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I came across this vandal User talk:38.112.113.3. I reverted one instance but there seems to be many more. Could someone else go thru the history and deal with it. Cheers Nil Einne 16:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
lets review this edition 24.15.123.48 08:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I've got a couple of Wiki admins ( User:Ronz and User:Shot info) tag-teaming me to harass and stalk me across several wikis. They are both claiming to do so on the basis of "policy" violations but both of them refuse to follow policy for their actions. They're also engaging in threats as well as accusing other editors of being sockpuppets/meatpuppets in order to justify their actions. They're even removing valid comments from those editors explaining their actions!
There are several things being done here, aside from following me to my edits and talk pages. The edits are being made to the articles to remove long-standing links and info without any attempt at discussion or consensus. This in and of itself is a pattern of disruption, exacerbated by the placement of advert tags to further inflame the issue (the subject of at least one long comment thread from one other editor pointing out the disruptive nature of that action in this context). Both of these users believe it is their right to make edits without following any sort of policy on the process to make changes.
User:Ronz in particular is continuing a pattern of making accusations of advertising, first alleging the BD-5 Network web site is commercial, when it is not. Then he claims that having an AdSense link makes it commercial, as if now we have to look at every external link on Wikipedia and blow it away if it has a link to an AdSense account. Then he makes accusations of "business relationships" on the basis of a single link I provided to a disabled person who has a small business selling digitized copies of the aircraft's construction plans. It goes on and on, with User:Shot info lecturing everyone on the rules everyone else must follow, except him and User:Ronz.
I want to point out very clearly that I do not have an issue with being challenged on links, etc. but I do have an issue with admins running rooughshod over articles, threatening and attempting to intimidate people, accusing other editors of sockpuppetry and all sorts of other things, all in an attempt to impose their will on the community. This is grossly inappropriate behavior for admins. Flybd5` —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 12:39, 10 October 2007
1. I recently edited Travis Hansen. After the editing the external links and categories doesn't show on the page (the page isn't categorized on the categories associated). 2.I wont to merge the the articles Gorgias (general) and Gorgias (Syrian general), both discussing the same person. I suggested a merge ages ago, no one complied or any admin obliged. -- ArnoldPettybone 20:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there some policy on including links to google books in citations (like Bals des victimes does, for instance)? I think I read somewhere that this was forbidden for some reason. P4k 21:54, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Is there any way i can recover a deleted Wikipedia article?
Thanks
please email at xxx@Hotmail.com if you know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.64.30 ( talk) 00:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Which one would be more notable? A 1.2km high mountain or an organization on the other side of the planet? How about an ethnicity? -- Cat chi? 19:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm currently in a discussion with a user to figure out what parts of an article constitute as OR, and what doesn't. If I'm posting this in the wrong place, please let me know and I'll move it. Questions we have:
Thanks. — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 06:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Do we have a page somewhere to request help from fellow editors to find sources for statements in an article? I can't find anything on Cat Fletcher, Carmelo Torres, and Miriam Fletcher... the main author, User:Cartof, appears to think all is fine. [1] He also claims to be Cat Fletcher himself. [2] I'm ready to believe him, but the problem is that I cannot find any independent confirmation for these three articles. But then, I'm not particularly well-versed in Venezuelan culture... Could anyone help, please? Lupo 13:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC) (Also posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Venezuela; further discussion at the talk pages of these articles, please. Oh, and if we do have such a request page (other than this one), please tell me on my talk page.)
An anonymous user is blanking their talk page to remove evidence of prior edit-warring, etc. See User talk:24.247.215.55. I have reverted it several times but the user continually claims they have the right to do so (even though WP:talk says otherwise). -- Rehcsif 04:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed the policy discouraging trivia, but what about definitions and terminology? I was reading the article on Geocoins and found the terminology section to be fairly dry and wanted to improve it. What is the policy regarding this? -- Eplack 21:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
How can I put this message on the catalan Wikipedia? Pérez 07:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
It's gone! sugarcane - even its botanical name saccharum (which was a redirect to the former). Can someone restore it? Thanks. Peter1968 10:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I've just received the following request: "can you please change the content in
MediaWiki:Sharedupload/no to the following: {{subst:User:H92/Commons}}
, and when you’re done, delete
User:H92/Commons". It's easy to do, and I would've been done by now. However I'm not familiar with the MediaWiki pages, so I thought I should err on the side of caution and ask here first. Thank you. --
Gyrofrog
(talk) 14:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I can't seem to find where to point out two images have a company logo (three flags) in them. Image:Image733.jpg Image:Image1214.JPG ( SEWilco 04:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC))
I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this but a member - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ioeth#Listen_here_sonny - has been harrasing me. User:Ioeth continues to talk to me in template form and assumes bad faith about me as well as being incivil towards me. He refuses to talk our grievances through. MagicMons 13:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Would a person live in the Jewish Quarter of Kiev or the Jewish quarter of Kiev?
If the correct form is the former, without mentioning Kiev would he still live in the Jewish Quarter or would he live in the Jewish quarter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.235.8.2 ( talk) 21:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Coming across a particular page, I seem to have encountered a person who is on something of a crusade to merge as many individual tv episode articles into less informative summaries on episode list pages. I see more than a few objections to what he is doing on his talk page as well. While I'm all for improving wikipedia, that really doesn't seem to be his goal.....-- Carterhawk 03:52, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I recently saw an editor remove a great number of Wiki links from an article and his stated reason was "over-linking". I totally agree with what he did because someone had linked almost every word in the article.
Taking a cue from the above, is there such a thing as over-imaging an article (meaning adding too many photographs)?? Achim has added 5 photographs to the Piping article which had only one photo before his additions ... and I might add that, in my opinion, some of the five are quite poor.
The article now has 6 photos, which I think is too darn many. It is not vandalism ... but it is over-imaging. Can anything be done about this? I have looked at Achim's Talk page and it looks as if it would be quite difficult to try reasoning with him. Please help. - mbeychok 03:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to archive everything before "Same ol', same ol'" at Talk:Analytic Hierarchy Process, but I don't know how to do it. Can somebody explain? Best would be if somebody could actually do it, and let me/us see what is done, with maybe some explanation here. DCLawyer 11:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
84.203.61.133 is roaming around Wikipedia committing vandalism as we speak, and I'm chasing him around undoing what he's doing. Maybe this isn't the best response, but I'm not savvy enough about Wikipedia methods to know what else to do. When I do to the place it says to go to report vandalism, it says that the vandals must have been warned. So I can't use that. So please tell me what I should do. For now, I guess I'll go back to undoing his work??? Thanks, Saraalan 00:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Once he was stopped, I went to Wikipedia:Vandalism and read about warnings. And I looked at the warnings others were giving him while I was chasing him around. Thanks again, Saraalan 00:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
My user page User:Mattisse was deleted (or whatever the word is ) through a misunderstanding. I need my user page, as without it I am helpless. All my article beginnings, important links, collections of references and such were there.
Pleae, could I reqeuest that the page be restored. Otherwise, I am at sea with all of my work lost.
Thank you, Mattisse 19:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Anyone want to take a hack at Cibao Intl Airport Infraestructure? The person who wrote the article's native language isn't English, and it clearly shows. The article is unsourced and needs major clean up. The clean up is too overwhelming for me, so I am here asking for volunteers to check it out. Seeing as there are not any other articles about the infrastructure of other airports, the topic of this article seems too narrow, and it may be a good candidate for merger or deletion. But before I do anything too rash, I wanted to get some other opinions and see if anyone thought it was worth attempting to clean up the article. Thanks for your consideration.- Andrew c [talk] 20:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
When requesting an RFC, is the "topic area" defined by the nature of the article concerned or the nature of the RFC? For example, if requesting an RFC concerning SYN, OR and POV relating to articles about medical schools, is it best to use RFCsci (medicine as a science), RFCecon (schools fall within "companies, organisations and institutions"), or RFCpolicy (SYN, OR and POV are policy issues)? Asking here as this is where WP:RFC directs for guidance on picking topic areas. DMcMPO11AAUK/ Talk/ Contribs 07:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
This will probably sound crazy, but I thought I might ask anyway, so here goes. Did the tab that says discussion always say discussion or did it at some point say talk? Just yesterday I was editing and I was about to click the link to the talk page when I noticed it said discussion. I could have sworn it used to say talk, but who knows, maybe I just never read it before. It has really been bugging me so I would really love to know. Thanks.-- Kyle( talk) 23:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
It originally said "Discuss this page". With the latest software, the wording is stored in MediaWiki:Talk. You can see that it has been changed a few times, but Wikipedians hate change, and revert it on sight. ;-) — Omegatron 03:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
About a month and a half ago the London Gazette changed its website ( http://gazettes-online.co.uk) (this change also affects the Edinburgh Gazette and Belfast Gazette) meaning that all references to it that actually linked direct to a pdf copy of the relevant gazette on the website (created prior to this change) are now broken. Links to search results pages are similarly broken. An example of an old style link is as follows:
The most important parameters in this are:
The equivalent "new" url (in its minimal form) would be:
where:
The main problem is that we lose the specific page being referred to, this is becuase the new url scheme uses the absolute page number, this numberings starts at 1 for the first page of the first issue each gazette of a new year. The old scheme simply numbers each page within an issue (starting with 0). Appending &page=<old page number> to the new url doesn't seem to break anything, but doesn't take you to the right page either - it would however preserve this information for our readers.
The nature of this conversion naturally suggests a bot process, assuming we can easily identify the pagess containing broken links. I've tried using special:linksearch to identify pages linking tothe Gazette website, but this seems to be returning only a fraction of the actual pages, try searching Wikipedia for either "London Gazette" or "gazettes-online" to see what I mean.
Also, User:DavidCane has created {{ LondonGazette}}, if references to the Gazettes consistently used this, ongoing maintenance should be easier, since any future changes to the urls could probably be fixed simply by a template change, and it would in any case be easier to identify affected pages by checking transclusions of the template. However, at the moment this also requires the date the Gazette was issued and the (absolute) page number of the first page being referred to, which are generally not easy to identify. If these were not mandatory, a bot could also be sued to turn the broken urls into templated references. If such a bot logged its changes, then this data could be manually inserted at our leisure by working through the logs.
It would also be necessary to update references which link to search results pages e.g.
maps to
It seems the search engine has also been updated, so different results are returned, so it is not worth trying to preserve the parameter indicating which results page we were on. Anyoje any thoughts on how best to proceed? David Underdown 17:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
These need admin access. -- WonYong Talk 04:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Where can I complain if somebody has wikijacked my ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.101.129 ( talk) 18:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Wikipedians, don't know where else to go with this. I have received an oral request to pass on to somebody who can edit the Wikipedia logo graphic, by Dr Peter Friedlander. The message is something like (because i don't have the vocabulary to understand exactly what Dr Friedlander was trying to tell me) on the Wikipedia logo, the tile with the Sanskrit/Hindi version of "ve"/"w" is not possible in that format, those two characters are valid, but they don't go together to make a valid "W". I think it is the tile at 9 o'clock, i.e. left hand side David Woodward 10:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I just finished the first draft of the article Rick Cua and after using the template:discography list and saving the page, the article is automatically categorized under Category:Non-standard discography inboxes. I don't see where I made any changes that would make the inboxes "non-standard." Would someone mind telling me where I might've made a mistake so I can correct it? Thanks! -- Wordy1 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
In creating categories for music artists, like Rick Cua, I'm noticing that on the pages under which I have categorized this article, he appears under "R" for "Rick Cua" and not "C" for "Cua, Rick." Might someone be able to tell me how to get the article to fall under the last name, first category? Thanks again! -- Wordy1 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
The article on feminism is quite biased. For example, the introductory paragraphs assume things that are, in fact, highly controversial. I uncertain about fixing this myself. Can somebody please insert a {{POV-check}} template in this article? Thanks. 64.26.98.90 17:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
how do you create a new page when the title is two or more words of exsisting titles of pages —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.13.134.151 ( talk) 01:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
(See Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.)
— Omegatron 03:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I don't know where to go with this but I noticed an article on Afd, Michael Blanc who was imprisoned for drug trafficcking in Indonesia in 2000. Reading over the aricle, one of the points I noticed claimed the similarities between Blanc and Schapelle Corby. I did some checking, some of it on Google although the majority came from the computer newspaper archive system my library has access to. I started rewriting the article to resemble Schapelle Corby's article and worked on it on and off earlier today.
While rewriting the article, I saved some of it as I went along but I made it clear in the edit summery that I was in the process of rewriting it. During the last hour, the editor who started the Afd debate started reverting my changes and basicly said I was making up these news articles. What he said exactly was that I was using these articles as original research and making "dubious" claims. I'd rather not go into the details, but I'd apprecite if an editor could check the history and see if I did anything wrong.
The problem with this particular person is that I had a previous run with him over his removal of a book used as a reference on a few wrestling articles. I explained to him that I had changed the date of the book from 2000 to 2006 (I just thought this was just a minor typo) as I'd found that was the date used in 247 other articles and provided him with a Google search result. I didn't argue the point with him and provided a competly seperate resource which he didn't seem to have a problem with.
Now he's turning around and using this to claim that I personally added the majority of these books and, in the case of Michael Blanc, I'm doing the same thing. I know my opinion probably isn't worth much as I'm not a Wikipedian, but I've been editing on Wikipedia for the last two months and I've thought my contributions were fairly helpful. I'd like to think that counts for something, but from my point of view this guy seems to be making me out to be some sort of vandal. All I'm guilty of is trying to improve an article that was already on Afd anyway. I don't know if this guy is trying to get me banned or what, but if I've done something wrong I hope someone can tell me. I have three news stories in question which I printed to take home with me so I can at least provide those, if proof is needed. 71.184.48.105 13:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate the help. 72.74.220.188 19:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
notquite sure which category to use,
the care value base article needs checking up —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilko182 ( talk • contribs) 12:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
As a newbie to wikipedia (at least as an account holder) I have spent the last hour trying to find an answer to my question. I have failed, so please forgive me for posting it here: I am an interior designer and project manager. As such I frequently look up work related topics on wiki and often find what I need. At times however I come across articles which are so confused and misinformed that a newcomer would be hard pushed to gain the information they were initially seeking. On the understanding that the driving force behind wikipedia is constant improvement, I have recently tried to edit one of these articles. My edit was fairly drastic and (now I understand why) it was rejected as vandalism. I then found the FAQ which instructs us to join the topic's discussion page if we intend to carry out radical editing. Having done so I realised that all those discussing the subject (window blinds) were equally confused. I have no doubt that, had I posted my question there, I would have offended everybody. I appreciate that the initial contributor spent hours, if not days, writing the article. However, isn't the final goal achieving simple and accurate information and then building upon it with the help of wikipedians worldwide? How can this be achieved if the original article is badly constructed, poorly researched and randomly referenced? Will that article remain, for ever, the basis of any possible improvements? Can I use a different definition (i.e. "blinds" instead of "window blinds") and write my own simpler article? Many thanks! -- Paleologo 18:37, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I am a newbie at wikipedia! I want to contribute by editing and improving articles where is a good place to start? Bold Vier 07:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
We seem to have a problem with the templates for Project Freemasonry... When you place a template such as {{WikiProject Freemasonry|class=Stub}} or {{WikiProject Freemasonry|class=Start}} on the talk page, it hides the talk page's discussion text. For an example, see Talk:List of Freemasons. Would someone help me to fix this problem. Also posted to VP (Tech). Blueboar 14:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I own a copy of a book that contains a picture of the author, who died around the early 1950's That I would like to add to a page. I know I can create a PDF of the picture, however I don't want to violate any copyright laws. How do I do this? I looked at the copyright page in wikipedia, but I don't know which category my picture would fall under. As a scientist, I would normally include the picture with a complete reference, and that would be kosher, but being new to Wikipedia, I'm uncertain on how to proceed. I have noticed that there are similar pictures, like the signed one of Ray Lankester. This one was found at an archive site, but mine is nowhere to be found. Please Help!! Ktrosvik 16:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I can't find an original copy of the picture itself, but I've found the picture in the book I own that was originally published in 1951, but my copy was published in 1985. I also found the same an obituary from 1951. the picture itself is from before that time, but I have no idea when. The book is out of print, and the obituary is free, so I would assume that using it wouldn't have any financial impact on the copyright holder of either the book or the obituary, but I'm uncertain about the picture itself. Ktrosvik 19:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much!! I'll look into all that. Ktrosvik 13:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious as to what the guidelines/policies are, if any, if a new editor pops in and says they are directly related to something. The prompting for this question is a new editor who just made some changes to the Meerkat Manor article, with their first change summary stating that they are "the creator and series editor of Meerkat Manor (and executive producer of Oxford Scientific Films)." Do we take such stuff at their word or just write them off as nuts? For now, I left them a note on their page that if they claims are true to make sure they adhere to the no conflict of interest and NPOV policies. It does make me wonder, though Collectonian 16:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) You might also add {{ Notable Wikipedian}} to the relevant article talk pages, making sure to explain to the user that this is standard practice so other users aren't caught off guard later on. Point out examples such as Roger Ebert and State Library of Victoria so she knows she's just not being picked on. If you want to make the email official, you should forward it to the OTRS permissions queue, who will then place a tag with an OTRS ticket number on the user's talk page. You may want to ask permission of the user to send her email on to the Foundation. Otherwise, just tell her than she's welcome to the wiki and that, while she will receive extra scrutiny as an account with a self-identified COI, we welcome her corrections and comments on talk pages in which she has a COI, and article edits on pages where she is an expert but has no COI. - Banyan Tree 22:55, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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I came across this vandal User talk:38.112.113.3. I reverted one instance but there seems to be many more. Could someone else go thru the history and deal with it. Cheers Nil Einne 16:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
lets review this edition 24.15.123.48 08:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I've got a couple of Wiki admins ( User:Ronz and User:Shot info) tag-teaming me to harass and stalk me across several wikis. They are both claiming to do so on the basis of "policy" violations but both of them refuse to follow policy for their actions. They're also engaging in threats as well as accusing other editors of being sockpuppets/meatpuppets in order to justify their actions. They're even removing valid comments from those editors explaining their actions!
There are several things being done here, aside from following me to my edits and talk pages. The edits are being made to the articles to remove long-standing links and info without any attempt at discussion or consensus. This in and of itself is a pattern of disruption, exacerbated by the placement of advert tags to further inflame the issue (the subject of at least one long comment thread from one other editor pointing out the disruptive nature of that action in this context). Both of these users believe it is their right to make edits without following any sort of policy on the process to make changes.
User:Ronz in particular is continuing a pattern of making accusations of advertising, first alleging the BD-5 Network web site is commercial, when it is not. Then he claims that having an AdSense link makes it commercial, as if now we have to look at every external link on Wikipedia and blow it away if it has a link to an AdSense account. Then he makes accusations of "business relationships" on the basis of a single link I provided to a disabled person who has a small business selling digitized copies of the aircraft's construction plans. It goes on and on, with User:Shot info lecturing everyone on the rules everyone else must follow, except him and User:Ronz.
I want to point out very clearly that I do not have an issue with being challenged on links, etc. but I do have an issue with admins running rooughshod over articles, threatening and attempting to intimidate people, accusing other editors of sockpuppetry and all sorts of other things, all in an attempt to impose their will on the community. This is grossly inappropriate behavior for admins. Flybd5` —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 12:39, 10 October 2007
1. I recently edited Travis Hansen. After the editing the external links and categories doesn't show on the page (the page isn't categorized on the categories associated). 2.I wont to merge the the articles Gorgias (general) and Gorgias (Syrian general), both discussing the same person. I suggested a merge ages ago, no one complied or any admin obliged. -- ArnoldPettybone 20:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Is there some policy on including links to google books in citations (like Bals des victimes does, for instance)? I think I read somewhere that this was forbidden for some reason. P4k 21:54, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Is there any way i can recover a deleted Wikipedia article?
Thanks
please email at xxx@Hotmail.com if you know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.64.30 ( talk) 00:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Which one would be more notable? A 1.2km high mountain or an organization on the other side of the planet? How about an ethnicity? -- Cat chi? 19:57, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm currently in a discussion with a user to figure out what parts of an article constitute as OR, and what doesn't. If I'm posting this in the wrong place, please let me know and I'll move it. Questions we have:
Thanks. — HelloAnnyong [ t · c ] 06:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Do we have a page somewhere to request help from fellow editors to find sources for statements in an article? I can't find anything on Cat Fletcher, Carmelo Torres, and Miriam Fletcher... the main author, User:Cartof, appears to think all is fine. [1] He also claims to be Cat Fletcher himself. [2] I'm ready to believe him, but the problem is that I cannot find any independent confirmation for these three articles. But then, I'm not particularly well-versed in Venezuelan culture... Could anyone help, please? Lupo 13:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC) (Also posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Venezuela; further discussion at the talk pages of these articles, please. Oh, and if we do have such a request page (other than this one), please tell me on my talk page.)
An anonymous user is blanking their talk page to remove evidence of prior edit-warring, etc. See User talk:24.247.215.55. I have reverted it several times but the user continually claims they have the right to do so (even though WP:talk says otherwise). -- Rehcsif 04:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed the policy discouraging trivia, but what about definitions and terminology? I was reading the article on Geocoins and found the terminology section to be fairly dry and wanted to improve it. What is the policy regarding this? -- Eplack 21:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
How can I put this message on the catalan Wikipedia? Pérez 07:26, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
It's gone! sugarcane - even its botanical name saccharum (which was a redirect to the former). Can someone restore it? Thanks. Peter1968 10:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I've just received the following request: "can you please change the content in
MediaWiki:Sharedupload/no to the following: {{subst:User:H92/Commons}}
, and when you’re done, delete
User:H92/Commons". It's easy to do, and I would've been done by now. However I'm not familiar with the MediaWiki pages, so I thought I should err on the side of caution and ask here first. Thank you. --
Gyrofrog
(talk) 14:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I can't seem to find where to point out two images have a company logo (three flags) in them. Image:Image733.jpg Image:Image1214.JPG ( SEWilco 04:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC))
I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this but a member - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ioeth#Listen_here_sonny - has been harrasing me. User:Ioeth continues to talk to me in template form and assumes bad faith about me as well as being incivil towards me. He refuses to talk our grievances through. MagicMons 13:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Would a person live in the Jewish Quarter of Kiev or the Jewish quarter of Kiev?
If the correct form is the former, without mentioning Kiev would he still live in the Jewish Quarter or would he live in the Jewish quarter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.235.8.2 ( talk) 21:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Coming across a particular page, I seem to have encountered a person who is on something of a crusade to merge as many individual tv episode articles into less informative summaries on episode list pages. I see more than a few objections to what he is doing on his talk page as well. While I'm all for improving wikipedia, that really doesn't seem to be his goal.....-- Carterhawk 03:52, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I recently saw an editor remove a great number of Wiki links from an article and his stated reason was "over-linking". I totally agree with what he did because someone had linked almost every word in the article.
Taking a cue from the above, is there such a thing as over-imaging an article (meaning adding too many photographs)?? Achim has added 5 photographs to the Piping article which had only one photo before his additions ... and I might add that, in my opinion, some of the five are quite poor.
The article now has 6 photos, which I think is too darn many. It is not vandalism ... but it is over-imaging. Can anything be done about this? I have looked at Achim's Talk page and it looks as if it would be quite difficult to try reasoning with him. Please help. - mbeychok 03:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to archive everything before "Same ol', same ol'" at Talk:Analytic Hierarchy Process, but I don't know how to do it. Can somebody explain? Best would be if somebody could actually do it, and let me/us see what is done, with maybe some explanation here. DCLawyer 11:10, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
84.203.61.133 is roaming around Wikipedia committing vandalism as we speak, and I'm chasing him around undoing what he's doing. Maybe this isn't the best response, but I'm not savvy enough about Wikipedia methods to know what else to do. When I do to the place it says to go to report vandalism, it says that the vandals must have been warned. So I can't use that. So please tell me what I should do. For now, I guess I'll go back to undoing his work??? Thanks, Saraalan 00:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Once he was stopped, I went to Wikipedia:Vandalism and read about warnings. And I looked at the warnings others were giving him while I was chasing him around. Thanks again, Saraalan 00:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
My user page User:Mattisse was deleted (or whatever the word is ) through a misunderstanding. I need my user page, as without it I am helpless. All my article beginnings, important links, collections of references and such were there.
Pleae, could I reqeuest that the page be restored. Otherwise, I am at sea with all of my work lost.
Thank you, Mattisse 19:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Anyone want to take a hack at Cibao Intl Airport Infraestructure? The person who wrote the article's native language isn't English, and it clearly shows. The article is unsourced and needs major clean up. The clean up is too overwhelming for me, so I am here asking for volunteers to check it out. Seeing as there are not any other articles about the infrastructure of other airports, the topic of this article seems too narrow, and it may be a good candidate for merger or deletion. But before I do anything too rash, I wanted to get some other opinions and see if anyone thought it was worth attempting to clean up the article. Thanks for your consideration.- Andrew c [talk] 20:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
When requesting an RFC, is the "topic area" defined by the nature of the article concerned or the nature of the RFC? For example, if requesting an RFC concerning SYN, OR and POV relating to articles about medical schools, is it best to use RFCsci (medicine as a science), RFCecon (schools fall within "companies, organisations and institutions"), or RFCpolicy (SYN, OR and POV are policy issues)? Asking here as this is where WP:RFC directs for guidance on picking topic areas. DMcMPO11AAUK/ Talk/ Contribs 07:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
This will probably sound crazy, but I thought I might ask anyway, so here goes. Did the tab that says discussion always say discussion or did it at some point say talk? Just yesterday I was editing and I was about to click the link to the talk page when I noticed it said discussion. I could have sworn it used to say talk, but who knows, maybe I just never read it before. It has really been bugging me so I would really love to know. Thanks.-- Kyle( talk) 23:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
It originally said "Discuss this page". With the latest software, the wording is stored in MediaWiki:Talk. You can see that it has been changed a few times, but Wikipedians hate change, and revert it on sight. ;-) — Omegatron 03:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
About a month and a half ago the London Gazette changed its website ( http://gazettes-online.co.uk) (this change also affects the Edinburgh Gazette and Belfast Gazette) meaning that all references to it that actually linked direct to a pdf copy of the relevant gazette on the website (created prior to this change) are now broken. Links to search results pages are similarly broken. An example of an old style link is as follows:
The most important parameters in this are:
The equivalent "new" url (in its minimal form) would be:
where:
The main problem is that we lose the specific page being referred to, this is becuase the new url scheme uses the absolute page number, this numberings starts at 1 for the first page of the first issue each gazette of a new year. The old scheme simply numbers each page within an issue (starting with 0). Appending &page=<old page number> to the new url doesn't seem to break anything, but doesn't take you to the right page either - it would however preserve this information for our readers.
The nature of this conversion naturally suggests a bot process, assuming we can easily identify the pagess containing broken links. I've tried using special:linksearch to identify pages linking tothe Gazette website, but this seems to be returning only a fraction of the actual pages, try searching Wikipedia for either "London Gazette" or "gazettes-online" to see what I mean.
Also, User:DavidCane has created {{ LondonGazette}}, if references to the Gazettes consistently used this, ongoing maintenance should be easier, since any future changes to the urls could probably be fixed simply by a template change, and it would in any case be easier to identify affected pages by checking transclusions of the template. However, at the moment this also requires the date the Gazette was issued and the (absolute) page number of the first page being referred to, which are generally not easy to identify. If these were not mandatory, a bot could also be sued to turn the broken urls into templated references. If such a bot logged its changes, then this data could be manually inserted at our leisure by working through the logs.
It would also be necessary to update references which link to search results pages e.g.
maps to
It seems the search engine has also been updated, so different results are returned, so it is not worth trying to preserve the parameter indicating which results page we were on. Anyoje any thoughts on how best to proceed? David Underdown 17:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
These need admin access. -- WonYong Talk 04:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Where can I complain if somebody has wikijacked my ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.101.129 ( talk) 18:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Wikipedians, don't know where else to go with this. I have received an oral request to pass on to somebody who can edit the Wikipedia logo graphic, by Dr Peter Friedlander. The message is something like (because i don't have the vocabulary to understand exactly what Dr Friedlander was trying to tell me) on the Wikipedia logo, the tile with the Sanskrit/Hindi version of "ve"/"w" is not possible in that format, those two characters are valid, but they don't go together to make a valid "W". I think it is the tile at 9 o'clock, i.e. left hand side David Woodward 10:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I just finished the first draft of the article Rick Cua and after using the template:discography list and saving the page, the article is automatically categorized under Category:Non-standard discography inboxes. I don't see where I made any changes that would make the inboxes "non-standard." Would someone mind telling me where I might've made a mistake so I can correct it? Thanks! -- Wordy1 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
In creating categories for music artists, like Rick Cua, I'm noticing that on the pages under which I have categorized this article, he appears under "R" for "Rick Cua" and not "C" for "Cua, Rick." Might someone be able to tell me how to get the article to fall under the last name, first category? Thanks again! -- Wordy1 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
The article on feminism is quite biased. For example, the introductory paragraphs assume things that are, in fact, highly controversial. I uncertain about fixing this myself. Can somebody please insert a {{POV-check}} template in this article? Thanks. 64.26.98.90 17:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
how do you create a new page when the title is two or more words of exsisting titles of pages —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.13.134.151 ( talk) 01:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
(See Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.)
— Omegatron 03:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I don't know where to go with this but I noticed an article on Afd, Michael Blanc who was imprisoned for drug trafficcking in Indonesia in 2000. Reading over the aricle, one of the points I noticed claimed the similarities between Blanc and Schapelle Corby. I did some checking, some of it on Google although the majority came from the computer newspaper archive system my library has access to. I started rewriting the article to resemble Schapelle Corby's article and worked on it on and off earlier today.
While rewriting the article, I saved some of it as I went along but I made it clear in the edit summery that I was in the process of rewriting it. During the last hour, the editor who started the Afd debate started reverting my changes and basicly said I was making up these news articles. What he said exactly was that I was using these articles as original research and making "dubious" claims. I'd rather not go into the details, but I'd apprecite if an editor could check the history and see if I did anything wrong.
The problem with this particular person is that I had a previous run with him over his removal of a book used as a reference on a few wrestling articles. I explained to him that I had changed the date of the book from 2000 to 2006 (I just thought this was just a minor typo) as I'd found that was the date used in 247 other articles and provided him with a Google search result. I didn't argue the point with him and provided a competly seperate resource which he didn't seem to have a problem with.
Now he's turning around and using this to claim that I personally added the majority of these books and, in the case of Michael Blanc, I'm doing the same thing. I know my opinion probably isn't worth much as I'm not a Wikipedian, but I've been editing on Wikipedia for the last two months and I've thought my contributions were fairly helpful. I'd like to think that counts for something, but from my point of view this guy seems to be making me out to be some sort of vandal. All I'm guilty of is trying to improve an article that was already on Afd anyway. I don't know if this guy is trying to get me banned or what, but if I've done something wrong I hope someone can tell me. I have three news stories in question which I printed to take home with me so I can at least provide those, if proof is needed. 71.184.48.105 13:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate the help. 72.74.220.188 19:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
notquite sure which category to use,
the care value base article needs checking up —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilko182 ( talk • contribs) 12:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
As a newbie to wikipedia (at least as an account holder) I have spent the last hour trying to find an answer to my question. I have failed, so please forgive me for posting it here: I am an interior designer and project manager. As such I frequently look up work related topics on wiki and often find what I need. At times however I come across articles which are so confused and misinformed that a newcomer would be hard pushed to gain the information they were initially seeking. On the understanding that the driving force behind wikipedia is constant improvement, I have recently tried to edit one of these articles. My edit was fairly drastic and (now I understand why) it was rejected as vandalism. I then found the FAQ which instructs us to join the topic's discussion page if we intend to carry out radical editing. Having done so I realised that all those discussing the subject (window blinds) were equally confused. I have no doubt that, had I posted my question there, I would have offended everybody. I appreciate that the initial contributor spent hours, if not days, writing the article. However, isn't the final goal achieving simple and accurate information and then building upon it with the help of wikipedians worldwide? How can this be achieved if the original article is badly constructed, poorly researched and randomly referenced? Will that article remain, for ever, the basis of any possible improvements? Can I use a different definition (i.e. "blinds" instead of "window blinds") and write my own simpler article? Many thanks! -- Paleologo 18:37, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I am a newbie at wikipedia! I want to contribute by editing and improving articles where is a good place to start? Bold Vier 07:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
We seem to have a problem with the templates for Project Freemasonry... When you place a template such as {{WikiProject Freemasonry|class=Stub}} or {{WikiProject Freemasonry|class=Start}} on the talk page, it hides the talk page's discussion text. For an example, see Talk:List of Freemasons. Would someone help me to fix this problem. Also posted to VP (Tech). Blueboar 14:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I own a copy of a book that contains a picture of the author, who died around the early 1950's That I would like to add to a page. I know I can create a PDF of the picture, however I don't want to violate any copyright laws. How do I do this? I looked at the copyright page in wikipedia, but I don't know which category my picture would fall under. As a scientist, I would normally include the picture with a complete reference, and that would be kosher, but being new to Wikipedia, I'm uncertain on how to proceed. I have noticed that there are similar pictures, like the signed one of Ray Lankester. This one was found at an archive site, but mine is nowhere to be found. Please Help!! Ktrosvik 16:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I can't find an original copy of the picture itself, but I've found the picture in the book I own that was originally published in 1951, but my copy was published in 1985. I also found the same an obituary from 1951. the picture itself is from before that time, but I have no idea when. The book is out of print, and the obituary is free, so I would assume that using it wouldn't have any financial impact on the copyright holder of either the book or the obituary, but I'm uncertain about the picture itself. Ktrosvik 19:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much!! I'll look into all that. Ktrosvik 13:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious as to what the guidelines/policies are, if any, if a new editor pops in and says they are directly related to something. The prompting for this question is a new editor who just made some changes to the Meerkat Manor article, with their first change summary stating that they are "the creator and series editor of Meerkat Manor (and executive producer of Oxford Scientific Films)." Do we take such stuff at their word or just write them off as nuts? For now, I left them a note on their page that if they claims are true to make sure they adhere to the no conflict of interest and NPOV policies. It does make me wonder, though Collectonian 16:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) You might also add {{ Notable Wikipedian}} to the relevant article talk pages, making sure to explain to the user that this is standard practice so other users aren't caught off guard later on. Point out examples such as Roger Ebert and State Library of Victoria so she knows she's just not being picked on. If you want to make the email official, you should forward it to the OTRS permissions queue, who will then place a tag with an OTRS ticket number on the user's talk page. You may want to ask permission of the user to send her email on to the Foundation. Otherwise, just tell her than she's welcome to the wiki and that, while she will receive extra scrutiny as an account with a self-identified COI, we welcome her corrections and comments on talk pages in which she has a COI, and article edits on pages where she is an expert but has no COI. - Banyan Tree 22:55, 13 November 2007 (UTC)