How to put out a call for help in overhauling an article
There is an article on a fairly major poet that is basically a bad school essay cut and pasted. How can I put out a call to the community for help in a major overhaul? Or do we just have to wait until someone who knows enough wanders along? Thanks Spanglej (talk) 01:35, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I agree that having help is necessary in improving an article, but unfortunately, most of Wikipedia suffers from the tragedy of the commons. Unless someone acts as the main fixer-upper of an article, and specifically requests help from another specific editor (for example, bringing in a graphics designer or a copy editor to improve an article), rather than just a general "please fix this" request. For example, both of the articles I worked to bring to FA status required me to bring in outside help to get to FA status, but I asked specific editors to give me specific help; and I did the work of bringing them in. If we had the name of the article, I could check it over, and recommend some editors who may like to help out. Without the article name, I would not even know where to begin. --Jayron32.talk.contribs01:52, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
One way to find potentially interested editors is to look at similar articles that are in better shape, and see who has made the bulk of edits to them. On Wikipedia it's usually easier to see problems than to fix them. If an article has a seemingly overwhelming number of problems, I suggest:
Look for any problems you can fix, and fix them. No matter how trivial your improvements might seem, when 48,474,648 editors all make small improvements, they add up to big improvements.
If you don't know how to fix some problems, but you can identify them and describe them clearly, make a to-do list on the article's Talk page. For each problem, try to provide links to the policy or guideline pages or any other resources that give further details on how to fix the problem. For example, look at the Editor's index which links to pages that tell how to fix just about everything. If you don't have time to slog through the instructions and learn how to fix some type of problem that you have never fixed before, maybe somebody else will. You can add a lot of value just by identifying a problem and linking to the instructions for fixing it - someone else may decide to read the instructions and apply them.
Remember that there is no deadline. As long as you are working to improve the encyclopedia, it doesn't really matter whether you make one simple type of improvement to 100 different articles, or 100 different improvements to one single article. You might find it less overwhelming to learn how to do a few things well, and do those things to many articles, rather than learn all the techniques that are necessary to bring a single article up to featured status. If you keep editing long enough, eventually you will learn how to fix all the problems in a single article, but you can do lots of good long before you reach that point.
Thanks for all the suggestions. The header of the page says (and underlined in red ) that discussion should only about HOW to fix things so I didn't add in the specifics of the page in Q. The article is in fact about the poet John Clare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clare
I have done many hours work on it myself - changing the essay register and making it more readable (I hope) but the whole thing is so unencylopedic there seems little point. I don't know much about his life and the article has no references (except one to a festival reported by a local newspaper). My wikip contribution is mainly around trying to improve prose copy, fixing links etc. Help with finding decent refs would be great. He is famous enough to attract quite a bit of traffic but not enough, I suspect, to generate many fixers. Spanglej (talk) 22:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How do I find out my user name?
I am pretty sure that I know my password but none of the user names I can think of that I might have used will work. I am 99% positive about the email address I used but there is no place to enter in the email, only the user name. Am I lost?
207.35.13.14 (talk) 03:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Do you remember editing any particular articles? If so, go the the edit history and scan for your old name. If the article has tons of edits, and you can see what you added to the article, copy the text you added and you can then use a program like wikiblame to determine where in the edit history that text was added by you and thus rediscover your username.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In order to refine a village pump proposal, shake-out its flaws and eventually provide a proof-of-concept, I'd like to create a mock-up of it in my sandbox.
Ideally, it would include functioning tabs and re-arranged, modified versions of existing features, such as elements of a "new section" dialog/page.
Are there templates or other methods available to do such things in a user sandbox? rrzzrr (talk) 11:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You could look at the specific articles for the cities in question, however, the easier solution may be to use [maps.google.com Google maps] to get directions/distance from one point to another. TNXMan11:52, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(ec)The deletion log says " (Expired PROD, concern was: Transwikied dic def)" a WP:PROD is a propose deletion. Unless someone objects within 5 days, the article is deleted. Nobody objected. The reason for the prod was that the article was the definition of a word That someone had copied into Wikipedia from Wikidtionary (or somewhere.) Wikipedia is not a dictionary (WP:NOT), so the article is was not approriate for Wikipedia, although it might be apprioriate for a dictionary. -Arch dude (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm having a problem with the gadget Friendly. The "wel" button no longer appears on the top of my screen when I want to welcome someone. --Abce2|AccessDenied14:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have been using the default skin for very long and I like it. Only I wish to hide the Wikipedia logo. It is VERY large and shows up on every page. I went through some other skins which don't display the logo, but I didn't find them interesting. How can I hide the logo when using the monobook? Jay (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming you mean the one in the top left hand corner of the page, edit your Special:MyPage/monobook.css, adding:
I was thinking specifically of a creamy-looking box that says this is an archive, do not modify it that I've seen before. If you could just link me to the template for that, if I'm remembering correctly and it exists, that would be fine - I can go from there. Thanks Vimescarrot (talk) 18:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hiya. I dont know if you can help but I wondered if you had any reference to spiritual mediums in bury st edmunds. I friend of mine is trying to find one
Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 2.8 million articles, and thought that we were directly affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the left hand side of your screen. If that is not fruitful, we have a reference desk, divided into various subjects areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. TNXMan18:35, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You are very kind. I guess I am saying that if somebody wants to correct a howling error, please would they. But it is not how I want to spend my life. 91.104.22.211 (talk) 19:46, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Darn it, I could have sworn there was a reply to the same question posted elsewhere that explained that there was a difference, can't find it now. – ukexpat (talk) 21:56, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to add the following citation into the page for Bhutan for the Area. However, it keeps getting rendered as "UNIQ493daa972b76a72b-ref-0,000,002C-QINU":
I guess you are trying to add the reference to the infobox in an area parameter, but those parameters are supposed to be pure numbers so the infobox can make numeric conversion operations on them. The area is also mentioned in the normal text of the article. You can add a reference there. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Something has been bugging me for a while so I thought I might as well simply ask, with the Geopolitical organization infobox, how do you get the word/link to its flag/emblem? For example if I want to get the word Emblem under this article's Emblem: ASEAN. And the the word Flag under this once flag: UM. I have been trying things along the lines of:
|image_flag = cheese.svg
|flag = flag of the republic of cheese
|flag_type = flag
|
|image_coat = cheese arms.png
|symbol = Arms of the Empire of the Great Cheese
|symbol_type = Arms
You'll get help faster by linking to the template so people don't have to hunt around for it. I see an {{Infobox Country}} to which {{Infobox Geopolitical organization}} is a redirect. Is that the template you are trying to use? General advice:
Did you read the template documentation?
Make a user subpage (such as User:SelfQ/Sandbox) with an example of what you are trying to do. It may help if you substitute the template into your sandbox page, so you can see the resulting wikitext. That way you can see whether the parameters you are feeding into the template are coming out in the wikitext. If you only transclude the template, you are probably only looking at the rendered page, and you can't tell the difference between something which is there but invisible or obscured, vs. something which is not there at all.
Study the template source. Find the named parameters to which you are passing values, and see how the template handles them.
Look for examples of the template as other people have used it, which you can find with Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox Country. If you find that someone else has done what you are trying to do, you can emulate their method.
Look at the template history. Sometimes templates don't work the way the documentation says they should, because someone edited the template and broke something.
OK- you are referring to {{Infobox Country}} (redirected from Infobox Geopolitical organization). This template is a bit complex and not well documented. I had to look at the template markup to see what the frack is going on here.
ASEAN uses linking_name = ASEAN to create the link to Flag of ASEAN. The template markup uses an #ifexist to see if the linked article exists, which it does.
You need to use symbol_type and symbol_type_article to create a link to [[symbol_type of linking_name]] that will show under the symbol IF the article exists. symbol_type_article is not documented at all, and I don't see an existing article.
How should the books in a Further Reading section be arranged? Should it be by date or by the author's name? And if it's by date of publication, should the most recent book be on top?
I'm having problems inserting a schedule for KTLK-FM. When I put the code in, it pushes the whole schedule to the bottom of the page. The code is below.
--no dashes--{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background:#ADD8E6;" colspan="2"|Monday
|-
! Name
! Time
|-
| [[Dave Ramsey Show]]
| 12:00am-4:00am
|-
| Bloomberg The First Word
| 4:00am-5:00am
|-
| [http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/chrisbaker.html Chris Baker]
| 5:00am-9:00am
|-
| [[Glenn Beck Program]]
| 9:00am-11:00am
|-
| [[Rush Limbaugh Show]]
| 11:00am-2:00pm
|-
| [[Sean Hannity Show]]
| 2:00pm-5:00pm
|-
| [[The Jason Lewis Show]]
| 5:00pm-8:00pm
|-
| [[The Laura Ingraham Show]]
| 8:00pm-11:00pm
|-
| [[Glenn Beck Program]](replay)
| 11:00pm-2:00am
|-
There is a photograph of Holger Danske, attached to the article 'Ogier the Dane', and some idiot has photoshopped a bong into it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.122.113 (talk) 00:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Bong?Um... I don't think that's a bong. If it is, then it was in the original picture. There's only one upload in the file's upload log, and it's by an established photographer. You've got the right spirit, though :) [flaminglawyer]00:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We are fine with adding/editing/formatting pages, but how does one proceed to ADD an entry inside an existing CATEGORY?
For example, the CATEGORY "Category:Point of sale companies" has Alphabetical headers and then names within each alphabetical header.
How do we proceed to:
1) Add an Alphabetical Header
2) Add an entry under a new or existing alphabetical header?
You add [[Category:Whatever]] to the text at the end of the article. Articles are automatically sorted by the title of the article; thus, special rules apply for people, who must be given a DEFAULTSORT code so that Albert Einstein is sorted as Einstein, Albert. --Orange Mike | Talk01:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As of now Mohamed Altoumaimi redirects to the Bernoulli numbers article, yet there is no mention of him anywhere in the article. I am asking if this is enough to merit his own article. I'm sure there is more on this kid, but I just happened to see him on the main page of yahoo, and came to see if wikipedia had more info. I don't want to start an article that isn't notable, and while I know the WP:NOTABILITY policies, I'm really not sure if this qualifies. If given the OK, I would be happy to write the article.DrewSmithWhat I've done06:33, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He's certainly got some news coverage, but I suspect he might still fall foul of our "one event" guideline for biographies of living people - i.e., he's known for this incident alone, and there's really not much else to say about him (yet). I'd think the best course would be to add a paragraph about him to the Bernoulli numbers article, rather than creating a new article. Gonzonoir (talk) 09:48, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I figured as much. But consensus at bernoulli numbers is that a blurb about him would be innapropriate. Is there a page somwehere for young mathematicians?DrewSmithWhat I've done21:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Duplication
How do I get rid of the second reference to the References in this article?
Contents [hide]
1 Vietnam
2 Guangxi and Guangdong
3 Central Leadership
4 References
5 References
DOR (HK) (talk) 09:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
1) What is the link for cross-checking the edit history of two users? I've seen it before, but have never used it.
2) I'm fairly sure a BLP is being controlled by one editor (close to the subject) operating at least three accounts. Is there anywhere I can ask for an outside opinion, or is WP:SSP the only place?
I'm not sure about question 1, however, for question 2, SPI is probably the best place to go. However, be sure to have diffs to support your theory. SPI will decline requests that appear to be fishing expeditions. TNXMan16:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
telugu wikipedia member
vandhe maatharam
I am already a member of telugu wikipedia and my user name is SAIRATNA. Can I take membership again in english wikipedia ?
can I create a user page in english wikipedia also ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sairatna (talk • contribs) 14:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Someone has posted a brief Wikipedia article on British-born Australian zoologist William John Dakin. However, his name in the article title is John William Dakin. There doesn't seem to be any doubt about which name is correct. Even in the references in the Wikipedia bio (and in other published articles), he is listed as William John Dakin. Can this be corrected so that the page becomes searchable? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.126.72.1 (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yup although I misspoke, it's a trial, not the demo (so it's a limited time, not limited functionality). You just open the AI file and do a file-save as, then you select what variation of SVG (SVG 1.1, 1.0, Tiny, Basic) to save to and you're done. -Optigan13 (talk) 20:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have been searching for INDIA WAVES on Wikipedia but I can't seem to find the page. The page is created India Waves Network but why does it not show? -Thank youIndia Waves (talk) 21:42, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User:India Waves is your user page. The reason it is not visible is that it is in User space not Article space. To be in Article space it would have to be moved. But if it were in Article space, it would be immediately deleted for it is hopelessly promotional. Wikipedia does not accept promotional content. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, WP:NPOV, and WP:COI. —teb728tc23:57, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I took an illustrative photograph (of the Devries Monument) with my camera today and want to put it into an article (called Lewes, Delaware).
When I tried, I was told to get an account on "Wikipedia Commons" and upload it there. I think I did that, but I'm not sure. It says "There is already an image with that name in Wikipedia Commons." But it doesn't say WHAT name, so I can't tell if it's my own that I think I may have uploaded, or someone else's.
In any case, I can't see how to get the image from "Wikipedia Commons" into the article on Wikipedia. Whenever I try to "upload image" to Wikipedia, it sends me back to Wikipedia Commons, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do once I'm there.
Incidentally, I know that licensing is a big issue, but the different options from which one must choose for licensing are really quite opaque. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Slade (talk • contribs) 22:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This isn't really a request for help, it's more along the lines of reporting a problem I don't know how to fix. When I did a search for "Delicious: Emily's Taste of Fame" (a video game) I was automatically redirected to an external website "delicious.com" I know that shouldn't happen, but I don't know what exactly is wrong or how to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.77.103.133 (talk) 17:06, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is actually intentional although I can understand your surprise. It holds for all searches starting with Delicious: when you activate "Go" instead of "Search" at the search box. It's the same for wikilinks like Delicious: Emily's Taste of Fame. Delicious: is listed as going to http://del.icio.us at meta:Interwiki map. http://del.icio.us then redirects to http://delicious.com/ The interwiki map gives an easy way to create links to selected external sites by typing a certain word followed by ':'. Occasionally this conflicts with wanted article titles here at Wikipedia. Then a Wikipedia article must use another name, for example Species - The Awakening instead of Species: The Awakening, because Species: is on the interwiki map. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:30, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
First time CfD attempt
I have listed a category for deletion (Category:Sabbatarians), and am really unsure as to whether I followed the correct steps. Could somebody look at what I've done and make sure that I've dotted my i's and crossed my t's? I would really appreciate it. Unschool01:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It all looks OK. The only step you missed is to notify the category's creator that the category is up for deletion. You can probably just drop him/her a note. TNXMan02:38, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
hi
sometimes when i hit an internal connection, rather then go to page itself, I get a windows dialog box askong me to save a file.
problem exists in both hebrew and english wikipedia
i use ie8/vista home
answer by email to
<blanked> would be most appreciated
Rzg (talk) 15:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It sounds like you have a box checked in your preferences that shouldn't be. Go to the "My preferences" tab at the top of the page, then click on the "Editing" tab. Make sure that "Use external editor by default" and "Use external diff by default" are unchecked. Let us know if that fixes it. TNXMan15:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(outdent)
I notice that that specific article has 2 direct links in the body text to articles on the Korean Wikipedia, and I suspect that this is causing the problem; the foreign characters are being converted into unicode, and it is confusing your browser.
These links are coded like this: [[:ko:아사달|신시]] and [[:ko:낙랑|낙랑]]
As far as I am aware, using interwiki links in this manner is not the norm - but I'm not certain enough to remove them. I will therefore note the issue on the articles discussion page. Chzz ► 11:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(outdent)
What does "{semiprotected |small=yes}" mean?
The Beowulf article has been protected for the past 6 months, and I thought maybe it shouldn't be (until I looked at the editing history).
Anyway, I deleted {semiprotected |small=yes} from the page, but it didn't have any noticeable effect. Do I need to put it back / what does it do? Jabberwockgee (talk) 04:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's just a notice to anyone that accesses the page, that it is protected. Removing it does not unprotect the page. Only an administrator can protect or unprotect pages. -ALLST✰R▼echowuz here @04:22, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi I contributed an article on Thank You Australia on May 19 but it has never been posted online. I kept searching the subject since that time but up to now I've been getting negative result. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Venusa7 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You put it in Articles for Creation which means someone else may one day create it, but it's very backlogged. However, if you have an account-after a few days & 10 edits you can create your own page. However looking at the article you're going to need to establish notability etc. Give me a shout on my talk page if you have any questions. Dottydotdot (talk) 10:02, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Lets say if I want to upload a logo for e.g. Cardiff City FC for Wikipedia, then I found the raster logo from the club official website. Then I asked my friend "Johnny" to convert it to SVG. Johnny then converted it and put the vector on his website for me to put it on wikipedia, but he told me that I must give credit to him and put the website url along with the SVGed file. How should I write down the url. Should I put his name on the file description ? Can someone provide me with an example ? Arteyu ? Blame it on me !11:01, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can use it as the primary logo of the organization. The image will be copyrighted to the organization. You can acknowledge any editors, but they have no rights to the image or its derivatives. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)talk17:13, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The extraneous closing </div> have been fixed - but the output from the {{portals}} still shows up in the project section of the page. Thanks—G716 <T·C> 17:44, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Can a company in the US be a corporation if just one person is in control, eg. the founder has all control no employees or members of the company can kick him out and there are no stockholders? --Melab±1☎18:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This page is for questions about editing Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps.You will have better luck there for answers to these kinds of questions. However, from a quick scan of corporation, it seems that a company like that wouldn't fit under the description of a corporation, because corporations have shareholders. These two sentences from the article might be helpful:
Corporations exist as a product of corporate law, and their rules balance the interests of the shareholders that invest their capital and the employees who contribute their labor. People work together in corporations to produce value and generate income.
Hum.. seems to be a rendering problem in IE8 (maybe in other versions of IE?) it inserts a big gap so text starts after the end of the infobox. This does not occur in either firefox or chrome. --Cameron Scott (talk) 19:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Images have to be either on Wikimedia Commons or the English Wikipedia to be displayed here. I don't know Italian but the image appears to have a link to move it to Commons, and a license that allows it. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:04, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose I have to use CommonsHelper to copy the image from it.wikipedia.com to commons.wikipedia.org. I did it and still cannot insert the image. --115.67.49.241 (talk) 11:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for trying but NO - I've been told on previous FL nominations that the notes (giving explanations) need to be seperate from refs (citing sources), but now they want refs within the notes!— Rodtalk21:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
When the GFDL does it mean the content (e.g. sentences and images) or the information must be relicensed under the GFDL? --Melab±1☎21:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not exactly sure what your question is here, all sites can use text from wikipedia under GFDL, as long as they attribute wikipedia, if that is your question. FingersOnRoids01:59, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If your site uses material from Wikipedia, then you are using copyrighted material under the terms of a legal license called the GFDL. Please read and understand that license or get a lawyer to give you an opinion, just as you would for any other legal document. Here is my non-authoritative personal opinion: Basically, you may use the material, but only if you then license the entire web patge in which it appears under the same license. Since images are not actually "in the same web page," you can make an argument that you my use such images on the page even if they are not themselves under the GFDL. However, text that is in the same web page is must certainly be released underthe GFDL. -Arch dude (talk) 08:45, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
[[Category:IBM|IBM]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1888]]
[[Category:Companies based in Westchester County, New York]]
[[Category:Dow Jones Industrial Average]]
[[Category:Electronics companies of the United States]]
... (more "companies" categories)
[[Category:UML Partners]]
[[Category:Cloud computing vendors]]
[[Category:Cloud computing providers]]
[[Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Management consulting firms of the United Kingdom]]
... (more "companies", "consulting firms" categories)
[[Category:Media technology]]
[[Category:Transportation software]]
[[Category:Government software]]
[[Category:Bath and North East Somerset]]
[[Category:Companies based in Somerset]]
Company (firm/vendor/provider) and location categories are common to both. Only the IPL article includes software and technology categories - categories relating to IPL's products. Thus the question: should the article for a company include categories for the products of that company?
The same question, in a different form: Should a product category page, say Category:Word processors, include both products and companies that manufacture them?
I don't really know the answer personally, but a better place to ask would probably be Wikipedia talk:Categorization. The people there specialize in categories, and are more knowledgeable in the criteria for articles to be in certain categories.FingersOnRoids01:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, think I got it by copying the WP CAL table and updating the numbers. It appears to have been a rowspan element I wasn't updating. -Optigan13 (talk) 20:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Photo license
Hi,
I recently changed the photo on an article from a creative commons license granted by the copyright holder to another photo with an identical creative commons license issued by the exact same copyright holder. I uploaded the new picture and pasted the license into the comments section. I ended up with this message:
This image or media has no source information. Source information must be provided so that the copyright status can be verified by others. Unless the copyright status is provided and a source is given, the image will be deleted after Sunday, 7 June 2009. Please remove this template if source information is provided.
Administrators: delete this file.
Usage: {{di-no source}}
Notify the uploader with: ==File source problem with File:Renegade5-22-09.jpg==
File Copyright problem
Thanks for uploading File:Renegade5-22-09.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.
I don't know if I've corrected everything that needs to be corrected, but I know the photo has a creative commons license and I've pasted the license information in the photo section and I've included a link to the location of the original photo.
Can you tell me what else I have to do and/or remove the notice if I've done everything I need to do. I find that to be the biggest problem using Wikipedia. You have 400 page explanations on everything you ask us to do. Can you just provide a simple explanation that says "click on this, and insert such and such information and save"? It would really help me to comply with your requests.
I think the problem here is that you don't put the source of the image, i.e. where you got it from, if it was a website, or who licensed it under creative commons. This helps other confirm the copyright status.FingersOnRoids01:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
According to your links the problem with File:Renegade5-22-09.jpg is that it is licensed with attribution, non-commercial, and no derivative restrictions. The attribution restriction is OK, but the non-commercal and no derivative restrictions are absolutely unacceptable. —teb728tc05:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Beside that the pages at your source site do not indicate even that license; they say "all rights reserved." —teb728tc05:58, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Also note that Wikipedia's instructions are the work of users much like you - every instruction page essentially says "Here is what we did". If you find something that is unclear, you can either edit the instructions to improve them, or leave a note on the talk page of the confusing instruction page pointing out what you did not understand, and then someone who understands the material better might be able to improve the instructions. Images and their licensing involve lots of complexity due to the international nightmare of copyright laws. I suggest that you write your own instructions on user subpages whenever you are piecing together procedures that require you to navigate more conditional branches than you can juggle in your head. Since human short term memory is severely limited, it only takes a few conditional branches to overwhelm someone who is seeing something for the first time. In that case it helps to write down what you are reading and trying, rather than attempt to just wing it by pointing and clicking. We can only reduce procedures to pointing and clicking when the same procedure works for everyone. Unfortunately in the world of image files, almost everybody comes in with some new variation. --Teratornis (talk) 08:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I want to change the image on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_Sarbu to a more recent one, but I can't figure out how the change the picture. I don't see an "edit" button for that section anywhere... I'm an autocomfirmed user, so I can change pictures, I have before, but I can't figure out how to get the new picture to show up instead of the current one.
Any help would be great, thank you very much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricansea (talk • contribs) 01:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I see that... just not quite sure what to do from there, it just shows up as an already uploaded image, Radu_sirbu-1, instead of a URL. do I have to upload it separately onto wikipedia then post the name of that file... or is there something else I have to do? Ricansea (talk • contribs) 01:56, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you have to upload images to Wikipedia (or to Commons) before they can be used in articles. Please do not upload copyrighted photographs, though. BencherliteTalk02:00, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I talked to Radu after the upload of that image, he requested that I use a different one -- he's sending it to me, I just wanted to be sure I know how to make the edit ahead of time. I'm assuming that the image he's sending is a public domain one, or one that is suitable for use here, unlike the image I uploaded earlier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricansea (talk • contribs) 02:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My name is Bob Rahilly. I am the owner of RAHMOC Enterprises. I corrected all the false info on my company about 1 1/2 years ago. Wiki published the corrected info I sumitted. I am the 100% owner of RAHMOC Enterprises. It was incorporated in 1977. I am STILL IN BUSINESS. Your FALSE info is hurting my business. I am NOT happy. Please put the accurate info I submitted back in place..............Bob Rahilly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.75.26.66 (talk) 02:32, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Am I right in understanding that this is the version of the article that you like; that you and Mock parted ways in 1992; and that since then your branch of the business has not been particularly notable? If that is the case, perhaps the solution would be to remame the article to refer to Mock’s branch and its successor, which continued to be notable until 2000. Perhaps use the final name, Galaxy Motorsports? That way it wouldn’t imply you were out of business—just out of the racing business. —teb728tc05:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've been redirected a couple of times and it's getting a little frustrating. In any case, I'd like to change the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) logo. The one used at the moment is a backdated one. And yes, I'm rather new to editing on wikipedia. Can anyone help?
Presumably you refer to the File:ApecLogo-2003.png which appears in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Since your account looks old enough to be autoconfirmed, you can upload a new version of that file. See Help:Images and other uploaded files. You didn't say exactly which part of the upload process you need help with. Presumably you have a file on your computer's hard drive that you want to upload. Presumably it will be under the same copyright as the existing version of File:ApecLogo-2003.png, in which case you should be able to keep the existing fair-use rationale on that image page. You should be able to just upload your file over the old one with the link I gave (and which you can find toward the bottom of the image page). You might have been confused by the somewhat convoluted method that Wikipedia uses to display the image in article you were editing. See Help:Template and WP:INFOBOX for the gory details of how that works. --Teratornis (talk) 03:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Huh?!
When I logged in today, I clicked on the "Return to (article you were just on)" on the bottom of the page. I went to the article all right, but I inexplicably found myself logged out. I had been able to stay logged in when doing this before. What's up? Thanks, PinkyLord4407 (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've run into this issue as well recently, and have in the past. I don't know that it is a WP issue, but several things have seemed to help me. I've cleared my browser cache, as well as various other "temp" items. This of course depends on you OS, and browser of choice. Clean out the junk, reboot, and see if that helps. Just a thought. — Ched : ? 03:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if this is obvious, but make sure you check the "Keep me logged in" box below your login. You might have left your page up in your browser and the login expired, so the link was still there, but you were no longer logged in. No matter what you do, I don't think you can get around entering your login information every 30 days. --Kraftlos(Talk | Contrib)09:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
wikitext bullet-point markup question
Hello - is there a wikitext markup method for indenting additional paragraphs under a bullet point to match the indentation created by the bullet symbol?
Here is an example:
A bullet point comment sometimes needs a second paragraph. But the use of the colon symbol for indenting creates a different indent that does not look like a continuation of the bullet point content.
This is the second paragraph of the text, created with a ":" symbol. But it looks like a reply to the above content, rather than continuation, because the indent is further than the bullet-point indent.
Is there a symbol that will indent the same distance as the bullet symbol "*", but without showing the bullet?
I've reviewed all the wikitext help pages I can find and did not see this listed.
Thanks for the reply, that's a cool feature but it's a different one. I'm seeking markup for something that would display as follows - this is a fixed width representation for illustrating the idea:
* This is the bullet point text first paragraph content that occupies a few lines of text. This is a second paragraph continuing the text for that same bullet point, with the same indent, as part of the same comment. -- signature here
It needs a symbol to use like the * but invisible, so it indents that same distance, but doesn't make a bullet.
Try the <poem>...</poem> extension to retain the spaces and breaks:
<poem>* This is the bullet point text first paragraph
content that occupies a few lines of text.
This is a second paragraph continuing the text
for that same bullet point, with the same indent,
as part of the same comment. -- signature here</poem>
This is the bullet point text first paragraph
content that occupies a few lines of text.
This is a second paragraph continuing the text
for that same bullet point, with the same indent,
as part of the same comment. -- signature here
Is there a tag one can put on a link to indicate that it may be a copyright violation? Specifically, the Youtube external links at Dawn Rowan. They are of a TV program, but is conceivable that they are posted to youtube with the TV program's permission. Peter Ballard (talk) 05:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. Let's look (using {{Search subpages link}} which uses Wikipedia's relatively new "prefix" search feature):
Thanks Teratonis, but I can't find one suitable. What I'm looking for is an inline tag, because the other external links are OK.
hmwith: yes I know the policy is to delete links to known copyright violations on youtube. But I don't know if these ones are copyright violations or not. I've dropped a note on the talk page of the editor who added the links, so hopefully I can work it out. Peter Ballard (talk) 00:40, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User/IP address removing template messages from recently-created article
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, would the admin noticeboard be more appropriate?
The article Hells Bells Tribute, about an AC/DC tribute band, was recently created. At the time I tagged it for speedy deletion (see here) it had some pretty blatant advert-copy type language, so I tagged it for speedy deletion under CSD G11 (Unambiguous Advertising). The user proceeded to remove my speedy tag but also removed most of the ad-like content. I decided to assume good faith and simply put some maintenance tags on the page to point the original editor and others to the issues that the page had. However, said user (and an IP address) removed the tags (three times might I add). I'm not exactly what I should do here: report the user and IP under 3RR? Revert the IP's edit that removed the templates? Re-nominate the page for speedy deletion under a different criteria? TheLetterM (talk) 13:56, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I started trying to clean it up, but there's nothing to be done. It just doesn't assert notability, and there is not one reliable source. I tagged it as CSD#A7, and another admin can delete it. hmwithτ14:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How do I see the edit count of other users in the form of a pie chart. I have seen them before on some "tools" javascript that tells where each percentage of user's edits are. GandalftheWise : Talk Page 15:18, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
When a blocked user tries to edit, what does he see? I suppose the "edit this page" tab is missing, but what other message does he get if he is (a) a registered user, (b) an individually-blocked IP, (c) an IP blcked as part of a range? JohnCD (talk) 15:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi John. If you see MediaWiki:Blockedtext that's how the block message is based, with the specifics completed according to what the blocking admin put in. You don't lose the "edit this page" tab - you just get the message when you click on it. Hope that helps. Pedro : Chat 15:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The WikiProject only gives guidance on exporting, which is not supported by my target wiki (probably due to an old version of MediaWiki). Skomorokh 17:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Copying content to another wiki can pose many problems. At least your target wiki is running MediaWiki, eliminating the first huge potential headache.
Compare the MediaWiki version numbers and installed extensions by browsing to Special:Version on Wikipedia and the target wiki. The more differences you see on those two page, the more potential problems you can have, depending on how many features the Wikipedia article uses. For example, if you see "tag bleed" on the target wiki when you port the article, that usually means the target wiki does not have some MediaWiki extension installed which would parse that tag. Only the most privileged administrators of the target wiki (who have shell access) can upgrade the MediaWiki version and install more extensions.
You might also need to port the templates that the article uses, if they are not already on the target wiki. This can become quite difficult, if the templates use intricate code, and if the templates themselves transclude additional templates. I have even seen some templates on Wikipedia that don't work correctly on other MediaWiki wikis unless those wikis are also running HTML Tidy which evidently changes the actual parsing of wikitext to some degree here.
Compare the MediaWiki:Common.css pages on the two wikis. You may need to copy some CSS style classes to the target wiki, but only administrators on the target wiki can edit the MediaWiki:Common.css page.
Since it is likely that you may need help from the administrators on the target wiki, you might want to contact them early in the process and discuss your plans with them. There is no sense in doing a lot of work yourself until you are sure you can get administrative help if you need it. Alternatively, you can edit out any features from the article that don't work on the target wiki. The basic issue is that the English Wikipedia has been customized to the Nth degree, and many other wikis are relatively "vanilla" wikis without as many customizations, which makes it difficult to port content from here to there without losing many features you take for granted. --Teratornis (talk) 18:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Editing a discussion page
Click the signature button in your edit toolbar to insert your signature at the end of your post.
You just did! There should be a "new section" or "+" tab at the top of every discussion page. Click on that and you will be asked to submit the heading of the topic and your opening comment. Regards, Skomorokh 17:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have an "Electronic Red Dot / millett" sighting scope.
I need to know what battery for the unit??? or: where can I get the information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.211.54 (talk) 19:45, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is some time since I used my account, I know the account name is weedfreak but cannot remember the password I used, I have tried the recover password link on the login page but get the message that there is no email associated with that user, I think the account was created a long time ago and email address details were not required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.250.178.154 (talk) 20:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Without an e-mail address associated with your user name, there is no way to recover your password. You will have to create a new account. – ukexpat (talk) 20:53, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) If you have forgotten the password and do not have the email function enabled, there is no way to recover it. Your best bet it to register a new account and start over. TNXMan20:54, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot make a new account using the same name and do not want to use yet another name for another site, if I canot use the same account then I will use none. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.250.178.154 (talk) 12:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I read that Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza was on board the air france flight that went missing over the atlantic last night. His article says that he died in the crash, but we cannot be certain that he died in the acident. He could have survived somehow, in a life raft of by clinging on to some debris? I don't know what the odds are that he's alive, probably remote, but it seems wrong to assume dead already. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.47.202.92 (talk) 00:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for pointing that out. I've removed the sentence pending confirmation in independent sources. Verifiability is something we take seriously here, so I'll keep the page on my watchlist until we hear more. TNXMan00:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
rainbows
Where do rainbows appear? I always see them in the east. Never west, north or south. Thank you. rheea
You might find what you are looking for in the article about Rainbow. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. TNXMan01:15, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wiki style for TV program times
When giving the time slot for a TV show, which is preferred: "8:00 - 9:00 p.m." or "8 - 9:00 p.m."? I thought I read somewhere in the Style Manual that the latter is preferred primarily for conciseness. Thanks. RadioBroadcast (talk) 02:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
From WP:MOSNUM, it says that date ranges should use minimum repetition, so that June 1-2, 2009 would be preferred to June 1, 2009 - June 2, 2009. Under the same principle, the better version for time would be 8-9:00 pm. --Jayron32.talk.contribs04:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to add that most wikiprojects discourage adding showtimes for individual networks or stations as its generally unencyclopedic. Wikipedia articles on TV shows are supposed to cover the big picture: reception, concepts, etc; rather than being a "TV guide". --Kraftlos(Talk | Contrib)05:32, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ansfelden (talk). We would like to get the coat of arms image imported over from de.WP. An editor asked at WP:EAR and was referred here. Does anyone here have experience with interwiki importing image files? Wilhelm_meis (talk) 06:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The easiest way to do this is to simply upload the image again, either here or at Wikimedia Commons. If you wish to upload the image here, simply go to this page and follow the directions. Please note that your account must be autoconfirmed (which means that is has been active for four days and made at least ten edits) to upload the image here, while Commons does not have that restriction. TNXMan11:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Deletion for A7, How to Correct?
I recently uploaded an article about an organization, since it was referenced in another article, but also because I saw a Wikipedia page regarding a similar organization and decided to upload one. It was deleted for A7 reasons, although I do not see any major differences between it and the other. Are there any suggestions I can take into consideration, as I would like to re-write my article and try again. If I mention the article title, can someone give me specific editing pointers? Thank you!Christinastam (talk) 09:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That means you didn't say why the organisation was notable & important-to get in Wikipedia it needs to be notable & be referenced in reliable third party sources. Dotty••|TALK09:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Slight correction: to survive a speedy deletion nomination pursuant to WP:CSD#A7, the article merely has to "indicate why its subject is important or significant", not quite as high a standard as notability. – ukexpat (talk) 14:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Unable to give a server link in Wiki
Hello
I am unable to give a server link to the page I have created in WIKI. The main intention would be to divert or point users to the respective server link/folder with a single click. Here, I am speaking of links without http. Kindly revertVsn002 (talk) 09:35, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Are you intending to direct users on your server to Wikipedia or the other way around? If it is the former, http links should be fine, although if it is the latter I cannot imagine that the practice would be condoned here. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden09:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If your intention is to automatically redirect people who visit a page on wikipedia to your server, then i can say "Not possible, and not allowed". Also, based upon your edit history i cannot see any page you created; Are you taqlking about the wikipedia wiki, or about a custom wiki? Excirial (Contact me,Contribs)09:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the information. We have a different setup of Wiki in the org and so the page is not available here. Why do you think it is impossible or not allowed? What are the repercussions of the same? Thaks Vsn002 (talk) 09:53, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Aah, that is the problem then - This is the reference desk for Wikipedia, and not the help desk for mediawiki, the software that is used to run wikipedia. I assume that your question should be placed at the media wiki support desk. This helpdesk is only for wikipedia editor assistance. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs)09:57, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Richard North
Hi guys, could an admin please remove the 'Richard David North' page please as I have made a mistake, the correct one is 'Richard North (Entrepeneur)' and 'Richard David North' needs removing.
By some unfortunate and unvoluntary key combination, I increased my font size to 16 instead of 14. How can I reverse that? Thanks a lot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.194.234.180 (talk) 12:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I referenced Theodor_Döring from the German wiki.
It seems like a good idea to add his image which I suppose
has been made freely available there. But
isn't recognised - is
there a syntax to point to the German wiki copy?
Just noticed this question seems to have been answered above. So if the following is
right please ignore this question.
"The easiest way to do this is to simply upload the image again, either here or at Wikimedia Commons. If you wish to upload the image here, simply go to this page and follow the directions. Please note that your account must be autoconfirmed (which means that is has been active for four days and made at least ten edits) to upload the image here, while Commons does not have that restriction. TNXMan 11:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trilobyte fossil (talk • contribs)
I often notice that article's marked with one of the various stub templates don't contain any reference to support the claims made in the article. What i am wondering about: Should those article's be tagged with an {{unreferenced}} template just like regular article's? Or are stubs excluded from reference tags? Both the MOS and the Stub pages seem to include no documentation on this matter; yet i virtually never see any stubs marked with unref templates. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs)12:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We are Newronio, a trend blog from ESPM college which aims to publish through our blog the most important trends and news related to communication, social media and consumer trends. ESPM is one of the most important colleges in Brazil, wich has over 10.000 internet heavy-user Communication, business, design and international relations students.
Willing to enrich the content on WIkipedia through our researches done here at the college and Newronio, we started to edit some articles hosted on Wiki and to testify the information posted, we linked these informations to some of our posts and external websites. This content, besides the published web content, is used during our classes and we suggest them to consult more articles on Wiki when needed. The teachers themselves use Wikipedia articles as a source for their classes, but now without the approval for our changes we are no longer recommending wiki as a reliable content.
On May, 07 we realized that all of our links were removed from Wikipedia, even though the information written by us still remains on the articles. As a response to our complaint Wiki Portuguese (User: Alchimista) said that “on the elaboration of a cientific document, technical report or something similar, it is not advisable to link your content with blog, because it is not certain that this information is reliable. This Wiki positioning is too paradoxal specially because Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia, which philosophy is also followed by blogs and specially Newronio ESPM. A collaborative encyclopedia which aims to be free and written by people from all over the world cannot deny a nationally and internationally acknowledged college such as ESPM to edit contents, specially subjects related to communication, which is ESPM focus and more: take out the credibility of blog generated contents.
We tried a second contact to this user, but not receiving a response, we are sending this mail to Wikipedia.org.
We are in a complicated situation because we have already published our 2.0 Wiki action to our 10.000 students e many other blog external readers. We would like to know what is Wikipedia’s position about that issue, because our readers want to know the reason we stopped editing articles and soon we will be forced to tell them the first positioning we had from you, including officially stop recommending the use of Wikipedia articles as a trusted source of information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Newronio (talk • contribs) 14:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We don't deny anyone the opportunity to edit Wikipedia (it's not a right), provided that they comply with the rules. I have posted a welcome message on your talk page that has links to a lot of useful information. Of particular importance are WP:N, WP:RS and WP:V. As far as external links are concerned please see WP:EL. – ukexpat (talk) 15:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
City infobox
Actually I don't understand why the default caption 'coat of arms' in the Infobox City template does not change when I enter a new one in the image_caption string. Is it fixable? brandt16:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It redirects to {{Infobox Settlement}}. Looking at the documentation and the markup, I don't think that image_caption has anything to do with the "coat of arms" text. Without knowing what article you are working on, I can't answer this further. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)talk17:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically I mean adding the word 'present' or 'current' to the caption for Shusha's Armenian coat of arms (since the area is de jure Azerbaijani). brandt19:15, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
i can find information on every conceivable questino except the most obvious one...how do i submit an article on Wickipedia? I realize i must be missing something obvious, but i can't figure out how to initially contribute an article on this thing.
You can start a page by clicking any red link. The easiest way is to enter the intended title in the search bar. If there is not already an article with that name, it will be listed as a red link at the top ("You searched for _____"). Click that red link of the title, enter the information you'd like it to say, and click "Save page". Also, please make sure to read WP:Your first article. hmwithτ17:19, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If the picture has been uploaded to (English) Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, then it can added using [[Image:FILENAME.EXT|thumb|desired sizepx]]. However, the Les AuCoin page uses an infobox, which means all you have to do is add the file name (eg. Les AuCoin.jpg) after '|image name= ' on the page. See Wikipedia:Upload for details about uploading photographs. Also ensure you sign you posts on pages like this one by typing ~~~~. Anything I've missed? - Jarry1250(t, c)18:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please be careful when editing your own biography, it is not banned outright, however it is strongly discouraged, and those who edit their biographies without conforming to WP:NPOV are not tolerated. However I've given your edits a quick review and they seem to be of a high quality and seem to be fairly neutral, so that's all ok, for additional reading see WP:COI, thank you SpitfireTally-ho!18:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Insert a date template in a template
Good afternoon.
I would like to use a date template (for example template:CURRENTSECOND) in a template in a sub-page in order to display the date of edition of a page when this template is inserted, date which will have to be “frozen” at the date at which the template has been inserted. The result I try to have is equivalent to the signature with the five tildes, without having to type them each time I call this template. Using the following code {{subst:CURRENTSECOND|subst1=subst:}} I'm able to get this: {{#time:s}}, but I don't know how to obtain that: {{subst:#time:s}}. Help:Substitution seems to be the right place to find what I'm looking for but my English isn't good enough to understand the meaning of “subst:” and to find the answer.
Thanks. Sting-fr (talk) 18:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This substitutes the expression by the value in the template itself and I want this happen only in the page where and when I insert the template. Sting-fr (talk) 20:02, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I found out what was wrong: I omitted to use < subst: > when calling the template in order to import its content. That way the variables couldn't be saved in the page in which I was calling my template. Trivial. Thanks for your help. Sting-fr (talk) 20:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Help creating a page
I read the current featured article (Woody Guthrie) earlier today and was shocked at how slipshod the prose was. I am trying to follow the instructions to list the article for featured article review but I can't create the page. The notice at the top of the talk page (talk:Woody Guthrie) has a link for "add a comment". That is the page I want to create. Can you help me?—141.155.159.210 (talk) 19:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As the image is licensed under the Creative Commons cc-by-2 license, which permits anyone to make derivative works (or "remixes"), I don't see why it would be a problem. Under the terms of the license, you would, however, have to attribute (give credit) to the creator.--Kateshortforbob19:32, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
To the Commons. The free license requires that any derivative works also be given the same free license. All free license works belong on Commons and not here.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
i did a little work on pornstar Sandy Sweet's Wiki page and it's all gone now. what happened? a few people worked on it and made contributions.. maybe the formatting wasn't correct ... i dunno.
but PLEASE.... i've read alot of the Wiki info on if pages are delete the info will not be lost forever. so PLEASE... PLEASE... help me get this page up. all the info is correct ... and i did provide some reference material and other info is completely verifiable since Sandy Sweet is a very well-known pornstar with alot of movies out on the market as well as appearance in national/international magazine publications.
i am guessing it was marked for deletion because i did stop working on it.. and saved it before i was finished with all the verifiable stuff. then.... later.... i came back to add that stuff and it was market twice for deletion. then.. someone else tried to dispute it... and seems the dispute wasn't even really looked at. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelliedonnelly (talk • contribs) 20:47, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - according to the notes on your talk page, it wasn't the formatting, but the fact that there was no indication of how Sweet was notable. Before you consider recreating the page, I'd suggest you take a look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines, especially WP:PORNBIO, and the guidelines on reliable sources. Please feel free to ask if you have any more questions. Dawn Bard (talk) 20:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
help me, 1987 Honda 1.5L D15A3 to the D15a2?
Can somebody help me in finding out if the carburated Distributor on a 1984-87 Honda 1.5L D15A2 is compatable with the 1987 honda 1.5L D15A3 fuel injected distributor? the reason I am asking is for our racing application we are using, I just found a motor which is the D15A3 and need to convert it to a carb. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Tenmen76 (talk) 22:02, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved
This page is for questions about editing Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps.You will have better luck there for answers to these kinds of questions. However, from a quick scan of corporation, it seems that a company like that wouldn't fit under the description of a corporation, because corporations have shareholders. These two sentences from the article might be helpful: 
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Done: now on commons (File:Zouna mista.gif) --DoubleM 13:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
isn't recognised - is
there a syntax to point to the German wiki copy?
