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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 (UTC)

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

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 (UTC)

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

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)

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 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

• 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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)

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)

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 (UTC)

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)

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)

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 7,002,037 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)

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)

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)

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 (UTC)

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)

Replied on the user's talk. --ais523 14:34, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

nba history

Bold text

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

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

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 [email protected]. 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)

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 [email protected]. Thanks for asking, though. --YFB ¿ 16:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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^TC 22:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

prince harry and william

what is their surname

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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^TC 23:42, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

Create the article named James Howden (innovator) or James Howden (businessman). ---CWY2190^TC 00:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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^TC 00:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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

What does one do about objectionable usernames?

Do nothing... take it as the joke it is?

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)

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

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^TC 02:15, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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.

I'm sure someone else can confirm this, but any images YOU take can be uploaded and used on Wikipedia. ---CWY2190^TC 03:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

help

how do i create a wikipedia entry/page?

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

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)

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)

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)

• Can it be restored to my last edit, and blocked for a few days?Erviltnec 04:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
  • 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)

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)

charging

Will you charge us?

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

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)

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).

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

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)

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)

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? --OnoremDil 12:22, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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. --OnoremDil 12:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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 (UTC)

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)

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

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)

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

• 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)

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)

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

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)

• 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)

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)

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)

images how to insert to pages

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 (UTC)

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

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)

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)

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 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

[[1]]--71.96.238.177 17:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

Thanks everyone. Ashenai, I tried what you advised, yesterday. But by today, the page had been scrambled atleast five times. Can you or anyone help.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

New entry

how do i create a new entry?

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

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)

You might also want to read Wikipedia:Your first article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 20:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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 Eδιτоr 20:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

What I believe you are looking for is WP:SOCK. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 20:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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

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

(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)

Wikipedia/commons image conflict

1. An image was previously uploaded to wikipedia: Image:Series2004NoteBack_50.jpg
2. 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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

User:Howcheng deleted the images gallery ([2]) but User:Stonedead put it back ([3]). 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)

Actually, I take it back, I think all of these are copyright violations. Image:Eunice drno-1.jpg can be found at [4], Image:SeymourJB-1.jpg can be found at [5] 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)

• 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)

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)

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)

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 Eδιτоr 22:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

If no one would object I can fix the template. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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

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)

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 Eδιτоr 22:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

• 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)

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)

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:

[6]

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

June 6

Creating pages

How do I create a new page?

See Help:Starting a new page. ---CWY2190^TC 00:33, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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

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^TC 03:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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

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)

username

Hello. My name is Liz Ross and my email address is [email protected]. 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

What is panitikan?

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Given that the "sly remarks" were helpful corrections, if somewhat bluntly put[7] and followed an insult by you, it might help if you didn't respond by calling him a "dork"[8]. I also suggest you don't template the regulars, regardless of what you've been told here. KillerChihuahua^?!? 19:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the advise--McNoddy 07:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

I don't use IRC, is WP:AIV an appropriate place if the vandalism is not occuring at the time ? I'm confused due to this previous conversation - thanks - John 09:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

I've never seen vandalism from a registered account. The vandalism I see is from people using ISP's with dynamic IP's. John 09:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

and what should be done about an occasional IP vandal who has received several warnings ? John 09:01, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, it can certainly be done, and presumably the first step is to select a client (although that list shows only Mac OSX and not OS9 or earlier, clients do exist). Confusing Manifestation 22:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, I reported it on WP:AIV and had the reply IP edits once in a blue moon. Only one edit today, not enough to justify a block. Leaving on a bit longer. Which begs the question "how much longer ?", as 24 (100%) instances of vandalism have been committed in 14 months - thanks - John 09:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

• 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)

No tildes

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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))

See Template:Infobox musical artist and Template:Infobox musical artist 2. Copy the source code into your article, and insert the relevant information. For lines that you don't have information, just leave them blank. 69.201.182.76 22:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

• 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)

• 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)

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)

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)

The problem here is not COI or notability but original research. Has anyone in the press written about this company? -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 02:40, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

Yes I believe that is the case. If you will look at the top of the article there is alone i. And in the ref section there are some random letters. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

can't edit away an obscenity:

this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag#Name

displays like this:

[edit] Name John Smith named the Wampanoag Pakanoket in 1616, after their chief’s village, which was located near present-day Bristol, Rhode Island. This name was used frequently in early records and reports. The name currently used by ethnologists means ‘’Eastern People’’. The word Wapanoos was first seen on Adriaen Block's 1614 map and was probably a description of all tribes living in the Wampanoag's general area. Other synonyms include ‘’Wapenock, Massasoit’’ and ‘’Philips Indians’’. no i you are an asshole

but when I try to edit out that last little gem, it doesn't show in the edit page. I've refreshed the page and it's still there.

You can edit it yourselves if you like, but I thought you might like to know about this possible bug.

email address removed to prevent spam

It's alright, no need; it didn't show up in the edit page because someone got there before you and had already deleted the offending text between the time you loaded the page and the time you saw the problem and went to edit it. If it still shows when your refresh the page, you just need to purge your browser's cache of that page: try pressing shift+F5 ctrl+F5. -- simxp (talk) 22:29, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Wait, is it shift+F5 or ctrl+F5? --tjstrf talk 22:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Apologies; you're right, it's ctrl. Thanks! -- simxp (talk) 23:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

uploading a picture

Hi, I attempted to upload a picture into a Spanish article but failed. I registered in order to do it but it didn't work. What can I do?

If you didn't place a copyright tag, then the image would have been deleted. Miranda 22:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, you typed in the wrong image name for the picture? --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 01:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

If you mean you were working on an article on the Spanish Wikipedia (es.wikipedia.org), does the image exist there/on Commons, or only on the English one? Because each Wikipedia can only access images in its own space and on Wikimedia Commons. Confusing Manifestation 03:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Dog on the main page

Is the dog from the north east in the picture on the main page and was it bought in the year 2000 get back to a.s.a.p because I think it was a dog that I sold you and I would just like to know how its doing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.129.115 (talk)

Looks like you're in the wrong place. This page is for questions about Wikipedia itself. -- Kesh 23:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

That's a picture of Jupiter silly! —Gaff ^ταλκ 23:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Image Copyright Issues

Wikipedia,

Yesterday I created an entry for Saint Cinnamon Cafe which is a privately company owned in Canada. I added three images to use for Wikipedia and I believe I did not add the proper licenscing information and therefore the page was completely deleted by the system.

I would like to know how to resolve this issue.

The three images that were used were named below:

santcinnamonlogo.PNG - The Saint Cinnamon Logo is a registered trademark owned by Saint Cinnamon Bakery Ltd. Wikipediastoreview.PNG - This shot was taken by Mark Halpern Original rolls and minis.jpg - This shot was taken by Mark Halpern

Thank you in advance for your efforts. Mark Halpern Exec. VP Saint Cinnamon Bakery Ltd. [email protected]

Hi, the image was probably deleted because of a lack of licensing. Also, editing a page over your company is generally prohibited because of conflict of interest and because of advertising. Thanks. Miranda 22:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

• "Prohibted" is kind of strong, but conflict of ibnterest certainly should be avoided. I suspect that the article may run into problems with notability. If you would like an article on your company, consider Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Cheers. —Gaff ^ταλκ 22:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Generally prohibited = Looked down upon. Miranda 03:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Topic

how to get help about particular topic

The easiest way is to search for the topic on Wikipedia. Otherwise, post a question to the Reference desk. -- Kesh 23:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Images

I cant seam to use theme. Bluefire princess 00:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

You might want to take a look at Help:Images. Is there anything in specific that isn't working for you? Hersfold ^(talk/work) 03:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Saving edits

Hi, I have tried to make some additions to the Temora entry. For some reason I am unable to save the updates - they appear in my edit box but when I save the page they don't show on the final version.

Cheers, Greg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.172.117.4 (talk)

Your contributions [9] show 8 recent edits to Temora, New South Wales. They are also shown in the history [10] of that article. You may have to reload/refresh a page in your browser to see the latest changes. Your 8th edit was reverted by another editor. The link was already in the external links and we rarely link words in the main article text to external sites. PrimeHunter 02:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

• Unless it's a link to a specific page that is the source of information for a sentence or paragraph or unless it's part of an infobox, we don't link them at all. - 131.211.210.14 09:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Login problems -- June 7th

I am having problems both logging in using my regular password and changing the password after logging in with a temporary password received via an email. Logging in using temporary password appears to work. The message I am getting in both cases is "Login error: Incorrect password or confirmation code entered. Please try again.". This seems like some sort of a captcha problem. 24.87.50.201 03:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmm .. I was able to log in using the new password. The sequence of events is this - click on 'email me new password' button in a login form, receive an email, enter the username and temporary (emailed) password, click login, see the page saying 'you have logged in using temp password, please change it', enter new password and its copy, click on a 'set password' button (or whatever its name was) and get a 'login error' page. At this point the new password is actually set, but it _looks_ like the password change did not work. Alex Pankratov 04:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Sitel_logo.gif

I have an incomplete fair use tag at Image:Sitel_logo.gif. Aside from the two obvious fields, what am I missing from the tag in question? --Sigma 7 04:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Try asking at Wikipedia talk:Fair use criteria because the folks there have more experience than I do. Basically, you should try to add a sentence saying that the company logo is a critical part of the article, and there's no way to obtain a free imagee that gives the same information. Another idea is to examine the image page history, and ask the user who tagged the article as problematic what is the issue. YechielMan 05:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

HOW?

I'm somewhat technologically disadvantaged which is true for the HOW of editing articles and adding pictures. (It's a function of age not intellect.) I've clicked on several topics on your left scroll menu but find it of little help. Please...is there a tutorial that I can use to walk me through the "How To's" or can someone create a simple list of the functional hows and whys for me? Regards, Pat terKuile

Hi Pat, have you looked at Wikipedia:Introduction and Wikipedia:Tutorial yet? These should give you a basic introduction to editing Wikipedia, and they also provide you with some sandboxes to practice in. If that doesn't help, just post another question here and I'm sure someone will be willing to walk you through the basics (I'd do it myself but I'm rather strapped for time just now). Adding images is a little trickier than adding text but follows some similar procedures, so you should only really look at the Wikipedia:Image tutorial once you've got a bit of basic familiarity with editing. Confusing Manifestation 05:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Page deletion

hey why was my page deleted?? i dont understand??

If you could name the page in question, I might be able to tell you why the page was deleted. E ^talk 06:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? 69.201.182.76 09:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

how do i upload a image

how do i upload a image ,i tried from the wikimedia commons says you have to log in in order to upload images ,i did that come back saying error username not right. but it is cause when i go to the home page it has my user name on there at the top and says logged it but when i typed that same user name on the wikimedia commons page for upload images it wont take the username the password is also right

You can't use your English Wikipedia account on Wikimedia Commons or any other Wiki project for that matter. You have to create an account on Wikimedia Commons. You can upload a image onto Wikipedia from either "File upload wizard" under "interaction" or "Upload file" under toolbox, both to the left of any Wikipedia page. --Silver Edge 07:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Bot-assisted archiving of my talk page

I have tried, recently, to tag my user talk page for automatic archival by werdnabot. I understand that werdnabot is down now, but shadowbot3 is described as "archiving those talk pages which would have been archived by werdnabot", so I figured I might still be able to do this. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Can someone give me a hand with this? Did I fill out the template incorrectly? And if not, is there some other way for me to set up automated archival? Charlie 08:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

relation

i want to kwon abou interdependence between plants and animals — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.166.131 (talk) .

This question should be taken to the reference desk, as the help desk is for questions relating to using Wikipedia, as opposed to doing research. Charlie 09:10, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

British Library Food Stories

The British Library has recently launched an interactive entitled Food Stories, which traces the changes that have taken place in UK food culture over the last century. It's great! Because it relates to a number of different food orientated subjects, I'd like to put a link on quite a few Wikipedia pages. Could you let me know the maximum number of pages that I am allowed to add this link to? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jenwren83 (talk • contribs)

Greetings! There is no "hard limit" on how many pages can have an external link to a certain site. However, I would caution against adding the links to a number of pages, unless those links serve a specific purpose to improve the articles. Check out WP:EL for more information. Charlie 09:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

citing Medical Science references

Medical science is carried out around the world and published in many journals and languages. Pubmed lists only references from peer reveiwed journals. and requires the Summary details in English language, and where possible the Abstract. Sometimes the only evidence to support a statement may be such a listing. Is it acceptable to cite in wiki, Pubmed referances where the main article may be in another language, but the findings clear in the summary or abstract?Jagra 09:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... that's a good question! I think this begins to answer your question, but doesn't quite deal with all of it. You may wish to seek broader consensus, via the talk page of whatever article you intend to edit. Cheers! Charlie-talk to me-about what I've done 10:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC)