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November 14

Photo as source

I would like to use a photograph on WP Commons as a source, but am unsure how to do it. This photo:[File:Adhilleion_History.JPG] is the only source of information that I could find as reference. It is text from a tourist information window. My main problem is that I want to link to the file description page, but my attempts always link to the image itself, except for using an external link:[1]. ~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC) If you're wondering where I need it, it would be reference #7, here: Willy Stöwer ~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 00:06, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

For an article reference you should use an external link but to Commons where the image is hosted: [2]. Articles can be copied to other websites, printed and so on, so interwiki links in references may break. Anyway, a colon in front of the link produces File:Adhilleion History.JPG. Media:Adhilleion History.JPG gives a direct link to the full resolution file. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Done. For a reference, probably the full wikimedia link is best, more like a "permalink". Thanks, ~Eric F 74.60.29.141 (talk) 01:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Article deleted due to copyright infringement

Hello, my article has been deleted due to copyright infringement.

My question's are:

How/can I bring the article back to correct? or has the page I created been deleted for ever?

How long does the deleted page show up in Internet search results for?

There was an error in the title when I created it; can I change the title of the existing pase or do I have to cretae a new one?

So, should I create a new page with a corrected main title with all of the referencing and coopyright issues resolved. Or use the existing deleted page (if I can) and change that main title?

Any help appreciated. Many thanks.

DBruceNZ (talk) 00:22, 14 November 2012 (UTC)DBruceNZ

Normally, an uncontroversially deleted article can be undeleted, and userfied as a user draft article for submission to AfC. However, copyright violations will not be restored, even into a sandbox. Articles must be written in your own words. It's better if you start from scratch.--xanchester (t) 01:14, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

To answer your other questions: the page you created has gone forever, so you can just start afresh with the correct title; however, I suggest you create the article in a sandbox: see WP:YFA. And we have no control over how long before Google notices that the page has gone. --ColinFine (talk) 01:18, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

National Socialism

First, it is repeatedly stated on the Wikipedia post that National Socialism was a right wing party. Further, it states that their platform was anti-big business, anti-capitalism and anti-bourgeoisie. None of these are right wing positions and in fact are positions that have been part of the far left platform for over 100 years, so the claim is at best erroneous.

Second, I find it interesting that the only place that there is reference to the right wing is in a negative context through dubious association with such political systems, while, at the same time the left wing gets no such treatment. For instance Socialism and Communism have been associated with the left and the progressive movement, there is no mention in your articles on these subjects.

I am not stating that you should include such statements on the left, however, even though you do not have a centralized editorial department, you do have an editorial policy and it should be applied evenly. In addition, some basic fact checking should apply, such as do editorial assertions by the author have any basis in the facts, even if those facts are only those presented in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StephenFRowe (talk • contribs) 01:28, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The relevant facts are that National Socialism is almost universally described as right-wing by credible historians and other academics who are qualified to comment on the subject. If you have sources of a similar standard which suggest otherwise, I suggest you raise the matter at Talk:Nazism - this is a help desk, not a forum for debating article content. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

With all due respect, that is argumentum ad verecundiam. Wikipedia has to avoid such a position.

71.173.3.254 (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of a page

I was recently notified that the page for "Richy Nix" was deleted. Richy Nix is a musician from Canada and had his page developed and updated as his career was progressing. Can I get some information on why the page was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philkuku (talk • contribs) 04:45, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

At a guess, would Wikipedia:Notability (music) give a clue? To merit an article on Wikipedia, a musician needs to have 'progressed', rather than to just be 'progressing' - and we need evidence from third-party reliable sources to indicate this. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:52, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

It looks like it was deleted for lack of notability. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Richy_Nix RudolfRed (talk) 04:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

In other words, it was deleted because people didn't think that Richy had gotten enough in-depth coverage from reliable sources. Nyttend (talk) 05:43, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I also suggest you read our guidance on "up-and-coming" subjects. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:16, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

About CIDER International School

Hi all.
"CIDER International School" is an existing upper-secondary level school in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Whenever I try to add references, they are hijacked to "http://ciderinternationalschool.org", a site that may possibly be cybersquatting the actual school's website. I simply don't have the smarts to investigate this further or suggest a workaround.
Could anyone possibly help me out with this? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:32, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Are there no other citable sources to be found? Even if that URL was usable (I can't load it at all), it would presumably be the school's own site, and therefore not an independent reliable source. If no one else has written about it, then maybe it doesn't warrant an article. Rojomoke (talk) 11:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

(ec)That link simply fails with a timeout for me, so it looks as if even if it was once the school's own website it is no longer. But in any case, references from the school's own website are permitted only for very limited uses - to support uncontroversial factual information in the article, such as its location or the names of principal members of staff. For most purposes - and in particular, to establish notability, without which an article is liable to be deleted - independent reliable sources are required for references. --ColinFine (talk) 11:52, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Since Shirt58's last edit someone with a COI username has added a load of WP:PEACOCK material. I'm going to PROD the article. Roger (talk) 12:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Fine with all the above, and thanks for all of your help. <sighs> Fact remains that there is a school of that or similar name in Bangladesh, but the article may well end up being deleted. Most unfortunate indeed. Again, thank you all for your kind help and most appreciated advice. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:45, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

@Roger, Wouldn't a better approach be to revert the COI edits back to the previous version from last year? Astronaut (talk) 13:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Astronaut, you're welcome to contest the PROD. But as it stands, the article has no references and so does not establish notability. --ColinFine (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

If you are convinced the article is worth saving and you can prove that the subject is notable, you are welcome to have a go at cleaning it up. Roger (talk) 14:35, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

There is a long-standing tradition of the blanket notability of secondary schools - if there existence is verified. See Wikipedia:OUTCOMES#Schools. Rmhermen (talk) 16:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

It's only a presumption of notability - which serves to prevent the summary deletion of stubs in the early stages of development - as a presumption is is subject to denial if the GNG standard is not achieved. Roger (talk) 19:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

edit in wikipedia will not accept my external url

I have tried to edit an external link but it is a .co.nr address which is being refused, what can I do to get the address accepted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.188.235 (talk) 12:57, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Please state in which article you want to put this link. .nr states that it is not an official domain. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 13:04, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

(ec) Some URLs cannot be added to Wikipedia articles because they are known to be the source of malware. See Wikipedia:Spam_blacklist. If you tell us the address that's being refused, modified so that the wiki software doesn't recognize it (type 'dot' instead of '.' for instance), we'll be able to investigate. Rojomoke (talk) 13:08, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Doug Hoffer

Good morning

I was just elected Vermont State Auditor and someone created a page about me (Doug Hoffer). http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/2012ElectionResults/2012GeneralElectionResults/2012GEStatewideCanvass.pdf (see page 3)

The page is partly accurate but contains some errors. In addition, if there is to be such a page, I would like to expand it somewhat. And as the subject of the page, I am the best source of information (it's my life after all). However, the understandable need for citations makes this a challenge.

I posted on the Talk page but have had no response.

So how exactly can I edit the page?

Thank you - Doug Hoffer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drhoffer (talk • contribs) 13:04, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I added a title to separate your question from the one above it, and made your name into a link to the article. Rojomoke (talk) 13:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

You may be the best source of information on your life, but by Wikipedia policy you are not the best (or even an acceptable) source for a Wikipedia article about you. This may seem paradoxical, but Wikipedia works on verifiability. Please see WP:Autobiography for why you should not in general work on the article directly: if there is information in the article which is both wrong and unsourced, you (or anybody) may remove it; but be very cautious about adding new material yourself, and especially about removing information which appears to be referenced to a reliable source. WP:COI has a lot of useful guidance. --ColinFine (talk) 14:32, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Error when updating watchlist

My current Watchlist is about 25,000 pages long, and I'm trying to significantly cut it down, however when editing the raw watchlist and submitting I get the following error:

PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.21wmf3/includes/specials/SpecialEditWatchlist.php line 273:

Allowed memory size of 157286400 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 262144 bytes)

Special:EditWatchlist doesn't load for me (blank white page) and I don't fancy the idea of manually unwatching thousands of pages! Is there anything that can be done? Thanks :-) Jeni ^(talk) 14:21, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I suspect my watchlist has just become far too long for the script to handle, causing it to topple over. Is it at all possible for someone to just manually clear my watchlist from the database or similar? I've got a backup of the pages that I *do* want to continue watching (much less than 25k!) so it's not a problem to start from scratch! Jeni ^(talk) 14:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

As of a few mins ago, I was given a blank message, thankyou to whoever did that :-) Jeni ^(talk) 14:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Redacting email address in edit summary

Leeds Trinity University College; an IP has put an email address in their edit summary. I think it needs to be redacted, could someone help me or just do it. Thanks. Itsmejudith (talk) 15:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The problem with email addresses is when people use them for outing others; individuals who post their own email addresses have done something foolish, but unless something else come up (e.g. disruptive email address; poster wants it taken down, etc.) we don't need to. Nyttend (talk) 15:40, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

OK then, thanks. Itsmejudith (talk) 15:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Change Article Name

Hello, i made an article that is now called "Wikipedia:Articles for creation/HelloGiggles (website)". How can i change it to "HelloGiggles (website)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/HelloGiggles_(website) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeThreeHG (talk • contribs) 15:57, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

See HelloGiggles. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

thank you very much — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeThreeHG (talk • contribs) 16:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Person alive, character dead

Hi!, I am new to Wikipedia and would like to know this, I read the copyright rules and I understood them but for instance, this picture depicts a person who is alive (the actor) but a character who is dead (Final Destination 2). I mean, does it qualify under fair rationale? Thank you! Newyorkboyy (talk) 16:08, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Fair-use rationale applies to how the work was generated. If the image is a publicity shot for a film, or a screen capture from the film, then the copyright is owned by the studio that produced the film and fair-use rules apply. The character's disposition in the film has no effect on that. If, however, the picture was taken by an individual - for example, someone who was visiting the set and snapped the picture while the actor was on-set and in-character - then the image would probably be considered free. --McDoobAU93 16:40, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

But if you don't know the copyright status, it's safer to assume non-free. In addition, a character who is dead has no bearing on the ability to use the image of the character. - Purplewowies (talk) 20:14, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Why is notability important in Wikipedia?

I'm somewhat familiar with Wikipedia and how understand how it is important for information in articles to be accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but I'm not too sure about why it's important for information or articles/subjects to be notable enough. Can someone please enlighten me with the reason of why notability is required? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.251.196 (talk) 17:04, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

See WP:Notability.--ukexpat (talk) 17:12, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the help desk. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an indiscriminate collection of everything. Entries on Wikipedia must have some sort of encyclopedic value, demonstrated by the subject's notability.--xanchester (t) 17:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Look at it this way: if we didn't have notability requirements, there would be an article about anything and everything! (anything – do you think someone's pet dog or cat, a story they made up, their garage band, etc. deserve an article in an encyclopedia? [maybe, if they are well-known]) Wikipedia would be really clogged up with non-notable stuff, and it would probably lose the respect of readers who would be able to find an article about every little thing. The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 17:27, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The problem is not that readers would be able to find an article about every little thing, there would be so many articles about everything that they would not find any article any more. How to find the former president amongst all Gerald Fords that would have an article? Lova Falk talk 18:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

That's what disambiguation pages are for, see John Smith for example.--ukexpat (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I know, this is just an example. But imagine all John Smiths in the world would get their article in Wikipedia (when we remove the notability criterium). Then even disambiguation pages would be way too long, and it would be really difficult to find for instance John Smith the cricketer (there are five of them already)... Lova Falk talk 19:01, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

• To the OPs question: You've answered the question yourself. All notability is at Wikipedia is "information in articles to be accurate and obtained from reliable sources." That's it: If a topic is to be the subject of a stand-alone article, there needs to be enough "information in articles to be accurate and obtained from reliable sources" to build a decent stand-alone article around. Notability means exactly and only that. --Jayron32 18:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

AC/DC receiver design

There's a confrotnation by IP user 86.159.159.194 believing the information provided is reduntant and deleted without noticing the sources, if there a solution to this information.--97.64.214.150 (talk) 17:19, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the help desk. You should discuss the issue on Talk:AC/DC receiver design. 86.159.159.194 has already initiated the discussion at Talk:AC/DC receiver design#Section on AC and DC.--xanchester (t) 17:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

About the article Best selling music artists of all time

I am a new editor and i would really appreciate your help with that. I wanted to say that in this article some artists who have sold more than 70 millions records which is the lowest's artist of the list sales, are not listed. An example is Lady Gaga ,who according to another wikipedia article Lady Gaga's discography, has sold more than 89 millions record (64.000.000 singles + 25.000.000+ albums) and she is NOT listed..

I would really appreciate your answer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foivos Nix (talk • contribs) 17:21, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Welcome! You're going to need an independent, published source for that. Once you have a source, go ahead, be bold and edit the page. If you are reverted, discuss the change on the talk page of the article. This process is known as WP:BRD: bold, revert, discuss.--xanchester (t) 17:28, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Assistance required

I have done pretty much of my homework while preparing for this article (to be moved someday to the original article Goa Medical College), some of it is from offline sources. I need assistance from someone who is interested and would be able to provide additional information. Any advice where on Wikipedia should I look for and how is my writing at present going. ⚕ Dr. ANK (｡◕‿◕｡) 19:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't know what the procedure is for making replacement articles in a personal space and then overwriting it in order to keep the appropriate page history. However, what I will say is that the replacement article you have created looks *really* good and my concern on keeping the page history straight is the *only* thing keeping me from suggesting it move now. I only see two places that aren't referenced, the end of the second paragraph in the header and the post 1986 history.Naraht (talk) 19:32, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

It can be moved without disruption to the histories of both pages, because there is very little overlap in edits. There are just a couple edits to the original article since Drankush started the revised version. Therefore merging both histories should not be a problem, but it takes an admin to do this. If you want me to perform a history merge, please drop me a note on my talk page. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:43, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Naraht and Amatulić for your encouraging words. I have also compiled some reference images (dated before 1923) from public libraries and so Im expecting them to be in public domain. I have even planned writing a timeline for the historical series of events. The header is copied same from the original article so its not yet referenced (I will work on it). Im still working on post 1983 and the college library and some staff has promised me to help me in the same (as they say it shouldn't be difficult) and so does the local newspapers. Amatulic, I will definitely contact you once Im done with this article to a acceptable standard. Thanks once again, have a nice day. ⚕ Dr. ANK (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Usually when an editor asks for help with a new article, I doubt that it will survive, and am reluctant to help. But this one already looked really good, and is on a clearly notable subject, so I have spent some time making many minor changes, to grammar, punctuation, etc. If these get lost from its edit history I don't think it matters, they are not (or are not intended to be) controversial. Maproom (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Help acquiring an image

I am not sure whether this is the proper place to ask this, but I was hoping to find some help with acquiring an image of filmmaker and actor Cory Edwards. There do not seem to be any free images of him available, but several images of him can be found on his official website [3]. I assume that these images are copyrighted, but I remember reading somewhere that one could request that someone release an image of themselves into the public domain. Edwards always responds to questions in the comment sections of his website and also provides an e-mail address, Cory@futureboyfilms.com. I have corresponded with him through his website in the past and would simply ask him myself, but I have little knowledge of copyright law and little experience with images on Wikipedia. If someone more experienced in these areas could help, I would really appreciate it.

I want to use the image in the Hoodwinked! article, which will be Wikipedia's Featured Article of the Day on Friday, so if an image could be acquired before then, that would be ideal. I'm not sure how long this process usually takes though. --Jpcase (talk) 22:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I believe that WP:DCM tells you what you would need to ask him. --ColinFine (talk) 00:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Operation New Life

The statement that the 1500+ repatriates returned to Viet Nam were "viet Cong" is totally false. I was the Navy physician responsible for the camp and they were mostly women children and members of the South vietnamese armed forces who decided to return, usually since their families were left behind.

T.C. Farrell MD MS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.32.221.198 (talk) 22:30, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The reference given for this (the last paragraph of the article) indeed does not identify them as Viet Cong, but just as "refugees", so it would certainly be legitimate to remove that identification from the article. But there is other information in the paragraph which is not in the source referenced, so I am reluctant to edit it as I know nothing about the subject.

If you have a reliable source to reference, you are welcome to edit the article, but personal knowledge is not enough: see WP:V for why not. Otherwise, I suggest that you bring this up at Talk:Operation New Life and see you can work with other editors to improve the article. --ColinFine (talk) 00:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Is the Secure Server down?

I normally log in through the secure server. At present it is going to the unsecured log in. Paul foord (talk) 22:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

On further investigation it looks like it is working differently. Paul foord (talk) 23:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Upload Pic to Scott Antol article

I am trying to upload a pictureto my own article page... Scott Antol ... how do I proceed in doing so? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotty58 (talk • contribs) 23:43, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Have a look at WP:Uploading images and WP:Image tutorial. Please notice that you have a conflict of interest in editing that page, so you should be very cautious about doing so - the link I gave advises you how to handle it. But donating a picture would be very welcome: be aware that it is not enough to say "I allow Wikipedia to use this": you have to agree to licence it in a prescribed way, that will allow it to be used for any purpose, with proper attribution. --ColinFine (talk) 00:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

November 15

Roh Moo-hyun

Hello. I am Sunghye Kim, a manager of Education team, Roh Moo-hyun foundation in Seoul, Korea. Roh is a former president in South Korea, and had a conflict political relationship with the opposite party(conservative, Saenuri Party) in Korea. Now that we only have a month to presidential election, the opposites are acting dirty even with the former president, Roh. Somebody tries to make president Roh a communist, corrupted politician who died for shame. We, as a representative of former president Roh Moo-hyun, really hope that you could stop him or her for doing such a rude and irrespectful behavior. I will try to edit the contents myself, but I am expecting Wikipedia to do something to make it right. Please send us your response as soon as possible. Thank you in advance.

Sunghye Kim Education Team, Roh Moo-hyun Fondation — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hindung1 (talk • contribs) 00:40, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

The article has been semiprotected by an administrator until 29 November in response to vandalism. See Talk:Roh Moo-hyun. Wikipedia has strict policies governing articles about living persons, and their content, whether welcome to the subject of the article or not, must meet our standards of sourcing and balance. Examples of indisputable vandalism may be reverted on sight, and persistent or problem vandalism may be reported to WP:AIV for administrator attention. As a representative of Mr. Roh you have a conflict of interest and are strongly discouraged from editing the article yourself, but you can discuss any proposed changes at the article's talk page linked above. - Karenjc 10:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Mr.Z-man/rollbackSummary.js

The above script doesn't work, doesn't appear anywhere, I can't find it. I have already bypassed my cache and refreshed the browser. Where is it? Thanks, TBrandley 02:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

On the Vector skin, 'p-cactions' (mentioned in the script's source code) is the ID of the "[Content] Actions" drop-down menu located just left of the search box, or to the left of Twinkle if you use that gadget. Under that menu, there should be a "rollback summary" item. (On the MonoBook skin, the menu item will appear as one of the tabs across the top of the page.) PleaseStand (talk) 05:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

However, the menu item won't appear if there is no rollback link on the page. PleaseStand (talk) 05:11, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Display time problems

Hello, I've been on Wkipedia for almost a year but this is my first time dealing with this. I'm having trouble with the Display template. My current time is 9:42 on November 14 but when I make it to start to display it on November 15 at 1:00, it already displays it when it clearly isn't 1:00 on November 15. Can anyone help? I think this might have to do with the server time but I don't want it to go off of the server time, I want it to go off of my current time which I do have set in my preferences. Here's the page I'm talking about. Feel free to edit it to try to fix it. I also noticed that when I sign my name, it goes off the server time and not my time, how do i fix that too? Thanks, --Astros4477 (talk) 02:42, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but with that template it appears that you must go off of UTC time. To set the time of your post (or any time for that matter), Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time is the gadget you are looking for. By the way, are you in the EST time zone? UTC is 5 hours ahead of EST, so all you have to do is add five hours to your time to get UTC for the template. I'm not sure of any other way to do this, but if anyone else knows, feel free to correct me. The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 06:57, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

You are at UTC−05:00. You can simply add "+ 5 hours" to the time parameters in {{Display}} without calculating it yourself, for example {{Display|from=November 15 1:00 + 5 hours|text=This is a test.}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! It makes it so much easier to understand the time now.--Astros4477 (talk) 22:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. By the way, note that the from text may not be displayed until the page is purged at a later time. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:11, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Editing an infobox

How do I access the infobox on "Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012" in order to add an image to the top of the infobox?    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 05:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Wow, that's pretty obscure! You need to edit Template:Solareclipse200 db and set 2012Nov13-Ph to the name of the picture, and 2012Nov13-PhCap to the caption text. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Never mind. That is too complicated for me! The photo is File:Nasaeclipse13nov2012.png in case someone else is brave enough. Thanks for the info. (Someone should put that image on the main page, too, instead of a 1999 eclipse.)    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 07:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I've made the edit, so the article displays the image, and have posted at Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Errors in In the news. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:03, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Can I request a username usurpation if I am a new user?

I wanted to sign up to Wikipedia however signup failed as there was already a user with a username similar to mine. So I went to WP:ACC and requested it there, and it got denied for the same reason, even though that account was registered over 6 years ago and has no edits.

So I was wondering if the following would work: I create a user with some random, temporary username, and then request for it to be changed at WP:USURP (to the username that had no edits), seeing as it meets the criteria. And then, once that's done, ask for the new username to be changed to the one I wanted in the beginning at WP:CHUS.

Would this be an option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.251.211 (talk) 06:21, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

If the one that you really want has never been registered, I think you should be able to go straight from step 1 to step 3 – create an account with a random temporary name and request it to be changed to the one you want at WP:CHUS. The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 06:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I'd try that but I think it might just get denied again. Apparently the username mine is too similar to is also in use with other WikiMedia projects (which I don't plan to use). 92.41.251.218 (talk) 07:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

If the user name already exists on another Wikimedia Project(s), Single Unified Login (SUL) conflicts could prevent the account creation. However, it's still worth a try. If you are unsuccessful again, it might be time to use your second user name choice. :) The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 09:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't seem to have a SUL account when I look at [4]. That's the conflicting username; the username I am after is Bui, which only has two total edits across all wikis (5 total): [5] -- 92.41.251.218 (talk) 09:20, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Lindau

hello, this webapge is wrong in stating that the town of Lindau in Bavaria. It is actually in the state nof Baten-Wurttemberg. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.14.223.104 (talk) 08:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

There are many places with such a name in Germany: See Lindau_(disambiguation). Ruslik_Zero 09:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, and Lindau is about the one in Bavaria. Note the top of the article says: "For other uses, see Lindau (disambiguation)." Lindau in Bavaria has 24,813 people. Lindau in Baden-Württemberg is apparently only a part of Ibach which as a whole has 394 people. It makes sense that Lindau is about the far larger town. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

List of songs recorded by Take That

Hi, i'm struggling to get the table of contents to work on the following page; List of songs recorded by Take That, can anyone help?

Thanks, --Jonie148 (talk) 09:32, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:CompactTOC8 is for pages where section headings are letters. If you want to use it for a table then you must insert anchors for each letter in the table. See for example List of dog breeds which has {{Anchor|A}} in the wikitext for the first entry starting with A, and so on. The TOC should also be placed at the top of the page or after the lead, and include links to all real section headings on the page. See Template:CompactTOC#Listing custom-headers. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:34, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

{{CompactTOC8}} is now {{Compact ToC}}. {{List TOC}} is similar but simpler and has better accessibility. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks! --Jonie148 (talk) 11:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Generating sulphuric acid

Is there any possibility to generate sulphuric acid or any other acid during recovery of crude benzol from coke oven gas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.17.46 (talk) 10:04, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Header added. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6.9 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. - a boat that can float! (watch me float!) 10:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Not so much wrong website as wrong desk. Try reposting this query at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. Someone there will be able to help you. - Karenjc 10:59, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

How to break apart an existing talk page to create a new one?

Please look at Robert Fletcher (poet). Then click the discuss this page link. It should redirect you to Talk:Robert Fletcher (fl. 1586), who is an earlier poet.

How do I keep the existing talk page and create a new one for the 20th century poet?

Also, is it possible to delete the redirect? I don't know how to do that either.

Thanks for any help you can provide.--User:FeanorStar7 FeanorStar7 11:22, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I've removed the redirect on the talk page. If you want to add the same template, it's {{WikiProject Biography}}. - Purplewowies (talk) 11:40, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I have added the biography tag to that page. FS7

Lost content

I was working on draft content and when I moved away from the page I'm not able to find it. Yes, I saved the page but I do not know where to go to continue to edit it. HELP — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdggibson (talk • contribs) 15:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I added a header to your question. If you click on the "my contributions" tab (very top right of the page) it will show a history of all your Wikipedia edits - see here. You have made just two - one to this page and another submitting an article which was blank, with no content at all, and which has been declined for that reason. You haven't saved any draft content anywhere, unless you did so under another username or while not logged in. You may have pressed "show preview" rather than "save page"; this button will not save your work, unfortunately. Unless you can get back to it using the "back" button on your browser, it is probably lost and will need to be recreated. You can use the article wizard to create a draft in your userspace to work on until it is ready to submit. - Karenjc 16:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

To find any pages you created or edited while logged out, log yourself out again by clicking the "Log out" link at the top right, and then type "Special:MyContributions" into the search box. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:40, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Unless you have a dynamic IP address. - Purplewowies (talk) 17:26, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Press credentials

Is there any precedent for wikipedia facilitating press credentials for photojournalism? If so, how do I inquire about such arrangements?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:13, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, though I don't know the details. It was discussed in this issue of the Signpost in regard to the Olympics. You might contact the interviewees in that article; I suspect that they would know. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:36, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

That seems to be event-specific. I was thinking of something more along the lines of this. Maybe they could do something like they do for Highbeam.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Is this in violation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Micah_Jesse&action=history

It's all created by the same user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.64.66 (talk) 17:22, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

It's not inherently against policy for an editor to be the sole author of an article, no. (However, there are some cases, particularly WP:COI, where it is.) - Purplewowies (talk) 17:29, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

The latest 50 edits were done by at least a dozen different editors. Your question is incomplete as you do not say what rule you think may be broken. Roger (talk) 19:03, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Creating a new article/ title

I'm thinking of creating a new article on Sir John Leigh. He was the half-brother of Henry VIII's Queen, Katherine Howard, was a foreign traveller, had a well-known quarrel with Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (the poet Earl), and was a friend of the founder of the Royal Exchange, Sir Thomas Gresham, so he seems sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia.

My question concerns the title of the article. Wikipedia discourages the use of 'Sir' in article titles, so the title would be 'John Leigh' with a descriptor to differentiate him from other John Leighs. He left a will dated 30 April 1563, with a codicil dated 14 March 1564. However his will not proved until February 1566. It seems likely he died in 1564, shortly after the making of the codicil to his will.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography uses this format for birth and death dates covering a time span: (d. 1564x6). Would the title 'John Leigh (d. 1564x6)' be the right one to choose for a Wikipedia article? Or would 'John Leigh (died c.1564) be a better choice?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. NinaGreen (talk) 18:47, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Did he have a title in addition to Sir? Ruslik_Zero

No. He was among a group knighted on 2 October 1553, the day after the coronation of Queen Mary, but I can't see evidence of his having any other title.NinaGreen (talk) 19:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

What did he do other than be knighted? If he was important for some reason or held some important job or something like that, the article could be titled "John Leigh (job title here)". SeeWP:DAB for some more information; we have, for example, articles titled things like John Smith (academic) or John Smith (botanist). --Jayron32 19:31, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

He's mentioned with the ODNB date format in Joyce Culpeper, but I haven't found any article titles yet that use the format. We do have at least one article that uses the circa abbreviation in its title: Zamorin of Calicut (died c. 1500). My instinct would be to disambiguate with the latter. - Karenjc 19:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to everyone for the helpful suggestions. I think either 'John Leigh (died c. 1564) or perhaps 'John Leigh (courtier)' would work. NinaGreen (talk) 20:03, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Rather than giving his date of death, it might be better to use something like John Leigh (fl. 1550). Maproom (talk) 22:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Dan Peres for Details Magazine

Hi - I work for Conde Nast and we would like to add an article for Dan Peres, the Editor In Chief of Details Magazine. I have an account for him and tried to submit his bio, however it was turned down because of the COI. Does this mean I should create his article from my personal wiki account? Is there a way around this first step because he is a public figure? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanPeres (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Dan_Peres_(2) was declined for having no independent reliable sources, not for COI. If you produced a neutral, reliably sourced article that established his notability and fully declared your COI, it would be considered at WP:AFC. However, you should under no circumstances be editing from an account under somebody else's name - all contributions must be the work of one user, who must not impersonate another real person, and shared accounts are not permitted to edit. See WP:USERNAME. It is likely that the DanPeres account will be blocked shortly for this reason. - Karenjc 19:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Dozier Adolphus DeVane

I work for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. You might want to add that, while working as Solicitor for the Federal Power Commission, Mr. DeVane was co-author of the Federal Power Act, along with Clyde Seavey, who served as Commissioner and then as Chairman of the FPC.

I am currently looking for a photograph of Mr. DeVane. I contacted the U.S. District Court of Northern Florida, whose staff tell me that he would have had a formal portrait taken when he was named Senior Judge. But they can't find a picture.

Thanks!

Sarah McKinley <Phone Nunber Retracted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.87.16.4 (talk) 20:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC) Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you want them to be permanently removed from the page history, please email this address.

The best place to suggest this is on Talk:Dozier A. DeVane. In general, anybody may edit an article, but as you have a conflict of interest it is advisable that you suggest it on the talk page, with a published reliable source for the information (it should not go into the article without one), and leave it up to other editors to change the article. As for a photo, if you can find one to add to the article, that would be great; but be aware that any photo must either be in the public domain, or be explicitly released by the copyright holder under a suitable licence: see WP:DCM. --ColinFine (talk) 11:35, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Thomas Nelson Community College

Hello,

I am Richard Hodges, the Director of Learning Resources at Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va and it has been brought to my attention that we need to basically overhaul the page currently viewed through Wikipedia. One of the links I cannot access has to do with our President. Next to his name is hyperlinked text for 'president'. However, it doesn't go to anything about him. How can I change this?

I greatly appreciate your help in this matter.

Richard Hodges Director of Learning Resources Thomas Nelson Community College

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Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you want them to be permanently removed from the page history, please email this address. — TransporterMan (TALK) 21:55, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

You should not edit the article due to the fact that you have a conflict of interest. If you have particular corrections or changes and that information can be substantiated through reliable sources as defined by Wikipedia, feel free to request them and provide those sources on the article talk page. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 21:59, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

The word 'president' is linked to a Wikipedia article (actually, a section of one) about university presidents. There is not currently a Wikipedia article about John Dever, and so there is nothing to link his name to (links external to Wikipedia are quite tightly circumscribed, and would not be appropriate here: see WP:EL. If John Dever passes the notability criteria for Wikipedia, somebody may write an article about him (preferably not you: see the 'conflict of interest' article linked by Transporter man above), and then his name in this article can be wikilinked to that article. --ColinFine (talk) 11:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Swat valley

Hi dear, If you guys can change the "Swat valley" Article from Swat River to Swat Distric — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isruma (talk • contribs) 22:09, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi dear, If you guys can change the "Swat valley" Article from Swat River to Swat Distric

Swat Valley Famous name of Distric in pakistan. Swat River A river flow in Swat valley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isruma (talk • contribs) 22:11, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

There is an article Swat River, which is of course about the river. Its first paragraph says 'For Swat valley, city or district, see Swat, Pakistan. "Swat valley" redirects to this article.' So it may be confusing that "Swat valley" redirects to the Swat River article, not to the Swat District article. I will alter the redirect if I can figure out how. Maproom (talk) 22:28, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I find that the Swat district article starts "(Redirected from Swat district)". I fear that I will soon be out of my depth if I try to fix this mess. Maproom (talk) 22:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I tried anyway, and did get out of my depth. Swat valley now redirects, appropriately in my view, to Swat district. And there is still an article Swat River. But if you type in Swat river, you get to Swat River via a redirect; and if I blank that redirect, then searching for Swat river does not work. Maybe I need to request a speedy delete for the "Swat river" redirect. Maproom (talk) 22:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand why you consider it a problem that Swat river redirects to Swat River. This is a common type of redirect. If Swat river is blanked without being deleted then you of course see a blank page at Swat river. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:21, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

It's also an out-of-date redirect. Wikipedia no longer needs these lowercase-to-uppercase redirects. As an experiment I just deleted the Swat district redirect. Typing "Swat district" in the search box brought me to the Swat District article without needing the redirect at all. (I won't restore the redirect because no articles link to the lowercase Swat district, all links are to the uppercase Swat District.) ~Amatulić (talk) 00:05, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, but Category:Redirects from other capitalisations currently has 373,411 pages (and many others are missing the tag). I call that a common type of redirect. It's not a criteria for speedy deletion so I declined Maproom's nomination. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Dorothy Johnston Australian author

Dear Wikipedia,

I would like to make a correction and several additions to the wikipedia page about me. I have tried writing some more information and correcting a date but I don't know how to save, or what the next step should be.

Dorothy Johnston (talk)

Dorothy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dorothy Johnston (talk • contribs) 23:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried to propose the changes at Talk:Dorothy Johnston? There you can find editors interested in that article. Leaving a message there is pretty much the same as here on the Help desk. —teb728 t c 08:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

November 16

Article of "Christopher Busby"

Dear Wiki Desk

I read the "Christopher Busby" in Japanese site.

In spite of he is honest person and gives warning to Japan nuclear crisis. But all bad and emotionally things are written in Japanese. I do not hurt Dr. Christopher and Wiki I love. Please check and erase them. Thank your understanding and help. Kozue Yamamoto — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.61.210 (talk) 00:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

This is the Help desk for English-language Wikipedia (whose article on Christopher Busby does include some criticism). If your complaint is about the article on him in Japanese-language Wikipedia, you should raise it on its Help Desk; or better, on the Christopher Busby talk page there. I suspect that most editors here, like me, cannot read Japanese. Maproom (talk) 00:11, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I concur, it is an issue with the Japanese article and should be addressed over there. It appears to me that there are some negative/criticizing quotes about Busby that are uncited in the Japanese article about him (and have been marked as citation needed since February 2012). SassyLilNugget (talk) 16:13, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Ray Guarendi

The article on Ray Guarendi should mention that he is an advocate of corporal punishment, especially for children under three. He went on at length about this view during his broadcast on EWTN a day or two ago. To characterize corporal punishment as "common-sense parenting" is quite biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.148.122.100 (talk) 01:55, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

The place to discuss article content is on its talk page, in this case Talk:Ray Guarendi. That is where you communicate with editors interested in the article. —teb728 t c 07:45, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Can't find my page

I created a page and I can't find it via search "Kenneth M. Bailey" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.220.8 (talk) 02:04, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

You were not logged in when you posted here but I guess you are User:Kmb357 who created Wikipedia:Kenneth M. Bailey. Are you the subject? When you are logged in you can click "My contributions" at top of any page to see your edits. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:21, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

You apparently moved the draft page to Wikipedia:Kenneth M. Bailey, which is in the wrong namespace, (it should have been Kenneth M. Bailey without a prefix), and User:Jimfbleak then deleted it. This is why both these links are red: the articles don't exist. --ColinFine (talk) 11:52, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Judging from the message at User talk:Kmb357, I think the article was posted in the Wikipedia namespace and then moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kenneth M. Bailey. It was then deleted as "G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion". -- John of Reading (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Gadgets

For some reason, none of my gadgets are working. WikEd, HotCat, Popups and others are all gone. I checked my preferences, and the tab itself is gone, but I am still autoconfirmed and have all my user rights. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:54, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Same here. No gadgets tab in Preferences. Twinkle is gone. By the way, I cleared out my cache thoroughly, with no improvement. Cresix (talk) 02:56, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

It's discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Missing Gadgets Tab. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:59, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Nigerian Civil War

One commandant is omitted among the Nigerian camp. And his was the long service commandant during the war. He was the one in control of 1 Division. His name was Mamman Shuwa. He was the one that captured Umuahia, Enugu among others. For more information check Daily Trust from 2nd to 9th November 2012. Also see the Nigerian Military History. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.186.30.245 (talk) 09:30, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

If you have information to improve an article, and the information is confirmed by a reliable source, you are welcome to edit the article; or if you are not confident to do that, the article's talk page is the best place to make a suggestion. --ColinFine (talk) 11:53, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Highlighting Diff text

Hi. I notice the appearance of diffs changed suddenly just after 21:00 UTC yesterday, meaning the text changes were no longer highlighted in bold. I thought this might be a software change, but after asking for help through my talk page another editor suggested it could be a Cascading Style Sheets issue. I've since discovered this problem only seems to occur in Chrome. Firefox and IE are fine just now. I do edit with a screen magnifier, and did also consider that as I've had a couple of issues with it in the past, but the text remains unhighlighted when I switch it off so I don't think that's the problem. Can anyone shed some light on what's happening? Thanks in advance. Paul MacDermott (talk) 12:42, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I second the issue. Diff has stopped working correctly with Google Chrome. Please don't say to just use IE. To get around the problem for now I am using the wikEdDiff gadget, but it is not as good.BollyJeff | talk 13:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. It's useful as a stopgap, but hopefully someone can debug the original. Paul MacDermott (talk) 13:50, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Image Upload Policy

I want to upload some image. But I have captured them in my camera from some books and daily newspapers. Can I upload them? Again I have captured a image of a great Indian player in field while he was playing. Can I upload that image? Thanks. pratyya (talk) 13:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

In general the publishers of books and newspapers retain copyright to the images in them. They are therefore not suitable for use on Wikipedia. Rojomoke (talk) 13:06, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

But a picture of a public figure that you took yourself is probably OK. --ColinFine (talk) 14:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Continuing Image Upload Policy

So can I Upload those image after some modification? Can I upload image or file from some other cite if get permission from them?--pratyya (talk) 13:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

No, modifying them will still infringe copyright. If you can get them to licence the image, you can use it, but it is not enough for them to say "Yes, you can put it on Wikipedia": the copyright owner must agree to licence the image irrevocably with one of the acceptable free licences. See WP:Donating copyright materials. --ColinFine (talk) 14:29, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Correction : Kashmiri Pandit festivals

NAVREH - This Holy festival marks the beginning of the New Year for Kashmiri Pandits like other Hindus of India. This new year day for Hindus falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipadā (the first day of the bright fortnight of the Hindu lunar month of Chaitra).

NAVROZ - This festival marks the beginning of the New Year for Kashmiri Muslims and has no relation to Kashmiri Pandit New Year festival of NAVREH. This ritual is NOT same as the Haft Sin of the Iranian and Zoroastrian Nowruz.

Please correct the required details under....

Section - Navreh (Navroz) of the following site... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit_festivals

Section - Festivals of the following site... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit

Rockingvibes (talk) 13:22, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

If you have information to improve an article, and the information is confirmed by a reliable source, you are welcome to edit the article; or if you are not confident to do that, the article's talk page is the best place to make a suggestion. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:53, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

A captcha for deleting a link

I just deleted an inappropriate link http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Terre_Haute_International_Airport&diff=523352906&oldid=496606350 and had to enter a captcha, because I was supposedly adding an external link. Am I supposed to enter a captcha when removing links too, or is something not working right? 2001:18E8:2:1020:259B:F20D:F636:F65B (talk) 17:22, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I think the underlying principle is the same in both cases. We don't want unregistered accounts using bots to spam the encyclopedia with inappropriate website, but we also don't want these bots stripping the urls of their enemies. -Thibbs (talk) 13:48, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

List of largest buildings in the world

You are missing one of the biggest building in Canada in Edmonton Alberta

Supply Depot at the Edmonton Garrison The depot’s main warehouse building is 450 metres by 163 metres. It covers 7.5 hectares, and the interior space is more than half a million cubic metres – roughly equivalent to eight Home Depot stores.

The 32 million items held at 7 CFSD are endlessly varied, from tiny electrical components to winter tents to aircraft wings. “The truck pulls up and the door opens, and you never know what will show up,” said LCol Baker. “One day we unloaded sailboats that naval cadets had bought.”

Ref: http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/commun/ml-fe/article-eng.asp?id=6771

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.245.209 (talk) 17:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I doubt that it qualifies, being less than one-fifth the size of the smallest building currently on that list, but if you think it should be there then you are free to add it yourself, but you need to provide a reliable source as defined by Wikipedia. The source you name may or may not not qualify. I'd suggest the addition on the talk page first, before boldly adding the listing to the article. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC) PS: My bad. I now see it might go in under the "Largest footprint" category. — TransporterMan (TALK) 17:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Emma Handy

Hi,

I have submitted a wiki page on 'Emma Handy' and am wondering when It will be going live on your wiki site? Would you be able to give me some info on this please?

Many thanks

RokafellaB — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.157.220.250 (talk) 17:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Your submission was declined. See Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Emma_Handy for what was wrong and what you might do next. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:49, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

How to make my talk page blue

I'm a new contributor and would like to know how to make my talk page blue. Thank you. Kenkentucky (talk) 18:35, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

If you mean the link to your talk page then the red means the page doesn't exist and blue means it does exist. I placed a welcome message on it so it now exists and has a blue link. (I'm assuming you aren't asking how to make the background of the page blue.) RJFJR (talk) 18:42, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!!!! I meant what you exactly did, thank you indeed!. Kenkentucky (talk) 18:46, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Navbox help

Hello,

I was curious as to how to port over Template:Navbox over to a wiki I own. It is on one of the wikifarms, namely ShoutWiki. However, upon copying the wiki formatting (that apparently doesn't require 'HTML Tidy,' which is a program which I do not own) from here to my wiki, it turned up blank on the page preview. I only ask to obtain a simple navbox, maybe with an option to include an image as well, but that might not be necessary.

Thank you for your patience. Regards, RomeEonBmbo 18:58, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Will this template work if you simply copy-paste its wikitext? Can you do this as a test? Ruslik_Zero 19:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

No, I already tried that (as I said earlier) but it turned up blank. Regards, RomeEonBmbo 22:58, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

It also uses code in MediaWiki:Common.css. I don't know what exactly is needed but you could try copying all navbox and navbar code to MediaWiki:Common.css for your wiki. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:58, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

It works! Thank you! But there's a few problems:

• Hide/Show link at the right is missing.
• The V-T-E bar is vertical and appears to be in bullets.

Otherwise, all is good with this template. Thanks once again. Regards, RomeEonBmbo 01:06, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Collapsible navigation boxes use code in both MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css. See Wikipedia:NavFrame. Can you link to a saved example with your problems? PrimeHunter (talk) 01:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll post the links below:

• The template of the Dropbox that has the problems
• Template:Navbox
• Template:Navbar and Template:Transclude, which went with Template:Navbox
• The Commas Css and the Common js which is updated to the best of my ability, and has code gibberish I do not understand

Also, the Hide/Show feature works now. The Common JS codes seem to have worked. All that I need to do is fix the V-T-E headings and I'm set. Thanks once again, you've all been a great help here! I honestly don't know how else to thank you... :) Regards, RomeEonBmbo 02:52, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

You may need the hlist code in MediaWiki:Common.css to make horizontal V-T-E links. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Once again, your help works! Thank you very much! Regards, RomeEonBmbo 02:12, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

wrong info

Hi you have the wrong city for James Davidson as the Mayor, it was Ottawa, not Toronto.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.20.134 (talk) 19:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Which article? Because James Davidson (Canadian politician) clearly says Ottawa... Which place did you read the wrong information? --Jayron32 19:23, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

The opening sentence correctly says Ottowa but the infobox said Toronto. I fixed it.[6] PrimeHunter (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Brother Of Vicki Spencer

Hello my name is Danny Spencer, the drummer of the groups formly known as the The Rotten Kids, the Bubblegum Machine, Fablous Fakes, and Horatio. I am one of the Brother's Of Vicki Spencer, and the son of Lou spencer. My Brother Billy, Vicki,and myself were all in the band together. I writing to you for the reason of my name,and it is Danny Spencer which i was name after my godfather Danny Kaye, and my brother was Steven William Spencer, but his professional name he when by was Bill or Billy Spencer. I would appreciate it if you can make those changes on my sister site that you put up, and I would gladly tell you about myself also. Thank you, Danny Spencer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.70.240.43 (talk) 19:20, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of removing your repeated post, and also the leading space that was messing the format. May I suggest you post your request at Talk:Vicki Spencer, which is where changes to your sister's page should be discussed. It would help if you could provide references to support the information. Rojomoke (talk) 20:05, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiTable not working

How come the rolspan thing on the tables for Governors of Hawaii (island) is no longer working?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

This is possibly caused by a change in the behaviour of the table sorter. If you change "wikitable sortable" to "wikitable" in the table header, the rowspans take effect again. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, this is the tablesorter problem in bugzilla:41889. It should be fixed but the fix hasn't been deployed to Wikipedia yet. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Final decider?

I had a real beginner's question. In the event of a really intractable dispute, over sourcing and other things, is there an independent arbiter who can be called in to resolve? I'm looking at one particular page where I'm seeing protracted discussion, with really no resolution. I don't see any such mechanism in the help pages, but I thought I may have missed it. Coretheapple (talk) 20:46, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Take a look at the escalating levels of WP:Dispute resolution.--ukexpat (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

But the bottom answer is "no". All content decisions are made by consensus and there is no process or person that can make binding decisions over particular content edits, with only a few exceptions for such things as libel, copyright, and legal threats. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 21:23, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Though dispute resolution can ask for help/opinions from editors not involved in the dispute. - Purplewowies (talk) 22:43, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. It seemed that way. Just wanted to be sure. Coretheapple (talk) 02:29, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Imagine This: You have credited the wrong lyricist

Hi Wikipedia: You have credited the wrong lyricist on the Imagine This the Musical page. The proper lyricist is David Goldsmith (middle initial is S. I believe, but he doesn't use it in his credits) He is 50 and was born in Cincinnati Ohio. It would be nice if you credited the correct lyricist, he worked so hard! Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicalFan4Ever (talk • contribs) 21:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I presume that you are referring to the fact that the link was to the wrong person. I've removed the link, just leaving the name, because the "right" David Goldsmith does not currently have an article about him. If you would like to suggest an article about him, you can do so at articles for creation. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 22:07, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Page Needs correction

I have attempted to correct a page and some editor keeps reverted it back.

The page that is listed for Mike Plotcheck is incorrectly listed.....it should be Michael Polchlopek Jr.

it is a common thing for people to misspell a polish name.....but since I know him - I know this listing is incorrect. ESPN, Amazon DVD sales, tapology, and this article are all examples if the correct spelling: http://prommanow.com/2009/05/09/ikuhisa-minowas-dirty-half-dozen/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techsupportdude (talk • contribs) 23:34, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Both names appear to be commonly used in English sources. The English Wikipedia does not necessarily use the official name for subjects which may be better known in English under another name. See Wikipedia:Requested moves if you want to suggest a change of the article name. Do not copy-paste the article text to another page. This breaks our license which requires that contributors to the article are credited in the page history. If the name is changed then the whole page including the page history should be moved to the new name. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:23, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

The name has been extensively discussed at Talk:Mike Plotcheck. Read the discussion and participate there if you still disagree. —teb728 t c 00:29, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

November 17

login problems

I just had a huge trouble logging in! For years I've relied on my browser to fill in my details on the login page but now it doesn't. Eventually I realised that the domain name of the login page had changed! For secure logins it used to be https://secure.wikimedia.org but now it's https://en.wikipedia.org and the old domain name no longer accepts logins - this needs to be flagged up prominently when people go to login as browsers remember usernames and passwords by domain name, they are not psychic! Ideally the old login page should be kept alive, in my case I had absolutely no idea what my password was and had to download a cracking program to get my browser (Opera) to divulge it in plain text so I could login! I don't know when this change took place but it must have been in the last couple of weeks. I also ended up creating a new username on another wiki project thinking at first my account must have been deleted Samatarou (talk) 02:16, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Secure server. https://en.wikipedia.org has been running since March 2011. https://secure.wikimedia.org continued operating until a few days ago but has been deprecated for over a year. Maybe it should have told visitors that. I once pointed out that it didn't.[7] Relying on your browser to remember passwords is risky for many reasons. Users with email enabled at Special:Preferences can get a new password by mail. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:39, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

thanks for the info. My browser settings predate the introduction of direct secure access to wikipedia.org last year. Although I've made over 800 contributions over 5 years to wikipedia articles I've never had the time or inclination to get involved in admin issues (I already administer sites elsewhere) so I was unaware of changes coming up, I am sure there must be many others in my position, so it is unfortunate that your flagging up the issue was not acted upon by those privileged with the ability to edit the relevant pages. Since domain names are the basic granularity of internet security I'm surprised the upcoming changes weren't flagged up via people's user pages, I've had alerts about much less significant matters pop up when logging in in the past. Samatarou (talk) 03:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Rendering problem

I do most of my browsing on Firefox 1.5 with JavaScript disabled. I went on the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time article and noticed something terribly wrong with how it rendered (Firefox 12 render with JavaScript disabled to show it’s not just FF1.5). It appears that {{Collapsible list}} doesn’t like the references when JavaScript isn't on, but I have no idea how to fix it. Any help? -- Tohler (talk) 09:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

It was wrong template syntax in {{vgrelease}} and also failed with JavaScript enabled (but the failure was only visible after clicking "show"). Fixed in [8]. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

hierarchy posts

How do you , being an unregistered user format your goddamn replies so that they appear exactly up under the author's post you're answering is there some sort of tags that say where you have to paste your message between so that it gets offset relative to the original post!!! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.43.160 (talk) 10:42, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

If you are asking about indentation, you begin the paragraph with one or more colons. This paragraph begins with one colon.

This paragraph begins with two colons.

Is that the answer you were looking for? —teb728 t c 10:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

yep mate !!! Thanks alot thats exactly what i was trying to figure out!! Colons!! who could of guessed it???!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.43.160 (talk) 10:55, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

See Help:Wiki markup for other features of Wiki markup. —teb728 t c 11:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria

Hi, i was asked on my talkpage whether this article by Rudy Buttignol in POV Magazine is appropriate for inclusion in the Rudy Buttignol article. Do you think it is? benzband (talk) 11:04, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

It depends entirely on the context. If you're using it to source a claim about Rudy Buttignol then it would be considered a self-published source and it would be acceptable although a third-party source would be preferable. If it's used as a "see also"-style external link then it could be appropriate depending on how many articles Rudy Buttignol has written, whether this article is particularly notable or representative of Rudy Buttignol's writing, and how DUE this inclusion is. There are many instances where it might not be appropriate as well. It really is strictly context dependent. For more help on this question, please post your question to Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. They are the experts of this kind of question. -Thibbs (talk) 13:57, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! benzband (talk) 14:12, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

How do I find ISBN?

If I have a book, know its title and such, how do I find ISBN to cite it on Wikipedia?

I also found that some users have a shortcut when they cite. I do not recall the exact syntax, but I do recall that they seem to use {{ }} or something similar between ref syntax, and a bot will take over and put it in proper format. Where do I learn such shortcuts?Anthonydraco (talk) 11:56, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Most ISBNs can be found by googling the name of the book and ISBN, google will display it at the top of the page, or it will be in the first link.

I'm not sure what shortcut in particular you are thinking of but there is a tool called Reflinks that semi-atuomatically fills references. I use ProveIt which is useful for filling in information in the Citation templates. Wikipedia:Citation_tools lists loads more. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:19, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

If you have the book, then the ISBN should be in the front matter. If not, then don't add the ISBN— there is no requirement for it and just searching may give you an ISBN for a different version of the book. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:17, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

shape of earth

is the shape of earth is like a ball or a circular disk or a half cut ball!is it flat and imaginerily round as it appears in photograph taken from space! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.193.141.27 (talk) 12:55, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

You might find what you are looking for in the article Figure of the Earth. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at the Science section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for).For your convenience, you may click here to post your question. I hope this helps.Template:Z39 benzband (talk) 13:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Help me please

Hi, I'm a new contributor. I had a former account to which I forgot the password, so I followed the steps to recover the password and added my e-mail address so a new password would be sent to my email address, but I put a mistaken username, not the username of my account, and the email has already been sent. My question is, the user who owns the account "Kennethh", does he have access to my email now? Please help me I'm desperate. Kennuser (talk) 13:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

First of all there is no user named Kennethh. But secondly, no. The forgotten password process allows a user to have his Wikipedia password emailed to him, not to have his email delivered to his Wikipedia account. The worst I could see happening if Kennethh were a real account would be that this editor would get a note in his email that gave him his own Wikipedia password again. -Thibbs (talk) 14:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Oh and the other user would also have gotten to see your IP address which is included in the email. -Thibbs (talk) 14:05, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Kennethh is the name of an account registered on 1 August 2006, but has made no contributions. benzband (talk) 14:16, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

OK. Kennethh would not have received Kennuser's email address. He would receive an email with a temporary password for the Kennethh account and the IP address of the requester. Kennuser's email is still private from the operator of the unused Kennethh account. -Thibbs (talk) 14:48, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

If you fill out the "Username" field at Special:PasswordReset then the "E-mail address" field is completely ignored. A mail with a temporary password is sent to the address stored in the account for the username (if there is one), but the old password will also continue to work. User:Kennethh hasn't actually stored an email address so no mail should have been sent. The mail would have mentioned the used IP address but not the entered email address. The email address is only used if the "Username" field is blank. In that case, if some username has stored the given email address then a mail is sent with the username and a temporary password. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

This has come up before. Perhaps we should update MediaWiki:Passwordreset-text to indicate only one field should be filled. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Good idea. "Complete this form to receive an e-mail reminder of your account details." certainly sounds like both fields should be filled. It's the default MediaWiki message so it may also cause confusion at other wikis. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Sinc numerical methods

Can someone take a look at Sinc numerical methods and fix the math syntax. Thanks Illia Connell (talk) 13:48, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Fixed in [9]. I guess Krishnavedala copy-pasted the code from some software which inserted a non-displayed character to indicate a function application. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:34, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Illia Connell (talk) 18:09, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I was verifying the Math Tex syntax on an online Tex editor which messed it up. --ElectroKid (☮ • ✍) 23:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

REVISIONUSER

Can I use the magic word REVISIONUSER in my talk page editnotice to welcome by his name the user making a revision of my talk page ? Thanks, — Racconish^Tk 16:11, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

According to mw:Help:Magic_words#Technical_metadata you can. Ruslik_Zero 17:22, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

The value of {{REVISIONUSER}} is only set after the editing user has hit Save page (although it does update on a temporary basis if they use Show preview). Up to that point, it displays the login name of the previous person to save an edit to the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:28, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to both. Just to make sure : point is to have the name in the editnotice top screen. I tried with {{REVISIONUSER}}, but it does not seem to work. I am familiar with the page indicated by Ruslik, but I am afraid I am missing a subtlety, such as how to pass on to the editnotice the variable from the talk page modification. Cheers, — Racconish^Tk 17:55, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Until mw:MediaWiki 1.17 it was possible for an editnotice to do that; this exploited a bug in the way that {{REVISIONUSER}} was set. This bug was fixed with mw:MediaWiki 1.18 in October 2011 (see bugzilla:19006), so editnotices can no longer be coded that way. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Clear. Thanks, — Racconish^Tk 20:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Wrong info about a ong

In your article on 1957 Tamil movie Vanangamudi ,the song Kattazhagu Mama has been sung b P.Leela and NOT by T.V.Rathnam as given b you. iAm well versed on the ubject of old Indian films. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.197.3.106 (talk) 16:28, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

You have a few options. One option is to post your concern to Talk:Vanangamudi. There other editors who are familiar with the topic can add or alter the information in the article when they see your note. Another option is simply to edit the page yourself. Wikipedia is freely editable by users like you and by clicking the "edit" tab at the top of the page you can alter the information and then click "save page" at the bottom. If you decide to change the page yourself, please remember that it is good practice to add reliable sources to back up your claim. Thanks for your interest in the project! -Thibbs (talk) 17:26, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Solidiers's Award

Please place my name on the list of veterans who have recieved the Soldier's Award

EN3 Lowell E. Beenenga — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.165.184.21 (talk) 17:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Of which country's military are you a veteran? I see an article on recipients of the Soldier's Medal. Is that the same thing? And I have no doubt that you did receive it, but do you have any sources that state the fact directly? That would be required if you want to ensure that your name stays on the list. -Thibbs (talk) 18:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

And we don't list people on lists like that unless they are otherwise notable enough for other reasons to have an encyclopedia entry written about them; so if you are not, you wouldn't qualify. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:15, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

SwedishDiaspora

In the article Estonian Swedes theres that SwedishDiaspora thingy on the bottom of page. Could someone fix the link "Swedish-speaking popuation of Finland" as Swedish-speaking population of Finland. J.K Nakkila (talk) 18:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. For future reference, if you want to edit templates like that, just click the little "E" in the upper left corner of the template. -Thibbs (talk) 18:46, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Hawaiian Wiikipedia

How do I check the activeness of users on the Hawaiian Wiikipedia? That is to find users that are actively editing either this week or this month.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 18:33, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Recent changes (i.e. edits) to haw.wiki are recorded here: haw:Papa_nui:NāLoliHou. -Thibbs (talk) 18:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Why did you remove external link and description of the book 'Savage To Savvy' I posted up on Wikipedia?

Other books about feral children had links and descriptions so your comment that it was 'inappropriate' should apply to them all in that case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirby Gate (talk • contribs) 19:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

That wasn't any of us here at the help page. That was User:Yappy2bhere who reverted your edits under the theory that you had a conflict of interest. It would appear that your username is an anagram of the name of the author of the book you linked, and Yappy2bhere must have guessed that you are that author. Also rather than simply citing the book, you linked to a commercial website to purchase the book. Wikipedia is intended as an encyclopedia, not an advertisement forum. -Thibbs (talk) 19:59, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

For further clarification on the subject you should try to contact Yappy2bhere here, or you could post to the article's talk page here. Hope that helps. -Thibbs (talk) 20:01, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

File:Batman The Dark Knight Returns (films) part 1 (DVD cover).jpg

Hi, I am the uploader of File:Batman The Dark Knight Returns (films) part 1 (DVD cover).jpg, and I just wondering if any of you can help on moving the file name and removing the older version of it. Thank you very much.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 22:38, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

File moving is a special ability reserved for admins and file movers. Instructions on how to request a file move can be found here. -Thibbs (talk) 05:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Bad links?

Hi, this link brings you to porno site on your page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorrentFlux External links TorrentFlux — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.233.252.161 (talk) 23:53, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

I added a section header to your question to seperate it from the one above. None of the external links in that article went to a porn site when I checked them just now. Can you be more specific about which one you're concerned about? It's also possible that your computer has some malware that is redirecting you. RudolfRed (talk) 00:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Someone Replaced My Photograph

I don't know how this happened, but someone replaced my jpeg of Ned Miller and Jack Benny with a Black model rehearsing. The author is Riza Nugraha. I need to delete this photo and put my photo back. Help. Thanks, CultofQwerty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cultofqwerty (talk • contribs) 01:09, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

I have removed the wrong image from the article.[10] The image you uploaded was deleted at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2012 October 12#File:Rehearsal.jpg. The deletion meant that another image of the same name was displayed. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:33, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Your version of "Rehearsal" was hosted here at the English Wikipedia. The other version is hosted at WikiMedia Commons. When your version here at Eng. WP was deleted, the software looked to the Commons to see if there was a file of the same name there. There was and it was displayed. That's one reason why more specific names other than just "Rehearsal" should be used for file names. Something like "Ned_Miller_and_Jack_Benny" may have been more appropriate. Dismas|^(talk) 03:32, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Merging My Name

I wanted to post an image with a piece I wrote, but when I signed up for WikiCommons I mis-typed my name. It's the same letters but the case is different- I put in Lpbrennan instead of LPBrennan. was told the two can be merged. Could someone assist me in this? I tried signing up with the correct name but it wouldn't take it, as it was too similar to an existing name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LPBrennan (talk • contribs) 01:33, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Try Special:MergeAccount. If you can log in at commons (no need to create the account) after this then you can just abandon commons:User:Lpbrennan which only made one edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:51, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Wrong link

Please correct link/redirect.

PAGE: 1985 NHL Entry Draft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_NHL_Entry_Draft

The link for Steve Titus (7th round, 128 pick)on this page is incorrect. The link is to the wrong Steve Titus.

This is the bio for the ice hockey player Steve Titus.

Stephen "Steve" Titus

Stephen C Titus Born February 2, 1967 (age 45) Saint John New Brunswick, Canada Home Town London Ontario, Canada Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Weight 155 lb (70.3 kg) Position Goaltender Shot Left NHL Draft Pittsburgh Penguins 128th overall, 1985

Playing career 1983–1991

Stephen "Steve" Titus (February 2, 1967) is a former ice hockey goaltender.

Steve was born in Saint John New Brunswick, Canada, but moved to London Ontario, Canada when he was 2 years old. He played his minor hockey with the London Minor Hockey Association.

In 1983 he played for the Chatham Maroons of the Mid-Western Jr. B League in South Western Ontario. He was selected to play in the leagues 1983-84 All-Star game held in St. Thomas. In 1984 he was drafted by the Cornwall Royals of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was awarded the Royals Rookie of the Year. At the 1985 NHL Entry Draft he was selected in the 7th round by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Steve attended pro training camps in 1985 and 1986. In the summer of 1986 he was traded to the London Knights where he finished his OHL career.

Steve went on to the University of Western Ontario where he played 3 years with the Western Mustangs. In his first year the Mustangs went to the 1987 CIAU Nationals were they lost to York University in the championship game. Steve graduated from the Western with a BA in Physical Education and was awarded the Western Bronze W award for excellence in athletics and academics. The following year (1990-1991) he attended the Ohio University, in Athens Ohio, USA on a one year hockey scholarship. He played for the Ohio Bobcats (MAC conference) who made it to the National Championships where they lost in the semi-finals. Steve was named as the Second Team All-Star and graduated in the summer of 1991 with a Masters in Sports Business.

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=38028 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19850913&id=jVwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xW4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1756,3669939 http://u15girlshockey.com/coaches.htm http://gbok.weebly.com/about-and-contact.htmlStephenTitus (talk) 03:41, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for alerting someone to this. It was fixed with this edit. Since there is no article for the hockey player, the link is now red. Steve Titus looks like he's notable enough for an article though and if nobody beats me to it, I'll try to get an article together later tonight. Dismas|^(talk) 05:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

About creating a page on "Awtar Singh Virdi"

Sir, This is about the Biography of a World Class artist names Awtar Singh Virdi from India. We tried to create a page about Mr. Awtar Singh Vird yesterday. But unfortunately found that the page may be deleted due to the lack of sources. We would like to bring the following lines for your kind consideration. There are hundreds of websites where Mr. Awtar Singh Virdi's artworks have been placed. The reason is Mr. Virdi is the Only artist in the world for ANamorphic Scratch Art.He has created GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS in 2003 by making World's Largest Anamorphic Portrait of the US President Mr. George W.Bush. All the artworks are originally created by Mr. Awtar Singh Virdi and his website is www.artistasvirdi.com

Kindly advice us how can you help us to create a page on the name of Awtar Singh Virdi. PLease help. Goutam S/O, Awtar Singh Virdi

His amazing artworks can be found in the follwing links.

1.	http://anuragaron.blogspot.in/2011/11/awtar-singh-virdi.html

2. http://planetoddity.com/anamorphosis-at-its-best/

3. http://www.art.in/artists/a-s-virdi.htm

4. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/02/anamorphic-artworks-of-awtar-singh.html

5. http://www.amazingtechzone.com/art/famous-personalities-anamorphic-art-form-awtar-singh-virdi-india/

6. http://ourcreativecity.com/profile/AwtarSinghVirdi

7. http://dabomba.net/home/profile/362/Modern-Art/AWTAR-SINGH-VIRDI

8. http://emptyeasel.com/2008/04/16/anamorphosis-art-by-awtar-singh-virdi/

9. http://4rtgallery.blogspot.in/2011/04/anamorphosis-by-awtar-singh-virdi.html

10. http://www.asingularcreation.com/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4261

11. http://www.kolkatamagazine.com/art.html

12. http://erosart.tumblr.com/post/33866892535/cylindrical-anamorphic-art-this-form-of-artwork

13. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/anamorphosis-painting-a-64-year-old-is-the-only-exponent-of-obsolete-art-form/1/194473.html

14. http://www.arthit.ru/abstract/0165/abstract-art.html

15. http://artmayi.diandian.com/post/2011-07-04/2634539

16. http://www.beautyofpeople.com/463/art-is-present-12/

17. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035529/Warped-swirling-artwork-projects-President-Obamas-face-tube.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artistasvirdi (talk • contribs) 05:16, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

As far as I can tell Awtar Singh Virdi has not been deleted, at least not yet. It has, however, been tagged for speedy deletion because of intolerably promotional content like, “Without a doubt, A.S.Virdi's creations are strikingly unique in the world of art because he is A BORN ARTIST.” Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view; so don't boast about how great you think he is: insead write neutrally about him and let readers decide for themselves. Another serious problem the article has is that there is not one reference to a reliable source in the article. It is not clear how the links you give here relate to the content of the article. —teb728 t c 06:59, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, you appear to be writing about yourself. This is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. —teb728 t c 07:09, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Displayed article doesn't match latest revision in history

In the article on Glycerol,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol

the version I see has a line in Section 4 that reads

Glycerol is a component of glycerin food dookie .

Went to edit for vandalism...but when I go to edit the article, the text in that spot reads

Glycerol is a component of glycerin soap

...and when I look at the last edit, it seems to be telling me that Cluebot changed the text to 'food dookie', reverting from vandalism.

I've refreshed the page, opened it in both Firefox and Chrome on my computer, and Opera on my phone. In all casesthe current version has the 'food dookie' in the displayed version, but 'soap' when I go to edit. What am I missing here?

Sevesteen (talk) 05:48, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. I have not ever seen that page and when it loaded for me, I had the "dookie" comment as well. I did a null edit and it fixed it as far as I can see. Check it again on your end. Dismas|^(talk) 05:56, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

That seems to have done it. I thought it was far more likely that I was making a mistake, apparently it *was* wikipedia. Sevesteen (talk) 06:18, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Image reversed

I added an image to the Chris Turner (author) article. Nothing appears to be amiss when I view the article. However, I got a note from an anonymous IP saying that the image is reversed when they go to that page [11]. Given that I don't have a problem with viewing the image, I am at a loss as to how to investigate the problem. Help! Sunray (talk) 06:48, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

It appears "normal" on the article and on its file page for me. Don't know why it would matter if it were flipped left/right since it's just a picture of a person with no text to indicate that it were backwards. I also don't know how it would do that. Maybe the IP is pulling your leg? Dismas|^(talk) 07:02, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Why someone accused me being sockpuppet?

Why someone accused me being sockpuppet?--NeoBatfreak (talk) 07:34, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

That accusation was evidently made by an IP vandal; see his contributions. I just warned him for a bogus warning to a new editor whose edit was actually a grammar correction. Just ignore his sock-puppetry accusation. —{|Retro00064|☎talk|✍contribs|} 08:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC).

Thank you, because I never vandalize any articles, and sure sometime I made mistakes on editing, but I don't believe I ever deserve to be block. Also, editing Wikipedia potentially could help me on my study with library and information studies.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 08:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Is there truth to these written statements?

• • • "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used and redistributed by other people at will".

• • • "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)".

• • • "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view. NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. This policy is nonnegotiable and all editors and articles must follow it".

I find these written statements to be of false claims. When I edit and put in verifiable content it's always re-edited out. Why?