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June 3

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Hello all, I was wondering, are there any criteria for posting something on the Did you know part of the main page, and if there are, how does one go about doing it? Thank you so much, Neranei 00:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, if you make a new article (or significantly expand an existing one), you can submit a fact from it at Did you know?, where it will be considered and if accepted, eventually make it onto the main page. --YFB ¿ 00:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading an Image

I am inexperienced with copyright tags and image uploads and so forth. so what information would I need, and how would I use that info, to upload the third picture on ths page (http://www.starcraft2.com/wallpapers.xml)? The Clawed One 00:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can't. Pictures on Wikipedia (in most cases) have to be released under a free licence. The contents of that page is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment (see the small text at the bottom of the page) and all rights are reserved, meaning it's not suitable for use on Wikipedia. Most images found on the internet can't be uploaded here. --YFB ¿ 00:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So, even though it's allowed to be downloaded as a wallpaper, it cannot be uploaded here? The Clawed One 00:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. In the case of wallpapers, the copyright holder generally releases the image for personal, private use but does not permit commercial use or the creation of derivative images, both of which are requirements for images on Wikipedia. --YFB ¿ 00:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thank you. The Clawed One 00:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome :-) --YFB ¿ 00:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Printing problem

List of military aircraft of the United_States

The above site seem to have a problem printing beyond page 7. Is there a universal problem or is it just my system?

Thanks,

Gary Wolfe

Might just be your system. Be sure to use the special printable version to remove unneeded text (e.g. navigation bar). E ^talk 02:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Column and related templates

Hi. I currently edit on the wiki WoWWiki.com, and I was wondering about how to make Template:Columns-start, Template:Column, and Template:Columns-end work there. I have the templates copied to a set of my user sandboxes there, but when I try to apply them, they do not work. The sandboxes are located at here, here, and here, respectively. I also set up a sample list here that shows the issue. Feel free to leave your message here. If this is a little too specific for the help desk, send me where I need to go. :) --Izno 01:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

These templates are only very new and are still under development. You must copy all syntax from the edit page. E ^talk 02:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The last edits made to each were in October. Not only that, but peaking through Whatlinkshere shows that the template is done. Are you sure? ;P --Izno 02:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, it is. Wrong template I looked at there :P Yes, just copy all syntax from the template edit page to that one and it should work. E ^talk 02:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Except... it didn't work, as explained. Which made me sad. --Izno 03:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

adding info

how do you add information to it?

To what? The Wikipedia? If you have information that you would like to add to a certain article, simply go to that article and click the link at the top that says "edit this page", and then add the info. Maybe you'd like to have a look at our help pages. Dismas|^(talk) 02:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citing republished material

lol how thrilling. When you are citing something that's been republished (as in the EA Poe society of Baltimore republishing a journal article from here: Jeffrey A. Savoye, “Two Biographical Digressions: Poe's Wandering Trunk and Dr. Carter's Mysterious Sword Cane,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2004, 5:15-42), and you've only clapped eyes on the republication, how are you supposed to make that clear in your citation? (you can see how we're doing it so far at Death of Edgar Allan Poe). I've read WP:CITE and it's a bit unclear on this. Thanks. -Malkinann 03:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hi i have a 10doller bill that haz a star at the end of it what dose that mean

tis sn is removed what dose this mean if u can tell me hears my ph number phone number removed pleas tell me—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.129.248 (talk • contribs) 03:42, June 3, 2007

... I think Lolcats have learned how to use Wikipedia. *ahem* This page is for questions about Wikipedia itself. For other questions, use the Reference desk. -- Kesh 04:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Silver Labrador Retrievers

The information regarding Silver Labradors (under the main heading of Labrador Retrievers) is predominantly unsubstantiated opinions of blatantly biased non-silver lab breeders and owners, who post their personal anti-Silver Lab nonsense from anti-silver lab sites on the internet. Not only is the section referring to Silver Labs grossly biased, it contains considerable falsehoods and intentional disinformation, If those contributing editors can not substantiate and document: 1) "the original silver lab kennel had Weimers", 2) gene mapping was NOT done on silver labs in the 80s, and 3) Silver Labs are a "scam" (and all like accusations and slurs made throughout this category), then Wikipedia should insist these inflammatory and fraudulent accusations be withdrawn. In short, contributors on this site should be pressed by Wikipedia to either PROVE IT; or REMOVE IT.

By no stretch of the imagination is this site either correct or objective on the topic of Silver Labrador Retrievers. More importantly, when editing is done to this site to correct the incorrect allegations and accusations made by the anti-silver factions, this site editor (Sarrandúin ) removes the corrections in accordance with her own bias regarding Silver Labs (see site history as well as her remarks).

Because this site editor is incapable of editing for objectivity instead of her bias -- or even allowing both sides of the controversy on the site -- I request another editor be assigned to this site. If this editor is so delusional she believes she is being objective on the topic of silver labs, then the topic of what information is posted under the heading of Silver Labs should be settled by Wikipedia's Arbitration Board.

Dean Crist Crist Culo Kennels (email address removed)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.71.126 (talk • contribs) 04:16, June 3, 2007

I assume you are referring to Labrador Retriever#'Silver', 'blue', 'grey', and 'charcoal'? If you'll note the numbers in that section, they lead to specific articles which you can read to verify the statements. If you feel that these are not sufficient, discuss it on the Talk page until a consensus is reached, or request a commentary on the article.:If you have a problem with User:Sarranduin, please discuss it on that user's Talk page or use the dispute resolution process. This page is not for venting your frustrations with a particular editor. Further, there is no such thing as a "site editor." All users are editors on Wikipedia.

Finally, please read WP:NPA. Using terms like "delusional" is frowned upon. -- Kesh 05:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the article's talk page is the best play to go. I don't know which side you are on, but some of the links are problematic, and I had to remove the one statement and its dead link. The other links may have to be changed. I started a thread on the talk page, please join us there, line up your specific arguments on the context of the article only (not the editor) and your references and help fix the article to make it accurately reflect breed standards and general descriptions of the dog. KP Botany 05:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Majors tv commercial

I have a bet that Lee Majors is currently appearing in a commercial for Coors Light Beer as a father offering advise to his son. Can anyone verify that my observation is correct? 76.209.55.83 05:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but Wikipedia is not the place to ask that. You will just have to see for yourself.--Jupiter12 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try a Google Search perhaps? E ^talk 05:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Majors#Recent activities says he continues to appear in commercials. You may have a chance to win your bet. Try: Google:"Lee Majors" "Coors Light" commercial. That turns up a References page on Bionic Wiki which shows promise but does not quite deliver. It says Coors ran a "Six Million Dollar Can" commercial but does not say that Lee Majors appeared in it. --Teratornis 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The commercial is apparently called "Protection" and can be seen at http://www.coorslight.com. I don't know Lee Majors and cannot say whether it's him. The commercial is discussed at [1] without naming actors. PrimeHunter 20:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive Project Page

If there's a project page I'm interested in helping with, but it seems that no one is really running it, is it OK to just step in and organize going-ons for the project page?

If you need to see it, I'm talking about [[2]] Thanks! Miles Blues 05:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why not leave a note on the project's talk page and see if they need a leader. E ^talk 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

searching

I want to search universities city vises — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.170.58 (talk)

Go to this page, select your country from the list and there you have a list of universities in your country. E ^talk 05:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

How do i view all availible templates for user pages. not only can i speak english, i can speak Japanese and i want to find a template for Japanese speaking like the english one. Efansay 06:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Babel for the language-based userboxes. E ^talk 06:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To learn about the other userboxes, see User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Use and scroll down to the Userboxes entry. --Teratornis 14:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Time Zones user box

How do i add a Time Zone user box? Efansay 07:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might choose one of the boxes listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Time. Peacent 07:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox placement

Now that I've got a second userbox, here, how can I place them so that they're one underneath the other at the right of the page, not side-by-side? AndyJones 07:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. I hope you don't mind me editing your page. Peacent 07:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good one, thank you. AndyJones 08:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edit section 0

Is there some user-made plugin or something that would make a [edit] button for section 0? At least on talk pages. Because as it is, every time I want to edit section 0, I have to click on some other section and then manually change URL to say section=0. Shinhan 07:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is. Just copy the script into your monobook. Peacent 07:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, thats exactly what I was looking for. And now I also know where to look for more scripts :) Shinhan 10:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, you could just click 'edit this page' at the top. D aniel (‽) 16:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Imperial names and Wikipedia style

Hi!

I would like to know, which expression Wikipedia preferes when discussing matters pertaining to the pre-communist era of Russia. Should we use, when writing about the emperors, its Russian name:Tsar and tsarist or Emperor and imperial? --Tellervo 08:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The people who decide such things often band together into WikiProjects. Browsing from there leads to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Europe#Russia which lists the promising WikiProject Russian History (it looks like a high percentage of members claim to hold PhD's in the subject). You might inquire on its talk page. --Teratornis 16:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minimizing userboxes

I just wanna know how to minimize the userboxes. like if you have a lot and you want to save space. i'm asking because i have this problem of too many userboxes. Efansay 09:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Make a user subpage for them all, e.g. User:Efansay/Userboxes. E ^talk 09:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is one possibility, E, but I think they mean minimize like as in the Table of Contents; the show and hide function. A good template for this is the {{hidden}} template. Wikipedia:Userboxes has a few ways you can also use the same function. Good luck with it ;) –Se bi ~ 09:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another way is to put them into a scrolling box can be found on Duggie647's user page. You can copy the code from his page (I'm sure he won't mind, I have a pretty good idea where he got it from ;) ), and paste it onto your page. –Se bi ~ 09:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UserBox

Can someone please help by moving my user boxes to the center of the right box please it looks messy. Also could you look at my sandbox page and integrate the boxes to my main page. Separate boxes to the different subcatagories. PleaseWiki.user 10:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just fixed it. Hope that helps. E ^talk 11:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I've saw it up one but i didn't think that would help. If you could put my things into boxes like Jimmy Wales userpage that would be a big big help. ThanksWiki.user 11:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your template in your sandbox looks good so far, try and improve that. E ^talk 11:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't get the code right though. Everytime i try to do something it gets messed. I was hoping someone with a bit more experience would be able to help me??Wiki.user 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Article on F. S. C. Northrop

Dear Sir or Madam:

The article "F. S. C. Northrop," which I wrote, in headed with the sentence, "This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject." I have reviewed the article and could find nothing amiss. Perhaps you should remove the above mentioned sentence.

Thanks,

Dr. Fred Seddon author of Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop 216.151.119.126 10:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It has been removed as I went over the article too, looks pretty good and well documented. E ^talk 11:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the removal, however, the article currently does not cite any references. I've added a tag, please see Wikipedia:Citing sources and consider adding references for the article. If the books mentioned on this page are the sources, please specify them. Peacent 12:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The expert tag was added in Februar 2006.[3] PrimeHunter 12:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the colour of your text.

I've only noticed just now that some people have their names and text coloured. Can someone tell me how to do this please. Efansay 10:59, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might find useful instructions on how to format text, including changing fonts, colours, etc here. Peacent 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you refer to signatures then see Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature. PrimeHunter 12:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yeah, if that's the case, see also Wikipedia:How to fix your signature :) Peacent 12:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Site Suggestions

Hi

I have a suggestion you may wish to consider for Wikipedia and that is to allow users to rate entries for usefullness. I have just found out some really usefull information about smartmedia cards and it may be nice for the person who took the time to upload it if I rate them 5/5 stars for example.

Perhaps a league table could be developled which would encourage more and more users to upload usefull documents for the kudos of seeing their name high in the rankings? In a similar way to deciding whether to buy from a seller on ebay you could then use the users ranking as a means to gauge how much faith to put in the credibility of their entries.

Anyway, this is one of my top 10 internet sites, Keep up the goodwork.

Regards Forbury Lion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Forbury Lion (talk • contribs)

Hi there, it's me again, um well that is a good idea because then admins or users can see overall which articles need attention. Ranking an article overall is a good idea but making it so that there are league tables over complicates things and ranking users is i believe unfair and people could fake opinions to get higher in the league.Wiki.user 11:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Many people have usually contributed to good articles. Once an article is created, anybody can edit it (except rare cases where it is protected after a lot of vandalism). Some of the best articles are rated as Wikipedia:Featured articles or Wikipedia:Good articles. An editor can show appreciation of another editor (not just for good article writing) with Wikipedia:Barnstars. PrimeHunter 12:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:9/11 Memorial (Arizona)

It appears that it is considered a supage of Talk:9 due to the slash. If you look at the page you'll see what I mean. If there's a way to fix it, then please do so. 70.59.227.206 12:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea. Gotta go ask this question somewhere... Peacent 15:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question asked at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions. Peacent 16:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Searching for a missing or deleted article--"list of Disney Characters"

Hello. I have no idea how to go about doing this. I have tried to follow the process to figure out what happened to this "article," but find it terribly confusing.

What I am looking for was an alphabetical listing of Disney characters. I found it very helpful & used it almost daily. I think it may have been deleted, and I have no clue why. If it has, is it possible to have it restored?

Thank you!

It got deleted :Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of Disney characters. If you get an account, I could undelete and move it to your userspace. Viridae ^Talk 13:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the response. I created an account. Just let me know what to do next! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clgoody (talk • contribs)

Userfied per request. Peacent 15:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. What does "userfied per request" mean? I still cannot find the list. Is it me being a noob, or does it take some time to "move it to (your) userspace?"--Clgoody 17:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did find the list. Thank you. Last question...what does this mean: "when you're done, please tag the subpage for speedy deletion using {Userreq}."--Clgoody 17:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

citing a wikipedia source

How do I cite a wikipedia article in APA style?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.59.48 (talk • contribs)

Well, sources have to be referenced in wiki-markup, see this page on how to cite sources here. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 13:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To cite a Wikipedia article in another work, click on "Cite this article" in the toolbox to the left when you view the article. It includes a citation in APA style. PrimeHunter 14:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rediting a page before it appers on search

I understand that it takes a while to appear on search - index takes 30 hours or something. I just created a page on SDV - shut down valves but cant seem to relocate it anyway to add more meat to it and create links and simply just do more work on it. How do i do locate a page i just created if i dont want to wait for more than a day before working on it again.

Thanking you in adcvance —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunav (talk • contribs)

Check your contributions (the 'my contributions' link at the top of the page) to find out the page's name. You can add a redirect to help out the search engine before it's indexed, if you like (see the linked page for details). --ais523 14:20, 3 June 2007 (U T C)

I added a See also section to Shut down valve (SDV) per WP:LAYOUT with some links to related existing articles. Some of these should become inline links from jargon terms in the article. While searching for other related articles, I found a (initially) red link to Emergency shutdown valve on the ESV disambiguation page. I'm fairly certain Emergency shutdown valve is a synonym for Shut down valve (SDV), so I made the former a redirect to the latter. (A search: Google:emergency shutdown valve also finds the acronym ESDV.) Note to Gunav: when we add new articles to Wikipedia, we do not merely add new facts, but we also Build the web. That means you should search for articles relating to the topic you are writing about, and link to them from your article. Searching first is also necessary to insure your contribution is not redundant with an existing article or section. --Teratornis 16:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Locating a UK Army officer

I am attempting to locate a British army officer and cannot find the location for such information on Wikipedia. Can you advise where the information can be found?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.155.6.79 (talk • contribs)

Herbert Lepp, <(E-Mail removed for security purposes)> 3 June 2007

Please remember to add ~~~~ at the end of your comments to produce your username/IP and the date and time automatically. As for your help request.... the article may not exist, try typing the persons name into the search bar and if it does not exist then it has not yet been wrote, you could create the article but make sure it meets the biograhpies of living persons and WP:BIO, you may wish to see Help:Starting a new page. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 15:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikinews help desk

I have found Wikinews' reference desk (now renamed "global networking") but I'm not well aware where the help desk of that project is. Could you please help?
Where should I ask?
MaxDZ8 talk 15:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

n:WN:WC? It's the Water Cooler. x42bn6 Talk Mess 15:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uh... I spent some time navigating the help pages, main page talk and such but I didn't figure out it was this one.
Thank you very much.
MaxDZ8 talk 04:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do I report an insulting member?

"They weren't the same people stupid. You know what you are just being stupid."

Called stupid twice in one sentence.

When I try to reason with him...

"I don't care anymore. I'm not letting you win.."

All this, is in;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Angry_Sun#DesGhidorah

It almost embarasses me to be arguing over such a trivial issue, but I will not stand to be insulted like this.83.100.253.141 16:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I reccommend first informing the editor of what he or she has done, and requesting the remain civil, and do not make any personal attacks. After that, if they continue, perhaps informing an admin would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 16:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My personal take is to be more concerned with the facts than with irrelevant commentary about the participants in a discussion. Someone may think I am stupid, or I may in fact be stupid, but those possibilities have no bearing on the validity of any arguments I may advance. All arguments can be judged on their logical merits, regardless of who they come from. See Critical thinking, Ad hominem, Appeal to emotion, and Reductio ad Hitlerum. If you understand the rhetorical tricks your opponent is employing in an attempt to fluster you and distract from the real issue under discussion, you can learn to avoid being bothered by your opponent's tricks. Your opponent wants you to stop thinking about whatever point you were trying to make, and waste your time getting excited about being insulted, which is futile in any case because simply as a practical matter it is very difficult to dictate your notion of allowable speech habits to everyone else in the world (see Free speech; Libel; Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy). And yes, it should embarrass you to fall victim to such a playground trick, but only momentarily as it is so simple to learn to see through such tricks and get control of your emotions to keep them working productively for you. --Teratornis 16:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

huuuuuuuuu♦

What do you do here?

Here on wikipedia, we are trying to write and give away a free encyclopædia. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia, Project:About, Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales, and The Hive by Marshall Poe. --Teratornis 03:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

image contributions

How do I view a user's edits that revert or change images? basically I want to see all the edits by this vandal: UmagaOwnsAll!. I've reverted his changes to articles, but I can't seem to find a way to list all his edits to images such as this one:[4] (see history). I revert them as I find them, but is there any where that lists all of these image edits in one place? --Krsont 17:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Go to Special:Log and enter the user's username in the username field to see all non-edit actions that user has taken, such as image uploads. --ais523 17:10, 3 June 2007 (U T C)

This asserts that the vandal has made no image edits, however. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which he clearly has, see the history of that example I gave (there are many others I have found too)... --Krsont 17:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ah ok, found it [5]. Good to know for future editing :) --Krsont 17:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a new infobox for Malaysian schools

I would like to create a new kind of infobox for Malaysian schools. I want to make something similar to Template:Infobox country, which looks like this: 120px And I want the syntax to look like this: 120px Does anyone know how to create a new template page like this? Thanks! --Edmundkh 17:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is always {{High School Infobox}}. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But I prefer my own design! That template you mentioned is not suitable for Malaysian schools. If you're not Malaysian, then you may not understand why I designed another type. --Edmundkh 17:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a complicated infobox like those illustrated by your images would be rather difficult. I suggest you ask for further help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes. Peacent 17:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to suggest you inquire at WikiProject Malaysia, but that WikiProject does not seem to exist yet. Perhaps you could start one (see: WP:PROJGUIDE). Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia#Southeast_Asia lists a WikiProject Southeast Asia which appears to have a section for Malaysia. You might ask on its talk page if anyone can help you. If you can't find anyone to help, then you will have to study template design, at least enough so you can figure out how to edit an existing similar template into the template you need. See: Help:Template, Help:Infobox, and User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Tem. Other advice:

A scan of a hand-written prototype to illustrate your template layout is difficult for others to read. You should instead type the layout you want, perhaps on your user page. Just type the text the way you want it to appear, within a <pre>...</pre> tag. See: Wikipedia:How to edit a page#No or limited formatting - showing exactly what is being typed. Also type your prototype template call that way. Then others can easily see what you want.
List of Wikipedias lists a Malay Wikipedia; you might find a suitable school template you can copy and adapt from that. Or if not, you should also develop your Malaysian school template there, where I am sure you will find other Malaysians who understand your design.

--Teratornis 17:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Charlie Card

How do I obtain a Charlie Card?

If you mean CharlieCard you could start by reading that article. --Teratornis 18:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting Adoption

How do I find A list of Adopters? So I might request them to Adopt Me--Goldiesmoon 18:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Here is a complete list of adopters. Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 19:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

searching for a particular articles form papers

How can i search for specific paper articles?

Can you clarify what you mean? --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 19:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource ? ? ? ?

Go to www.wikisource.org, and search the name of the paper you want. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr<;/font> 22:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Appropriate image copyright tag?

I would like to add an image of a show-quality pomeranian dog on the Pomeranian page. I was given permission (by the breeder/exhibitor), as long as "nobody else can use it on their site". Hmmm......not sure which copyright tag to use. I do not want to release it to the domain for public use. If it is impossible to post a picture on Wikipedia, with the intention that it cannot be distributed, what is the correct tag stating that the author and a specific detail of the picture must be included. Since she is a breeder, she simply does not want anybody else placing the picture on their own site, claiming that it is their dog. Help, anyone? Thanks! Tingalex 20:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To do what you want to do upload the picture and add the following {{Non-free fair use in}} and {{withpermission}}. You must also add a detailed Wikipedia:Fair use rationale. If you have plans to replace the image on Pomeranian (dog), with a fair use image, don't. Wikipedia prefers free images. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Famous people with the surname Smith

Shouldn't this list be part of Smith (surname) or Smith? How many people searching for someone named "Smith" are going to search using "Famous people with the surname Smith"? Other common surname disambiguation pages are listed on their own page, such as Johnson. There's also Famous people with the surname Smyth which seems an odd title for a disambiguation page. 172.213.18.82 20:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have a point. However, if a person searches Smith, they will be led to a page, where if they scroll to the bottom of it, they will find a link Famous people with the surname Smith. So even though someone will probably not search "Famous people with the surname Smith", they can find it easy enough. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to make my own article

How do I make my own Wikipedia Article?

Start by typing an article name in the search box and go on from there. E ^talk 20:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Before creating an article remeber to read Wikipedia:Your first article, Help:Starting a new page, and also reading Wikipedia:Notability would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 21:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do you change your username?

How do you change your usernmae?

Visit Wikipedia:Changing Username and follow the instructions there. GDonato (talk) 21:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If the username you want has been taken, go to Wikipedia:Usurpations. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 21:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Link to a Wikipedia Article Policy, about religion in Intro

Hi, I remember reading something on a Wikipedia Policy page about how articles shouldn't contain religion or ethnicity in the intro (first section of a page) for an article about a person. I think the reasoning was that if someone is both American and Christian they don't want the article to begin with "So and so is a Christian American..." or something similar to that.

I was wondering if anyone knows where that page is located and could please give me a link. I tried searching multiple times but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!

The guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Opening paragraph speaks about ethnicity. Religion is not mentioned, but it seems to me that religion is irrelevant to mention anywhere in most cases (exceptions include people in religious positions and people who are well-known for speaking publicly about their religion). PrimeHunter 21:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Television Articles

I was trying to get a television article to GA status, but was not able to because of the requierment of a minimal use of fair-use images. However, how could I get images that are free content with a television article? --PostScript (info/talk/contribs) 21:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images of what? User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Ima lists some links about sources of public domain images. --Teratornis 23:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

untitled

When the title of an article is spelled incorrectly, how do I edit that title?

To rename the title of an article, simply click the "move" button to move the article to the correct spelling. Note that accounts need to be at least 4 days old before you can move articles. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 22:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It also might be a good idea to read WP:MOVE. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Donation refunds.

How can I get my donation back? I am not getting the kind of service that I expect, in fact, I was even blocked!

This is ridiculous. I plan to re-donate the money into Romney's campaign, who should I talk to?

Thank you.

contact the foundation itself - nobody here can help you. --Fredrick day 22:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The contact info is:

Postal address

   Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
   200 2nd Ave. South #358
   St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313
   USA
   Phone: +1-727-231-0101
   Email: info@wikimedia.org
   Fax: +1-727-258-0207

GDonato (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Making a new page

how do I create a new page on wikipedia for everyone to search?

Refer to Wikipedia:Help Desk#How to make my own article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is Wikipedia broken?

Why does "my contributions" not list my contributions. It's at least 30 minutes or more out of date. Seconds or 5 minutes, ok. But 30-45 minutes? Did they forget to pay the electric bill?

It's also mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#User contributions not appearing which says "Due to severe database lag, contributions older than 6480 seconds may not appear on this list", and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Contribution history which earlier said "Resolved. just wait it out" but that was removed, and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Database lagging? where User:Splash has an interesting theory about the Gnashing Mouth . PrimeHunter 00:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

delete

Can someone delete this account?

I will have it if you dont want it can I have it?

No. Accounts cannot be deleted, because that would mean they run the risk of being recreated and someone else taking credit for your work. That would violate the GFDL. You do however have the m:Right to vanish. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rational

Can someone (preferably not the one who put them them up) explain to me the justification for each template on this page? It is sourced and written out-of-universe. The Clawed One 00:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well. You could ask the one who put them them up on his talk page or you could leave a note on the article's talk page. That would probably be your best bet. Cheers! ---CWY2190^T^C 02:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did ask him, but I personally don't trust him to give me all the facts, and as of now, he hasn't. The Clawed One 03:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia broken

Why don't user's usernames link to their userpages anymore? A.Z. 00:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They usually do and I haven't noticed a change. Can you be more specific about where they don't? PrimeHunter 02:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try using User:Username instead of just Username. — Supuhstar * —

login problems

I created a user name (susiesosad) yesterday and included my e-mail address during registration. I received the confirmation e-mail and clicked on the link to confirm my address. I've never been able to login with my user name susiesosad. I even tried clicking on "e-mail new password," but get the error "Login error: Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "Susiesosad". Again, I DID register my e-mail address when I created this user name, and I DID confirm my e-mail by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail from wikipedia. I'd try again with a new user name, but I'm quite partial to this one. Any help is appreciated. thanks!--69.109.237.154 00:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Listusers shows Susiesosad so the account exists. Usernames are case-sensitive, but not in the first letter, so you should be able to log in either as "susiesosad" or "Susiesosad". It sounds like you did everything the way you are supposed to do. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I do know how to look in the Editor's Index. For more information, see the entries under: User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Log such as: Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems. Hopefully, Susiesosad can soon be so happy. --Teratornis 14:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a YouTube link to an article

I recently linked a YouTube-hosted video in the Parrot harness article (diff). I'm aware that there have been various issues with YT videos on Wikipedia, so could someone take a look at the article and give me their opinion on whether linking it here is appropriate or not? The vid demonstrates the subject of the article in a manner that text and still images could not, so I feel that it is useful in this context. --Kurt Shaped Box 01:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The relevant guideline is Wikipedia:External links. Off the top of my head, the main problem with linking to YouTube is that most of their videos don't conform to the copyright standards of Wikimedia (read: they are blatant violations of copyright). That's not a problem here, so I think it's okay. Yechiel Man 15:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No welcome?

Hey, I've had this account for a few days now and have yet to get a welcome message! I've made a good amount of edits, now what the hell is this bullshit?--Rastabilly 01:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Afaik, welcome messages are posted at will by some editors who notice that a new editor hasn't been welcomed yet. It's not an automatic process. I'm sure there are editors who've been here for a long time but who've not had a welcome message yet because nobody has noticed. (Btw, you are certainly welcome here but your attitude isn't.) -- JackofOz 01:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a little surprised that Rastabilly would expect a welcome so soon; as I recall, I was somewhat surprised when I received mine (about two weeks after I created my account). The Welcoming committee needs more volunteers. Perhaps Rastabilly could apply some of that personal warmth to this vital task. Personally, I'm not offended in the least by a little rough language; and Wikipedia itself is often cruel to new users (for example by deleting their new articles). The Darwinian world of wiki editing is not the place for hypersensitive types. --Teratornis 16:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

external links

Where might i be able to sugjest an external link for some contries and my externel link is [6] --Sivad4991 02:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite sure what you mean with "suggesting an external link". However, the CIA World Factbook is Public domain so if you find something you want to put in an article, go ahead and add it. ---CWY2190^T^C 02:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page creation, deletion

I am trying to make a page for a recording artist by the name of Michael Steel. He sold over 300,000 albums and had a top 10 album in Europe, I was surprised he does not have a page here. So I would like to start by creating one. How do I do this, as the page I already created was deleted. Thank you, Chris

Try Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Yechiel Man 15:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do I open an account here?

What process do I must go through and do you pay as much as you tube as far a $ $ $ $ are concerned?

thanks, User:THEBEASTWARLOCK|THEBEASTWARLOCKSLAYER —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.113.199.109 (talk • contribs).

There should be a "sign in/create account" link in the top right corner. You can see why create an account? for some more details on the particular benefits involved. If you're still having trouble, this link will take you directly to the registration page. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All you have to do is follow this link (or click on "Sign in / create account" on the upper left corner of your screen, then click "Create one" in the Login box. Sorry, but we are a lowly non-profit organiztion, we can't afford to pay our contibutors (we can barely afford to maintain our servers). Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 02:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have to pay? Whats the catch?

What content sites, other than the Something Awful forums, require paid accounts anymore? Of course you don't have to pay. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you had to pay to open an account, no one would be here to edit. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will my phone bill be charged per minute or something like that? I am sick of being being wripped off. I joined newfriends.com and they took $67.95 from my checking account and the pictures were all false. They people were not anything like that, they were just regular people. That won't happen while it? I see it doesnt ask for a CC but will my phone bill be charged or something like that? I dont wont that to hapopen, thanks.

Why would your phone bill be charged? ---CWY2190^T^C 03:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My jack is in the wall. Okay I tried to do it but now it says I have cookies! ! ! ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! What does this mean and how does you know? Should I be worried, I guess they expect that people will have cookies in there homes.

See HTTP cookie ---CWY2190^T^C 04:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's no catch. Wikipedia uses the cookies so you can stay logged in, which is important when you make an edit. That way it automatically has your username attached to it and you won't lose your logged in status while you're surfing the site, but only when you actually choose to log out. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you pay as much as youtube, meaning nothing. Youtube does not charge for accounts, and neither does Wikipedia. Corvus cornix 02:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to change your IP address?

If so how. I have a friend whose IP address is banned from a certain website.

63.113.199.109 02:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's outside the scope of this page, I'm afraid -- you could ask at the reference desk, but I'm not sure that they'll be any more interested helping your friend evade a ban than we would. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure its not your IP your trying to change? [7] ---CWY2190^T^C 02:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, unfortunilly this IP address is used by all the inmates. 63.113.199.109 03:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then your best bet would be to make an account. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How is that possible? How can this be done?

Scroll all the way up the page and click on the link at the top right of the page that says "Create log in" or something like that. Dismas|^(talk) 03:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I done that but it says sign in and as you know I dont have no account. Its loopy.

Did you read the page? Click on "Sign in/create account". The next page asks for a username and password. Right above those fields it says "Don't have an account? Create one". The words "Create one" are in blue. Click that. Words which are in blue on this site are links. If you follow the link that says "Create one" it will give you the necessary fields to fill out and allow you to create an account. Dismas|^(talk) 04:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 4

Referencing help needed ASAP please!

I appear to have made a mistake with the references on the Katie Hopkins article. Please can somebody go other there and fix it for me-there may be a Barnstar in it for you! Thanks a lot. Dalejenkins 16:24, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

looking for pictures of American Coins

i am looking for some some pictures of American Coins in 1776-1976 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.136.232 (talk • contribs)

A start would be to browse through articles in Category:Coins of the United States. United States coinage type set looks possibly the most useful, but I've only looked at a few of the articles. I'll leave you to find what you want. Also, I'm sure there must be lots of numismatics sites dedicated to US Coinage on the Web. --A bit iffy 09:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Water pollution

what is the outcomme of water pollution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.130.192.76 (talk • contribs)

Dirty water. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't recover password

I'm not sure if I changed my password while on cold medicine or what, but I can't log into my account anymore and I don't receive a 3}}

looking for pictures of American Coins

i am looking for some some pictures of American Coins in 1776-1976 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.136.232 (talk • contribs)

A start would be to browse through articles in Category:Coins of the United States. United States coinage type set looks possibly the most useful, but I've only looked at a few of the articles. I'll leave you to find what you want. Also, I'm sure there must be lots of numismatics sites dedicated to US Coinage on the Web. --A bit iffy 09:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Water pollution

what is the outcomme of water pollution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.130.192.76 (talk • contribs)

Dirty water. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't recover password

I'm not sure if I changed my password while on cold medicine or what, but I can't log into my account anymore and I don't receive a new password when I click the "e-mail password" link even though it says it's sending it. It doesn't look like my account has been stolen, because there haven't been any edits with it since I've been unable to log in. Is there anything I can do?

Username: Mal Bad
E-mail: Email address hidden

I'm afraid that by far the easiest thing for you to do would be to just create a new username. If the email you've posted here is different from the one in the 'email' field of your old user account, as it seems to be, it will be quite difficult to verify that you are the same person -- even if your IP addresses is the same as it was before, this is not conclusive; and it may well not be. You only made 12 contributions under your old username, so hopefully you won't consider starting afresh to be too much of a setback. Hope this helps! -- simxp (talk) 06:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Related to the "Picture of the day"

I want to add the picture of the day to Azerbaijani version of the Wikipedia, but I could not figure out something can you please help me regarding to this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Ali Mammadov, Azerbaijan,Baku (email address removed)

It would be more helpful if you mentioned which picture exactly and what it is that you couldn't "figure out". What were you trying to do and what did you do? (Step-by-step...) Anrie 07:21, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the colour of your signature.

I've noticed some Wikipedians have coloured signatures. I would like to know how to change the colour of the signature, not the text as I asked last time.Efansay 09:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You include the same tags in the signature box on your preferences page before and after the text. Make sure 'raw signature' box is ticked, otherwise the code won't work. Example is a red signature with blue talk page link. The following text is what you put in the signature box.

[[User:Efansay|<span style="color:red;">Efansay</span>]] <sup><font face="blue">([[User talk:Efansay|talk]])</font>

Hope that helps. E ^talk 09:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well you see, that doesn't really work because all it says is Invalid raw signature; check HTML tags. And I can't do it with text either. The raw signature box is also ticked. Please help me. Efansay 10:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The 'invalid raw signature' error means that there's a mistake in the signature. In this case, it's because the '</sup>' that ought to eb at the end of the signature was left off the example. --ais523 10:34, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Also, should it not be <font color="blue"> rather than <font face="blue">? -- simxp (talk) 11:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, unless there is in fact a font called 'blue'. I didn't notice when testing because the links are blue by default anyway (and in fact I normally suggest leaving a 'blue' specification out of sigs as being unecessary). --ais523 11:14, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Thanks for the help. I got it now. Efansay ^talk 10:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page Counters

Is there any way to place a page counter on an article ?

I get the feeling that some of the articles on Wikipedia are only accessed once every blue moon.

Having page counters on articles will be able to show which pages are the most popular.--87.243.196.167 09:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The feature exists, but is disabled for performance reasons; Wikipedia is a highly visited website, and the caching used makes it hard to count each individual hit. --ais523 09:50, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Wikipedia:Statistics#Archived statistics has links to lists of popular articles. However, the stats are so old now as to be fairly useless.--A bit iffy 10:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There may be a rough correlation between the number of page views and the number of page edits by distinct editors. (If only one editor has edited a page, the page may have hundreds of edits but maybe only that one editor is viewing it, for all we know.) If the history of a page shows no edits for a long time, the page may not be getting many views, especially if the page contains glaring errors that would be easy to correct. You can see the ratio of views to edits on some smaller wikis that leave the page view counter feature enabled. I have no idea whether the ratios of views to edits on other wikis are comparable to Wikipedia's, but they might tell you something.

You might get other hints of an article's popularity by clicking toolbox | What links here, and see how many other articles link to it. Presumably, the more articles that link to a given article, the more readers who might visit, and presumably the people who linked to the article viewed it. You could check the article's talk page. A busy talk page suggests an often-viewed article. You could try a search engine that lets you search for Web pages that link to a given page. If lots of sites outside Wikipedia link to an article here, they may drive traffic to it. However, all the above methods are merely guesses. I wish we had page view counters working here. All it takes is money. --Teratornis 17:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography templates

I want to create a filmography template on the films of a particular actor.

How do I actually do that ?--87.243.196.167 09:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Templates are used in cases where the same code or text is used multiple times in different locations. I don't see how the filmography of an actor which is usually either a bulleted list or a table warrants the use of a template. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It also seems odd to me, but it's apparently common that film articles use a template with a list of other films by the actors. See for example Template:Streep movies and all the articles that use it: Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Streep movies. I don't know whether this practice has been discussed but I suppose Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films would be the place to start a centralized discussion. PrimeHunter 14:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- There's one being used for Pierce Brosnan. You could copy it and change what needs changing for your case. Dismas|^(talk) 10:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check an anon's contribs, please

An anon user, User:151.203.18.206, has been going through quite a few articles making drastic changes to some judging by their talk page. Quite a few of the deal with porn stars. Judging by the edit summaries, I believe they may be trying to make a point. I'm at work and would rather not have all those articles in my history here. So, could someone look through the anon's contribs. I'd put this somewhere else if there were a "I'm at work and would rather not be view articles about porn stars from behind my employer's servers" help page but there isn't. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 10:11, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's tagging them with {{unencyclopedic}}. I don't think it's vandalism, as the template does simply say "an editor has expressed an opinion that ...". It doesn't lead to deletion or anything like that. I have removed his tagging of the parent category, however. Neil ╦ 10:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Templates

How do I edit a template? The template for The Kinks is wrong (I work for one of them). Thanks

You need to edit the template's Template: page; {{show1}} is at Template:show1, for instance. If you edit a page and scroll down right to the bottom, you'll get a list of templates used on that page, and you can click on the appropriate one to edit it. --ais523 10:22, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Thank you

Most likely you really only want to edit the data which appears in an instance of a template in an article; if so, you do that by editing the article itself, rather than the template. (Editing the template would impact all the articles that transclude it, and that is probably not what you want.) The top of The Kinks article contains this wikitext to transclude an instance of {{Infobox musical artist}}:

{{Infobox musical artist 
|Name = The Kinks 
|Background = group_or_band
|Img = TheKinks.jpg
|Img_capt =  Original line-up from left to right-Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Mick Avory, and Ray Davies 
|Alias =
|Origin = {{flagicon|England}} [[London]], [[England]]
|Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]<br>[[Pop music|Pop]]
|Years_active = 1964–1996
|Label = [[Pye Records|Pye]], [[Reprise Records|Reprise]], [[RCA Records|RCA]], [[Arista Records|Arista]], [...]
|URL = 
|Current_members = 
|Past_members = [[Dave Davies]]<br />[[Ray Davies]]<br />[[Pete Quaife]]<br />[[Mick Avory]] [...]
}}

If you see something incorrect to the right of an equal sign, you can edit it. Be sure to leave an informative edit summary, or a comment on the article's talk page explaining what you did and why. --Teratornis 14:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Academic Papers

Do you accept academic term papers. I would like to submit a term paper which is well over the essy range but should be of interest to many people. It it entitled "The Long Term View of the American Health Care System: Inflation and Infection." It covers four possible scenarios of what would happen to the American health care system. 1: Continued cost increases well above the inflation index. 2: A major epidemic 3: Bioterrorism 4: Bioterrorism plus other acts of terrorism.

It would be submitted with the expectation that it would not be edited.

email removed

The answer is no and no. First of all - an academic term paper is classed as original research WP:NOR and therefore is not suitable for an encyclopedia article. Secondly, when you submit something to wikipedia, you agree it can editted without mercy by others. --Fredrick day 13:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If in the course of writing your term paper you came across some reliable sources containing interesting content that could improve some existing articles on Wikipedia, you may of course try to improve those articles, adding your content and citations to them. The English Wikipedia has 6,932,210 articles, so there are probably some existing articles (perhaps dozens of them) that cover the topics your term paper mentions. See Help:Search and Help:Contents/Browsing Wikipedia for tips on how to find those articles. Of course as Fredrick day correctly notes, anything you contribute to Wikipedia is subject to change by others, and is highly likely to be changed sooner or later. That's just the way Wikipedia works. If you want to publish your work as a signed essay which will not be edited by others, you may want to try Wikinfo, which I believe provides that option. --Teratornis 13:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I should also point out that it is quite common for people who are new to Wikipedia to think in terms of the writing tools they have used all their lives. With most writing tools, a writer works alone to produce a "complete" work. Once the work is "complete," the writer signs the work, and (typically) nobody else changes it. Therefore, many new users who come to Wikipedia expect to be able to create large, distinct, finalized, permanent works, because that is how the vast majority of other writing tools operate.

Wikipedia overturns the traditional concept of writing. On Wikipedia, nothing is ever "done." All articles undergo continual editing, from any number of editors. It's best for new Wikipedia users to abandon (or at least postpone) their preconceived grandiose ambitions of treatise-writing, and spend some time getting the "lay of the land" first. Start by making small edits to existing articles. If an edit takes more than 15 minutes, that's probably overreaching for a new user. Study the Help, check out the enormous backlog of articles that need work, and help improve them (fix typos, add links, fix article layouts, find reliable sources). Once you have learned how to make bad articles better, you will be much better-equipped to create substantial new chunks of high-quality content that might not get deleted. There may be dozens to thousands of articles already here in your areas of interest, so before creating more articles, be sure they are needed. --Teratornis 15:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Failed password

I tried to create an account today, and upon clicking create account i received an error message - something to do with a server being down.

Now I cannot access the account I have created. The account name was Bantman and the password I created for it **** now apparently doesnt work.

Can you help?

matt

The account User:Bantman has existed since 2004. If you're new to Wikipedia I'm afraid you'll need to create an account with a different name. Whatever you do, don't use the same password that you just posted on a public discussion page. Canderson7 ^(talk) 13:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a very bad idea to post your password anywhere. Create a new account under a different name; if our servers had been working then, they would have told you that the account name you tried was already taken. I'd advise you to select a less guessable password, too. --ais523 13:46, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Busted Redirect

Resolved

I usually dont have any trouble adding new redirects, but this article is giving me nothing but trouble. The syntax for a redirect is right, but it keeps showing it as a numbered list instead of a redirect. If/when somebody fixes it, please let me know on my talk page. Cheers. Ghostwo 14:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on the user's talk. --ais523 14:34, 4 June 2007 (U T C)

Spouses in Bios

Is it appropriate to add birth date and place information in a parenthetical when a spouse is mentioned in a biography? I have posted this query on the talk page for MoS:BIO, but have not gotten a response. Where else would be appropriate to post it, if not here?--Vbd (talk) 15:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If the spouse is notable enough to warrant his or her own article, then you could add the birth information there. If the spouse is not notable enough to warrant a separate article, then other editors might delete such extra information about the spouse as you might add to an article not directly about the spouse. Or they might not. (On Wikipedia, many issues come down to how hard you want to fight.) Presumably if you are asking this question, the spouse is not notable enough to warrant a separate article. I suppose the obvious question is where does it end? Would you also list the birth dates and places information for other relatives? And how about a person who has had many spouses? --Teratornis 15:28, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I agree. I had removed the spouse's information a while ago, but someone recently added it back in. Before I deleted it again, I was wondering if there was a guideline or precedent.--Vbd (talk) 01:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

nba history

Bold text

Please ask your question. The Sunshine Man 15:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is an NBA#History section, if that's what this is about. --Teratornis 16:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image usage: Are these usable?

Per the Legal wording included in the following site, are the images posted on this web site, considered Free Use. Also, what tag should be placed against these images? Carfolio.

All data in the database is freely available for re-use, provided that www.Carfolio.com is noted as the copyright holder. Any modifications that are made available to any other parties must be submitted back to this site at feedback@carfolio.com. Where copyright resides with parties other than Carfolio.com, for example pictures and articles, permission to use must be sought from the copyright holder, not www.Carfolio.com.

Also, what about the following site?: Remarkablecars. I'm just trying to be legal. --Drussel3 16:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of those is a suitable source of images. Carfolio doesn't own the copyright of its images (and it's extremely unlikely that the individual copyright holders would be prepared to release them under a free licence allowing commercial use and derivative works); Remarkablecars says "All rights reserved" which means they specifically do not allow free use. Although they allow pictures to be used on websites with a reciprocal link, that's not really applicable here as Wikipedia isn't intended only to be a website. You could email them and ask whether they're prepared to release their images under GFDL or Creative Commons Attribution (not no-derivs or non-commercial) but I strongly suspect the answer would be no. In any case an email expressing the permission would need to be forwarded to permissions@wikimedia.org. Thanks for asking, though. --YFB ¿ 16:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

create a wiki account

Dear all,

Since three days, I'm struggling to create a wiki account, but I'm always failing.

They ask me to introduce a username ans a password, those that I have choosen were not correct, so pleae assist.

Irène. email: <email removed for privacy>

The problem is probably that the account you want to create already exists or one with a very similar name exists. You can use this page to see accounts that exist already. You may also be entering the info in the wrong place. Are you sure you are using this page? Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 17:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rule violation

I am recently warned by another user about violation of WP:NOT#PUBLISHER and he threaten to have me blocked for that violation. What I did is just to update sport score a few minute before a game actually end. Now, is that violate the rule he point out. Since I feel I didn't violate the rule, and I am trying to maintain wikipedia, I try to reason with him about this. But he insist that I break the rule and threaten admin intervention. Now, as far as I know, WP:IAR states that rules should be ignore, if it is for the improvement of wikipedia. So according to this rule, what I did is not wrong. Is there anything I can do? Chris 19:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chris, I agree that Ksy92003 is being somewhat officious and your conduct is unlikely to be a blocking offence. I would advise that you politely request that he stops posting on your talk page, then archive the whole page. Addhoc 19:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

solar combustion

when we know that oxygen is required for the combustion or help to produce fire, then how does ther is fire in the sun when no oxygen is present? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.210.14.226 (talk • contribs)

Stars are powered by nuclear fusion and not by fire. PrimeHunter 21:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please use the Reference desk for further questions of this type. —METS501 (talk) 21:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

search types

How do you change the search from a basic search, to a keyword search or a title search?

Wikipedia doesn't have that search functionality, but it is always looking for the 'titles' of articles. Read Wikipedia:Look it up for more information on searching here. E ^talk 20:51, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Parsons Dance listing

I recently edited the information and layout for Parsons Dance (formerly known as The Parsons Dance Company); however the page was flagged down and all of the formatting and the text was completely altered.

The following items were deleted from out listing: Mission Statement Vision Outreach

Are we not allowed to include these in our listing?

Bullets were also added in front of the names and spacing between each of the bios was decreased. Can you please explain why?

Thank you, Manny Romero <email removed for privacy>

Wikipedia is not a directory, but an encyclopedia. You should know that your article is in a pretty bad state at the moment as it needs a decent amount of wikifying towards Wikipedia's manual of style. E ^talk 21:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is Parsons Dance Company. This edit removed some advertising material. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not an advertisement for organizations. Anybody can edit articles, for example to make them conform better with our many policies and guidelines. Nobody owns an article. PrimeHunter 21:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be acceptable...

...If I spent a lot of time answering questions over at the reference desk, and participating in Wikipedia policy discussions, rather than contributing to the encyclopedia per se? I have skills in the former, and expect that I shall have forthright opinions regarding the latter. Best username yet 21:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing that says that in order to contribute that you have to edit the encyclopedia proper. Any constructive help would be beneficial. Dismas|^(talk) 21:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is perfectly acceptable to specialise in whatever field of Wikipedia you please, and more contributors answering questions at the reference desk are always welcome. Anyone can also contribute to policy discussions, although keep in mind in these discussions that Wikipedia is primarily an encyclopedia so policies are generally made with that fundamental aim in mind. Basically though, this is a volunteer project and volunteers are welcome to spend their time editing the areas that they most enjoy as long as they keep the overall goals of the project in mind. Will (aka Wimt) 21:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just what we need! A noncontributor who will give his opinion on how we should do it! I know I can't wait... Actually, on second thought, maybe we should turn all the policy pages over to people like this, and maybe some real contributors might return to writing actual content. 207.81.133.5 22:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Like almost everything else on Wikipedia, the approach Best username yet is asking about has a name and a page to describe it: metapedianism. As to whether metapedianism is an "acceptable" approach to volunteering on Wikipedia, that depends on who you ask, I suppose. Presumably, Metapedians believe what they are doing is important, otherwise they would do something else. Wikipedia appears to be one of the largest and most complex volunteer projects in history, and like any other large organization, it requires a lot of organizational overhead. However, I think it's important for everyone involved with Wikipedia to do at least some editing on actual articles, just as it is healthy for Bill Gates to attempt to run Windows on his own once in a while, and maybe even write a bit of working code, just to show he still can. Otherwise, if the Cabal gets too distant from the actual work, we might end up with a Cultural Revolution in which the elite have to go scrub toilets or something. --Teratornis 23:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We have at present at least one editor, Clio the Muse, who edits almost exclusively at the reference desks but nevertheless has an exceedingly propitious effect on the mainspace; one finds that text she adds (for which she often provides fine sources) often is integrated into articles and generally that those who receive exemplary help at the reference desks often join the project and improve encyclopedic content. Anything that one does the net effect of which is the betterment of the project is, or ought to be, appreciated. Joe 04:53, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shaw Communications

As an employee of Shaw Communications Inc. it has come to my attention that there are some factual errors in your articles related to this company. Namely, you cite that CANCOM became Shaw Broadcasting Services, when in fact it became Shaw Satellite Services. Shaw Broadcasting services is merely a business name given to a part of the Satellite Services company. I have made a few changes in the body of these articles which should be left, but the Title of the page emtitled "Shaw Broadcasting Services" should be changed to read "Shaw Satellite Services". Thanks for the help. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.209.209.129 (talk)

Feel free to change them. It would help if you can CITE you changes, possibly the companies web site. ---CWY2190^T^C 22:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

prince harry and william

what is their surname

Please put trivia questions here. The Help desk is for questions about Wikipedia its self. ---CWY2190^T^C 23:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried the obvious links, e.g.: Prince William of Wales#Surname usage? --Teratornis 13:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name questions...

Hi. I have a question related to Naming conventions that I couldn't really answer on the Wikipedia section related to them. I'll use Victor Pellot as an example here since it was a hot-button issue recently. Anyway, Victor Pellot is the given name for a baseball player who is widely known in the United States as Vic Power, but is more commonly known in Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking countries under his given name (I've used a Spanish language Google test to verify this), and he is in fact buried in Puerto Rico as Pellot. Do we list him under the name that he played as in America or his official name? Generalizing the question to apply to other players, if a player uses a playing name that is different from the name they are born and buried with, which do we use? Thanks in advance. -- transaspie 23:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestion would be to redirect Vic Power to Victor Pellot. ---CWY2190^T^C 23:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually we use a disambiguation page for that because there's a politician of the same name.

Huh, so they've been right all along in directing that page there. Interesting. -- transaspie 23:51, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A question about account security...

I originally made my account for Wikipedia on a school computer (which has multiple users, of course.) Since then, I have had, at various times, messages on my User page warning that either I'll be banned outright or I'll soon be banned if I don't stop vandalizing--in other words, I'm assuming that someone/something at Wikipedia thinks that I'm the one vandalizing. But I'm not. Is there a way I can make sure that Wikipedia (whether the admins or the automated parts) knows that I'm not vandalizing? Or, is there a way to make sure that Wikipedia knows that the computer and account I'm using is, in fact, who I say I am?

Tolerant666 23:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on your talk page here. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 23:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

viscose material

does viscose material shrink??

This is the Help desk, for questions about editing Wikipedia. Your question is not covered by the scope of the Help desk. Please take your question to the Wikipedia:Reference desk.—WAvegetarian (talk) 23:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism: Imageek1333

Imageek1333 appears to be a vandal. They have contributed nonsense on 3 of 3 occasions, including altering another user's comments on a Talk page. Please refer to the comments on Imageek1333's Talk page for details. Rubywine 23:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer vandalism to the admin intervention against vandalism page. Thanks.—WAvegetarian (talk) 23:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you spot vandalism go ahead and revert it. Then you can put the appropriate user warning on the vandals talk page. If they continue to vandalize, report them to WP:AIV---CWY2190^T^C 23:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 5

Help me

I want to listen to the sports from WNUY 101.1 FM, but don't get a very good signal. It comes and goes. Can I get this station on the internet where I can listen to it?? We want to listen to the Norwell Baseball games, but can't hear most of the time. Thanks

Myron Ridgeway Andrws, IN.

I believe you might be interested in the Reference Desk, which is considerably better qualified to answer broad knowledge questions. However, I myself have done a brief search, and I wasn't able to find a link to an internet broadcast - most stations stopped broadcasting online a few years ago due to the fact that sports venues were requiring royalties from them. The Evil Spartan 00:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image lining up

I just inserted an image into Amazing Grace - I'm convinced the image at the top makes it look much better. But I can't figure out a why to get the lyrics below the image and not to sit to the right of it. Does anybody know a way that won't mess up the page? I will try Village pump as well. The Evil Spartan 00:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

James Howden

I want to add an entry for James Howden. He was an important Scottish innovator and businessman. The redirect for James Howden goes to James H. Howden, Canadian politician. How do I add a page for my guy?

Thanks Snowbound 00:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Create the article named James Howden (innovator) or James Howden (businessman). ---CWY2190^T^C 00:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then you can change the James Howden redirect to be a disambiguation page linking to both articles. --Strangerer (Talk) 01:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to flag an image for copyright violation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google_infiniteloop.jpg is obviously in violation of google's copyright, due to the icons used, and the copyright of whatever company google obtained the image from. How would I report this to have it removed?

See Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion and follow the instructions. ---CWY2190^T^C 00:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another option would be to go to Wikipedia:Copyright problems and follow the instructions for images. --Strangerer (Talk) 01:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What does one do about objectionable usernames?

Do nothing?

The user name in question is not profanity. I just don't like it because it sounds like a dictator.

Hypothetically, would the following usernames be allowed? God, King of you idiots, Me smart others dumb, etc.

Yes. Of course. I once saw someone using Youth In Asia. I thought that far worse than any you mentioned. --Kainaw ^(talk) 01:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:RFCN and WP:U. Anchoress 01:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

china

what is the characteristic,advantage and disadvantage of planned economy at china.

Post this on WP:Reference desk. The Help desk is for questions about the use of Wikipedia. ---CWY2190^T^C 02:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Posting Images You Took With Your Own Camera

24.218.183.113 02:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC) June 4, 2007 - Suppose you didn't have the copyright for radio station logos but you took a picture of the outside of the radio station with a digital camera you own. Suppose that wasn't the station logo but it was a sign for the studios. In short, what if you have a picture you took with your own camera? Would you have to be a registered user of Wikipedia to post it on your article? Also, would there be a chance you still wouldn't own the copyright to that image even if it isn't of something like a bumper sticker? Or, let's say you snapped a photograph of a town center to a very rural town where there are very few photographs available on the Internet: like Littleton or Lancaster, New Hampshire. They are high quality images and they are YOUR OWN! Would it be legal to offer your own picture, so long as it's an original angle and picture and no such replicas exist? Thank you for taking the time to read about this concern of mine.[reply]

I'm sure someone else can confirm this, but any images YOU take can be uploaded and used on Wikipedia. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on what you photograph, though, there can be a grey area. See, for example, Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ#Derivative works. Basically, if there can be shown to be some "creative effort" involved in taking the photo (e.g. of a statue or building), then it's generally safe, but "slavish copying" (e.g. of an existing picture, or probably even bumper sticker) would not be good enough. That's my reading of it, at least (although that section deals with whether you can apply copyright to pictures of something in public domain, and it may be different if you're trying to apply a free license to a picture of something copyrighted - IANAL). Confusing Manifestation 04:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

help

how do i create a wikipedia entry/page?

Wikipedia:Your first article should help--$UIT 03:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I want to be deleted

User User:Corvus cornix has no regard for content over photo issues and I want my contribution to Charlie Christian deleted and want my user:Erviltnec page deleted. I forgot to log in...64.24.4.167 04:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Now, this is me: If content is not all-important this work is sure to fail. Erviltnec 04:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can see you've been involved in a content dispute, and from what little I've looked at you seem to be at least slightly in the right. I would really urge you to reconsider, especially since (a) your contributions can't be deleted since they've been released under the GFDL and edited since then, (b) there are avenues for dispute resolution, which is what seems to be needed here (at least you did try to speak to the user directly, which was a good start even if they didn't seem to listen). However, if you really decide to go, hopefully someone will do what they can to meet your request. Confusing Manifestation 04:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain how violations of fair use make this user in the right? Please explain how his repeated personal attacks make him in the right? Corvus cornix 15:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can it be restored to my last edit, and blocked for a few days?Erviltnec 04:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You do have the m:Right to vanish and your userpages can be deleted, just put {{db-userreq}} on them and an admin will delete them. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 04:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

c# program

write a program to create an interface "mathematics",having different member variable and function for adding,subtracting,dividing and multiplying two numbers and implement the above interface in a class

See the article on C#, ask on the Computing reference desk and do your own homework. Confusing Manifestation 06:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

charging

Will you charge us?

For what? Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia open to all users. E ^talk 06:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - we shall lead with our cavalry, led by Jimbo astride a donkey, screaming incoherently like a Tyrannosaurus and waving a plank with a nail in the end. Neil ╦ 12:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hoodia

Hi. In article Hoodia, in the section Species there is a "Hoodia gordonii" - linked, but "Hoodia gordonii" isn't an article, but redirect to the... main "Hoodia" article. So, from "Hoodia" we are transfered to "Hoodia" again. I think the redirect from "Hoodia gordonii" should be deleted. Greeteings from Poland, Arek1979 09:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks Arek (or dzienkuje bardzo) - fixed! Neil ╦ 12:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About abuses from Greek wiki.

Dear sir,

We are running an organisation for the protection of pedestrians' rights in Greece. We have created a movement called "streetpanthers" and we would like to have our organisation in the Greek version of Wikipedia. However, the moderator has erased our entry without having any specific reason. In addition, ther are similar entries into the english version such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass.

We would like to know why our movement has been erased from the Greek wiki, with the reasonin that an encyclopedia shall not deal with such issues, while it contains say...pop artists bio and other stuff which is not also so educational as our topic.

We would like to know your views on this.

Kind Regards

Chris Mantas

<e-mail removed>

We have no jurisdiction at the Greek Wikipedia, so we have little affiliation with the Greek administration. My best guess is that they believed that your organization was non-notable. However, it would be better to ask the deleting administrator. Sean William @ 12:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the rules for the Greek Wikipedia, but the English Wikipedia "suffers" to some extent from the same consequence of the requirement for reliable sources: it's fairly easy to find reliable sources for many topics that seem frivolous (e.g., Paris Hilton) and not so easy to find reliable sources for many topics that seem worthwhile to various people. For example, in the subject of bicycling, it is easy to find reliable sources about elite professional racing cyclists, and less easy to find reliable sources about the sort of bicycling most people actually do. Which is to say, a lot of encyclopedic content is not necessarily useful. If you want your useful content to appear on a Wikipedia, first you must persuade at least one author of those elusive reliable sources to write your content. The idea on Wikipedia is that we only write what has already been reliably written elsewhere.

Fortunately, there are many wikis. If the Greek Wikipedia does not want your content, you can find another wiki. See: WP:WWMPD#If all else fails, try another wiki. You can develop your content on another wiki, and if you get it into encyclopedic shape, you can try again on one of the Wikipedias. --Teratornis 17:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page Move - GFDL question

A user recently moved a page, then made the new page into a redirect to the old, and copy/pasted the text back into the original title. The result is that the article is still on the original page, but the history is now on the new page. Is this something that should be reverted, or is the article's history being on the redirect acceptable? --Onorem Dil 12:22, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That sort of thing has to be cleaned up by an administrator, which can be a really big pain. I'll see what I can do. Sean William @ 12:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I didn't think it was supposed to stay like that, but wasn't sure if having the proper page move in there created enough of a record to be able to follow back to the history. --Onorem Dil 12:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you come across this sort of thing in the future, you can alert administrators by placing {{db-histmerge|page cut-and-pasted from}} on the page cut-and-pasted to. --ais523 16:44, 5 June 2007 (U T C)

Europe-wide IEC 60309 system

We would like to ask where we can get the email address of EUROPE-WIDE IEC 60309 SYSTEM which has selling the product 3P+N+E (THREE PHASE WITH NEUTRAL ) and HAS A CURRENT RATING AVAILABLES ARE 16 A, 32 A, 63 A, 125 A And 200 A. This following products posted here.

Please email the answer to

Thanks, lut

removed e-mail Perry-mankster 14:01, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for questions about Wikipedia itself. I would suggest a Google search. -- Kesh 02:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use images

What's the tag for getting fair use images not to show up in categories as previews, but just as inline links? WilyD 13:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can use __NOGALLERY__ on the category description page. --Strangerer (Talk) 14:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does this mean I can't mix fair use and free images in a single category? Lame ... but alright, I'll try it. Thanks. WilyD 14:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proper image license for photo of murdered child?

Image:Cecilia.jpg

As prompted by a bot, I added the fair use rationale to this image of Cecilia Zhang, a girl who was murdered in Toronto. The image is included in the article about her killer, Min Chen. What fair use template should I use? Currently, I'm using "Non-free promotional", however it just seems ugly to classify a missing child in the same category as a product promo shot. Is there any like templates for the deceased? -- Zanimum 14:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You could use {{Fair use in|Min Chen}} when other templates don't apply. --Strangerer (Talk) 14:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

restrict searches and randomness to "featured content" only

Is there a way to query (via google or otherwise) for the "meta" tag in WP articles, in order to restrict searches to "featured articles" only? Also, is there a way to constrain the "random article" feature to get only featured articles? dr.ef.tymac 14:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, I'm not sure how to search within just Featured Articles; maybe someone else knows if there is a tool that can help do that. You can look at Category:FA-Class articles if you want to just browse Featured Articles. --Strangerer (Talk) 14:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there's a way. You can look through archives of "Today's featured article" because the distribution of such articles is essentially random. 69.201.182.76 16:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Placing an image in an info box

I want to place the picture of Beckman High into the Beckman high page, but i don't know how to place the image in the info box. or perhaps the gray box is not called an info box?

nevermind I got it. Thanks!Ihertyou 15:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

images how to insert to pages

Can I please have the code. --Coallen 15:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To add an image to an article simply add [[Image:Example.jpg|100px|right]] to an article, when doing this replace the Example.jpg with the image name you have uploaded via Special:Upload and you can change the 100px field — the higher this number is the larger the image will appear, you can also change the right field so if you want it to display on the left hand side of the page you would add left instead. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 15:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't create article

Hi:

I attempted to create a new article, but failed. I read all the instructions, the FAQs, the various Wikipedia pages and still failed.

I created an account. I logged into the account. When I clicked "create page" (I couldn't find "create articel"), I was cycled back to pages I'd already seen.

Sorry to be so dense.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help. Ric Holt (account Holt) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.44 (talk • contribs)

Somehow you're not logged in. I see no edits by the account Holt, altho it does exist. Try logging in again, I'd say. Friday (talk) 16:02, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try a couple of things. Suppose the name of your proposed article is "Balderdash". Type Balderdash into the search box at the left. You should see a redlink saying that the article does not exist. Click on it, and an edit window will open where you can create the article. Note that you need to have an account at least four days old.

If that doesn't work, try Wikipedia:Articles for creation. 69.201.182.76 16:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The account does not have to be 4 days old, any account is OK, for future reference. GDonato (talk) 18:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

new message alert won't go away

I recently edited a page as an unregistered user. My changes were edited and now a new message alert appears at the top of every page I visit. I have read the message and want the alert to go away. It does not refer to a new message any more. How do I do this?

(I've since registered as a user, but would still like an answer, because I don't always want to log in when I look at Wikipedia.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.171.207.28 (talk • contribs)

This is a bug in the software (sometimes the new-messages banner won't come up for users without an account, sometimes it won't go away). See bugzilla:9213 for more details. Nobody seems to be sure what's causing it at the moment. --ais523 16:15, 5 June 2007 (U T C)

Yeah, I have the same problem. 69.201.182.76 16:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Science search

how do i make a science search

You start by specifying what you mean by "science search." If you have a question about a scientific topic, you could try searching Wikipedia for it. You could search the World Wide Web with Google Search. You could ask a reference librarian at your local library. You could ask your question on the Reference desk. If, instead, you are asking how to set up a vertical search on science topics, that would probably require you to have some computer programming skills, unless you can find someone or some search engine with such a search already set up that you can use. --Teratornis 17:31, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trademarks

How does Wikipedia recognize Trademarks within the articles, such as "Coca-Cola" or "Pepsi". Why are there no Trademark symbols within articles? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheBackpack (talk • contribs)

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). PrimeHunter 17:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One particularly amusing feature here is that the Wikimedia Foundation prefer people to say Wikipedia®, but due to the Manual of Style Wikipedia ignores this desire of a trademark owner the same way they ignore special treatment preferred by other companies. ('Wikipedia' is a registered trademark.)--ais523 17:09, 5 June 2007 (U T C)

Contributions appearing on screen after edit

My contributions have been slow to show up on my screen. I hear a lot of noise, like popping popcorn, but unless I go back to where I was and then go forward to where the edited material appears, it takes so long it's as if I have dial-up.Vchimpanzee 17:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try simply hitting the reload button on your page: sometimes it takes the server a second to make the updates. If that doesn't work, try taking taking the URL in your address bar, and add this to it: ?action=purge. For example, this page would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk?action=purge. The Evil Spartan 17:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AML and FML templates

Where radio station articles have links to radio-locator.com, these links appear twice. Vchimpanzee 17:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There was redundance with another template: I've removed the redundance in the first templates. The Evil Spartan 17:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed it had been fixed. I appreciate that. Now, with the AML template, there is no little square at the left now, and it looks inconsistent.Vchimpanzee 18:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to fix table on page "TENNIS Magazine's 40 Greatest ..."

If you look at the table on this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENNIS_Magazine%27s_40_Greatest_Players_of_the_TENNIS_Era

Notice how in the "Country" column, next to the names Graf and Becker, the German flag does not display correctly. Instead, you get "Image:Flag of Germany.svg", followed by the word "Germany". I can't figure out what's wrong in order to fix it, so I'm hoping that someone will be able to help!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tented 17:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes, the problem appears to originate somewhere in the {{flagcountry}} template. I glanced at the template source, and it calls several other templates. Someone knowledgeable with templates could probably determine why {{flagcountry}} does not work correctly with a calling value of "Germany". It would be interesting to see whether other articles that display the German flag have this problem. --Teratornis 17:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinetley BLock this IP Address =

User:68.223.235.43. They keep doing harsh and offensive edits. They have already been warned anout 7 times. Someone please indef. block them. Also, I suspect Notenetkatie and User:Sam.cantrell is them(they edits the same things)

[[8]]--71.96.238.177 17:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Replied on user talk. 69.201.182.76 22:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My postings deleted Why?

I find that two of my posting on the page Talk:Ezhava has been removed. Is it done by the editor or by someone else? Is it because the posts are content rich and not mere repeatation of oft repeated themes.

My posts headings include: A general answer

Please give me an answer someone.

--Ved from Victoria Institutions 18:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, that is vandalism. Feel free to undo it. Though I would have to say that you would probably be better served being more concise, as people are more likely to read such material. The Evil Spartan 18:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It helps to look at the edit history of a page. You can see who added or deleted what. The removal in this case was done by an IP user, which means it could have been anyone. They did not leave much of an edit summary, so there's no way to determine their reasoning (although Spartan is probably right in this case). This sort of thing happens every day. Several times a minute, actually. DarkAudit 18:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please tell me how to undo the damage? --Ved from Victoria Institutions 11:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the edit history screen, click on a version that's not vandalized, which will take you to the archived page. Click on "edit this page", then save it, with an edit summary of something like "reverted vandalism". --Ashenai 11:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming a category

How do I change the name of a category? Specifically I would like to change Category:Belgian animation films to Category:Belgian animated films. Thanks. Krikke 18:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Try the instructions at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. It will require you to set up a page for discussion. The Evil Spartan 18:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright of a news photo of your property

What is the usage guideline for a photo of you or property you own taken by a newspaper? I have photos of my house after a fire in my sandbox. Those pictures were taken by me. What about the pictures taken by the newspaper while the fire was in progress? DarkAudit 18:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an expert but I would have thought that the copyright on the newspaper's photos belongs to the newspaper. You have presumably not registered your house as a trademark, so you have no claim to images of it. IANAL. --YFB ¿ 18:18, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's still copyrighted. You could provide a link to the newspaper article online though. The Evil Spartan 18:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New entry

how do i create a new entry?

See Help:Starting a new page. Dismas|^(talk) 20:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You also need an account to create an article, if you dont have one create one or try Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 20:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might also want to read Wikipedia:Your first article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 20:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copying.

I am having trouble copying the second pages of two-page Articles. I get a blank page, with only the heading printed. Can you please help me? Thank you.

I don't quite understand what you mean. Wikipedia articles don't have two pages. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 20:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're quite right, but when printing the Articles they of course can extend beyond a single page.

Role accounts

I know that role accounts are not allowed. In which policy/guideline is this prohibition spelled out (assuming it's spelled out at all)? --ElKevbo 20:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What I believe you are looking for is WP:SOCK. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 20:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That would be it. Thank you very much! --ElKevbo 20:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The essay on single-purpose accounts is certainly worth reading too. Will (aka Wimt) 20:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(after edit conflict) There exists also a general role accounts page at meta; although the page now references only the role policies of fr.wiki and en.wiki and is composed almost entirely of that which was previously at WP:ROLE, it should at some point serve to aggregate the policies across all projects w/r/t role accounts. Joe 20:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia/commons image conflict

An image was previously uploaded to wikipedia: Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg
An image was uploaded to the commons: Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg

The problem is that the second upload will not "overwrite" the first. Do I need to upload the new image to both projects? Do I need to delete the wikipedia version of the image? Help!? —Parhamr 20:34, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about creating a different name for the 2nd image, such as 2004B? Other editors, please answer this after me.Feddhicks 21:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Simple and straightforward but maybe clunky/inefficient … I suspect a better way exists —Parhamr 21:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not - when you enter [[Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg]], the system looks first for an image of that name on en.wikipedia.org, and only if it doesn't find one does it look on Commons. It would probably be nice to be able to do something like, say, [[Commons:Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg]], but that just does this: Commons:Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg. Confusing Manifestation 22:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can flag the Wikipedia image with the {{ncd}} tag, which will put a notice on the image saying that it also exists on the Commons. Also see WP:CSD#Images.2Fmedia. It appears that the speedy deletion criteria exists only for bit-for-bit copies, though. You can also list it at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, and the process is listed in more detail there. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 16:42, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bond Girls

What the heck is going on ?

The photos on this article were all deleted because they were felt to be a violation of fair use.

Now somebody has put them all back - and preposterously claims to be the originator of them all !!!!!!!

Some of those photos have been on the Internet for years !

What is going on ?--Tovojolo 21:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Howcheng deleted the images gallery ([9]) but User:Stonedead put it back ([10]). Personally, I feel that fair use does not qualify here since we are illustrating the Bond girls rather than each individual one, so I'll leave a message with User:Stonedead. x42bn6 Talk Mess 21:39, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I take it back, I think all of these are copyright violations. Image:Eunice drno-1.jpg can be found at [11], Image:SeymourJB-1.jpg can be found at [12] but the main site has a copyright on it, and I'm still looking. However, for most of them, I can't seem to locate any other images on Google search, so WP:AGF tells me that they may well be the author's own - but they are promotional photographs. But most are fair-use images so I'll remove the galleries. x42bn6 Talk Mess 21:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I find it highly unlikely that User:Stonedead is the creator of all these photos of Bond film girls. See user's contribs. They all are likely copyvio. I am very busy at the monent, but suggest these images be tagged for deletion as copyvio. —Gaff ^ταλκ 22:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All of Stonedead's images have been tagged with {{PUIDisputed}}, and all of the images have been removed from the article as copyright violations. Corvus cornix 18:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nanking film

I am trying to edit the Nanking film website and need to add some lines into the film credits. I have added names into lines that were already there. The names show up, but the new lines I create do not. What am I doing wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.43.184.42 (talk • contribs)

This is probably becuase of the infobox on the page. I am not super familiar with infoboxes, but do not think that you can just add a new line like this for co-producer. Maybe somebody else knows better? —Gaff ^ταλκ 22:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question, the reason is because The infobox template that is used, Template:Infobox Film, does not have a line called associate producer. You can't just add lines to the infobox. The template has to be edited so it understand what you mean when you type |associate producer=so an so. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If no one would object I can fix the template. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a short discussion at Template talk:Infobox Film#Producer field. PrimeHunter 00:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LIZA SHTROMBERG

I'm confused why the article LIZA SHTROMBERG was deleted with no discussion. It was not blatant advertising. The article was structured biographically and did not meet the speedy deletion criteria for having inappropriate content as it was written encyclopedic.

She is a famous jewelry designer. Her jewelry has appeared in magazines around the world. Her collections have shown in Paris and New York, are worn by celebrities, appear in movies, and Wikipedia has other jewelry designers with the same criteria i.e. Harry Winston and Tarina Tarantino.

In fact, I modeled this article after the Tarina Tarantino one. If you allow Tarantino a Los Angeles jewelry designer, it should follow that you allow other Los Angeles jewelry designers.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pepperberry (talk • contribs)

I suggest cheking the deletion log of the page, then discussing this with the admin that deleted the page. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Deletion review.—Gaff ^ταλκ 22:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another option to see why it was deleted, was if there was a discussion on if it should be deleted or not to go to it and see the consensus. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have spoken to the admin who deleted the article. As a non-admin, I cannot see what the article looked like. My advice is rewrite with references/sources, then resubmit. Or request deletion review. —Gaff ^ταλκ 23:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Liza Shtromberg was speedy deleted in accordance with speedy deletion criteria #11: blatant advertising. If you believe she does in fact deserve an article, then please rewrite it in a neutral rather than promotional tone, using reliable sources that prove she is a notable individual. --tjstrf talk 23:09, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about an ABC News segment that mentions her and how would I incorporate that into the article? As an external link? If you watch this clip:

[13]

at 1:47 in the video they mention her by name. Is that considered reliable enough coming from a network newscast? - Pepperberry--Pepper Berry 00:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

posting an article

How do you make or post an article on wikipedia?

Look at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Can't create article

about achieving talk page

I don't know how to achieve my own talk page. Can anyone tell me what steps I have to do? Thanks in advance. Chris 23:41, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you mean archive. See WP:ARCHIVE for detailed directions on the various methods, but essentially you have two options:

Option A: Take a good chunk of your talk page, and cut and paste it to a page of the name format User talk:MYTALKPAGE/Archive 01, then link to it from your user talk page.

Option B: Press the "Move page" button at the top of your talk page, and move it to the new title User talk:MYTALKPAGE/Archive 01. Then edit your main talk page to not be a redirect any more.

There are a few other ways, but those are the main two. --tjstrf talk 23:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and sorry for the typos. Chris 23:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalizing a title

In a band's article, the band's name is not capitalized in the title, when it should be. The first word is, but the second is not. How do I fix that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ljplum12 (talk • contribs).

Replied on talk. --tjstrf talk 23:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 6

Creating pages

How do I create a new page?

See Help:Starting a new page. ---CWY2190^T^C 00:33, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I-271 Exit List Mishaps

I am having some problems while fixing up the I-271 exit list. I am trying to insert a row wide message of concurrencies and when I attempt it, the whole chart gets shifted and messed up. What should I do?

Try asking User:Black Falcon. He might know. Placeholder account 13:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

printing

where do you click to print something off?

This is the Wikipedia help desk, try taking it up with one of the other help pages--$UIT 03:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a reasonable question to ask here. Corvus cornix 20:31, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the left most column under the search box, you should see a group of links called "toolbox". Under that should have a link that says printable version. Click on that. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

just to know

i would like to know if the titanium can be sold and how much is the cost?

This type of question is not appropriate for the help desk. There is a large notice at the top stating that this page is to be used only to ask question about editing Wikipedia. Other questions belong in the Reference Desk. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 04:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

how do i see what i just wrote

Fact checkers

I was wondeing if we have a policy about Fact checkers and fact checking at Wikipedia? If yes, can hook up with the links please.

Best Regards--Kaaveh 04:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:V? -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 04:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone is a fact-checker on Wikipedia. If you see a statement of fact in an article, it should be sourced so that you can read the source and verify it. If there's no source, please add one! If one cannot be found, tagging the statement with a {{fact}} tag will let people know it needs to be sourced. -- Kesh 05:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

username

Hello. My name is Liz Ross and my email address is liz@lizzy.net. I have a Wikiality set up at lizzy.net, but I can't remember my username to get my password. Is there any way I can use my email? thanks, Liz

Sorry, we can't help you. Placeholder account 13:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can I look at a list of another editor's contributions?

I want to see how many articles a certain user has edited. This user is a vandal.

User contribs -- Phoeba Wright^OBJECTION! 06:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The info above is not very detailed, see Special:Contributions/Username goes here, replace the username goes here with the username of thre user who's contribs you want to check. When viewing their userpage you can also click om User contributions in the toolbox on the navigation bar on the left. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 08:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For even more detail see Help:User contributions ("when all else fails, read the manual"). Perhaps the easiest way to find this page is to open the Editor's Index and do a Ctrl-f search on "contributions" in your Web browser. You can also click navigation | Help and drill down from there. I prefer the Editor's Index because it links to almost every page a Wikipedia editor could need to see, so we can search all their titles in one place. --Teratornis 16:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what font to use

hello I often use wikipedia. Some articles are not readable in konqueror, for some chars (mostly math stuff not in latex or arrows) there is a little box in stead of the real char. What settings should I change?

Hello. Under your preferences (which you can only access if you have a registered account), you can try changing:

The "Skin" you are using (The default is Monobook, but there are 6 other varieties)
The way your computer renders mathematical equations (I have mine set to "Always render PNG", and it work fine for me) under "Math"
Or you can go here and change the font manually. Be careful, this page controls how Wikipedia is displayed for you, and mistakes can result in some rather disastrous displays.

I hope that has helped. I believe there are other methods as well, but unfortunately that's all I can think of at the moment.Hersfold ^(talk/work) 11:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My experience (I use Gentoo Linux) is that as soon as you install an appropriate unicode font, Konqueror will just use it. At least I've never had to set anything up. I think the DejaVu fonts (they have many symbols as well as several non-Roman scripts) should cover the symbols you need. --Dapete ばか 13:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Need help logging in?

I cant't logo on my wikipedia account? i've tried typing my password many times but i've failed and i need help i don't know what the problems is!! can you please help me thanks!! Raja

Make sure you have a registered account, if not then you can create one via Special:Userlogin. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 08:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see also Help:Logging in. Peacent 17:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Has my edit been seen or acted upon?

6-6-07 12:12 Hello

A few weeks ago I looked up a band called "Jazz Jamaica" on wikipedia and found that their article:

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

was flagged with an exclamation mark in a safety triangle as being "written like an advertisement" so I edited it to read objectively.

I have noticed that the safety triangle/exclamation mark is still there, with an invitation to mark the article as blatant advertising for speedy deletion. How can I make sure that my edit is seen and taken into account?

Also I could not find any info in the help section about this flagging safety triangle thing, where in the help section can I find the correct procedure for dealing with this kind of thing.

With thanks

Hello! There was a "tag" at the top of the article, which looked like this: {{ad}}. I have now removed it, so the article is no longer flagged as being "written like an advertisement". (PS - you can sign your edits to talk pages with four tildes, like this: ~~~~). Neil ╦ 11:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a wiki; it's fully collaborative. If you fix something, you can just remove the tag yourself. If you're unsure, it's usually best to discuss on the article's talk page: Talk:Jazz Jamaica.

Personally, I still feel the tone could be more neutral. There are obviously biased statements like "enabling him to extend the boundaries of the music played", but the general tone is the underlying problem. Wikipedia should not praise or criticize anything;at most, it can include sourced quotes of praise or criticism from notable persons.

Hope that answered your question: if there's anything else you need to know, or you just want to talk about things, feel free to talk to me. Hope you enjoy editing here. :) --Ashenai 11:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You asked where in the help to find the procedure for dealing with this kind of thing. The most comprehensive help reference for Wikipedia is here:

User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia

and the "flagging safety triangle thing" you mention is called a template, so see the Index entries under:

User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Tem

namely: WP:TMP and WP:TEMPLATE. --Teratornis 15:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is panitikan?

what is the definition of "panitikan" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.115.1 (talk • contribs)

Our search shows that Panitikan is a barangay in Pangutaran, Sulu, in the Philippines. If you understand the Tagalog language (I don't) then see also tl:Panitikan. Maybe it means literature. PrimeHunter 13:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The word book also has the meaning of cool.The origin of which is derived from predictive text ,when texters take the shortcut of substituting book for cool as it is reached in predictive text prior to the word cool

question

sir,i had asked certain questions on abstract algebra in the month of May 2007. i dont know the exact date. how to search those questions for answers and hints — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.246.25 (talk • contribs)

You may wish to take a look at the article (Algebra and Abstract algebra). Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 15:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Special:Contributions/59.95.246.25 for all edits made by people using the IP address you used to post your current question. If you used the same IP address to ask about abstract algebra on Wikipedia, you should see a record of your question in your contributions (indeed, your contributions show several questions relating to mathematics or abstract algebra). However, IP addresses can change, and more than one person might use a given IP address, so a far better way to track your contributions on Wikipedia is to create an account. If you asked your question on the Help desk, you can search it with Google. For example: a search for abstract algebra. --Teratornis 15:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some help

Can you do anything when some other editor is making sly remarks about your grammer etc on another talk page?--McNoddy 14:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should remind him/her of the no personal attacks policy and if he has violated this policy you can leave {{subst:uw-npa1}}. Hope that helps! The Sunshine Man 15:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can also correct whatever shortcomings in your grammar are causing the other editor to make sly remarks. --Teratornis 16:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What you should probably not do is call them a dork and tell them to bugger off. Unfortunately, its appears that is what you did. —Gaff ^ταλκ 19:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Given that the "sly remarks" were helpful corrections, if somewhat bluntly put[14] and followed an insult by you, it might help if you didn't respond by calling him a "dork"[15]. I also suggest you don't template the regulars, regardless of what you've been told here. KillerChihuahua^?!? 19:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand WP response to vandalism

Having talked about it previously, I don't understand the WP response to vandalism. If the vandalism is not occurring at the time, then reporting on the Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism is not appropriate, and if it hasn't occurred at least 10 times then article protection is not appropriate. Is my understanding correct ? What should be done in this case of an occasional IP vandal who has received several warnings ? Thanks :-) John 14:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If the user continues to vandalize despite being warned, just ask an administrator to block him/her. This can be accomplished in several ways, but the quickest is probably to ask on IRC. Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 15:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The requirements you mention refer to IP addresses not user accounts - the concept is to hopefully avoid collateral damage. Accordingly, if the IP appears to be only used by a single institution, those requirements may not be applicable. Lastly, I agree with Bjelleklang, if a situation clearly requires intervention, contact an admin regardless. Addhoc 17:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With IP accounts at a school, there are likely several user's accessing wikipedia in a week's or month's time. If its obvious that a vandal is at work and on a rampage (multiple hits in a day, reporting makes sense, either at WP:AIV or on an IRC channel (if you have a PC rather than a mac, as I have not figured out how to get on IRC with a mac). —Gaff ^ταλκ 19:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proper Links

hello, is it proper for the "external links" section to link to commercial operations? Say a page about a scenic river linking to a lodge operating on that river. thanks. Zinny 15:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't think of any circumstance under which it would be okay to do so. For more info, see WP:EL. Dismas|^(talk) 15:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for the response and the linkZinny 15:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Warnings?

Hello, I am a recent edits' patroller. While patrolling, I obviously come upon vandals, the edits of whom I of course revert. I was wondering, though, if I am allowed to give a warning to a vandal (such as the ones in Wp:vandal#Warnings) even though I am not an administrator. I was wondering this because on the warnings, it states that "...if you continue, you will be blocked..." Obviously, since I am not an admin, I do not have the ability to block users, but on the warnings, it looks that I can do so. So, am I allowed to give out these warnings? Also, please reply on my talk page instead of here. Thank you. Universe=atom^{•Talk•Contributions•} 16:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are definitely allowed to; in fact, you're strongly encouraged to. Will copy this to your talk page as well. -SpuriousQ (talk) 16:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and you might have a wider range of choices for warning templates at WP:UTM :) Peacent 16:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And what happens after the final warning is given away (after which the vandal is supposed to be blocked)? Obviously, I can not block users. As before, please reply on my talk page instead of here. Thank you. Universe=atom^{•Talk•Contributions•} 17:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You should make a report to WP:AIV. Peacent 17:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Report them at WP:AIV. I'd recommend reading Wikipedia:Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism for more information about that. -SpuriousQ (talk) 17:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to vandal fighting! Some other resources: Wikipedia:Vandalism and especially Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit. The latter has several tools that make vandal fighting an infinitely more efficient and effective process. —Gaff ^ταλκ 20:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stage name/proper name question

If I am writing an article on someone who is better known by a stage name (in this case a stage surname), should I refer to them throughout the article by their proper or stage name? More specifically, in parts of the article that outline times before they took their stage name. Thanks.

You should use their proper name for the article, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions. The Sunshine Man 17:10, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but The Sunshine Man is wrong. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names): Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things.. Corvus cornix 20:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

names of famous people

'Bold textcan i when are keely birthday is he is a singer

Sorry, I'm not sure who is the Keely you mentioned above. Could you please elaborate? Peacent 17:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics

How do you add a graphic or photo, I see the icon but not sure how to add. Does it need to be hi-res?

Also, I accidentally saved and it posted the title of my page. How do I delete "The art of food and wine?"

Please let me know. Thanks!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Talagna (talk • contribs)

First, you upload the file: see the button on the toolbox on the bottom left of the screen. Then you would type in something like [[Image:Filename.jpg]]. You might want to see Help:Images and other uploaded files. The Evil Spartan 17:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged your article for a speedy deletion. I looked at the text and suspect that you may not have a clear understanding of what Wikipedia is about. It is not a free web hosting site or advertising forum, but an encyclopedia. I posted a welcome message on your talk page with further information. Cheers! —Gaff ^ταλκ 17:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No tildes

There are no tildes on a Finnish keyboard. How can I produce them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paegeorge (talk • contribs) 17:56, June 6, 2007 (UTC)

In editing view, beneath the box where you type your changes, is a large box of symbols that you can click to add to the article. The four tildes are one of these options (near the top of the box). Hope this makes sense. Canderson7 ^(talk) 18:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you want to type four tildes to sign your posts on talk pages, you can also click the "Your signature with time stamp" button in the Edit toolbar. You have to enable the edit toolbar in your preferences under the "Editing" tab. --Teratornis 19:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Odd. There is a tilde at Keyboard layout#Finnish/Swedish to the left of Enter. Try holding Alt Gr down and press that key whatever it says. It's a "dead key" so the tilde appears after the next key is pressed. Press space to only get the tilde. PrimeHunter 19:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peer reviews in Template:ArticleHistory

I have been using {{ArticleHistory}} on several talk pages. They suggest using the date that {{peerreview}} changes to {{oldpeerreview}} which seems to be about 2 weeks after the last comment on the peer review discussion page. With this action date the action ID associated with the review is two weeks after any commentary. Does this make sense. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image not displaying

Can anyone work out why this image refuses to display? I'm a bit puzzled about it. -Panser Born- (talk) 18:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it looks fine to me. Peacent 18:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks okay to me as well. Try reloading your broswer/clearing cache? —Gaff ^ταλκ 19:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried it in Firefox, Opera and even resorted to checking it in Internet Explorer 7, but it didn't display in any of them! =S Very strange...ah well, if it works for everyone else, that's fine. -Panser Born- (talk) 19:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Google

How can I make the page I have just created come up on Google.com when I search for it?

You'll just have to wait. It usually takes a few days before new articles show up in Google. Bjelleklang - talk Bug Me 19:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GFDL and Wikipedia citation

Hi,

I'm sorry, I have read everything i can on my question and am going in circles. I am publishing a book and I would like to include some GFDL pictures and graphics. As I understand it:

1) I am free to use them for unlimited publications. 2) I need to credit the photographer or graphic artist (some artists do not provide their names. Do I use their Wikipedia ID? Would you kindly provide me a sample of what a credit would like like? 3) Am I to include copy of entire GFDL license in my book? 4) When copyrighting my book I simply do not copyright these pictures and graphics?

I find Wikipedia to be a great resource. How do I credit Wikipedia when quoting from one of your articles?

I appreciate your time and look forward to hearing from you at your ealiest convenience.

Author

Part of your answer is at Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. Not sure about the rest. —Gaff ^ταλκ 20:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing that you read the GNU Free Documentation License article...—Gaff ^ταλκ 20:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This image

Does this image Image:2006-1218hurricane.jpg have a chance on Wikipedia:Featured image candidates? Francisco Tevez 20:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It could, why not open a featured picture nomination at WP:FP. E ^talk 20:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Musician Template

Hello I'm having trouble creating a musician template for Marcos Witt. Can you teach me how to create one? (Quetzal123 20:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Is our company noteable enough to be included in Wikipedia?

I am wondering if private companies and an explanation of their products would be accepted into the Wikipedia? Our company is unique in that my father invented our product, which was the first of it's kind, ever. He created a never-before-seen or used product which other companies make now as well. We've been manufacturing our original version for over eighteen years. I'd like to educate potential Wikiusers about the origins of the product, but to write the article, I'd have to be brand-specific, and I don't want it cross any non-advertising rules. I'd just like to get my dad's story out there, the creation of our company, and explain the origin of an item that many people see and use everyday. I certainly think our company is notable, but I don't want to post anything without getting an okay.

Thanks! ~Amy Dunn

Please see Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) to determine whether it's alright and if you believe it is, go ahead and create it. Other editors with some minor information about it may edit it from time to time. Hope that helps! E ^talk 21:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking with us, Amy. Your dad's company sounds very interesting, but Wikipedia's rule of thumb is that editor's should avoid potential conflicts of interest when writing articles. This means that they probably shouldn't write about themselves, their family members, or their companies. Our theory is that if a subject is notable, someone removed from the issue will eventually write about it. I hope that this helps. Let me know if you have any more questions. Canderson7 ^(talk) 21:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please note: regarding the conflict of interest guideline ~~is not a hard and fast rule by any means~~. If an article can be written without bias, from a neutral point of view, with verifiable sources, and meets the notability criteria, then please feel free to contribute! —Gaff ^ταλκ 21:07, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid conflict of interest, you can and probably should request another editor write the article. This can be done at Wikipedia:Articles for creation.—Gaff ^ταλκ 21:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I posted without noticing E's reply (sorry). COI certainly isn't set in stone (nothing on Wikipedia is), and if you're positive that your father's company meets our guidelines and you trust yourself to edit impartially, you can go ahead and write the article. That being said, I still reccomend avoiding subjects with which you are personally involved. It's the best way to avoid conflict. Gaff's suggestion in particular is a sound one. Canderson7 ^(talk) 21:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check your talk page, Amydunn. I'll consider writing about your company if it is notable. Although I write mainly about Singapore, I have created new articles in various areas, such as U.S. law, American biographies, a U.S. college, French towns, as well as made contributing edits to articles in these areas and mathematics, entertainment, medicine, corporate history, etc. You'll have trouble finding a nicer and easy to get along wikipedian than me (how's that for an ad? notability?? :) ) VK35 21:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing a Wiki entry in Google Earth

How does one edit an entry in Google Earth? The entry for that of the State of Wisconsin misstates the name of its Governor.

Thank you.

The "Geographic Web" system of Google Earth simply retrieves information from Wikipedia articles. Try editing State of Wisconsin and see if that fixes it. E ^talk 21:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tag vandalism?

This is the second time I've seen <references/> at the beginning of an article (this time in Poison gas in World War I). Does this serve a purpose or is somebody fooling around? Clarityfiend 21:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably someone is fooling around. <references /> or {{reflist}} belongs under a "References" section heading at the end of the article. 69.201.182.76 22:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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