below.
{NOTE: the terms "dampener" for "damper" and "dampening" for "damping" began to gain acceptance among students of engineering as early as the middle 1970's. The meaning attached to the verb "damp" is stripped off and attached to "dampen", because of their similarity of sound and the fact that "dampen" is more familiar. Reduction of vocabulary can lead to confusion of thought as precise forms are eliminated. In later years thinking minds may well ponder how fireplace "dampeners" came to be constructed with no supply of liquid. The expanded use of "dampen" now regularly appears in engineering journals and even in NASA press releases (July, 2005 Shuttle Discovery mission)}
Wikipedia now redirects a search for "dampening" to the article on "damping" [good for you and for all users!]. However, a number of articles such as "Acoustic Dampening" could all use access to the above NOTE.
Would a general article about the misuse of terms be the best way to proceed? This could then be linked to all articles containing such terms as have been identified. Conversely, offending words could simply be changed to the correct one wherever they occur, but this would tend to leave people unaware of the change (the eye so often sees what it expects).
It may seem trivial, but I strongly believe that precision of terms is a valuable resource that we should not relinquish lightly.
Direct responses to <david_r_king at hotmail dot com> are most welcome. -- 66.72.90.149 04:25, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
If you believe a term has multiple meanings that span across articles then I suggest creating a disambugation page (a link junction) to all the articles that would fit those terms. (emailing response) lots of issues | leave me a message 23:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I've trimmed several (for want of a better term) crufty paragraphs from this article that didn't add much. I started to cut the last section, on Notable Essential Magic Traditions, but then realized I'd like a second or third or fourth opinion before I slice it. The "traditions" don't seem "notable" to me, unless someone is already a member of the forum. Joyous (talk) 03:21, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
I just read the article on Wikipedia in the July issue of Canada's Readers Digest. Your fonders, if not aware of the article, should read it. It says a lot for you guys & gals, whoever you may be. I was impressed and after visiting your website, will use it a lot more. So will my kids. And I will refer it to others as it sure beats Britannica & Encarta all to hell!!! D.B. Reid
What do you do when the pages you are making a dab for should have the same page name? e.g. Personology is both a New Age idea and the name Henry Murray gave to his type of personality psychology. However, they have nothing to do with each other. So I make a dab and since there can't be two pages with the exact name (correct), then what? Have each page be Personology (New Age) and Personology (Personality Psychology)? or some such? Thanks. Rsugden 19:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear all
I am writting about the issue of Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Slavs (like Wikipedia calls the Macedonians) and the problem between Macedonia and Greece about the term Macedonia.
giant rant snipped
Yes, you are right, I am a newbie. Don't know how Wikipedia works and don't know what is best to do. And, I am sure I am not the first one thatreacts on this issue. Obviously, it didn't change much. I noticed that many people reacted on this, including a famous USA historian (Aleksandar Donski). I even found several non-Macedonian forums characterising Wikipedia as pro-Bulgarian and pro-Greek, concerning the Macedonian issue. I have to be honest that Wikipedia helped me several times before, mostly about my IT studies. But, this was a great dissapointment. And I could see that I am not the only one. With all the respect, 62.162.196.48 15:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia is being updated constantly, and all help is welcome in our struggle to be as complete, accurate and impartial as we hope to be. A tip: now that you have created an account, please prefer editing logged in. This way, all your work will be credited to your user account, which ensures that you alone get the credit (or take the heat) for your work in Wikipedia (this is important, since IP addresses may be shared by a number of people). This will also make it much easier for people to contact you on the issues you want to discuss in the encyclopedia. Welcome to Wikipedia! Regards, Redux 18:20, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the Welcome message. I already tryed to change some things in the texts, in a very neutral way. Actually, I never erased anything, just added little text and made it more neutral. The next day EVERYTHING was deleted and the previous version was taken back. And even if I fix some things (neutrally), how will I know that some pro-Bulgarian or pro-Greek user won't change it and leave only his "side of the story"? And what about the things that I am not allowed to change? Wikipedia still calls us "Macedonian Slavs". We are partly Slavs, that is truth and noone denies that. But, we are mixure between Slavs and the Antique Macedonians that lived here before the Slavs settled (6th century). Even the CIA's factbook (which is very often used as reference in Wikipedia) doesn't deny our name: Macedonians. Why Wikipedia does? As far as I could see, there was even a voting on this issue. IT was draw: 29:29. According to the nicknames, 2/3 of the votes agains use of the name Macedonia were from Greeks or Bulgarians. On the other side, just 4 votes were by Macedonian nicknames. How can we outnumber the Greeks and Bulgarians, which together are more than 20 million people around the world, when there are just 2,5 million Macedonians all over the world? Just a Note: I am not claiming that we are the only ancestors of the Antique Macedonians. They were living in the area and they got mixed with the Greeks and with the Slavs. I beleive we both (Greeks and nowdays Macedonians) have an origin from those people (more or less) and we both should share that history. Only a fool can deny that there were great mixings between the nations on a such a little teritory, like the Balcany is. Especially when they all were of the same religion (Cristian Ortodox).
Or simply Wikipedia:Britannica mistakes If we can get this list over 100, it will be presentable as a media retort aide. I've found 2 myself. Mistakes are more common than you think. Signup for a free trial at Britannica and start fact checking our content and their content. lots of issues | leave me a message 22:38, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
hi I was reading about the Balfour Declaration, the white paper of 1939 and the many consequences of them in the creation of Israel and the instable situation over there. I thought it would be very helpfull to be able to see historical maps (in this case, of the Palestinian region in 1917, 1939, 1949 for example..) along with the articles.
Regards, Loic Ledernez loic.ledernez@gmail.com
Tomorrow 2 August will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing at Bologna, Italy railway station. I have just translated the article from the Italian Wikipedia, using the title Strage di Bologna (Italian for Bologna massacre) as mentioned in both Bologna and Bologna Central Station. However I assume a title in English - rather in Italian - would be more meaningful. Please rename it to any appropriate title you can think of. Ary29 18:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Why doesn't search show my latest updates seems to come up fairly frequently (both here and at Wikipedia:Help desk). Is the date when the search index last rebuilt available anywhere? Can we show it fairly prominently, perhaps with a link to a page that answers Why doesn't my change show up in search, on the search results page? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:04, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
Recently my friends and I have been filling alot of time (or misusing alot of time if you prefer) with a "wikigame." What one does is choose a random article (we've been doing of our own design, but using the "random article" feature should work just as well) and connecting it to another article through links in the wikipedia articles. For example, Zucchini to John Lennon turned out: " Zucchini->Britain (United Kingdom)->The Beatles->John Lennon." Hawaii to Leviticus became: "hawaii->father damien statue->catholicism->old testament->old testament books->leviticus." It's much fun, and I just thought I'd spread the love.
Top 200+ Classic Rock Songs I'm on a mission to find out what the worlds top 200 (or more) favorite Classic Rock songs are. What I want you to do is to tell me on my talk page ( click here) what your favorite Classic Rock songs are. They should be numbered 1 - 20. Your favorite song gets twenty points, second favorite 19 etc. Participation is needed and a report of the twenty top songs at the time will be on my user page. When the number of songs on the list gets past 200, I will post all of them on my user page. If you have any questions or you want to submit your favorites post it on my talk page. Long live ROCK N' ROLL. Rentastrawberry |
I have a question, I don't know where to post it, so I'm putting it here. A List of drugs was compiled and since it was a very long list (thousands of entries) was broken down into sections of a couple hundred entries each (with dividing points being at a reasonable alphabetical point) and put on wikipedia. It was a fairly simple setup and I didn't think it needed restructuring. Though someone else came along and restructured it, and now (to me) it seems to be a bit of a mess. There are many "navigation only" pages which I feel are unneccissary, and when I tried to edit the indexes (to put back in some pages that were lost in the reorganization) I found that the index pages were made of templates of templates (which made it a bit annoying to edit). So my question is, what is the best way to structure long lists such as this? I'm wary to revert the changes because some work has been done since the change and it would be an awful bother to fix up. Plus the histories of the pages would be quite a job to glue back together (the histories are already a bit of a mess now due to the changes). Thanks for any opinions. Matt 22:01, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
The big red scaring WARNING is /very/ annoying when one reverts a vandal. Every User interface design guide stresses to use such tools only in situations when something awful had happened. Overuse it and it will get ignored as nuisance. Pavel Vozenilek 19:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi,
I was just curious how many volunteers/admins monitor this site? We're considering setting up a much smaller wiki and are just curious on the amount of involvement and maintenance it will entail.
Also, is there a list of Wiki developers we could contact to assist us in setting up our Wiki and helping us with, "Best practices"?
Thanks
Get rid of this phrase "Sorry, there were no exact matches to your query," to me is too CORNY.
Spencer Karter
The stalinist manner of voting regarding the deleting of entries needs to be improved, but how?
I was fortunate enough to visit a Hutterite Colony in Manatoba last year with a group of Australian Farmers, several of us are sorry that we did not buy some of your wonderful cotton mats (woven or crochet I think. Could you email some information to me regarding size, colour and the possability of sending our to Australia. I did buy MukLuks slippers for my grandaughter, they are a big hit. A list of other craft for sale and suitable to post would be appreciated. I wish you well and hope to have a reply from you soon.
I am not sure where to post this but I would like people to watch User:129.173.105.28. This user has removed metric units and left no comment. See Marblehead Lighthouse and Shasta Lake. There are a few users hostile to metric units that remove them. Some users claim support from the current version Manual of Style and/or have revised it to be consistent with such action.
Ironically, a revised wording was proposed to deal with this problem. In order to get agreement, the proposal is now in the 10th version. Feel free to join in. Bobblewik 09:15, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
How can I take a look at new Images is some kind of gallery? -- 84.154.133.130 22:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Concerning the image on the right:
Is that smiley supposed to be here? I'm thinking this is some sort of joke and I'm not sure if this is the way it's supposed to be or not, but if you could help me figure this out, that'd be great. Nameneko 07:06, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I am removing text that appears to be website spam and or POV rant. Here is the original posting: [11]. Func( t, c ) 16:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
My first relative to America came from Hamburg, on a ship named Neptune, December 12, 1754 at age 18. I am a seeker of truth and want to know if my last name David is of jewish orgin. Is there any lists of names anywhere those entering Germany at that century and form where? So much religious uphevel at this time in history and changes for unknown reasons. Can anyone help in my quest? Sincerly, Ronald David
What can i do when my account is hijacked?Someone hijacked it to vandalise articles.What can i do? Tdxiang 06:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I was playing around with a few things, and created this User Infobox.
Born | November 10th, 1990 |
Current Age | 14.5 |
Locale | Brooklyn, New York |
Country | United States |
Date Joined Wikipedia | April 2005 |
Education (Current/Former) | Benjamin Banneker Academy; 10th Grade as of Fall |
Could this be expanded? Pacific Coast Highway; Temporarily 165.155.128.134 17:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has there been a large influx recently of anonymous editors with an antisemitic agenda? I've noticed quite a few nasty edit wars going on. JFW | T@lk 14:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I've just created the article Bad wolf mentions in Doctor Who, but obviously nothing links to it yet. It needs to be linked to from all of the 2005 episodes of Doctor Who, from Fictional websites in Doctor Who, The Doctor (Doctor Who), Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Ninth Doctor and possibly Dalek. I will do some myself, of course.-- 84.51.149.80 07:05, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Er - it's not out of the way. One of the sites it linked too says that all its bandwidth got used up on a discussion about it. There has been intense speculation about it. It is an important part of the series, affecting all the characters etc mentioned.-- 84.51.149.80 06:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
It's being dealt with by the Doctor Who Wikiproject. -- khaosworks 06:17, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
I have noticed that as an user I've lost the right to move an article. What was the reason ? Ericd 21:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thanks so much for the link to the farsi wikipedia :)
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gosh i think that Wikipedia is definitely the BEST resource on the internet! i love it soo much! you have the best most interesting most detailed information on EVERYTHING!!! everything i searched for: oprah winfrey, norooz (persian new year), bandari, persian music, LOL (internet slang), EVERYTHING! and for that i just LOVE this site. i would like to make a tiny request: could you PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE have Farsi (persian) as one of your languages to view this site in? you have almost every other language so i was hoping you would put Farsi as a way to view the site too. Not only would i be grateful, Iranians all around the world would be very happy to know that the coolest site on the internet is in Farsi too! Thanks soooooo much!
thanks so much :)
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Can someone tell me if this redirect was needed? The page already existed, yet the user created a new page of the same topic, and redirected the older page. [13] -- 69.204.190.91 17:01, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Beta m and his freenet spamming. mikka (t) 19:52, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
I thought this up while reading a recent RfC. I think it expresses a difference of attitude well. It may also be a simple small/large dichotomy. I'm not a sociologist or a psychologist, and maybe someone else has said it better before. I still wanted to share it with the rest of you. The exposition is intended to be neutral; I'm not trying to imply one is right and the other is wrong—as presented I'm pretty sure they're both wrong when consistently applied, for different reasons.
JRM · Talk 11:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Will someone please comment on the selective removal of my vote from a poll? I have summarized it on the relevant discussion page. Maurreen (talk) 06:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)