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I hope this is the right place for this type of thing, I wasn't sure where else to put it. I've already mentioned it on the discussion page for two of the articles in question, but I wanted to mention it somewhere that others would see it, not just those checking the specific articles.
When I typed "Tom Wilson" into the search field and hit "Go", I was looking for the Back to the Future actor, but instead I was lead to the producer. Now, I know that there's a small group of people on the producer's discussion page hailing him as a hero and whatnot, but is he really the primary Tom Wilson that someone should be automatically taken to when looking up the article for that name? Between the aforementioned actor and the Ziggy cartoonist, I submit that there's no real justification to say that any of these 3 is necessarily more likely than the others to be the person someone's looking for when they look up the name. I propose that the article currently called "Tom Wilson" be renamed to Tom Wilson (producer), and that Tom Wilson be changed to redirect to the Thomas Wilson disambig page. It might also be a good idea to start removing some of the people from the list, since more than half of the links are currently red. - Ugliness Man 10:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to add a note that I'm now taking this page off my watchlist, so if anyone wants to discuss this with me for some reason, please do so on my talk page. - Ugliness Man 11:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Any help here would be appreciated. For a while, almost all submissions have been entirely untouched. Patstuart talk· edits 18:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know something about the difference between the two according to US law? If so could you check out the discussion on Talk:David Miscavige? It seems like the two are being confused and someone is saying that a copyright has to be renewed every year. Thanks if you can help. Steve Dufour 19:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Primex7 22:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I just got a message (reprinted here) through my wiki email. Anyone else get this? I was just wondering if I have to register to "establish the ultimate scourge" or if I'm automatically enrolled as a member of the cabal?-- Isotope23 15:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I believe LENS (the new technology) should also be listed on the Lens page...
see www.ochslabs.com
thanks
chris collins, st. louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.107.123.78 ( talk • contribs) 14:10, 3 March 2007
If there's a "Lens" disambiguation page, then you can add it to the list. You can also write an article on it, as long as it conforms to Wikipedia standards. Eilicea 16:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
By definition :) -- bainer ( talk) 16:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I would vote for between one day, since people come and go every day, and as long as civilization lasts, since WP is such a great thing and there is no reason for it to go away -- the community will continue long after our lifetimes. Steve Dufour 19:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
When the whole current community can go fork somewhere, it's rather hard to kill it. - Amarkov moo! 19:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Voting is evil. Corvus cornix 22:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the last option. The content will exist forever, at least. The community's operation depends on the server's, so I trust that the latter will work. At least this isn't a ballot ("how long would like like Wikipedia to exist?") Gracenotes T § 02:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
This has been reported on Talk:Barbara Schwarz. What do you think? Steve Dufour 00:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there any discussion in Wikipedia on this humorous and very high profile mention on the April 5 show? I thought it was very funny, because the principle of Wikipedia does sound pretty silly when you say it like he did, that "anyone in the world can edit it" and that's a good thing. I happen to think it is a great thing, but it does sound ridiculous when you outright say it like he did. It was perfect for that character and show. Spalding 17:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I tried this for the first time today. I was really very impressed with the quality of the articles that came up in a dozen or so tries. It makes WP look a lot better than some of the controversies you run into on the discussion pages. Steve Dufour 21:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
iam unable to fold my iorn board could you suggest me some ideas 68.100.249.46 17:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been thinking about stable versions and something occurred too me. Would the templates have to have a stable version along with pictures? My guess is that not being able to edit articles, those would be the prime targets for trolls and vandals. Comments? The Placebo Effect 23:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm posting here just in case I've overlooked something really really obvious: I'm about to nominate Category:Fundamental for deletion, because it seems to be quite redundant to Category:Main topic classifications to me. Now, have I missed some obvious differences between the two categories? Is there a good reason to have two different "main" categories?-- Conti| ✉ 23:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2007 April 8 there are many images still not deleted, eventhough it recieved delete votes. And the APril 8 page is off the WP:IFD list. So how does this system work then? When will these images be deleted? (of course I'm particularly interested in the images I nominated) -- Spundun 16:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Over on Talk:Gibraltar, a Gibraltarian user is objecting to the inclusion of the template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain on the grounds that it's a "foreign project" and that it includes an unacceptable "nationalist symbol" (i.e. the Spanish flag). In conjunction with this, he is attempting to remove either the template or the flag from the template. Bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not censored to meet particular points of view, I'd be grateful if previously uninvolved users could take a look and provide their views at Talk:Gibraltar#Flag. -- ChrisO 15:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I use {| id="EnWpMpBook2" style="width:95%; height:100px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0% 20%;background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #88a; -moz-border-radius:10px; margin-left: 2.5%; margin-top: 2.5%;" |} on my userpage, which gives whats at the bottom of this post.
Does anyone know what I could replace EnWpMpBook2 with? or what the id=" " part of it does? I pulled the script out of another userpage and I think it came from an alternative main page - but I would like to change the image. As I said, no importance but it's been bugging me for a while - even if i could find the script that id=" " links to, I could probably figure it out.
Thanks, ...adam... ( talk • contributions) 22:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[1] > the user who deleted this picture from this article says this picture is irrelevant and I completely disagree. It was included in a section untitled "Criticism of and opposition to Mugabe" so it's not irrelevant to show a demonstration against him. It's totally neutral to show a demonstration. It would have been irrelevant if it was written something like "fair demonstration against Mugabe's crimes" under it but it wasn't. Moreover, there aren't many pictures in this article so I think such a picture was welcomed. Of course, I have to admit that I might not be objective since it's my picture but I wanted to know what people generally thought about it before trying to restore it. Thanks. -- Two Wings (jraf ) 08:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've learned that WP can be a useful tool in some narrow fields if taken with a grain of caution; in others, it can be an amusing distraction. So I read it. Fortunately, I have enough background that I can tell BS from GS and if I don't like what I read, I can go read something else.
I don't edit anymore. I think it's stupid and pointless; WP is consumed by idiot Sunday-afternoon-book-club politics. I don't want to get any more silly, smarmy, cowardly talk page notices telling me how somebody wants to delete stuff I did years ago. I'm not going to argue plain facts with blinkered fanatics.
If you want to delete it, delete it. Don't be pussies. Just do it. — Xiong 熊 talk * 02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
World War II casualties 71.102.27.14 19:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
What would the CSD tag be for a vandal only picture? It has no other uses. Thanks. - Hair chr m 18:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
By definition :) -- bainer ( talk) 16:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I would vote for between one day, since people come and go every day, and as long as civilization lasts, since WP is such a great thing and there is no reason for it to go away -- the community will continue long after our lifetimes. Steve Dufour 19:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
When the whole current community can go fork somewhere, it's rather hard to kill it. - Amarkov moo! 19:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Voting is evil. Corvus cornix 22:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the last option. The content will exist forever, at least. The community's operation depends on the server's, so I trust that the latter will work. At least this isn't a ballot ("how long would like like Wikipedia to exist?") Gracenotes T § 02:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia has become what most people dread. Let me explain myself, when I first came here in 2003, I fell in love with Wikipedia because it was so different to other encyclopedias as it aimed to be. No other encyclopedia in the world can boast of having an article about Jose Luis Ramirez, which I wrote by the way.
Wikipedia could attract people from the "other side of town" into learning in an entertaining way. Those students and children or grown ups who are bored by Britannica and the other, uptight encyclopedias that seem designed so that only highly intelligent people and those who did not need to learn in the first place can enjoy it. You can bring that "wikipedia is not..." all you want, but as writers we are also teachers and it is our responsability to teach those who are hungry for learning, as well as those who already have knowledge. So if it says somewhere Wikipedia is not a school, well, all serious encyclopedias are schools anyways.
Which is my leading, but not only, argument, to the new, exaggerated measures taken by Wikipedia's new blood, people who werent even here to begin this wonderful project in the first place but who have taken it upon themselves to make sure Wikipedia becomes ridiculously meticulous and strict-exactly what Wikipedia did not want in principle to be, another Britannica or Webster's.
Take Genieveve Jones, for example. She has become a large celebrity, even labeled as The Black Paris Hilton over the internet. I was going to reinstate her article until I found out you have to put 5 tags and let 5 people know that it will be reinstated, so that the people who voted for it to be deleted can put it for deletion again. Do you see what I mean?????? A Harvard professor or a laureate, for example, thinks she is not worth it, therefore they out it for deletion, 15 scientifics vote for it to be deleted because shes not notable in their fields and the article is once again deleted. Despite her obvious celebrity (look on the internet), some deem her not to be important-she is gone. Some 15 people who are closed inside their labs and not obvious to what's going on around the world, and who decide to go against the millions who do know who she is, therefore making her a celebrity no matter what 15 people think, but the 15 people have her deleted...ha!
Carol Castellano, a very significant personality in boxing and International Boxing Hall of Fame shoe in dies and her death is listed by VERY RESPECTABLE wikipedians, and other wikipedians who don;t have a clue about the HISTORIC sport of Boxing delete her name just because they in particular don't know her. Ms Castellano judged more than 60 world title fights around the world and the entire world of boxing is saddened by her parting. Tell me her death is not significant. The Carol Castellano who is president of some animal organization may have more websites but Carol Castellano the boxing judge is likely to become a Hall of Famer in Boxing, and the Carol Castellano director of something is likely to retire into oblivion.
Not to talk about Judith Pizarro, not known in the USA but known by about 80% of the 4 million Puerto Ricans residing in th8at island, yet someone says she's not notable and erases her name from the recent deaths list.
Another item is that, lately, there seems to be an unwritten Wikipedia law that those related to celebrities shouldn't have articles about themselves despite their own celebrity. Skylar Neil became a celebrity apart from her dad, Vince Neil, because of her tragic disease. She even has a fund named AFTER HER, a celebrity goldf tournament and an MTV feature. Clara Benitez is mentioned commonly in Puerto Rican newspaper as an important woman in the boxing world. But their articles redirect to their relatives, in Clara's case, Wilfred Benitez. They are CELEBRITIES, or at least well known, whether their relatives are more famous or not. Soon we may have Ashlee Simpson redirected to Jessica Simpson just because. Relatives of famous people who have gained fame on their own should not have their own articles redirected. Else we can begin by redirecting Prince Harry's article. He is worldwide famous but only because of who he was born to, otherwise no one would care what school he went to or what scandal he caused.
Wikipedia needs to go back to the simpler, easier format encyclopedia everyone liked. A potential Wikipedian who may be a young teen or a person who had before never been interested in encyclopedias-a potential benefactor of Wikipedia's vast article list-writes about his or her favorite New York Knick basketball player and some highly rated law student puts the page for deletion, and the new writer comes back and sees his or her article about said basketball player on a vote for deletion two days after it was written. Do you think that's a way to encourage people to come to our website and learn or expand their knowledge?? NO.
Wikipedia needs to go back to the simpler, friendlier while also watchful encyclopedia it once was. Wikipedia's fathers ran it VERY WELL like that.
Antonio Outspoken One Martin 9:48 GST, April 2, 2007
This is a classic example of the battle between the good and the perfect. If every article had to be perfect we'd have precious few articles available. I say lighten up a bit on the need for excruciating source attribution, lots of articles simply don't need it. Perhaps there should be an easy way for the contributor to indicate they don't have source references and they are contributing on a "best efforts" basis. Or perhaps the wikipedia software could use some algorithm to assign a "credibility rating" on an automatic basis.
GregInCanada
02:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
This user has been actively contributing to Bhagwan Swaminarayan and related topics. He has uploaded a lot of images which maybe copyvios. To begine with he is licensing all of them as self-GFDL, but he himself is stating on most images that he got them from either http://www.swaminarayan.org/ or http://www.swaminarayan.info/ or some other similar website. And those websites are copyrighted.
Here are the images he's uploaded.
These images are orphaned and could be deleted, they are probably all copyvios anyway.
These are pictures of the idols at places, again these pics are obtained from the websites I mentioned so are copyrighted. However the statues are in a temple (public place), can its images be copyrighted? Also, some idols might be old enough to be PD by itself, what are people's thoughts on this? Can these images be considered PD?
These are images of the head of a faction, taken from the website, I don't think these can be used by us, neither free, nor fair-use, right?
These are pictures of temple buildings, taken from the websites. I am not sure.... copyrightable? I'm leaning towards yes.
A book cover used in an article on the (religeous book) I think its valid faiuse (though ALL these images are uploaded as self-GFDL right now).
This is a scanned/photographed copy of a (possible reproduction of a) very old iconic image. I believe this can be PD, since the first such image was published more than a hundred years back. (though this image's hard copy might be more recent)... so I think this one can be PD, (but don't yet know which tag to use, any suggestions?)
This is a 3D model of a museum (under construction), definitely copyrighted. Can this be fair use? since the actual museum is not yet there, we can't get a free picture of it. Can we use this as fair use in the section Swaminarayan_Sampraday#Swaminarayan_Sampraday_Developments ? I don't think so.
I'd greatly appreciate if you guys would comment on these. Thank you --
Spundun
17:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't get involved as a "write user" often around here, just when I'm utterly bored... I couldn't help but to check up on the few wikipedians I know of around here. I couldn't help but to notice this:
User:ILovePlankton's userpage
Don't want to beat dead horses, but this whole story around "Nathanrdotcom" has gone way out of control. That story put aside, it's a nice letter. mimithebrain 06:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across a nearly 700k talk page Talk:Scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming which I've just set up for automatic archiving. This is a new size record for me but I'm wondering if other editors have encountered larger talk pages and also what's the largest article people have come across? Nil Einne 21:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Yoghurt&diff=2256228&oldid=2041822
The spelling was already standardized, as can clearly be seen. Editing an article to change the spelling of an already-established term (with a misleading summary, no less, to imply that it is not yet standardized) is in clear violation of the manual of style WP:ENGVAR (as of then), quoted here:
We've all heard it before, many times. But this edit is different. Why, you may ask? This edit changed the established spelling "Yogurt" to "Yoghurt", in 2003. -- Random832 06:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
How does one become a bureaucrat of the English Wikipedia? Itayb 09:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm rather disturbed by all the news I'm seeing, in which the co-founder of Wikipedia is saying that it's "broken beyond repair", citing "serious management problems", "a dysfunctional community", "frequently unreliable content", and "a whole series of scandals" (example link http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2187672/wikipedia-broken-beyond-repair ) - is this really true? And if it is, should Wikipedia continue in its present form, or should we all now be looking at and contributing to the new version, Citizendium? There must be some background to this - does anyone know what it is? (I for one don't want to continue working with something that has been publicly discredited and which no-one trusts!) I feel this issue should be addressed by the Wikipedia administration, and urgently, otherwise people will lose faith - it seems such a pity to let so much work possibly go to waste. I wonder if you could you put out a statement on this, please? I think that the Wikipedia community need to be reassured (or otherwise). Jaycey 11:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm still here. I like the idea of NPOV, and I still think it can work, but we have to get back to basics - restore our commitment to our core principles.
Over the last months many article talk pages have been used to announce within the range which WikiProject the article belongs. Interdisciplinary articles sometimes got a large list of these tags.
But recently I've seen attempts of Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal to tag articles which have a paranormal connection only in widest of all imaginable senses: Like the archaelogy article Megalith or the physics article Homopolar generator. Together with alarming interpretation of this tagging as "area of jurisdiction", I'd very much prefer these articles not under paranormal jurisdiction. And I'm not convinced that a straw poll at the project's talk page will do anything good about the issue:
Comments? Suggestions?
Pjacobi 10:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been thinking about stable versions and something occurred too me. Would the templates have to have a stable version along with pictures? My guess is that not being able to edit articles, those would be the prime targets for trolls and vandals. Comments? The Placebo Effect 23:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
The status of the WP:FRINGE guideline has been questioned. It has been suggested that an RFC/straw poll could help determine if the guideline has community consensus or not. Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Fringe theories#RFC - Does this guideline have consensus?. Blueboar 12:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to include an image found on Wikimedia Commons into an article I have been writing. But I could not find quickly how to do it. From some of the comments I saw on other talk pages I am not the only one to have had this problem. So having eventually found the information, to make life easier for those who may need the same information, I have converted Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons from a redirect into an article that is optimised to describe how to display a Wikicommons image in a Wikipedia article. As the page is new and to date I am the only one to have edited it I would appreciated more eyes to help improve the article. -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I do a fair bit of editing and creating of sites about Australian music, particularly heavy metal as it's a bit of a special subject and I have a website The Australian Metal Guide dedicated to it. Lately I have found that another editor here is directing cutting and pasting from my site to WP in order to create new entries. I've rewritten most of them so they aren't directly lifted from my site, but I keep finding them and I'm rather peeved. It appears the same fellow is lifting logos and images from Metal Archives and I've noticed they are being deleted. What can I do about this guy, if anything? BrianFG 07:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
On the norwegian Wikipedia, when you click "Upload a file" you see a page wich explains how you should upload a file in different situations ( See it here) Maybe this is an idea for the English Wikipedia? Dvyjones t· c· e 15:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons -- Philip Baird Shearer 22:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
This is interesting. We have the article Yury Chernavsky. We have the user User:Chernavsky George Yury. Apparently the same person. The user page redirects to the article; it appears the user page was moved to article space. ( User talk:Chernavsky George Yury likewise redirects to Talk:Yury Chernavsky.) The primary contributor (almost sole contributor) to the article is the user. Possible WP:AUTO problem there, but that's not what I'm interested in right now. For the sake of discussion, let's assume the article stays. My question is, is there any precedent that shows the community's opinion on having a notable Wikipedian's user page and talk page redirect to the article pages? It seems wrong to me, but I'm having trouble articulating why. — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 07:26, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to the many who've seriously improved Plug-in hybrid over the past week, and ask for your help in copy-editing. Could you have a look through the article, please, for unclear prose, and try to make it more clear if you find any? Thanks in advance. James S. 13:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
As a player of Twisted Metal 4, I happen to know that the song: Closing Time [Live] is the song played in the Neon City level.
Time's Running Out is the one played in the next level.
Cypress Hill does Closing Time [Live] in Neon City.
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What exactly would the script that I would type into my User page to get the clock from http://zfacts.com/p/793.html onto the page? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I just want to know how do users used to make barnstars and make them into different colours. Do users use free softwares or not? Thanks! -- Jacklau96 10:53, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I've returned to WP after some time, with a fresh ID.
I used to look at the NewPages list now and again. There was a lot of junk there, but a significant amount of stuff that looked as if it could be worthwhile. Even some articles that already were worthwhile.
Now I look there and almost all I see is kiddy talk. It's a mixture of (1) possibly earnest attempts at writing up trivia/juvenilia, and (2) mere babble.
Are people becoming stupider? Is WP attracting the under-ten demographic? Have most of the worthwhile articles already been started? Really, I wonder.
I thought of marking this stuff with the "speedy this, it's obviously vapid" template. But I'd mark 90% of it. Some team of sysops might as well go through the whole lot, rather than the tagged 90%. But what a waste of their time that would be.
I'm starting to wonder if first edits should be made to follow a short general knowledge test: Five questions, like "Name the person who first reached the south pole." The knowledge (derivable from non-vandalized WP articles wouldn't be an issue but what might be is the need for an attention span of more than just a few seconds. Then most of the silly people, drunks, infants, etc. could stay with Myspace or Neopets; less timewasting for people who actually want to improve articles, less silliness for people who actually want to be informed. Morenoodles 08:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I think the way to do it would be to replace the content of MediaWiki:Newarticletext with <span style="text-decoration: blink; font-size: 20pt">[[WP:NOT|<span style="color:red;">Wikipedia is neither myspace nor an advertising service!</span>]]</span> Using it as such will get your pages deleted. , which produces
Wikipedia is neither myspace nor an advertising service! Using it as such will get your pages deleted.
I can't see anyone ignoring that. MER-C 09:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I see that info boxes can be helpful in many situations. However, in some cases, I find them redundant and too much like "lists". In the case of theatrical plays, for example, some editors are insisting on listing all or many of the characters in a play, or every producer of a movie (which can be quite a few these days). I also feel that the over use of these boxes gives a feeling of dumbing down of an article - sort of like using cliff notes to write a report instead of reading the whole article. Listing all the scene locations for many plays would be equally cumbersome. In fact, for the most part, all the information in these boxes is typically found in the first paragraph or two of the article itself. Isn't this redundant? Are not these just more lists that duplicate the information in the articles? Are these boxes mandatory for plays and musicals? I am concerned that we are turning some articles from encyclopedia entries into USA TODAY stories with these little boxes that make it easier to avoid actually learning about the subject, as opposed to simply getting a few quick facts. Smatprt 16:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I found a WP article which is, well, questionable, in my opinion. As per the instructions I found on the RFC page, I posted to the talk page. The writer of the questionable phrase in anonymous. If he wasn't, would he be notified (by email?) of my post? So where do I discuss this? Is this the right forum? Should I post an RFC? Is there any point in my talk page post at all? The page in question, BTW, is "Hitachi Travelstar". Sailor.nir 12:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we able to create articles on ourselves or someone we know?
Thank you. KieranMullen
Thank you for your response. It is probably a good policy. I am watching this page and I did not get an email. Is there a wikipedia village pump newsgroup or standard web forum? Posting in this manner is really clumsy.
Thanks again
KieranMullen
I'm working on my final project for my Multimedia Reporting class at KU. It's over Wikipedia editing and how much it re-establishes the site's credibility. I'm looking for editors who would be interested in being interviewed for my story. I need both involved volunteer editors and hired staff. If interested, please message me back. My username is Luke J-School. Luke J-School 15:40, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Vital articles. These are articles essential to an encyclopedia. Please help out. Expand any stubs. Cleanup the messy articles. Make sure the articles are comprehensive and well-written. That list is a shame. Let's all work together to bring all of those articles up to quality standards. Vassyana 13:07, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Just a story on News.com.au but thought it maybe of interest. Wikipedia guru opens new era -- Bidgee 01:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Also: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/save-wales-from-chasers-spruiker/2007/04/26/1177459849504.html Rafy 06:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Jimmy Wales has been "attacked" by Andrew Hanson on the chaser's war on everything. You can see the vid at http://www.videowikinews.spaces.live.com/ --talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 13:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Brazil Collaboration was created!!! João Felipe ( Let's talk! ) 21:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
The current
Brazil Collaboration is . Every month a different Brazil-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can. |
I posted Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_April_7#Image:North_American_hardiness_zones.jpg some time ago. I understand that there might be back log (although it's the only file from this date which has not been addressed). More distressing though, is that someone keeps clobbering the ifd template and discussion comments on the NA hardiness image itself; with no history. I can only imagine that it is P199 who was tipped off by my adherence to policy (posting to his talk), and is somehow displeased yet unwillingly to share his thoughts on the matter. -- Belg4mit 14:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
If I decide to cancel my Wikipedia Account what would I need to do? John R G 20:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Lets see what if I want to cancel my account and not be able to log back on. John R G 21:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a barnstar I can award to the funny guy who put the "future event" tag on the following articles? I can sort of understand 22nd century, but 23rd century, 24th century, 25th century, 26th century, 27th century, 28th century, 29th century, and 30th century? "This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future events. It may contain information of a tentative nature and the content may change dramatically as the event approaches and more information becomes available." Oh, please!! I wonder if those tags will be a candidate for the longest-lasting tags, hanging around for nearly a thousand years until the events take place? I think Talk:8th millennium sums things up quite nicely. Well, actually, I learnt something from that, so ferreting through those pages wasn't entirely useless. And thank goodness someone eventually ran out of steam... It took Ultimate fate of the universe to bring me back to reality. Nice navboxes though, making it easy to click through the whole series from 10th millennium BC up to the 11th millennium and beyond (and nearer our own time, clicking through the centuries is nice and informative as well). Unfortunately, going a bit further back, I discovered some original synthesis going on at Timetable of the Precambrian, with theories presented as actually happening as part of a historical timeline... The final part of this impromtu tour, from there to the Big Bang, will have to await another night. Carcharoth 03:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
does anyone know anything about writing a fiction book? i have tried to find out but i am overwhemeld and can't find a free leason or article to help me write my book.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jclindsay007 ( talk • contribs)
Vanity gallery was an article I contributed a small bit to a few months ago, but now it's not there anymore -- Even my contribution list doesn't have it. If I hadn't mentioned it on the talk page of Vanity press I might not even have remembered it. I haven't dug much into the mechanics of Wikipedia, but what happened? I'd be the first to admit it wasn't a great article (I can cheerfully do that because I didn't write it.) -- a small definition and a long list of galleries with their fees. It wasn't great, but certainly something on the subject is worth doing. Artemis-Arethusa 00:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I have conducted a survey on this topic and found that it takes, on average about 10 hours to revert serious vandalism to featured articles. Questions and debate are welcomed on the survey talk page. You can find the study at user:Colonel Chaos/study. Colonel Chaos 20:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. Please, help. João Felipe ( Let's talk! ) 17:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Jimmy Wales has been "attacked" by Andrew Hanson on the chaser's war on everything. You can see the vid at http://www.videowikinews.spaces.live.com/ --talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 13:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
When "Portal:Football" is entered a disambiguation page appears, giving the reader a choice between "Association football", "American football", and "Australian rules football". Not so with the search term "Portal:Soccer", however. With that search terem there is an automatic redirect to English football, i.e., "Association football", and not to a disambiguation page, as I think should be done.
I would strongly suggest that a disambiguation page should be shown for the search term "Portal:Soccer". I suggest this because "Soccer" is the universally used term for the sport in North America. Also, in my thinking, automatic redirection of the general term "Soccer" to "Association football" is inappropriate for an international encyclopedia.
And was this redirect done recently? And possibly unilaterally? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that just a few weeks ago (or less) the portals "Sports" and "Games" were separate portals, but no longer. For whatever reason, now both are grouped together as "Portal:Sports and Games". What seems particularly odd to me is that "Video games" are grouped in this new portal, but there is no grouping for traditional board games such as Chess, Checkers, Goh, Konane, Backgammon, Monopoly, and Scrabble.
Any help?
K. Kellogg-Smith 21:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
While wandering around just now, I discovered Category:Snow Wikis. I must say, I've never seen a category page like this one before. I'm assuming that it should not be left as is, but what should be done with it? Nyttend 15:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Where can I find the most recent count of the number of editors for Wikipedia? I'm still new on here, so I suck at navigating. Hit me back on my talk page. Luke J-School 18:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
What is this phrase supposed to mean?? This is the English Wikipedia, because English is the name of the language that it is written in. Thus, this statement implies the existence of a language called American, which there is not. Any faulty info in my descrption of the phrase?? Georgia guy 23:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a polite way to remind people to take care when reverting vandalism? I just spent some time repairing Francis Bacon. I found it in an obviously truncated state, and eventually tracked down the major vandalism, the effects of which can be seen here. That loss of a massive chunk of the article lasted for over 5 days. Would it be rude of me to ask those who part-reverted the vandalism, but failed to restore the cut sections, to be more careful next time? It is this sort of vandalism that is difficult to spot after a few weeks have passed, and very difficult to repair if the page has been heavily edited since. Increasingly, I get the impression that the history of an article may often contain relevant information that is not in the current version. If I may put my crystal ball spectacle on for a moment, a future industry may grow up around mining the history of Wikipedia pages for little nuggets of information not recorded anywhere else... Carcharoth 17:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
What do users think is the best featured article? -- Hadz Talk 11:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
You excpect an answer? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Try the random generator at Wikipedia:Featured content. Carcharoth 03:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
The KLF won a wikimania award. 86.31.103.208 13:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I was impressed with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Steve Dufour 04:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion as to who won what medal in ice hockey during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Obviously the United States won the gold. However, some people, including me, have mistakenly placed Finland with the silver, and the USSR with the bronze. This is being reflected in some player articles having the wrong medal credited to them. I personally went back and forth with Fetisov's article. The confusion lies in how hockey standings are used during the Olympics. In the Olympics, playoffs are "round-robin" and a point system is used, a win counts as 2 points, a tie 1 point, similar to the NHL. This is what determines who gets what medal. So officially, the USA got the gold with 5 points, the USSR got the silver with 4 points, and Sweden got the bronze with 2 points. Finland placed fourth with 1 point. With that said, it looks like 1980 Olympic Ice Hockey player's articles for the four teams mentioned above in Wikipedia are going to have to be looked though to make sure credit is given where credit is due. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maximus92 ( talk • contribs) 15:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
I've seen a number of deletion discussions recently , where the reason for a keep or delete "vote" has been false (for example "delete - single use templates are bad" - the template is used on more than one page; "keep - Google shows this is notable " - another editor had already described in detail how the Google results all referred to a different meaning of the term concerned). I realise that some of these issues may be value judgements, but many are clearly not. Do closing admins take such matters into account? If not, should they? Andy Mabbett
I'd appreciate any comments from the wider community on the discussion going on here concerning the scope of WikiProjects and what pages they should and shouldn't be tagging. Thanks. Carcharoth 23:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
This is [2] screenshot of BKUNIX, a GPLed operating system. But it also contains some output by computer's ROM including bootup messages, indicator string at the top of the screen and the font of the letters is also ebeeded in ROM. How should I proprly provide the license information?-- Dojarca 07:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please explain the point of having a simple english language? Is the only point of this language for some kind of mockery of english speakers? I honestly do not get it... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Moistspike ( talk • contribs) 04:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
There is no solution to the edit-warring problem. Every tactic we use can be used by our opponents. As Wikipedia grows to encompass the world it will be riven by conflict just as the world is.
Information can be shared, but control cannot. In the end, someone gets their way and someone doesn't. Stability requires totalitarianism; freedom implies chaos.
Some people cannot share the same world. If they cannot be given different worlds (different Wikipedias) they will fight over what is available.
I am sorry I cannot help you.
-- Ideogram 10:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
There are plenty of Wikipedia editors who refuse to accept that principle. What do we do with them? -- Fuarco 20:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I have detected that there's a trend to not use common language terms and expression but to give articles and article names a exaggerated sense that everyone and everything is a scientific phenomenon and not part of the shared human experience. It needs to described in specialist terminology. There's an expression of distance, as if we needed the perspective of Martians to write about humans for a human audience.
Stories about people become anthropology. Articles about organizations and institutions become an analysis of ideologies. Maybe this tone of scientism is motivated by editors seeking objectivity, but it seems awkward and strange to me. To others I believe it might obscure what is actually meant by the editor, or to a marginal reader of English result in an unreadable article. patsw 15:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Vanity gallery was an article I contributed a small bit to a few months ago, but now it's not there anymore -- Even my contribution list doesn't have it. If I hadn't mentioned it on the talk page of Vanity press I might not even have remembered it. I haven't dug much into the mechanics of Wikipedia, but what happened? I'd be the first to admit it wasn't a great article (I can cheerfully do that because I didn't write it.) -- a small definition and a long list of galleries with their fees. It wasn't great, but certainly something on the subject is worth doing. Artemis-Arethusa 00:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology which now includes 240 articles. There seem to be about 100,000 Scientologists in the world so there is one article for every about 420 of them. Do you think this is a little bit too much? Thanks. Steve Dufour 11:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts has 319 articles, Wikipedia:WikiProject The Simpsons has 745 articles, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Nintendo has 1,608 articles. Smee 15:58, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
Here is where I got the number 240: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Scientology articles by quality statistics. There are now 247 Scientology articles. When the count reaches 250 there will be one article for about every 400 Scientologists in the world. Steve Dufour 17:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Starting from the beginning of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology/publicwatchlist here are some that have no cites from secondary sources (which discuss the topic of the article): Altered texts in Scientology doctrine, Andreas Heldal-Lund, ARC (Scientology), and Author Services Inc.. That does it for the A's. Steve Dufour 14:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm going hit the last article, Freewinds, with a notability template and see what happens. Steve Dufour 21:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Lots of S's: Safe Environment Fund, Sara Northrup, Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics, Scientology 8-8008, Scientology cross I contributed to this one, Scientology holidays, ScienTOMogy at least it cites itself, Security Check Children, Source (magazine), Squirreling I corrected the info on real squirrels, Standard Tech, Straightwire, Study Tech. Steve Dufour 02:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Scientology Finance was not on the watchlist but seems to have serious problems. Steve Dufour 05:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
The first comment on this topics says, "There seem to be about 100,000 Scientologists in the world ..." However our article on the Church of Scientology says: "The Church has said that it has anywhere from eight million to fifteen million members world-wide, and has stated that Scientology is "the fastest growing religion in the world."" - Will Beback · † · 21:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
A big jump today! There are now 272 Scientology articles. Steve Dufour 00:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
The article on Ken Ogger, an ex-Scientologist trying to get on with his life, has now been nominated for deletion. This one might have a chance. The count is still 272. Steve Dufour 15:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Compared with other religions, this is pretty scant coverage. There are 17,800 pages mentioning moonies, 2,080 pages mentioning sikhism, 3,110 pages mentioning falun gong... -- Infrangible 23:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Articles per Scientologists is a rather misleading measure of overcovered, undercovered or anything of the like. 10800 pages on Wikipedia use the name "George Washington", using the google method used above. Does that mean that George Washington is overcovered? No it means he's famous. I could go on with similar examples. The US Supreme Court has nine members and is mentioned 5170 times (and 3010 times as Supreme Court of the United States), does that seem overcovered? No, because those articles are notable and important. The category United States Supreme Court has more than 355 pages in the main category and principal subcategories. That's more pages than scientology for an organization with only nine members. Cool3 21:37, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
You're missing (or perhaps disagreeing with) my point that these numerical comparisons are misleading and nearly useless. Nonetheless, I would like to ask you something, do you feel that Wikipedia is a complete and finished encyclopedia with articles about everything that should have an article? I seriously doubt it. Wikipedia still has lots of room for further growth and development. Any growth of well-written, encyclopedic articles is worthwhile. If you really think that the coverage of scientology is out of proportion to that of Harry Potter or Chicago, then the best thing to do with your time is write more articles on Chicago and Harry Potter or whatever other encyclopedic topics you may choose. Cool3 18:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
I rarely participate in Wikipedia's inner workings despite having been an editor for a few years. What's up with all the in- jokes regarding the phrase " On Wheels"? There seem to have been some pages created to explain it, and all those pages appear to have been deleted. Why the censorship? Can I be let in on the joke? Fishal 16:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I have put a message (from WP:fr) here about the list of RMS Titanic passengers. Thanks for an answer. Regards. Jpm2112 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I have created a website which intends to be an "editing experiment" for Wikipedia involving a relatively-tightly-knit community based solely on article development. I mainly designed it for those who are disillusioned by the present community of Wikipedia but still want to work on articles. If you're interested, please send me an email. — Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 17:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Three or four significant articles that i have worked on, in some cases articles that i created and developed from scratch, have had footnotes compressed, by three or four different editors. I'd like to offer some comments for discussion.
Well, that can perhaps be dealt with, and any inconsistencies cleaned up later.
— Richard Myers 21:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Many wikipedia articles have become so long and dense as to be completely incomprehensible. The article for Rhetoric for example is obese with redundant text. I think that Wikipedia in general needs to thin out the articles to make them more efficient without subtracting from their informativeness. 63.229.221.191 02:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
One featured article per quarter is a group of like-minded editors attempting to increase featured article counts on the English Wikipedia. We're always looking for more talented writers, copyeditors, and reviewers to assist in the project, so come on by. -- badlydrawnjeff talk 17:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:216.243.164.219&redirect=no
while I understand that you have a computer ISP for my computer but I use a home computer, shared with no one, and I have never edited or added anything to Wikipedia.
I use it, enjoy it, get pissed off by it, but, up until now as I write this, never once did anything upon it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.243.164.219 ( talk) 00:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC).
What do I do? I try to make a couople of small amendments to pages relating to Irish & Northern Irish History and contemporary events and they are reverted as vandalism. I then get a final warning from someone who lives in England and probably has a granny who knew someone from Limerick. What do you do if you dispute content and simply try to make it read a little better (whilst maintaining a studied neutrality)?
Regards
As a fairly experienced user of 4 years' standing, I don't know where else to post this, so I hope this is an appropriate place.
Does anybody else have the same problem I have? I have told only a selected few of my friends or family about my involvement with Wikipedia, for the simple reason that the name "Wikipedia" sounds, well .... silly, and even embarrassing. Many of my friends and family seem never to have heard of WP, going on the fact that they've never mentioned it to me. When I have broken through the silly-embarrassing firewall, and told some friends about it, typically they confirm it's something they've never heard of, and when I tell them a little of what it's all about, they immediately say it couldn't possibly work, and/or since it's open to anyone at all, how could it possibly be regarded as an authoritative source for anything? Almost as if a site with such a silly name is obviously not worth a cracker. So, I've learned to just get on with my editing and shut up. Can anyone relate to this? Am I just projecting my own internal stuff onto others? (Oh, and if you happen to be my closest friend, or one of my siblings, Hi!). JackofOz 06:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
"Wikipedia"??? How ridiculous. you should be ashamed of yourself. Rhinoracer 08:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I am using wikipedia for over a year and contributing and I am not joking. Is there a change on the wikilinks color? When a page does not exist they are still red, but when it does exist they have changed from the regular blue to Maroon. I am using Mozilla firefox and I really find it confusing. As a matter of fact, I find out as I am browsing that some elements such as Table of contents, citation needed button, the sidebar, edit this page button etc, are still in blue. The colors of wikilinks also changes after some time to blue, and back to maroon as I browse wikipedia! If it's not my browser it's frustrating. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexignatiou ( talk • contribs) 16:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC).
What do users think is the best featured article? -- Hadz Talk 11:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
You excpect an answer? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Try the random generator at Wikipedia:Featured content. Carcharoth 03:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
The KLF won a wikimania award. 86.31.103.208 13:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I was impressed with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Steve Dufour 04:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I rarely participate in Wikipedia's inner workings despite having been an editor for a few years. What's up with all the in- jokes regarding the phrase " On Wheels"? There seem to have been some pages created to explain it, and all those pages appear to have been deleted. Why the censorship? Can I be let in on the joke? Fishal 16:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I keep seeing this everywhere as a way of communicating with people. What is it and how exactly does it work? Simply south 22:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know how Wikipedia in a language other than the existing may be started. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.43.222.171 ( talk) 17:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC).
I think a really good slogan for Wikipedia could be: "Everything about everything"
Just an idea, given that Wikipedia has mostly in-depth articles on just about everything :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TurboForce ( talk • contribs) 01:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC).
Hey, I'm real sorry if this doesnt fit here--I cant find anywhere else to put it! I want to create an article about my cello teacher, Kevin Hekmatpanah, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. He's quite well known and EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY talented on cello, and he's also a conductor and teaches/conducts at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Do I need his permission to make a page? And how can I make the page good? He has a website, so could I maybe use some information from there? Please comment back on my profile page. Thank you, Cookie 02:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
On Talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, we're running into people talking about the same issues over and over again without reading the whole talk page to see their questions have already been asked and answered. To solve this problem, I rearranged the headings, and User:TTN quickly reverted my edit because “Topics go in chronological order. It helps make which topics have come and gone clearer.”, but that's just it! The topics aren't going away, and people keep asking the same already–answered questions about Smithy, music, screenshots, etc. I reverted TTN's edit stating, "However the same topics keep coming up again and again! This prevents that.", which TTN quickly reverted stating, "Take it up at WP:TALK if you care that much. Every other talk page does it chronologically.)" I read WP:TALK and found my way here. Suggestions? Taric25 00:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it allowed to discuss ArbCom decisions with the wider community, or will it only get me blocked for disruption? Or maybe it is irrelevant since it will not change anything? If it is allowed and relevant, where should it be discussed? -- Ideogram 18:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
You can always start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration. Corvus cornix 22:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
this article has the coordinates of the location floating in the wrong spot(top right above the heading) and i dont know how to fix, so it needs fixin -- Johnrob69 03:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
How do I contact the staff of Wikipedia themselves? it's Important.
Should RIAA certifications given to music albums be capitalized on pages like discographies? Some editors do capitalize (see Earth, Wind & Fire discography, Audioslave discography) and some (I actually know only one) don't (see Britney Spears discography, Eminem discography). I need opinion of at least two experienced wikipedians, thanks! Daniil Maslyuk 13:30, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Just out of curiousity, I'd like to ask how does a user typically discover articles that meet Wikipedia's deletion policy. By randomly bumping into one, or by continuously patrolling the RC?-- Kylohk 20:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! Perhaps someone might want to suggest changes or join this experiment: User_talk:Edgerck#Reliance_on_Information Comments are welcome (down the page, please!). I hope this is useful. Edgerck 18:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out how many people view a particular article? Alæxis ¿question? 16:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I figure this should go in the "Miscellaneous" category. I doubt I'm the only Wikipedian to read Respectful Insolence, but I might be the first one to talk about this topic, so here goes:
White's strategy is the following (his own words, quoted here):
Having done a little MediaWiki administration on my own sites, I can think of several ways to stymie this sort of trickery, but I'm not sure what would work best. (The solution would no doubt depend upon the sophistication of whatever war-vandalizer White and his friends manage to cook up.)
Anville 20:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody please confirm Wikipedia official policy of whether, or not, a flag should be put into a person's infobox as part of the location of birth information. Thanks.
My question follows the continual deletion of the Scottish flag from the infobox for Billy Connolly (by a user who thinks that the Scottish flag is "rubbish" and "cute"), and the recent deletion of the flag from the infobox for Graham Chapman (by a person who wants to avoid a discussion on whether the English flag — or the UK flag — should be used in his infobox).
Also, with respect to infoboxes of people born in countries within the United Kingdom ( England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) there seems to be a lot of confusion about whether the UK flag should be used, or whether the flags of the individual countries should be used, within infoboxes to show the location of birth. Because there are four individual countries within the United Kingdom, I feel that the individual flags should be used in infoboxes (i.e. the English flag for people born in England — the Scottish flag for people born in Scotland — the Welsh flag for people born in Wales etc.), instead of the all-encompassing UK flag (because the UK flag covers too broad an area). A discussion regarding this topic has already taken place on the Talk:Hugh Laurie page (under the title "English rather than British".
I feel that the decision of whether, or not, a flag should be in a person's infobox, should be made on an official level and, therefore, 'uniform' for Wikipedia as a whole (as an encyclopedia), and just not rely on an individual user's own POV on the subject. Figaro 00:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
What does "!vote" mean? Simply south 20:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Due to a potentially controversial bot request, I have been asked by User:Martinp23 to get opinions on my bot request from here and WP:AN. Can I get some comments/suggestions on that page? Thanks! TheFearow 01:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I have listed %s at RFD to try to generate discussion on what to do with this title -- Random832 00:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Occasionally I consider being the sort of person who allots a percentage of time each month to community service. In my mind, this means painting over graffiti or volunteering in soup kitchens. In other words: gritty and unpleasant work. But it occured to me today that editing Wikipedia might also be considered a community service, as long as one's contributions are arguably helping one's fellow man. Am I rationalizing my desire to spend more time editing Wikipedia in my pajamas, and less time picking up trash on the beach? Or is there legitimate ethical weight to considering Wiki-editing a part of one's monthly ration of public service? Jonathan Stokes 23:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, if you get bored with something, don't do it for a while. Consider taking a wikibreak if you are stressed.-- Kylohk 16:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Occult could use the assistance of more editors in monitoring and developing occult related articles. We could also use help developing our assessment department. Come join us and help improve Wikipedia. Thanks! Vassyana 08:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
WTF is this? I basically can't edit any large page because basic links are being called spam. Marskell 07:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Has the default number for user contributions increased or am I being silly (i.e. changed something in user prefs?) GDonato ( talk) 22:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Don't see anything in prefs (200 is what I'm getting) GDonato ( talk) 15:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
User:DerHexer (sysop on German Wikipedia) worked for four days on en-Wikipedia and wrote an interesting report about his days here. He described among other things some differences between vandal fighting here and vandal fighting on German Wikipeda. Are there any similar reports here by users who went to the German Wikipedia but mostly work here? What do users think of the German Wikipedia? -- de:Spongo 08:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
<Grin>, I didn't try that. I was too busy smiling at Google's "translations" of the German Main Page. Yes that is quite weird. I wonder what makes Google decide to translate some of the words as ALL caps ? -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I'm real sorry if this doesnt fit here--I cant find anywhere else to put it! I want to create an article about my cello teacher, Kevin Hekmatpanah, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. He's quite well known and EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY talented on cello, and he's also a conductor and teaches/conducts at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Do I need his permission to make a page? And how can I make the page good? He has a website, so could I maybe use some information from there? Please comment back on my profile page. Thank you, Cookie 02:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
A few days back, there was a TOTD that didn't seem to be helping Wikipedia, as it mentioned Esperanza (which has now been deleted). Is there any chance this particular tip could be removed? -- Casmith_789 ( talk) 15:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't think anyone but me is aware of this, but there are User:Geologyguy and User:Geometry guy. I think these 2 names are easy to mix up, and I suggest one should be changed. Georgia guy 20:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I have two deletion reviews up at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 May 18 which have been scantily commented on. I would hate to see these deletion reviews closed with only 1 or 2 !votes, and it doesn't appear they're getting any more. As I feel very near to the subject of these deleletions, I ask anybody to come comment on them, as a fuller discussion would be appreciated. Thanks, even if you !vote keep deleted. The Evil Spartan 16:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any proxys that i can use to get passed the firewall at my school? all of the ones so far have been blocked. i need help. please post on either here or in my talk page. Gogoboi662 16:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
On the English Wikipedia, what is the longest name for any page in the article space? --S l g r a n d s o n ( page - messages - contribs) 14:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I have been editing Wikipedia since February. Soon I realized a lot of articles were about topics such as next-door neighbours and aunt's kittens. I began searching for questionable contents... In the last weeks I found that fame and popularity implying notability, which clearly is not the spirit of WP:N. I quit editting for a couple of weeks, first arguing a travel and then arguing exams (which were true). I'm not for either discussing policies or how should they be applied; what I'm asking for is a bit of emotional support... I'm sad I had to appeal here and I would like to stay active, but I will not be able if I'm convinced that editing Wikipedia is a waste of time, because nobody cares about non-popular notable facts. Thank you. Rjgodoy 23:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your responses =). I'll think about improving some articles and I'll try not to worry so much about trivial activities. Rjgodoy 22:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
At Danish Wikipedia I am trying to arrange a meetup for music loving users of Wikipedia at the Roskilde Festival. If one or more of you should be interested in perhaps sharing a camp with some Danes write your name at:
da:Wikipedia:Træf -- |EPO| 19:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
hi people, i dont know what to do...... ahh...... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ennaburned ( talk • contribs).
Simply put, would you ever consider using, or have you ever used, your experience as an editor and/or admin on Wikipedia as a volunteer experience on your resume? -- Saaga 00:49, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! Perhaps someone might want to suggest changes or join this experiment: User_talk:Edgerck#Reliance_on_Information Comments are welcome (down the page, please!). I hope this is useful. Edgerck 18:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out how many people view a particular article? Alæxis ¿question? 16:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I just received the daily email update for the Charlie Rose Show on PBS, which announced that Jimmy Wales will be the featured guest in one of the interview segments on tonight's program (Tuesday, May 22, 2007). It looks like he will be seen/heard in the second of three interview segments. Here is the full text from the email message:
Does anybody know of a better place to post this announcement? I just spent 10-15 minutes looking around, hoping to find a more prominent place to post it, but I didn't see anything that made sense. Cgingold 22:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (news) perhaps? There's also a page along the lines of
Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the press someplace, but I don't recall the exact name. --
tjstrf
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22:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I want to create a barnstar. I got the original barnstar, but how do you "dye" it in the GIMP? Please answer in my talk page too. Thanks. -- Jacklau96 02:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
The internet is still a fairly recent phenomenon. Whereas communities and groups enjoyed thorough research, theories and knowledge about virtual communities are relatively limited. I am busy with researching how virtual communities communicate, interact and exchange knowledge and information. Most importantly, I am interested in the relation between virtual communities and knowledge creation, especially the correcting mechanism of Wikipedia-the users.
As Wikipedia is one of the biggest and most popular virtual communities, and as it is focused on knowledge creation and knowledge exchange is it perfect to contribute to this research.
I can get lots of data and information from the site it self. But in this context, people are crucial. Crucial for understanding the motivators and visions which are necessary to have a website as successful as Wikipedia.
I am therefore looking for people who are active on Wikipedia who would find it interesting to give interviews. These interviews are necessary to complete this research successfully. Obviously you will be able to express your own opinion and illustrate Wikipedia as you see it.
Just put your name on my user page or send me a message,
thanks NeniPogarcic 13:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I just want to say thank you to the creaters and users of wikipedia. This is a great site and has the usefull information I need to get things done. I wish I could make a donation, but I don't have paypal or anything. HAHA!
Thanks a bunch guys. This is helping me out with my English exam very much.
05:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I made a proposal on my blog that the Discogs site could become an open Wiki-- and now I'm in the middle of an "experts vs. consensus" argument. It needs a bit of balance. Anyone want to visit and present a nicely-worded defense of the wiki concept? Here's the URL: http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/discogswiki/
Thanks!
--Daephex, Wikipedia contributor —The preceding unsigned comment was added by aephex ( talk • contribs) 12:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear English Wikipedia community,
I am conducting a study of the Wikipedia communities in six different languages for my diploma thesis. Please read my initial announcement for more information.
I owe a big "thank you" to everybody who has helped answer my questions.
So far over 50 people across six Wikipedia communities have contributed to their community's answers and I am grateful for their help. However, for the study to be comprehensive I need more people to get involved. Some communities also seem to need more time to discuss and work out the answers.
Therefore I have extended the deadline for participation until May 13th.
I have used mailing lists and village pumps to spread the announcement about my research questions, but every community has their own channels for the distribution of information. So, I ask you to help get more people involved to make sure the results accurately represent your community.
When phrasing the answers, please approach it as if you were writing a Wikipedia article: try to work on joint answers that your community can agree on. The answers don't need to be neutral in an NPOV kind of way, but please try to give a comprehensive picture of the processes and ideals of your community.
The questions can be found at User:Kurt_Jansson/questions; please edit the questions page to contribute.
Best wishes,
Kurt —The preceding
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22:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
How about this...
Which Wikipedia article has the most references - or really what I'm after is articles that have a substantially high number of references (quantity-wise, not coverage-wise).
A google search didn't help.
Rfwoolf 16:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks all. Yes I'm looking for references/citations - i.e. an external referencse for facts - much like the examples RJH and Christopher Parham have so far given for
George_W._Bush and
Campaign history of the Roman military.
Now I'm wondering why some articles say "References" and other articles say "Citations". Which is correct?
Rfwoolf
12:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Another Wikipedian and I just created a Salem Witch Trials task force. If you are interested in history, Massachusetts, colonial America, witchcraft, or instances of religiously motivated violence, then this is the task force for you!
So please check it out!
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I hope this is the right place for this type of thing, I wasn't sure where else to put it. I've already mentioned it on the discussion page for two of the articles in question, but I wanted to mention it somewhere that others would see it, not just those checking the specific articles.
When I typed "Tom Wilson" into the search field and hit "Go", I was looking for the Back to the Future actor, but instead I was lead to the producer. Now, I know that there's a small group of people on the producer's discussion page hailing him as a hero and whatnot, but is he really the primary Tom Wilson that someone should be automatically taken to when looking up the article for that name? Between the aforementioned actor and the Ziggy cartoonist, I submit that there's no real justification to say that any of these 3 is necessarily more likely than the others to be the person someone's looking for when they look up the name. I propose that the article currently called "Tom Wilson" be renamed to Tom Wilson (producer), and that Tom Wilson be changed to redirect to the Thomas Wilson disambig page. It might also be a good idea to start removing some of the people from the list, since more than half of the links are currently red. - Ugliness Man 10:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to add a note that I'm now taking this page off my watchlist, so if anyone wants to discuss this with me for some reason, please do so on my talk page. - Ugliness Man 11:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Any help here would be appreciated. For a while, almost all submissions have been entirely untouched. Patstuart talk· edits 18:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know something about the difference between the two according to US law? If so could you check out the discussion on Talk:David Miscavige? It seems like the two are being confused and someone is saying that a copyright has to be renewed every year. Thanks if you can help. Steve Dufour 19:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Primex7 22:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I just got a message (reprinted here) through my wiki email. Anyone else get this? I was just wondering if I have to register to "establish the ultimate scourge" or if I'm automatically enrolled as a member of the cabal?-- Isotope23 15:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I believe LENS (the new technology) should also be listed on the Lens page...
see www.ochslabs.com
thanks
chris collins, st. louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.107.123.78 ( talk • contribs) 14:10, 3 March 2007
If there's a "Lens" disambiguation page, then you can add it to the list. You can also write an article on it, as long as it conforms to Wikipedia standards. Eilicea 16:10, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
By definition :) -- bainer ( talk) 16:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I would vote for between one day, since people come and go every day, and as long as civilization lasts, since WP is such a great thing and there is no reason for it to go away -- the community will continue long after our lifetimes. Steve Dufour 19:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
When the whole current community can go fork somewhere, it's rather hard to kill it. - Amarkov moo! 19:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Voting is evil. Corvus cornix 22:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the last option. The content will exist forever, at least. The community's operation depends on the server's, so I trust that the latter will work. At least this isn't a ballot ("how long would like like Wikipedia to exist?") Gracenotes T § 02:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
This has been reported on Talk:Barbara Schwarz. What do you think? Steve Dufour 00:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there any discussion in Wikipedia on this humorous and very high profile mention on the April 5 show? I thought it was very funny, because the principle of Wikipedia does sound pretty silly when you say it like he did, that "anyone in the world can edit it" and that's a good thing. I happen to think it is a great thing, but it does sound ridiculous when you outright say it like he did. It was perfect for that character and show. Spalding 17:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I tried this for the first time today. I was really very impressed with the quality of the articles that came up in a dozen or so tries. It makes WP look a lot better than some of the controversies you run into on the discussion pages. Steve Dufour 21:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
iam unable to fold my iorn board could you suggest me some ideas 68.100.249.46 17:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been thinking about stable versions and something occurred too me. Would the templates have to have a stable version along with pictures? My guess is that not being able to edit articles, those would be the prime targets for trolls and vandals. Comments? The Placebo Effect 23:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm posting here just in case I've overlooked something really really obvious: I'm about to nominate Category:Fundamental for deletion, because it seems to be quite redundant to Category:Main topic classifications to me. Now, have I missed some obvious differences between the two categories? Is there a good reason to have two different "main" categories?-- Conti| ✉ 23:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2007 April 8 there are many images still not deleted, eventhough it recieved delete votes. And the APril 8 page is off the WP:IFD list. So how does this system work then? When will these images be deleted? (of course I'm particularly interested in the images I nominated) -- Spundun 16:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Over on Talk:Gibraltar, a Gibraltarian user is objecting to the inclusion of the template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain on the grounds that it's a "foreign project" and that it includes an unacceptable "nationalist symbol" (i.e. the Spanish flag). In conjunction with this, he is attempting to remove either the template or the flag from the template. Bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not censored to meet particular points of view, I'd be grateful if previously uninvolved users could take a look and provide their views at Talk:Gibraltar#Flag. -- ChrisO 15:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I use {| id="EnWpMpBook2" style="width:95%; height:100px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 0% 20%;background-color: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #88a; -moz-border-radius:10px; margin-left: 2.5%; margin-top: 2.5%;" |} on my userpage, which gives whats at the bottom of this post.
Does anyone know what I could replace EnWpMpBook2 with? or what the id=" " part of it does? I pulled the script out of another userpage and I think it came from an alternative main page - but I would like to change the image. As I said, no importance but it's been bugging me for a while - even if i could find the script that id=" " links to, I could probably figure it out.
Thanks, ...adam... ( talk • contributions) 22:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[1] > the user who deleted this picture from this article says this picture is irrelevant and I completely disagree. It was included in a section untitled "Criticism of and opposition to Mugabe" so it's not irrelevant to show a demonstration against him. It's totally neutral to show a demonstration. It would have been irrelevant if it was written something like "fair demonstration against Mugabe's crimes" under it but it wasn't. Moreover, there aren't many pictures in this article so I think such a picture was welcomed. Of course, I have to admit that I might not be objective since it's my picture but I wanted to know what people generally thought about it before trying to restore it. Thanks. -- Two Wings (jraf ) 08:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I've learned that WP can be a useful tool in some narrow fields if taken with a grain of caution; in others, it can be an amusing distraction. So I read it. Fortunately, I have enough background that I can tell BS from GS and if I don't like what I read, I can go read something else.
I don't edit anymore. I think it's stupid and pointless; WP is consumed by idiot Sunday-afternoon-book-club politics. I don't want to get any more silly, smarmy, cowardly talk page notices telling me how somebody wants to delete stuff I did years ago. I'm not going to argue plain facts with blinkered fanatics.
If you want to delete it, delete it. Don't be pussies. Just do it. — Xiong 熊 talk * 02:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
World War II casualties 71.102.27.14 19:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
What would the CSD tag be for a vandal only picture? It has no other uses. Thanks. - Hair chr m 18:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
By definition :) -- bainer ( talk) 16:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I would vote for between one day, since people come and go every day, and as long as civilization lasts, since WP is such a great thing and there is no reason for it to go away -- the community will continue long after our lifetimes. Steve Dufour 19:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
When the whole current community can go fork somewhere, it's rather hard to kill it. - Amarkov moo! 19:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Voting is evil. Corvus cornix 22:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the last option. The content will exist forever, at least. The community's operation depends on the server's, so I trust that the latter will work. At least this isn't a ballot ("how long would like like Wikipedia to exist?") Gracenotes T § 02:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia has become what most people dread. Let me explain myself, when I first came here in 2003, I fell in love with Wikipedia because it was so different to other encyclopedias as it aimed to be. No other encyclopedia in the world can boast of having an article about Jose Luis Ramirez, which I wrote by the way.
Wikipedia could attract people from the "other side of town" into learning in an entertaining way. Those students and children or grown ups who are bored by Britannica and the other, uptight encyclopedias that seem designed so that only highly intelligent people and those who did not need to learn in the first place can enjoy it. You can bring that "wikipedia is not..." all you want, but as writers we are also teachers and it is our responsability to teach those who are hungry for learning, as well as those who already have knowledge. So if it says somewhere Wikipedia is not a school, well, all serious encyclopedias are schools anyways.
Which is my leading, but not only, argument, to the new, exaggerated measures taken by Wikipedia's new blood, people who werent even here to begin this wonderful project in the first place but who have taken it upon themselves to make sure Wikipedia becomes ridiculously meticulous and strict-exactly what Wikipedia did not want in principle to be, another Britannica or Webster's.
Take Genieveve Jones, for example. She has become a large celebrity, even labeled as The Black Paris Hilton over the internet. I was going to reinstate her article until I found out you have to put 5 tags and let 5 people know that it will be reinstated, so that the people who voted for it to be deleted can put it for deletion again. Do you see what I mean?????? A Harvard professor or a laureate, for example, thinks she is not worth it, therefore they out it for deletion, 15 scientifics vote for it to be deleted because shes not notable in their fields and the article is once again deleted. Despite her obvious celebrity (look on the internet), some deem her not to be important-she is gone. Some 15 people who are closed inside their labs and not obvious to what's going on around the world, and who decide to go against the millions who do know who she is, therefore making her a celebrity no matter what 15 people think, but the 15 people have her deleted...ha!
Carol Castellano, a very significant personality in boxing and International Boxing Hall of Fame shoe in dies and her death is listed by VERY RESPECTABLE wikipedians, and other wikipedians who don;t have a clue about the HISTORIC sport of Boxing delete her name just because they in particular don't know her. Ms Castellano judged more than 60 world title fights around the world and the entire world of boxing is saddened by her parting. Tell me her death is not significant. The Carol Castellano who is president of some animal organization may have more websites but Carol Castellano the boxing judge is likely to become a Hall of Famer in Boxing, and the Carol Castellano director of something is likely to retire into oblivion.
Not to talk about Judith Pizarro, not known in the USA but known by about 80% of the 4 million Puerto Ricans residing in th8at island, yet someone says she's not notable and erases her name from the recent deaths list.
Another item is that, lately, there seems to be an unwritten Wikipedia law that those related to celebrities shouldn't have articles about themselves despite their own celebrity. Skylar Neil became a celebrity apart from her dad, Vince Neil, because of her tragic disease. She even has a fund named AFTER HER, a celebrity goldf tournament and an MTV feature. Clara Benitez is mentioned commonly in Puerto Rican newspaper as an important woman in the boxing world. But their articles redirect to their relatives, in Clara's case, Wilfred Benitez. They are CELEBRITIES, or at least well known, whether their relatives are more famous or not. Soon we may have Ashlee Simpson redirected to Jessica Simpson just because. Relatives of famous people who have gained fame on their own should not have their own articles redirected. Else we can begin by redirecting Prince Harry's article. He is worldwide famous but only because of who he was born to, otherwise no one would care what school he went to or what scandal he caused.
Wikipedia needs to go back to the simpler, easier format encyclopedia everyone liked. A potential Wikipedian who may be a young teen or a person who had before never been interested in encyclopedias-a potential benefactor of Wikipedia's vast article list-writes about his or her favorite New York Knick basketball player and some highly rated law student puts the page for deletion, and the new writer comes back and sees his or her article about said basketball player on a vote for deletion two days after it was written. Do you think that's a way to encourage people to come to our website and learn or expand their knowledge?? NO.
Wikipedia needs to go back to the simpler, friendlier while also watchful encyclopedia it once was. Wikipedia's fathers ran it VERY WELL like that.
Antonio Outspoken One Martin 9:48 GST, April 2, 2007
This is a classic example of the battle between the good and the perfect. If every article had to be perfect we'd have precious few articles available. I say lighten up a bit on the need for excruciating source attribution, lots of articles simply don't need it. Perhaps there should be an easy way for the contributor to indicate they don't have source references and they are contributing on a "best efforts" basis. Or perhaps the wikipedia software could use some algorithm to assign a "credibility rating" on an automatic basis.
GregInCanada
02:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
This user has been actively contributing to Bhagwan Swaminarayan and related topics. He has uploaded a lot of images which maybe copyvios. To begine with he is licensing all of them as self-GFDL, but he himself is stating on most images that he got them from either http://www.swaminarayan.org/ or http://www.swaminarayan.info/ or some other similar website. And those websites are copyrighted.
Here are the images he's uploaded.
These images are orphaned and could be deleted, they are probably all copyvios anyway.
These are pictures of the idols at places, again these pics are obtained from the websites I mentioned so are copyrighted. However the statues are in a temple (public place), can its images be copyrighted? Also, some idols might be old enough to be PD by itself, what are people's thoughts on this? Can these images be considered PD?
These are images of the head of a faction, taken from the website, I don't think these can be used by us, neither free, nor fair-use, right?
These are pictures of temple buildings, taken from the websites. I am not sure.... copyrightable? I'm leaning towards yes.
A book cover used in an article on the (religeous book) I think its valid faiuse (though ALL these images are uploaded as self-GFDL right now).
This is a scanned/photographed copy of a (possible reproduction of a) very old iconic image. I believe this can be PD, since the first such image was published more than a hundred years back. (though this image's hard copy might be more recent)... so I think this one can be PD, (but don't yet know which tag to use, any suggestions?)
This is a 3D model of a museum (under construction), definitely copyrighted. Can this be fair use? since the actual museum is not yet there, we can't get a free picture of it. Can we use this as fair use in the section Swaminarayan_Sampraday#Swaminarayan_Sampraday_Developments ? I don't think so.
I'd greatly appreciate if you guys would comment on these. Thank you --
Spundun
17:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't get involved as a "write user" often around here, just when I'm utterly bored... I couldn't help but to check up on the few wikipedians I know of around here. I couldn't help but to notice this:
User:ILovePlankton's userpage
Don't want to beat dead horses, but this whole story around "Nathanrdotcom" has gone way out of control. That story put aside, it's a nice letter. mimithebrain 06:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across a nearly 700k talk page Talk:Scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming which I've just set up for automatic archiving. This is a new size record for me but I'm wondering if other editors have encountered larger talk pages and also what's the largest article people have come across? Nil Einne 21:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Yoghurt&diff=2256228&oldid=2041822
The spelling was already standardized, as can clearly be seen. Editing an article to change the spelling of an already-established term (with a misleading summary, no less, to imply that it is not yet standardized) is in clear violation of the manual of style WP:ENGVAR (as of then), quoted here:
We've all heard it before, many times. But this edit is different. Why, you may ask? This edit changed the established spelling "Yogurt" to "Yoghurt", in 2003. -- Random832 06:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
How does one become a bureaucrat of the English Wikipedia? Itayb 09:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm rather disturbed by all the news I'm seeing, in which the co-founder of Wikipedia is saying that it's "broken beyond repair", citing "serious management problems", "a dysfunctional community", "frequently unreliable content", and "a whole series of scandals" (example link http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2187672/wikipedia-broken-beyond-repair ) - is this really true? And if it is, should Wikipedia continue in its present form, or should we all now be looking at and contributing to the new version, Citizendium? There must be some background to this - does anyone know what it is? (I for one don't want to continue working with something that has been publicly discredited and which no-one trusts!) I feel this issue should be addressed by the Wikipedia administration, and urgently, otherwise people will lose faith - it seems such a pity to let so much work possibly go to waste. I wonder if you could you put out a statement on this, please? I think that the Wikipedia community need to be reassured (or otherwise). Jaycey 11:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm still here. I like the idea of NPOV, and I still think it can work, but we have to get back to basics - restore our commitment to our core principles.
Over the last months many article talk pages have been used to announce within the range which WikiProject the article belongs. Interdisciplinary articles sometimes got a large list of these tags.
But recently I've seen attempts of Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal to tag articles which have a paranormal connection only in widest of all imaginable senses: Like the archaelogy article Megalith or the physics article Homopolar generator. Together with alarming interpretation of this tagging as "area of jurisdiction", I'd very much prefer these articles not under paranormal jurisdiction. And I'm not convinced that a straw poll at the project's talk page will do anything good about the issue:
Comments? Suggestions?
Pjacobi 10:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been thinking about stable versions and something occurred too me. Would the templates have to have a stable version along with pictures? My guess is that not being able to edit articles, those would be the prime targets for trolls and vandals. Comments? The Placebo Effect 23:52, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
The status of the WP:FRINGE guideline has been questioned. It has been suggested that an RFC/straw poll could help determine if the guideline has community consensus or not. Please comment at Wikipedia talk:Fringe theories#RFC - Does this guideline have consensus?. Blueboar 12:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to include an image found on Wikimedia Commons into an article I have been writing. But I could not find quickly how to do it. From some of the comments I saw on other talk pages I am not the only one to have had this problem. So having eventually found the information, to make life easier for those who may need the same information, I have converted Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons from a redirect into an article that is optimised to describe how to display a Wikicommons image in a Wikipedia article. As the page is new and to date I am the only one to have edited it I would appreciated more eyes to help improve the article. -- Philip Baird Shearer 12:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I do a fair bit of editing and creating of sites about Australian music, particularly heavy metal as it's a bit of a special subject and I have a website The Australian Metal Guide dedicated to it. Lately I have found that another editor here is directing cutting and pasting from my site to WP in order to create new entries. I've rewritten most of them so they aren't directly lifted from my site, but I keep finding them and I'm rather peeved. It appears the same fellow is lifting logos and images from Metal Archives and I've noticed they are being deleted. What can I do about this guy, if anything? BrianFG 07:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
On the norwegian Wikipedia, when you click "Upload a file" you see a page wich explains how you should upload a file in different situations ( See it here) Maybe this is an idea for the English Wikipedia? Dvyjones t· c· e 15:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons -- Philip Baird Shearer 22:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
This is interesting. We have the article Yury Chernavsky. We have the user User:Chernavsky George Yury. Apparently the same person. The user page redirects to the article; it appears the user page was moved to article space. ( User talk:Chernavsky George Yury likewise redirects to Talk:Yury Chernavsky.) The primary contributor (almost sole contributor) to the article is the user. Possible WP:AUTO problem there, but that's not what I'm interested in right now. For the sake of discussion, let's assume the article stays. My question is, is there any precedent that shows the community's opinion on having a notable Wikipedian's user page and talk page redirect to the article pages? It seems wrong to me, but I'm having trouble articulating why. — DragonHawk ( talk| hist) 07:26, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to the many who've seriously improved Plug-in hybrid over the past week, and ask for your help in copy-editing. Could you have a look through the article, please, for unclear prose, and try to make it more clear if you find any? Thanks in advance. James S. 13:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
As a player of Twisted Metal 4, I happen to know that the song: Closing Time [Live] is the song played in the Neon City level.
Time's Running Out is the one played in the next level.
Cypress Hill does Closing Time [Live] in Neon City.
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What exactly would the script that I would type into my User page to get the clock from http://zfacts.com/p/793.html onto the page? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I just want to know how do users used to make barnstars and make them into different colours. Do users use free softwares or not? Thanks! -- Jacklau96 10:53, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I've returned to WP after some time, with a fresh ID.
I used to look at the NewPages list now and again. There was a lot of junk there, but a significant amount of stuff that looked as if it could be worthwhile. Even some articles that already were worthwhile.
Now I look there and almost all I see is kiddy talk. It's a mixture of (1) possibly earnest attempts at writing up trivia/juvenilia, and (2) mere babble.
Are people becoming stupider? Is WP attracting the under-ten demographic? Have most of the worthwhile articles already been started? Really, I wonder.
I thought of marking this stuff with the "speedy this, it's obviously vapid" template. But I'd mark 90% of it. Some team of sysops might as well go through the whole lot, rather than the tagged 90%. But what a waste of their time that would be.
I'm starting to wonder if first edits should be made to follow a short general knowledge test: Five questions, like "Name the person who first reached the south pole." The knowledge (derivable from non-vandalized WP articles wouldn't be an issue but what might be is the need for an attention span of more than just a few seconds. Then most of the silly people, drunks, infants, etc. could stay with Myspace or Neopets; less timewasting for people who actually want to improve articles, less silliness for people who actually want to be informed. Morenoodles 08:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I think the way to do it would be to replace the content of MediaWiki:Newarticletext with <span style="text-decoration: blink; font-size: 20pt">[[WP:NOT|<span style="color:red;">Wikipedia is neither myspace nor an advertising service!</span>]]</span> Using it as such will get your pages deleted. , which produces
Wikipedia is neither myspace nor an advertising service! Using it as such will get your pages deleted.
I can't see anyone ignoring that. MER-C 09:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I see that info boxes can be helpful in many situations. However, in some cases, I find them redundant and too much like "lists". In the case of theatrical plays, for example, some editors are insisting on listing all or many of the characters in a play, or every producer of a movie (which can be quite a few these days). I also feel that the over use of these boxes gives a feeling of dumbing down of an article - sort of like using cliff notes to write a report instead of reading the whole article. Listing all the scene locations for many plays would be equally cumbersome. In fact, for the most part, all the information in these boxes is typically found in the first paragraph or two of the article itself. Isn't this redundant? Are not these just more lists that duplicate the information in the articles? Are these boxes mandatory for plays and musicals? I am concerned that we are turning some articles from encyclopedia entries into USA TODAY stories with these little boxes that make it easier to avoid actually learning about the subject, as opposed to simply getting a few quick facts. Smatprt 16:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I found a WP article which is, well, questionable, in my opinion. As per the instructions I found on the RFC page, I posted to the talk page. The writer of the questionable phrase in anonymous. If he wasn't, would he be notified (by email?) of my post? So where do I discuss this? Is this the right forum? Should I post an RFC? Is there any point in my talk page post at all? The page in question, BTW, is "Hitachi Travelstar". Sailor.nir 12:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Are we able to create articles on ourselves or someone we know?
Thank you. KieranMullen
Thank you for your response. It is probably a good policy. I am watching this page and I did not get an email. Is there a wikipedia village pump newsgroup or standard web forum? Posting in this manner is really clumsy.
Thanks again
KieranMullen
I'm working on my final project for my Multimedia Reporting class at KU. It's over Wikipedia editing and how much it re-establishes the site's credibility. I'm looking for editors who would be interested in being interviewed for my story. I need both involved volunteer editors and hired staff. If interested, please message me back. My username is Luke J-School. Luke J-School 15:40, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Vital articles. These are articles essential to an encyclopedia. Please help out. Expand any stubs. Cleanup the messy articles. Make sure the articles are comprehensive and well-written. That list is a shame. Let's all work together to bring all of those articles up to quality standards. Vassyana 13:07, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Just a story on News.com.au but thought it maybe of interest. Wikipedia guru opens new era -- Bidgee 01:14, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Also: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/save-wales-from-chasers-spruiker/2007/04/26/1177459849504.html Rafy 06:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Jimmy Wales has been "attacked" by Andrew Hanson on the chaser's war on everything. You can see the vid at http://www.videowikinews.spaces.live.com/ --talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 13:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Brazil Collaboration was created!!! João Felipe ( Let's talk! ) 21:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
The current
Brazil Collaboration is . Every month a different Brazil-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can. |
I posted Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_April_7#Image:North_American_hardiness_zones.jpg some time ago. I understand that there might be back log (although it's the only file from this date which has not been addressed). More distressing though, is that someone keeps clobbering the ifd template and discussion comments on the NA hardiness image itself; with no history. I can only imagine that it is P199 who was tipped off by my adherence to policy (posting to his talk), and is somehow displeased yet unwillingly to share his thoughts on the matter. -- Belg4mit 14:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
If I decide to cancel my Wikipedia Account what would I need to do? John R G 20:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Lets see what if I want to cancel my account and not be able to log back on. John R G 21:03, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a barnstar I can award to the funny guy who put the "future event" tag on the following articles? I can sort of understand 22nd century, but 23rd century, 24th century, 25th century, 26th century, 27th century, 28th century, 29th century, and 30th century? "This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future events. It may contain information of a tentative nature and the content may change dramatically as the event approaches and more information becomes available." Oh, please!! I wonder if those tags will be a candidate for the longest-lasting tags, hanging around for nearly a thousand years until the events take place? I think Talk:8th millennium sums things up quite nicely. Well, actually, I learnt something from that, so ferreting through those pages wasn't entirely useless. And thank goodness someone eventually ran out of steam... It took Ultimate fate of the universe to bring me back to reality. Nice navboxes though, making it easy to click through the whole series from 10th millennium BC up to the 11th millennium and beyond (and nearer our own time, clicking through the centuries is nice and informative as well). Unfortunately, going a bit further back, I discovered some original synthesis going on at Timetable of the Precambrian, with theories presented as actually happening as part of a historical timeline... The final part of this impromtu tour, from there to the Big Bang, will have to await another night. Carcharoth 03:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
does anyone know anything about writing a fiction book? i have tried to find out but i am overwhemeld and can't find a free leason or article to help me write my book.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jclindsay007 ( talk • contribs)
Vanity gallery was an article I contributed a small bit to a few months ago, but now it's not there anymore -- Even my contribution list doesn't have it. If I hadn't mentioned it on the talk page of Vanity press I might not even have remembered it. I haven't dug much into the mechanics of Wikipedia, but what happened? I'd be the first to admit it wasn't a great article (I can cheerfully do that because I didn't write it.) -- a small definition and a long list of galleries with their fees. It wasn't great, but certainly something on the subject is worth doing. Artemis-Arethusa 00:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I have conducted a survey on this topic and found that it takes, on average about 10 hours to revert serious vandalism to featured articles. Questions and debate are welcomed on the survey talk page. You can find the study at user:Colonel Chaos/study. Colonel Chaos 20:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. Please, help. João Felipe ( Let's talk! ) 17:56, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Jimmy Wales has been "attacked" by Andrew Hanson on the chaser's war on everything. You can see the vid at http://www.videowikinews.spaces.live.com/ --talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 13:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
When "Portal:Football" is entered a disambiguation page appears, giving the reader a choice between "Association football", "American football", and "Australian rules football". Not so with the search term "Portal:Soccer", however. With that search terem there is an automatic redirect to English football, i.e., "Association football", and not to a disambiguation page, as I think should be done.
I would strongly suggest that a disambiguation page should be shown for the search term "Portal:Soccer". I suggest this because "Soccer" is the universally used term for the sport in North America. Also, in my thinking, automatic redirection of the general term "Soccer" to "Association football" is inappropriate for an international encyclopedia.
And was this redirect done recently? And possibly unilaterally? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that just a few weeks ago (or less) the portals "Sports" and "Games" were separate portals, but no longer. For whatever reason, now both are grouped together as "Portal:Sports and Games". What seems particularly odd to me is that "Video games" are grouped in this new portal, but there is no grouping for traditional board games such as Chess, Checkers, Goh, Konane, Backgammon, Monopoly, and Scrabble.
Any help?
K. Kellogg-Smith 21:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
While wandering around just now, I discovered Category:Snow Wikis. I must say, I've never seen a category page like this one before. I'm assuming that it should not be left as is, but what should be done with it? Nyttend 15:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Where can I find the most recent count of the number of editors for Wikipedia? I'm still new on here, so I suck at navigating. Hit me back on my talk page. Luke J-School 18:39, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
What is this phrase supposed to mean?? This is the English Wikipedia, because English is the name of the language that it is written in. Thus, this statement implies the existence of a language called American, which there is not. Any faulty info in my descrption of the phrase?? Georgia guy 23:59, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a polite way to remind people to take care when reverting vandalism? I just spent some time repairing Francis Bacon. I found it in an obviously truncated state, and eventually tracked down the major vandalism, the effects of which can be seen here. That loss of a massive chunk of the article lasted for over 5 days. Would it be rude of me to ask those who part-reverted the vandalism, but failed to restore the cut sections, to be more careful next time? It is this sort of vandalism that is difficult to spot after a few weeks have passed, and very difficult to repair if the page has been heavily edited since. Increasingly, I get the impression that the history of an article may often contain relevant information that is not in the current version. If I may put my crystal ball spectacle on for a moment, a future industry may grow up around mining the history of Wikipedia pages for little nuggets of information not recorded anywhere else... Carcharoth 17:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
What do users think is the best featured article? -- Hadz Talk 11:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
You excpect an answer? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Try the random generator at Wikipedia:Featured content. Carcharoth 03:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
The KLF won a wikimania award. 86.31.103.208 13:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I was impressed with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Steve Dufour 04:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion as to who won what medal in ice hockey during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Obviously the United States won the gold. However, some people, including me, have mistakenly placed Finland with the silver, and the USSR with the bronze. This is being reflected in some player articles having the wrong medal credited to them. I personally went back and forth with Fetisov's article. The confusion lies in how hockey standings are used during the Olympics. In the Olympics, playoffs are "round-robin" and a point system is used, a win counts as 2 points, a tie 1 point, similar to the NHL. This is what determines who gets what medal. So officially, the USA got the gold with 5 points, the USSR got the silver with 4 points, and Sweden got the bronze with 2 points. Finland placed fourth with 1 point. With that said, it looks like 1980 Olympic Ice Hockey player's articles for the four teams mentioned above in Wikipedia are going to have to be looked though to make sure credit is given where credit is due. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maximus92 ( talk • contribs) 15:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
I've seen a number of deletion discussions recently , where the reason for a keep or delete "vote" has been false (for example "delete - single use templates are bad" - the template is used on more than one page; "keep - Google shows this is notable " - another editor had already described in detail how the Google results all referred to a different meaning of the term concerned). I realise that some of these issues may be value judgements, but many are clearly not. Do closing admins take such matters into account? If not, should they? Andy Mabbett
I'd appreciate any comments from the wider community on the discussion going on here concerning the scope of WikiProjects and what pages they should and shouldn't be tagging. Thanks. Carcharoth 23:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
This is [2] screenshot of BKUNIX, a GPLed operating system. But it also contains some output by computer's ROM including bootup messages, indicator string at the top of the screen and the font of the letters is also ebeeded in ROM. How should I proprly provide the license information?-- Dojarca 07:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please explain the point of having a simple english language? Is the only point of this language for some kind of mockery of english speakers? I honestly do not get it... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Moistspike ( talk • contribs) 04:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
There is no solution to the edit-warring problem. Every tactic we use can be used by our opponents. As Wikipedia grows to encompass the world it will be riven by conflict just as the world is.
Information can be shared, but control cannot. In the end, someone gets their way and someone doesn't. Stability requires totalitarianism; freedom implies chaos.
Some people cannot share the same world. If they cannot be given different worlds (different Wikipedias) they will fight over what is available.
I am sorry I cannot help you.
-- Ideogram 10:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
There are plenty of Wikipedia editors who refuse to accept that principle. What do we do with them? -- Fuarco 20:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
I have detected that there's a trend to not use common language terms and expression but to give articles and article names a exaggerated sense that everyone and everything is a scientific phenomenon and not part of the shared human experience. It needs to described in specialist terminology. There's an expression of distance, as if we needed the perspective of Martians to write about humans for a human audience.
Stories about people become anthropology. Articles about organizations and institutions become an analysis of ideologies. Maybe this tone of scientism is motivated by editors seeking objectivity, but it seems awkward and strange to me. To others I believe it might obscure what is actually meant by the editor, or to a marginal reader of English result in an unreadable article. patsw 15:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Vanity gallery was an article I contributed a small bit to a few months ago, but now it's not there anymore -- Even my contribution list doesn't have it. If I hadn't mentioned it on the talk page of Vanity press I might not even have remembered it. I haven't dug much into the mechanics of Wikipedia, but what happened? I'd be the first to admit it wasn't a great article (I can cheerfully do that because I didn't write it.) -- a small definition and a long list of galleries with their fees. It wasn't great, but certainly something on the subject is worth doing. Artemis-Arethusa 00:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Here is Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology which now includes 240 articles. There seem to be about 100,000 Scientologists in the world so there is one article for every about 420 of them. Do you think this is a little bit too much? Thanks. Steve Dufour 11:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts has 319 articles, Wikipedia:WikiProject The Simpsons has 745 articles, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Nintendo has 1,608 articles. Smee 15:58, 27 March 2007 (UTC).
Here is where I got the number 240: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Scientology articles by quality statistics. There are now 247 Scientology articles. When the count reaches 250 there will be one article for about every 400 Scientologists in the world. Steve Dufour 17:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Starting from the beginning of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Scientology/publicwatchlist here are some that have no cites from secondary sources (which discuss the topic of the article): Altered texts in Scientology doctrine, Andreas Heldal-Lund, ARC (Scientology), and Author Services Inc.. That does it for the A's. Steve Dufour 14:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm going hit the last article, Freewinds, with a notability template and see what happens. Steve Dufour 21:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Lots of S's: Safe Environment Fund, Sara Northrup, Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics, Scientology 8-8008, Scientology cross I contributed to this one, Scientology holidays, ScienTOMogy at least it cites itself, Security Check Children, Source (magazine), Squirreling I corrected the info on real squirrels, Standard Tech, Straightwire, Study Tech. Steve Dufour 02:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Scientology Finance was not on the watchlist but seems to have serious problems. Steve Dufour 05:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
The first comment on this topics says, "There seem to be about 100,000 Scientologists in the world ..." However our article on the Church of Scientology says: "The Church has said that it has anywhere from eight million to fifteen million members world-wide, and has stated that Scientology is "the fastest growing religion in the world."" - Will Beback · † · 21:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
A big jump today! There are now 272 Scientology articles. Steve Dufour 00:25, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
The article on Ken Ogger, an ex-Scientologist trying to get on with his life, has now been nominated for deletion. This one might have a chance. The count is still 272. Steve Dufour 15:07, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Compared with other religions, this is pretty scant coverage. There are 17,800 pages mentioning moonies, 2,080 pages mentioning sikhism, 3,110 pages mentioning falun gong... -- Infrangible 23:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Articles per Scientologists is a rather misleading measure of overcovered, undercovered or anything of the like. 10800 pages on Wikipedia use the name "George Washington", using the google method used above. Does that mean that George Washington is overcovered? No it means he's famous. I could go on with similar examples. The US Supreme Court has nine members and is mentioned 5170 times (and 3010 times as Supreme Court of the United States), does that seem overcovered? No, because those articles are notable and important. The category United States Supreme Court has more than 355 pages in the main category and principal subcategories. That's more pages than scientology for an organization with only nine members. Cool3 21:37, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
You're missing (or perhaps disagreeing with) my point that these numerical comparisons are misleading and nearly useless. Nonetheless, I would like to ask you something, do you feel that Wikipedia is a complete and finished encyclopedia with articles about everything that should have an article? I seriously doubt it. Wikipedia still has lots of room for further growth and development. Any growth of well-written, encyclopedic articles is worthwhile. If you really think that the coverage of scientology is out of proportion to that of Harry Potter or Chicago, then the best thing to do with your time is write more articles on Chicago and Harry Potter or whatever other encyclopedic topics you may choose. Cool3 18:24, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
I rarely participate in Wikipedia's inner workings despite having been an editor for a few years. What's up with all the in- jokes regarding the phrase " On Wheels"? There seem to have been some pages created to explain it, and all those pages appear to have been deleted. Why the censorship? Can I be let in on the joke? Fishal 16:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I have put a message (from WP:fr) here about the list of RMS Titanic passengers. Thanks for an answer. Regards. Jpm2112 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I have created a website which intends to be an "editing experiment" for Wikipedia involving a relatively-tightly-knit community based solely on article development. I mainly designed it for those who are disillusioned by the present community of Wikipedia but still want to work on articles. If you're interested, please send me an email. — Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 17:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Three or four significant articles that i have worked on, in some cases articles that i created and developed from scratch, have had footnotes compressed, by three or four different editors. I'd like to offer some comments for discussion.
Well, that can perhaps be dealt with, and any inconsistencies cleaned up later.
— Richard Myers 21:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Many wikipedia articles have become so long and dense as to be completely incomprehensible. The article for Rhetoric for example is obese with redundant text. I think that Wikipedia in general needs to thin out the articles to make them more efficient without subtracting from their informativeness. 63.229.221.191 02:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
One featured article per quarter is a group of like-minded editors attempting to increase featured article counts on the English Wikipedia. We're always looking for more talented writers, copyeditors, and reviewers to assist in the project, so come on by. -- badlydrawnjeff talk 17:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:216.243.164.219&redirect=no
while I understand that you have a computer ISP for my computer but I use a home computer, shared with no one, and I have never edited or added anything to Wikipedia.
I use it, enjoy it, get pissed off by it, but, up until now as I write this, never once did anything upon it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.243.164.219 ( talk) 00:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC).
What do I do? I try to make a couople of small amendments to pages relating to Irish & Northern Irish History and contemporary events and they are reverted as vandalism. I then get a final warning from someone who lives in England and probably has a granny who knew someone from Limerick. What do you do if you dispute content and simply try to make it read a little better (whilst maintaining a studied neutrality)?
Regards
As a fairly experienced user of 4 years' standing, I don't know where else to post this, so I hope this is an appropriate place.
Does anybody else have the same problem I have? I have told only a selected few of my friends or family about my involvement with Wikipedia, for the simple reason that the name "Wikipedia" sounds, well .... silly, and even embarrassing. Many of my friends and family seem never to have heard of WP, going on the fact that they've never mentioned it to me. When I have broken through the silly-embarrassing firewall, and told some friends about it, typically they confirm it's something they've never heard of, and when I tell them a little of what it's all about, they immediately say it couldn't possibly work, and/or since it's open to anyone at all, how could it possibly be regarded as an authoritative source for anything? Almost as if a site with such a silly name is obviously not worth a cracker. So, I've learned to just get on with my editing and shut up. Can anyone relate to this? Am I just projecting my own internal stuff onto others? (Oh, and if you happen to be my closest friend, or one of my siblings, Hi!). JackofOz 06:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
"Wikipedia"??? How ridiculous. you should be ashamed of yourself. Rhinoracer 08:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I am using wikipedia for over a year and contributing and I am not joking. Is there a change on the wikilinks color? When a page does not exist they are still red, but when it does exist they have changed from the regular blue to Maroon. I am using Mozilla firefox and I really find it confusing. As a matter of fact, I find out as I am browsing that some elements such as Table of contents, citation needed button, the sidebar, edit this page button etc, are still in blue. The colors of wikilinks also changes after some time to blue, and back to maroon as I browse wikipedia! If it's not my browser it's frustrating. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexignatiou ( talk • contribs) 16:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC).
What do users think is the best featured article? -- Hadz Talk 11:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
You excpect an answer? Alphabetagamma 00:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Try the random generator at Wikipedia:Featured content. Carcharoth 03:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
The KLF won a wikimania award. 86.31.103.208 13:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I was impressed with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Steve Dufour 04:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I rarely participate in Wikipedia's inner workings despite having been an editor for a few years. What's up with all the in- jokes regarding the phrase " On Wheels"? There seem to have been some pages created to explain it, and all those pages appear to have been deleted. Why the censorship? Can I be let in on the joke? Fishal 16:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I keep seeing this everywhere as a way of communicating with people. What is it and how exactly does it work? Simply south 22:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know how Wikipedia in a language other than the existing may be started. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.43.222.171 ( talk) 17:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC).
I think a really good slogan for Wikipedia could be: "Everything about everything"
Just an idea, given that Wikipedia has mostly in-depth articles on just about everything :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TurboForce ( talk • contribs) 01:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC).
Hey, I'm real sorry if this doesnt fit here--I cant find anywhere else to put it! I want to create an article about my cello teacher, Kevin Hekmatpanah, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. He's quite well known and EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY talented on cello, and he's also a conductor and teaches/conducts at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Do I need his permission to make a page? And how can I make the page good? He has a website, so could I maybe use some information from there? Please comment back on my profile page. Thank you, Cookie 02:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
On Talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, we're running into people talking about the same issues over and over again without reading the whole talk page to see their questions have already been asked and answered. To solve this problem, I rearranged the headings, and User:TTN quickly reverted my edit because “Topics go in chronological order. It helps make which topics have come and gone clearer.”, but that's just it! The topics aren't going away, and people keep asking the same already–answered questions about Smithy, music, screenshots, etc. I reverted TTN's edit stating, "However the same topics keep coming up again and again! This prevents that.", which TTN quickly reverted stating, "Take it up at WP:TALK if you care that much. Every other talk page does it chronologically.)" I read WP:TALK and found my way here. Suggestions? Taric25 00:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it allowed to discuss ArbCom decisions with the wider community, or will it only get me blocked for disruption? Or maybe it is irrelevant since it will not change anything? If it is allowed and relevant, where should it be discussed? -- Ideogram 18:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
You can always start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration. Corvus cornix 22:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
this article has the coordinates of the location floating in the wrong spot(top right above the heading) and i dont know how to fix, so it needs fixin -- Johnrob69 03:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
How do I contact the staff of Wikipedia themselves? it's Important.
Should RIAA certifications given to music albums be capitalized on pages like discographies? Some editors do capitalize (see Earth, Wind & Fire discography, Audioslave discography) and some (I actually know only one) don't (see Britney Spears discography, Eminem discography). I need opinion of at least two experienced wikipedians, thanks! Daniil Maslyuk 13:30, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Just out of curiousity, I'd like to ask how does a user typically discover articles that meet Wikipedia's deletion policy. By randomly bumping into one, or by continuously patrolling the RC?-- Kylohk 20:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! Perhaps someone might want to suggest changes or join this experiment: User_talk:Edgerck#Reliance_on_Information Comments are welcome (down the page, please!). I hope this is useful. Edgerck 18:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out how many people view a particular article? Alæxis ¿question? 16:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I figure this should go in the "Miscellaneous" category. I doubt I'm the only Wikipedian to read Respectful Insolence, but I might be the first one to talk about this topic, so here goes:
White's strategy is the following (his own words, quoted here):
Having done a little MediaWiki administration on my own sites, I can think of several ways to stymie this sort of trickery, but I'm not sure what would work best. (The solution would no doubt depend upon the sophistication of whatever war-vandalizer White and his friends manage to cook up.)
Anville 20:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody please confirm Wikipedia official policy of whether, or not, a flag should be put into a person's infobox as part of the location of birth information. Thanks.
My question follows the continual deletion of the Scottish flag from the infobox for Billy Connolly (by a user who thinks that the Scottish flag is "rubbish" and "cute"), and the recent deletion of the flag from the infobox for Graham Chapman (by a person who wants to avoid a discussion on whether the English flag — or the UK flag — should be used in his infobox).
Also, with respect to infoboxes of people born in countries within the United Kingdom ( England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) there seems to be a lot of confusion about whether the UK flag should be used, or whether the flags of the individual countries should be used, within infoboxes to show the location of birth. Because there are four individual countries within the United Kingdom, I feel that the individual flags should be used in infoboxes (i.e. the English flag for people born in England — the Scottish flag for people born in Scotland — the Welsh flag for people born in Wales etc.), instead of the all-encompassing UK flag (because the UK flag covers too broad an area). A discussion regarding this topic has already taken place on the Talk:Hugh Laurie page (under the title "English rather than British".
I feel that the decision of whether, or not, a flag should be in a person's infobox, should be made on an official level and, therefore, 'uniform' for Wikipedia as a whole (as an encyclopedia), and just not rely on an individual user's own POV on the subject. Figaro 00:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
What does "!vote" mean? Simply south 20:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Due to a potentially controversial bot request, I have been asked by User:Martinp23 to get opinions on my bot request from here and WP:AN. Can I get some comments/suggestions on that page? Thanks! TheFearow 01:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I have listed %s at RFD to try to generate discussion on what to do with this title -- Random832 00:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Occasionally I consider being the sort of person who allots a percentage of time each month to community service. In my mind, this means painting over graffiti or volunteering in soup kitchens. In other words: gritty and unpleasant work. But it occured to me today that editing Wikipedia might also be considered a community service, as long as one's contributions are arguably helping one's fellow man. Am I rationalizing my desire to spend more time editing Wikipedia in my pajamas, and less time picking up trash on the beach? Or is there legitimate ethical weight to considering Wiki-editing a part of one's monthly ration of public service? Jonathan Stokes 23:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, if you get bored with something, don't do it for a while. Consider taking a wikibreak if you are stressed.-- Kylohk 16:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Occult could use the assistance of more editors in monitoring and developing occult related articles. We could also use help developing our assessment department. Come join us and help improve Wikipedia. Thanks! Vassyana 08:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
WTF is this? I basically can't edit any large page because basic links are being called spam. Marskell 07:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Has the default number for user contributions increased or am I being silly (i.e. changed something in user prefs?) GDonato ( talk) 22:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Don't see anything in prefs (200 is what I'm getting) GDonato ( talk) 15:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
User:DerHexer (sysop on German Wikipedia) worked for four days on en-Wikipedia and wrote an interesting report about his days here. He described among other things some differences between vandal fighting here and vandal fighting on German Wikipeda. Are there any similar reports here by users who went to the German Wikipedia but mostly work here? What do users think of the German Wikipedia? -- de:Spongo 08:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
As a result of trying to read the above report I had an interesting experience. To see what I found try the following link: Interesting report translated by Google. "No big deal", you say, "I knew that Google could do that". Well fair enough, but try clicking on any of the Wiki links on the page. Now that's cool! Suddenly the German Wikipedia is browsable in "English"! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
<Grin>, I didn't try that. I was too busy smiling at Google's "translations" of the German Main Page. Yes that is quite weird. I wonder what makes Google decide to translate some of the words as ALL caps ? -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I'm real sorry if this doesnt fit here--I cant find anywhere else to put it! I want to create an article about my cello teacher, Kevin Hekmatpanah, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that. He's quite well known and EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY talented on cello, and he's also a conductor and teaches/conducts at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Do I need his permission to make a page? And how can I make the page good? He has a website, so could I maybe use some information from there? Please comment back on my profile page. Thank you, Cookie 02:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
A few days back, there was a TOTD that didn't seem to be helping Wikipedia, as it mentioned Esperanza (which has now been deleted). Is there any chance this particular tip could be removed? -- Casmith_789 ( talk) 15:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't think anyone but me is aware of this, but there are User:Geologyguy and User:Geometry guy. I think these 2 names are easy to mix up, and I suggest one should be changed. Georgia guy 20:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I have two deletion reviews up at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 May 18 which have been scantily commented on. I would hate to see these deletion reviews closed with only 1 or 2 !votes, and it doesn't appear they're getting any more. As I feel very near to the subject of these deleletions, I ask anybody to come comment on them, as a fuller discussion would be appreciated. Thanks, even if you !vote keep deleted. The Evil Spartan 16:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know of any proxys that i can use to get passed the firewall at my school? all of the ones so far have been blocked. i need help. please post on either here or in my talk page. Gogoboi662 16:11, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
On the English Wikipedia, what is the longest name for any page in the article space? --S l g r a n d s o n ( page - messages - contribs) 14:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I have been editing Wikipedia since February. Soon I realized a lot of articles were about topics such as next-door neighbours and aunt's kittens. I began searching for questionable contents... In the last weeks I found that fame and popularity implying notability, which clearly is not the spirit of WP:N. I quit editting for a couple of weeks, first arguing a travel and then arguing exams (which were true). I'm not for either discussing policies or how should they be applied; what I'm asking for is a bit of emotional support... I'm sad I had to appeal here and I would like to stay active, but I will not be able if I'm convinced that editing Wikipedia is a waste of time, because nobody cares about non-popular notable facts. Thank you. Rjgodoy 23:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your responses =). I'll think about improving some articles and I'll try not to worry so much about trivial activities. Rjgodoy 22:21, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
At Danish Wikipedia I am trying to arrange a meetup for music loving users of Wikipedia at the Roskilde Festival. If one or more of you should be interested in perhaps sharing a camp with some Danes write your name at:
da:Wikipedia:Træf -- |EPO| 19:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
hi people, i dont know what to do...... ahh...... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ennaburned ( talk • contribs).
Simply put, would you ever consider using, or have you ever used, your experience as an editor and/or admin on Wikipedia as a volunteer experience on your resume? -- Saaga 00:49, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! Perhaps someone might want to suggest changes or join this experiment: User_talk:Edgerck#Reliance_on_Information Comments are welcome (down the page, please!). I hope this is useful. Edgerck 18:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to find out how many people view a particular article? Alæxis ¿question? 16:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I just received the daily email update for the Charlie Rose Show on PBS, which announced that Jimmy Wales will be the featured guest in one of the interview segments on tonight's program (Tuesday, May 22, 2007). It looks like he will be seen/heard in the second of three interview segments. Here is the full text from the email message:
Does anybody know of a better place to post this announcement? I just spent 10-15 minutes looking around, hoping to find a more prominent place to post it, but I didn't see anything that made sense. Cgingold 22:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (news) perhaps? There's also a page along the lines of
Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the press someplace, but I don't recall the exact name. --
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22:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I want to create a barnstar. I got the original barnstar, but how do you "dye" it in the GIMP? Please answer in my talk page too. Thanks. -- Jacklau96 02:54, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
The internet is still a fairly recent phenomenon. Whereas communities and groups enjoyed thorough research, theories and knowledge about virtual communities are relatively limited. I am busy with researching how virtual communities communicate, interact and exchange knowledge and information. Most importantly, I am interested in the relation between virtual communities and knowledge creation, especially the correcting mechanism of Wikipedia-the users.
As Wikipedia is one of the biggest and most popular virtual communities, and as it is focused on knowledge creation and knowledge exchange is it perfect to contribute to this research.
I can get lots of data and information from the site it self. But in this context, people are crucial. Crucial for understanding the motivators and visions which are necessary to have a website as successful as Wikipedia.
I am therefore looking for people who are active on Wikipedia who would find it interesting to give interviews. These interviews are necessary to complete this research successfully. Obviously you will be able to express your own opinion and illustrate Wikipedia as you see it.
Just put your name on my user page or send me a message,
thanks NeniPogarcic 13:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I just want to say thank you to the creaters and users of wikipedia. This is a great site and has the usefull information I need to get things done. I wish I could make a donation, but I don't have paypal or anything. HAHA!
Thanks a bunch guys. This is helping me out with my English exam very much.
05:25, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I made a proposal on my blog that the Discogs site could become an open Wiki-- and now I'm in the middle of an "experts vs. consensus" argument. It needs a bit of balance. Anyone want to visit and present a nicely-worded defense of the wiki concept? Here's the URL: http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/discogswiki/
Thanks!
--Daephex, Wikipedia contributor —The preceding unsigned comment was added by aephex ( talk • contribs) 12:04, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear English Wikipedia community,
I am conducting a study of the Wikipedia communities in six different languages for my diploma thesis. Please read my initial announcement for more information.
I owe a big "thank you" to everybody who has helped answer my questions.
So far over 50 people across six Wikipedia communities have contributed to their community's answers and I am grateful for their help. However, for the study to be comprehensive I need more people to get involved. Some communities also seem to need more time to discuss and work out the answers.
Therefore I have extended the deadline for participation until May 13th.
I have used mailing lists and village pumps to spread the announcement about my research questions, but every community has their own channels for the distribution of information. So, I ask you to help get more people involved to make sure the results accurately represent your community.
When phrasing the answers, please approach it as if you were writing a Wikipedia article: try to work on joint answers that your community can agree on. The answers don't need to be neutral in an NPOV kind of way, but please try to give a comprehensive picture of the processes and ideals of your community.
The questions can be found at User:Kurt_Jansson/questions; please edit the questions page to contribute.
Best wishes,
Kurt —The preceding
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22:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
How about this...
Which Wikipedia article has the most references - or really what I'm after is articles that have a substantially high number of references (quantity-wise, not coverage-wise).
A google search didn't help.
Rfwoolf 16:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks all. Yes I'm looking for references/citations - i.e. an external referencse for facts - much like the examples RJH and Christopher Parham have so far given for
George_W._Bush and
Campaign history of the Roman military.
Now I'm wondering why some articles say "References" and other articles say "Citations". Which is correct?
Rfwoolf
12:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Another Wikipedian and I just created a Salem Witch Trials task force. If you are interested in history, Massachusetts, colonial America, witchcraft, or instances of religiously motivated violence, then this is the task force for you!
So please check it out!