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July 15

Help finding picture for page.

Hello,

I am in need of a website where I can get a picture that meets wikipedias copyright standards for the comedian, Tom Cotter.

The following is the page for which I need the picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cotter_(comedian)

If someone could either add a picture themself to Tom Cotter's page, OR give me a good website which has a good picure of Tom Cotter it would be much appreciated.

Thanks, 01:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)01:15, 15 July 2012 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChristianMartin0624 (talk • contribs)

You could ask Tom or his agents to donate a photo with the correct licencing for Wikipedia to use it. There's a link on his web site. RudolfRed (talk) 01:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It is very unlikely that you will find a photo of him anywhere on the web that meets Wikipedia's constraints. --ColinFine (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS has the how to. It can get wierd though. First you need a file name after you upload the image that the BLP wants. Then the copyright holder sends an email with the file name. Commons may be best if they want the image used for other language wikipedias. The BLP maintains personality rights so it is hard for anyone to sell stuff and use his image. The copyright holder has to allow other uses but can legally require 'attribution' to himself as the original creator.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:14, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I directly contacted him, and got a picture. Again, thanks for the help.

wrong photo uploaded by third user!

My name is Liliana Arrieta, (user Lairol) I'm a grand-daughter of General Domingo Arrieta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Arrieta_Le%C3%B3n

This photo uploaded by user User "Tatehuari" on 03/15/2007 is WRONG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Domingo_Arrieta.JPG

This is the REAL: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Domingo_arrieta.jpg

Could you please help me to change the wrong by the real one? I can upload more pictures of the REAL General Domingo Arrieta if you feel hesitant of my request. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,

Liliana Arrieta — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lairol (talk • contribs) 04:16, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It looks very much to me like two photographs of the same person, but taken 20 years apart. In any event, the photograph you point at as the correct one has very good provenance, being from the collection of the Library of Congress, and is a much cleaner photograph than the one in the article, so I have replaced it. By the way, normally a request like yours should be made at the Spanish Wikipedia (their help desk is here). This help desk is generally for English Wikipedia issues. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:56, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It appears to me the concern is about the article here at the English Wikipedia, based on the first two links in the post. Why is this a Spanish Wikipedia issue? RudolfRed (talk) 16:57, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Good catch, my mistake editing while tired . When I navigated to the photo link it is to the local display on the Spanish Wikipedia of the image in Commons I saw only the what links here link, which was to the Spanish Wikipedia article (which I fixed). I never noticed the local link here:-( I've fixed that as well.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:31, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

life insurance

After paying three regular ins. premiums, two different policy holders finds that both of them are declared illegal policy holders on the strength of their signatures as their original signatures are not available anywhere in the records of the insurance co & the proposal of both the policy holders were signed by some one unknown person. In other words, two different policy proposals are signed by one person other then the actual policy holders. Can you pl advise what are the legal rights of both the actual policy holders. Can they demand insurance co. to declare both the policies as NULL & VOID and claim the full amount of premiums they have paid ? Of course, the claim will be submitted only after confirmation that both the proposals were signed by one person other then any of the actual policy holders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.49.66.238 (talk) 05:10, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

We cannot offer legal advice. Please see the legal disclaimer. Contact a lawyer. - Purplewowies (talk) 05:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Citing a researcher by name?

When reporting a statement of fact based on cited research, is it preferred or not to qualify the statement with the researcher's name/affiliation? For example, does Wikipedia prefer statements such as "The research of Dr Smith at Foobar St University shows that giraffes are on average 18 feet tall" vs simply "giraffes are on average 18 feet tall"? (With each statement followed by <ref>reference details</ref>, of course.) 71.185.49.67 (talk) 11:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

In a stub article, citing the researcher by name might unbalance the article, and I would only recommend doing so if it were a new discovery (5th moon of Pluto), or doing so allowed hyperlink to the researcher's article, otherwise the info and hyperlinked university should suffice. In a medium article I'd follow the format of the rest of the article, and in a lengthy article I'd only include the new discovery information, unless a split seemed imminent. Dru of Id (talk) 12:55, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

If Dr. Smith has an article on WP and is widely acknowlged to be one of the world's top giraffe experts it is probably ok to mention and wikilink him specifically. Otherwise just a plain statement will do. Roger (talk) 13:30, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

If it's not a simple uncontroversial statement like the height of giraffes then it's often good to write who said it. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:54, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Non-free manga cover

In an article about a manga series, I want to replace the current non-free image in the infobox with another non-free image I think is more appropriate. Should I be bold and make this change or should I discuss this first? I ask this mainly because both images are non-free and replacing the current image with the one I want to use in the article would result in the current images deletion after 7 days. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:34, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

If it is a better image you could try changing it. If it is reverted then you have 7 days to reach consensus on which should be used.--Canoe1967 (talk) 21:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It is better in the sense that it is the actual image of the manga cover, while the image currently used seems to be the cover of a DVD. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:24, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

About my new article "Lordkipanidze Revaz"

Sincerely Dear Help Desk, I'm Your new colleague, and I don't want to make a bad article for technical reasons. Please complete the improvement of this article, If it is necessary. Please, reply me: when will finish of publication of my article?. I believe You completely and pray for Your HAPPY future and popularization of significant relations and cooperation.--Lia Palavandishvili (talk) 09:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC) Talk:Lordkipanidze Revaz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sincerely Dear Administrators, I'm Your new colleague, and I don't want to make a bad article for technical reasons. Please complete the improvement of this article. I believe You completely and pray for Your HAPPY future and popularization of significant relations and cooperation.--Lia Palavandishvili (talk) 09:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC) Lordkipanidze Revaz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article includes inline citations, but they are not properly formatted. Please improve this article by correcting them. Lordkipanidze Revaz (was born 1965, 7 Jan., Georgia, Batumi) is Georgian economist, Doctor of Economics and World Economy, Gold Medalist. Revaz Lordkipanidze {{1.Information about Revaz Lordkipanidze - Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics (in Georgian), under the editorship of Corresponding Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences, prof. A. Silagadze, Tbilisi, Tbilisi State University Publishing House, Publishing House "Innovation", 2005, P. 377.Economics}} graduated Tbilisi State University with Honored Diploma (1986) and Georgian AS Institute of Economy and Law (1990), St. Petersburg State University with diploma of doctor (1998–1999), was member of The Academy of Political Sciences (NY, USA) with certificate (1998–2010), winner in first Democratic choice of Georgia in center of the sea capital of Georgia - Batumi, acting minister of Economy of Achara AR (1993–1998), with successfully certify EU TACIS Project (Cleaner production, 2003), University of Minnesota (The USA, Training program, 2011). He is in Georgian Economic encyclopedia as young economic doctor. Revaz Lordkipanidze is author of publications about American role in World Progress and new World economical structure [1], stabilization of finance [2], etc. For practice of Intermoney system optimal stimulation and Macroeconomic structure marginal efficiency, R. Lordkipanidze defines The Force of economic competition approximately as The Force of electrical current. By this Law, the less are output of monopoly and excess (disquality or needless) production, the more is the force of competition. By R. Lordkipanidze's Formulation for development of EU formulate of effective ecostructural changes in operative ecopolicy E= ∑ [(Eio+Eit)/2]Δai; i=1;2;…;n

E – Effectiveness of ecostructural changes in t time; Eio – Effectiveness of i element of structure for start of t time; Eit – Effectiveness of i element of structure for finish of t time; Δai – percent change (:100) of i element of used resource's structure in t time; i=1;2;…;n – element of structure (branch, region or age group of technique, etc.).

This formulation of R. Lordkipanidze has different interpretations in conditions of crisis and if E≥0.[3]

Revaz Lordkipanidze is author of Christian Chants.[4]

[edit]References

^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 Literature: 1. Information about Revaz Lordkipanidze - Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics (in Georgian), under the editorship of Corresponding Member of Georgian Academy of Sciences, prof. A. Silagadze, Tbilisi, Tbilisi State University Publishing House, Publishing House "Innovation", 2005, P. 377.--Lia Palavandishvili (talk) 13:50, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, there are three things I will say.

1. It would be best if you could submit this to the Articles for Creation page.

2. From this post, I believe your first language is not English. Based on the person you are writing about, I guess your first language is Georgian, so your contributions would be welcome at the Georgian Wikipedia.

3. What are these "technical reasons" you speak of? Do you know or are you connected to the subject? Andie ▶(Candy)◀ 15:56, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Lordkipanidze Revaz (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

The text here is a copy+paste of the text from Lordkipanidze Revaz. I think it needs cleanup by someone fluent in both Georgian and English. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Katya Bachrouche

Katya Bachrouche attended North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan (not Virginia as stated in Wikipedia). She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2011 with a degree in Psychology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.164.125.11 (talk) 16:23, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Changed Rojomoke (talk) 16:48, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Top-importance articles disappearing

You can see in old page version that in the recent weeks I have changed 6 articles to top-importance. All of the articles appear at Category:Top-importance Chicago articles. This page version from before I added the six articles there were 52 top importance articles. There are currently only 54 top-importance articles according to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Chicago articles by quality statistics. What has happened to the other four?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:22, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It looks like someone just updated the assessment list today. The bot that updates it runs slowly, but it can be forced to run at any time by following the links located here and selecting "Chicago" (in this case) from the drop-down menu. The current total is 59, though, and I can see from the edit history that it was just recently updated. -Thibbs (talk) 00:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

O.K.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:04, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Request comment

I'd like to request comment on automated edits I've made, (this was requested by the Warriors Wikia in Special:Chat) - are these fine? WarriorsWTransfer (talk) 18:06, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

• Special:Contributions/WarriorsWTransfer

I am afraid they weren't fine, those articles weren't notable and were all deleted under the WP:CSD#A7 speedy deletion criteria. Please do not recreate such articles in the future. ----Addihockey10 ^e-mail 18:19, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Easy way to draw people to a discussion?

I proposed a split to an article two and a half months ago, and nobody has made any sort of comment on it. Is there an easy way to draw people to discuss about it (beyond the tag that's already on the article itself)? - Purplewowies (talk) 18:22, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

What is the article in question? If there is a WikiProject into the scope of which the article might fall, perhaps try to ask there. You could also start an RfC about it. I found we have Wikipedia:Proposed mergers and Wikipedia:Proposed splits redirects there. I never used proposed mergers myself and I don't know whether it should also be used for splits. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Sociological and cultural aspects of autism - Purplewowies (talk) 18:46, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Given that the topic of the article (and of the proposed new articles after the split) are very specialized, I don't expect much people would have an opinion on the split. My advice would be, go to the page history of the article and look for people who contributed a lot to the article and drop them a message on their talk page asking for input on the split. User:SandyGeorgia seems to be a main contributor from what I could see from a quick look at the history. Apart from that, I'd try the venues I mentioned above. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 19:02, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

facebook and group site that are causing vilontce against an individual

I have on a number of occations reported groups that are making up things against an individual these groups are causing riots due to the things they are putting on the site about this person that is not true they call him a peadophile which is fulse invormation what do I do next — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.137.226 (talk) 18:34, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Unless this has something to do with Wikipedia, it is not something we can help with. If there is a connection to Wikipedia, please explain it, otherwise sorry we could not help. Monty₈₄₅ 18:40, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I would assume that facebook has a webmaster, contact email, and some sort of BLP policy. You could try those. If it is wikipedia then ask for page protection?--Canoe1967 (talk) 20:55, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Move articles to talk page.

Recently I had to prune an extremely large article. It was so large that making any edit at all was locking my browser. In order to make the edits, I split the article into sub article and edited those. Having used the sub articles to re-create the original (now pruned), I would like to retain the split articles for reference (so that other editors can re-instate material if they think I went to far for example). Since the articles were created by me and have not been signaficantly edited I would be within my rights to sppedily delete them. Would I be within my rights to move them to sub talk pages of the main article (with hind sight, this is what I should have done in the first place). One of the articles is under a deletion discussion and it looks like concensus is going to be to delete. Op47 (talk) 18:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

It would help if we knew what pages you mean. Are you referring to August 2010 in sports? Nyttend (talk) 19:34, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I am indeed referring to August 2010 in sports. So e.g. for the cricket sub article I want to move it to a page talk:August 2010 in sports/Cricket (or whatever the correct syntax is) and link it from the talk page. Is this allowed?

I would say no, but for the cricket article click here: User:Op47/August 2010 in sports/Cricket. Then substitute the name of each sport for any other articles you want to create, such as User:Op47/August 2010 in sports/Football.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:26, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

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

I was just reading your article on chiropractic which seemed to be pretty well-informed. I was a little thrown, though, by the last sentence in the Intro (or first) section: "A systematic review found that the risk of death from manipulations to the neck outweighs the benefits.[35]"

I have been to a chiropractor several times over the years and always had amazing results, as have my friends/family that referred me. I found this sentence a little scary (like if I was reading this article for the first time prior to seeking chiropractic treatment, I might think twice) so read the article cited to justify this sentence: Deaths after Chiropractic: A review of published cases. The article actually states that there have been a total of 26 reported cases of death from chiropractic since 1934 (that's 26 deaths in 78 years of published data). Also, there were only 10 cases where the death occurred within one day of the treatment--the article states that the rest of the fatalities occurred up to 58 days following the treatment (not sure how linked the two can be with this amount of time--almost 2 months--passing between treatment and death).

I'm writing to Wiki to see if this sentence can't be deleted from the posted article...it seems really misleading to me and I know a lot of people read Wiki to get basic info on a subject and I would hate anyone else to be thrown by such a misleading sentence when the rest of the article seemed so well informed/impartial.

Ab9735 (talk) 18:52, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Matters like this belong on the article's talk page, not at the Help Desk. For that reason, I've copied your comments to Talk:Chiropractic; you can find them (along with any responses) in the section of that page called "Copied from the Help Desk". Nyttend (talk) 19:33, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Delete a redirect:File:The Legend of the Condor Heroes (cover).jpg

Hi, can anyone delete the file redirect of the renamed file File:The Legend of the Condor Heroes (cover).jpg? Thanks.--NeoBatfreak (talk) 19:57, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Unless it qualifies for Speedy Delete, you should post the request at WP:RfD RudolfRed (talk) 20:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

The redirect is nominated for discussion at RfD and Neo now knows the procedure. Marking this as resolved. BigNate37_(T) 03:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

paragraph numbering

To Wikipedia Your articles have, near the begging, an outline format, WITH numbers-this is good. However, in the body of the articles, you have the same titles, but with the paragraph numbers not shown. Why is this? Many times I find that the numbers would help. Thank you Paul Gayet, [contact info redacted] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.24.31.70 (talk) 20:35, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

You can click the section names in the table of contents. Logged in users have the option "Auto-number headings" under the "Appearance" tab at Special:Preferences. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:47, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Freedom of speech for teachers.

Does the Freedom of Speech extends to teachers and professors if they feel compelled for professional ethics or in the interest of the public to make public disclosures to parents or students that the school or University in some areas or departments is not acting in the best interest of students. Is this Freedom Of Speech restricted in these settings? I am looking for laws rooted in law cases that you could cite in your article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.240.241 (talk) 21:21, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

That's skating fairly close to legal advice. If you are looking for cases, there are a number of good legal websites, findlaw.com, for example. There are also any numbers of books on the First Amendment at your local law library.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Also, if your not looking for general information and instead your looking for an analysis of whether the first amendment applies to a particular fact pattern, you would be best off consulting with an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Monty₈₄₅ 02:41, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

http://shop.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-globe-sweats

please tell me who is the model wearing cloths. Gooing22 (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Is there one who is not, then?--Wehwalt (talk) 21:31, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I am asking about bald person there.Gooing22 (talk) 21:38, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

The Help Desk is for asking questions about how to use Wikipedia. We are not associated with the Wikimedia shop. The contact info for that group is on this page: http://shop.wikimedia.org/pages/contact-us RudolfRed (talk) 21:43, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

• As far as my knowledge is concerned wikimedia foundation is owner of wikipedia.also, whhat i pay there helps to run wikipedia.Gooing22 (talk) 21:48, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

This picture was uploaded by User:Matthew (wmf). I think the easiest way to discover who that model is is to contact Matthew on his talkpage. Arcandam (talk) 22:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Why would anyone want to know the name of a model anyway? I'm getting slight alarm bells tinkering at the back of my mind here. Wesley Mouse 22:35, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that was my thought on the matter. Let's let the office handle it.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Assuming good faith here, that's Victor Grigas, Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. The photo was sort of a joke at first (I got the sparkle in the mural right on the top of his head because I thought it looked cool), but when we looked at it, we were happy with it and used it for the shop. Happy to answer any other questions if you have them. Matthew (WMF) 01:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

TMZ

Is TMZ a reliable source? TMZ reports that Sage Stallone's recent death was drug-related, and the article cites that. Shark96z (talk · contribs) 22:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

You may want to try Wikipedia:RSN. There are quite a few people who asked that same question already. Arcandam (talk) 22:22, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

delete an article

How do I delete an article that I starte (it was rejected and I want the page removed completely until future notice.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssouth2549 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

You can put {{db-userreq}} at the top of the page. Dismas|^(talk) 02:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I requested it for deletion for you. - Purplewowies (talk) 02:55, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

July 16

Made a mistake in the article title -- how to fix it?

In this new article USAV ''Malvern Hill'' (LCU 2025) I placed double quotes around the name of this vessel -- ideally, they should not be there. I don't know how to fix this.

The article title should be USAV Malvern Hill (LCU 2025).

Suggestions?

Cyberherbalist (talk) 05:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I moved it for you, though you can do that yourself, just click on the move tab at the top, slightly left of centre. Valenciano (talk) 05:49, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Ah ha! I had never seen that before. Thanks for the fast response! Cyberherbalist (talk) 05:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

The Move link is placed differently in the default Vector skin. See more at Wikipedia:Moving a page. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

US informationin Germany

I am an American living in Germany and I am using the English translation for the the Wikipedia web site. I am specifically looking for chart information for several American music albums. However, the Wiki page for the albums have only the German and Swiss music chart information (i.e. this album hit # 26 on the German music chart). I'm sure this is because the information is coming through a German ISP. There's nothing wrong with German music charts - just not the information I'm looking for right now. Is there a way to connect with the US Wiki site so I can get US-focused information? Thanks. 07:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)Kfoote (talk)

There is no such thing as a US Wikipedia, this is the English Wikipedia. Wikipedia is divided by language, not country. You can try searching for the artist/band in the search box at the top right of the page, but without the name of the artist/band we can't give you any more advice. Roger (talk) 07:58, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia shows the same page to all readers regardless of their ISP and IP address. If you look at an external site for information then it's possible it will be different. Can you give a link? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:14, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

How or where can i display a proposed change to a protected page.

I'm very new to Wiki Editing (a few days), i wish to propose a change to a semi-protected article's table layout. I copied the 'View Source' and compiled the table in a new format in My Sandbox. However, it doesn't look like other users can view test pages in another's sandbox.

Is there anywhere on Wiki that one can display a proposed change to an article so people can see how it looks? I think it's a great change and needs to be viewed by others who can then make their comments and opinions known.

Am i right in understanding that the main Sandbox gets written over pretty much instantly so i can't link to that? ManchesterSpeedway (talk) 09:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC) ManchesterSpeedway (talk) 10:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Everybody can see all pages including your sandbox. And yes, Wikipedia:Sandbox is often overwritten. If you link there then it should be to a specific version in the page history. Your account became autoconfirmed when you made you tenth edit 40 minutes ago so you can edit semi-protected pages now. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Indeed. Your sandbox is right here. Dismas|^(talk) 10:50, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the info. Someone in the article i'm involved in 'talking' about has actually linked to my sandbox, so i do realize now that one can indeed do so. I don't think i'd ever seek to edit a semi-protected page unless had advance agreement from everyone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManchesterSpeedway (talk • contribs) 22:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Claim inactive username

Hello, is it possible to claim a username of an user which is obviously inactive and even registered without any mail-adress record? --141.3.200.149 (talk) 10:44, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

In some cases, yes. See WP:USURP. Dismas|^(talk) 10:48, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Greater Manchester

Hi there is an article on Swinton which begins, "Swinton is a town within the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England."

What is meant by "Greater Manchester" here?

Kind regards Gerard Dugdill (UK) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2002:5C29:335C:0:0:0:5C29:335C (talk) 12:26, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

You refer to Swinton, Greater Manchester which starts: "Swinton is a town within the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England." The blue or purple text is links. Click on "Greater Manchester" to see the meaning. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I have removed your phone number to protect your privacy. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:35, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Colombian Cyclists

In the list of Colombian Cyclists, a cyclist was ommitted,PEDRONEL GIL GALLEGO, he lives in Miami, he is one of the "Keens of the Mountains" during 1950 and 1952 194.81.222.173 (talk) 14:51, 16 July 2012 (UTC)and he is also mention on the book by M. Randall,he is very well regarded as a cyclist as he was second and third. Please include him in the list of Colombian Cyclists.

194.81.222.173 (talk) 14:51, 16 July 2012 (UTC) 

Your sincerely.

N. Alvarez 194.81.222.173 (talk) 14:51, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

There is no List of Colombian cyclists. Could you give us the link? Regards.--GoP_T^C_N 15:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I guess you mean Pedro Nel Gil. If you refer to Category:Colombian cyclists then it's not a list. It's a category and it can only show Wikipedia articles. There is no article about Pedro Nel Gil. See Wikipedia:Notability (sports) for requirements. If you can find sources to satisfy it then you can write an article yourself. See Wikipedia:Your first article. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Please copyedit London Chorus

“	Nonetheless the number of our own promotions has declined and it is a particular sadness that, solely on grounds of cost, the annual performance of St Matthew Passion has had to be given up. We have been fortunate in being invited to sing for other concert promoters and were particularly rewarded by being asked to provide the chorus for three concert performances by the Kirov Opera under Valery Gergiev and a performance of Rimsky Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or under Rostropovich. We are also grateful to Raymond Gubbay for inviting us to sing in a number of his promotions.	”
—Jharbourne, London Chorus

Someone please take a look at this article. Thanks in advance, Arcandam (talk) 15:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

The best venue for copyediting is WP:GOCE/REQ. Regards.--GoP_T^C_N 15:56, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Blatant copyvio, I reverted it. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:03, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Where do I find the template for References?

I'm in sandbox and I don't know what it means after I use the template above to cite a book it tells me I have the ref but not the references???? Is this talking about coding? I've been reading the help pages but it just isn't clear what I'm supposed to do other than click on the templates provided and fill in the blanks. Then what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nflemin2 (talk • contribs) 16:12, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, you need to add {{reflist}} to the bottom of the page in order for the references to appear. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Display the duration of a YouTube video

Is there a way to display the length/duration of a YouTube video? I would like this to be displayed next to the link to the video so users have an idea how long the video is. It seems that this information is obtainable via the YouTube API but I think that would require some JavaScript or PHP to use and I don't know how that would work on Wikipedia. We're assuming here that it is appropriate to link to the video in the first place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unjedai temp (talk • contribs) 16:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

{{Cite video}} has a time parameter that can be used to manually add the length. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I was hoping for something more dynamic, so that if the video was edited and the duration changed, the value would update automatically on the wiki page. Unjedai (talk) 20:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

So is it possible to use JavaScript on a wiki page and use the YouTube API? Unjedai (talk) 15:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:34, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The New Search Bar

Hello. I used to come to wikipedia all the time, but, alas, I fear today is the beginning of the end. When I viewed a page, suddenly, there appeared at the bottom of my page, this big ugly blue search bar for related terms. It says "related terms" as a link to automatically search those at random I supposed, then beside that "online advertising" because I just might want to click that! Then, a typical white search box. It is at the bottom of the wiki page and interferes with my line of vision, rather like having subtitles or closed captioning on when you would rather watch the movie. This bar also has to load with every page, creating a slight lag, sort of like a hiccup, where everything stops for a moment as you are trying to scroll down the page. Then, it suddenly moves but more than likely will instead present the popup message that a script working would you like to stop the script or proceed. This happens on every page and must be related to this new search box. I resent this intrusion in my wiki experience here and feel it is a cheesy and unnecessary addition to your site. Whoever decided to add it should discuss it with a board group or something and have it removed very quickly. I won't return until it is gone, the reading has become too cumbersome now and, after all, there really are a lot of different sites to go to, I had simply become accustomed to coming here. Thank you.

I also think it is ridiculous that my submission for help has to be treated like I am adding an article. I do not add articles, I do not care to nor do I know how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.79.61.133 (talk) 17:23, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think it the wp site. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and see if it goes away. Then try WP:HD in the search box to see if you get back to here without it? It could be an add-on, malware type thing on your browser.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I would have used a stronger word than "cheesy" for the thing you are seeing. And I agree with Canoe1967, it has nothing to do with the the Wikipedia site, some advertising malware has subverted your browser. I suggest that you install a different, new, browser, and check how the Wikipedia pages look in that. Maproom (talk) 17:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why do I see commercial ads at Wikipedia? PrimeHunter (talk) 20:19, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Try the free version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Arcandam (talk) 15:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

No, I think it is Wikipedia itself. To experience this, you must be fortunate enough to have a slow network. I have got this many times. Yeah, everything like borders is colored in blue. The search box is under the bottom of the page. The talkpages etc. are also given there. Every thing is given in sections. I mean, there are separate sections for page-related ones, user-related ones etc. But I do not know about the ad. I suspect that Powered by MediaWiki and A Wikimedia Project is referred by it. I wonder if it is another skin, but I have got no opportunity to compare it. (I always liked it as it doesn't have the waste area to the left of vector skin). So it must be a networking problem not a malware one. When refreshed and the networkspeed becomes good, the page in vector skin is displayed. Vanischenu m^Talk 16:46, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Please obtain a screen capture if you can recreate this again. BigNate37_(T) 16:58, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Yuppie! I tried it now by disconnecting and reconnecting the network and was successful. Unfortunately, I have no software nor camera to do this. These are the properties. (The page was Polyvinyl chloride)

• The chembox is on the left
• Wikitables are on the left, without background color or border. No border but background only for yellow backgrounded vector terms.
• Image is on left. All pictures have a blue border and are not like normal thumbnails (but the button for enlargement is given on right and text given below the image freely without a background color)
• Links are underline and in blue (dark blue, not like vector skin), even the superscripts for ref are underlined.
• TOC without border and background. In it, the sections have a solid round bullet, subsection a round hollow, and sub-subsection - a solid square.
• [edit] is placed at left of each section just before the name. The size of it is larger for a high rank section. A sub section has a smaller sized [edit] item compared to its main section. It is in turn bigger than that of its own subsection.
• Navbox Health issues of plastics and Polyhalogenated compounds (PHCs) is shown like a cladogram. But Plastics is shown as normal. Hi hi, the V·E·T is shown above the table (about the middle) and is given in separate lies. V above E above T. It looks weird.
• After such sections and before categories, the following is written

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polyvinyl_chloride&oldid=502656494"

After these the following are given in separate sections whose entries are bullet listed. Categories:, Hidden categories:, Personal tools, Namespaces, Variants, Views, Actions, Search, Navigation, Interaction, Toolbox, Print/export, Print/export.

At the very bottom of the page the comments on last modified, copyright status, etc which are found at a normal vector page are given but listed with bullets. The very last entries of the list are the images with blue boundaries containing the A Wikimedia Project and Powered by MediaWiki is given. This is to aligned to the left and anyone can mis-consider it as an ad Vanischenu m^Talk 17:24, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I checked every skins and the conclusion is it is not a skin.

The bottom part (from the section views onwards) is comparable (but is not identical) to My Skin.Vanischenu m^Talk 17:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

It sounds like you just need to clear your entire cache to get the normal page design working again. It was your mention of "online advertising" which made us think your computer was infected but now I guess you weren't referring to actual advertisements. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:23, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

My watchlist is screwed up

I used to use the watchlist customization feature that renders pages I haven't visited since the last change in italics. All of a sudden, it changed to displaying unvisited changes to bold display. What happened? I think the behavior of the watchlist display is controlled by the code at User:Toshio Yamaguchi/vector.css, but I didn't change anything there. I want to have my watchlist style back. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 18:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Mine is messed up too in a similar way. It's probably just a momentary glitch, maybe related to the database lag. Equazcion ^(talk) 18:13, 16 Jul 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Bolding_of_unread_in_Watchlist_again... Equazcion ^(talk) 18:14, 16 Jul 2012 (UTC)

I had bold, then nothing, now it's bold on its own. It appears that somebody made a "bold" change to the main watchlist CSS. It should be reverted per the RfC if someone knows what page it is. Ryan Vesey Review me! 18:15, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Page of "Annabel Jäger"

I´m very sorry. I editet the page of Annabel Jäger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_J%C3%A4ger. Now is the mask disturbed. Can you help to repair the side?

Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.135.17.46 (talk) 18:56, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Fixed it for you, you just missed the closing brackets, }}--Jac16888 ^Talk 18:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Renaming an Event

Is there a way to change the title of a yearly event that is listed on Wikipedia? There is a yearly festival that has been renamed, and I think it would be good to have the title use the new name, with (formely know as...) beside the title. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Arts_Days 199.213.125.71 (talk) 19:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I found confirmation on the official website of the name change, so I have moved the article to Alberta Culture Days, leaving the old name as a redirect. The article still has issues, though. - Karenjc 19:56, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Age at time of death

Is it applicable to put the age of a person when they died at the end of their "Death" section? For example: "On July 16, 2012 Smith died of a heart attack. He was 65 years old." Thechased (talk) 19:38, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I think that's fine. There are some templates that do this automatically, so it should be okay to do it by hand as long as the math is correct. RudolfRed (talk) 19:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict)This is usually handled in the infobox portion of the article. I believe there's a template where you enter the birth and death dates and it automatically calculates the age at death; and the standard is that the template and the information is included in the infobox rather than the text itself. See Wikipedia:Age calculation templates which has a list of commonly used templates for these purposes. --Jayron32 19:46, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

You may wish to see {{death date and age}}, the failed 2007 TfD nom for it, the failed policy proposal WP:DEATHAGE. I probably missed some relevant info, as well, but that ought to get you started. BigNate37_(T) 19:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Quick favor

I'm not sure whether it's my computer or the link that's the problem here, so could someone see if this goes anywhere? The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:49, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't lead to anything for me too. What do you want to do with it? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 19:52, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It's listed as an external link in Menachem Ben-Sasson, so if it's not working it should be fixed or removed, but I wanted to make sure it wasn't a problem on my end before doing anything. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 19:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

In case you want to fix anything, here is a cached version at the Wayback Machine. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 20:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll go put that in. It's happened to me a couple times that my computer just doesn't want to load a particular website, so I'm glad that's not what happened here. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I get nothing as well. Just times out for me. --Jayron32 20:10, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, the server hosting that site seems to be down. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 20:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

In the future you can use http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check this type of thing :) Equazcion ^(talk) 20:16, 16 Jul 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. I thought there was probably some way, and now I know. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 20:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Awesome. That went straight to a new page in my userspace. :) -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 20:28, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia

What's Uncyclopedia and what's the relationship between wikipedia and it? Xentram (talk) 20:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It's a parody website that has no relation to Wikipedia (except that Wikipedia is the subject of their parody). Hersfold non-admin^(t/a/c) 21:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I think it's powered by MediaWiki, the same that runs ours. Vanischenu m^Talk 04:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

July 17

whats happens when u get there

what happens when u are sentenced to more than 2 years for the first time and what are u aloud to bring in with you and how do u do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.10.210 (talk) 00:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You should probably tell us which country you're talking about.

Note; this does not appear to be a request for legal advice. Prison regulations are not laws. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I disagree. Bringing in contraband could result in a longer prison sentence or other penalties. OP should consult their lawyer. RudolfRed (talk) 00:38, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

No, he said what are you allowed to bring in with you. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and anyway, the person who wants to know this should ask at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities, as this page (here) is the wrong place for it. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 01:51, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

unwanted image

on the page wikipedia - John Milne - an unwanted image appeared from nowhere - how can it be removed - it is situated over edit links - preventing access Patrick.nott (talk) 01:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

It's already been fixed. Dismas|^(talk) 01:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

How to put inline references?

Shall the ref be put after a space or without any space? Which of the following is correct?

• This page is only for questions about using Wikipedia, ^[1] not for general knowledge questions.

This page is only for questions about using Wikipedia,^[1] not for general knowledge questions.

The problem is that I have found in some well written articles the use of first type. Thank you. Vanischenu m^Talk 03:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC) modified on 03:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Generally the end of the sentence is best, no space is necessary. CTJF83 03:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The second. Although I can't come up with a guideline that says it specifically right now. I know that WP:AWB changes it this way when possible though. Dismas|^(talk) 03:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your kind and immediate response. Such a situation can be found at the article catenane. Vanischenu m^Talk 03:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

It's at WP:CITEFOOT. I've removed two spaces from catenane - by hand, because AWB hasn't been taught to do this when the references use the {{Ref}} template. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Isn't it better to put the reference at the end of the phrase it supports, rather than after the comma that separates that phrase from the next? So I prefer

• This page is only for questions about using Wikipedia^[1], not for general knowledge questions.

to either of the above. Maproom (talk) 10:17, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:REFPUNC says it should go after the comma. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Special page named as an article

Hello, its me again. I have just found out that on clicking Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikipedia:Help_desk, we are going to a new article project page, which is a sub article of the real page. But in the url it is in Special namespace. However it looks outside as if it was in an article project namespace. The cool thing is that it has got a talkpage and it goes to the talk page of main one. The same phenomenon occurs for talk page too! Is this only for me? Shall we report it? Vanischenu m^Talk 03:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand what you're describing. I see a list of pages that link to the Help Desk. Are you seeing something different? RudolfRed (talk) 04:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry that I was in a rush. I incorrectly named it as article page. If you click on the link on What links here from toolbox and go to that page you can see that the tab Project page is ON. (above the term Pages that link to "Wikipedia:Help desk") (If you were on your user page the tab User page would be present instead.) It virtually appears to be a sub page of the page Wikipedia:Help desk.

Since What links here is a special page, it should have been a Special page tab. Also, unlike special pages, it has a talk page. If you click on it, the talk page of Help desk will be reached. I will clarify this more elaborately, if you want.Vanischenu m^Talk 04:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm trying to figure out what you mean but I'm stumped. Any page that you go to where you click what links here, the tab at the top points back to the original page, in whatever namespace it is in, and the talk page is to that page's talk page. So if you go to an article and click what links here the tab at the top is to the "Article" and the talk page goes to the article's talk page. All pages in the Wikipedia namespace are described as project pages but that is just a description. They're still in the Wikipedia namespace.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I believe this is a consequence of the fact that Special:WhatLinksHere is not its own page, but rather a certain way of viewing a page. Regardless, it is my understanding that Vanischenu is pointing out the discrepancy between the way the page tabs appear when visiting Special:WhatLinksHere vs. say Special:BrokenRedirects. I've uploaded an illustration to hopefully help the point across. BigNate37_(T) 07:01, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Exactly. This was what I had been trying to explain. Thank you. (I am sorry for giving you misleading info). I just wondered why only what links here looked like that. Vanischenu m^Talk 08:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

It's not the only page: Special:MovePage also acts this way. The reason I would think is because WhatLinksHere and MovePage are specific to a particular page so they could set it up that way (and it makes sense that they did doesn't it?) BrokenRedirects and PrefixIndex and ProtectedTitle etc. all are non-specific to a single page. However, there is some inconsistency in that there are other special pages that are specific to a single pages that don't do so.Fuhghettaboutit (talk) --12:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you all for being kind and having patience. Now this is explained. Thank you so much. And a special appreciation for BigNate37 for uploading the image. Vanischenu m^Talk 13:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Howeber I have got another thing to hang on and keep wondering :P. Of the two you have listed here, why one virtually appears to be a subset (the second red circle in the image) while the other does not? Vanischenu m^Talk 13:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

True but the whole scheme was not set up apparently to have perfect consistency; Wikipedia, in many respects, organically evolved with different developers all having their hands in the pie. Interestingly, while the protection interface does not manifest as a "special page", it too has the "← linked name of article" just below the article name.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much. The explanation seems to be complete. I will mark it as resolved then,

Resolved

Vanischenu m^Talk 01:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki license

I work for a non-profit organization and the organization has planned to create manuals using mediawiki. Should we need a GNU free license to create the manuals? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beesfamily (talk • contribs) 10:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The software is available free under the GNU license but how you license the documents you create with the software is your choice - it doesn't affect the software license. Manuals for internal use in an organization would usually be fully copyrighted by the organization but if you want to share the manuals with other organizations you could consider one of the free licenses. GNU Free Document License might not be the most suitable for your purposes so take a look at Creative Commons license for the variety of options available under the CC system. Roger (talk) 10:49, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia preserving old aspect ratio of SVG image after update at Wiki Commons

Resolved: Purging resolved issue. --Cvdr (talk) 20:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello world,

I recently created and uploaded this SVG image to Wiki Commons and used it in this Wikipedia article.

After some additional editing of the SVG image - including a change of aspect ratio - I updated it at Wiki Commons, where it is being display properly. However on the preview page Wikipedia obviously still preserves the old aspect ratio and so shows the SVG image distorted: click me - actually the HTML defines the image size as width="800" height="566" while it should be 800*381.

Any idea on how to get the aspect ratio right? Is this a permanent bug or will a batchjob realize the change in aspect ratio as some point?

Thanks

--Cvdr (talk) 10:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I did some purging on both Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, I hope it helped. You may need to clear your browser cache. Arcandam (talk) 12:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, this apparently has resolved the issue. The SVG file is now shown properly. --Cvdr (talk) 20:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Biography of Steve Abana from Solomon Islands

This statement as mentioned by the Writer Mr. Casper Luiramo is misleading and does not speak well of the person. "He then entered business, exporting cocoa, after making money during the height of the Solomon Islands conflicts by acting at a middleman for compensation claimants" He was never a middle man for compensation claimants as mentioned here. Infact he was a victim himself. He started off his businness before the ethnic tension, and his business picked up after he won a loan contract to buy off a small shipping service.He then expanded from there and venture into other businness opportunities and eventually into politics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.151.20.118 (talk) 12:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You should discuss your concerns on the Talk:Steve Abana page rather than here. The claims you posted must be supported by reliable sources and comply with the biography of living persons rules. Roger (talk) 12:49, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Steve Abana (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I see that after posting here, you then edited the article to remove the "middleman" statement. That's fine; any editor may remove anything that has no source, especially if it is possibly negative information about a living person. But, as Roger says, please take care not to add information yourself unless you can back it up with a reference to a reliable source. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Looking for a specific copyright tag

Resolved: File uploaded with an appropriate copyright tag. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 13:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Do we have a copyright tag for manga covers? We have a rationale template (Template:Non-free use rationale manga cover), but is there also a copyright tag? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Could {{Non-free book cover}} or {{Non-free magazine cover}} work? The listing, as far as I know, is at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright tags. Ryan Vesey Review me! 12:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I am aware of those. I now see that it says at the bottom "Any of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Book rationale, Template:Non-free use rationale book cover, Template:Manga rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale manga cover.", so I will use this one. Thanks Ryan. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 12:49, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Copyright vio ?

The page for Jordan Anderson has his now-famous letter both in image form (which I believe is public domain, due to age) and as a transcript, which I believe may be a copy vio. Can anyone check it out and confirm?--Chimino (talk) 14:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Whether or not it was copyvio I removed it. The transcription wouldn't be suitable for the encyclopedia article. If it is PD, it should be added to Wikisource. Ryan Vesey Review me! 14:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response, Ryan. The article looks much better now.--Chimino (talk) 14:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

How do I report verbal abuse?

I was abused by a user at IP address 142.134.46.255. You can see the slander here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Altonbr#PTBO_Picture. I've deleted the info in my profile, but a record still exists. For privacy reasons, I'd like this user blocked and the history of my User page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Altonbr) erased. Please help. Altonbr (talk) 14:35, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You can add {{G7}} to your user page and create a new one after that. It's an easier way to get all of the history deleted. Ryan Vesey Review me! 14:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

That would not be an appropriate use of CSD G7 as there is other legitimate talk page history that is not suitable for deletion. Monty₈₄₅ 14:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes it would, he wants his user page history erased. It's much easier to request deletion and then recreate it. Hopefully Primehunter or another help desk admin can perform the revdelete on the talk page. Ryan Vesey Review me! 14:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I misread and thought you were talking about the user talk page history, yes G7 would be fine on the userpage. Monty₈₄₅ 14:51, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

• (edit conflict)As for having the information removed from the page history, any admin is able to revision delete it. Admins do patrol this page, and one may act on your request here. If you want to make a separate request in case this one is missed, instructions for requesting the revision deletion can be found at WP:REVDEL#How to request Revision Deletion. As for blocking the IP, we typically only block editors for recent conduct, the personal attack on your talk page is too stale to serve as the basis for a block. Monty₈₄₅ 14:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I have RevisionDeleted it. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:39, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Method of citing TV and radio programmes and amending citations after insertion

I have two questions to ask.

1. The citation tool only provides for websites, newspapers, books and journals. How do you cite TV and radio programmes?

2. Can citations be ammended once inserted, where, for example, a page number, or other detail has been inadvertantly ommited? If so, how?Populotradit (talk) 14:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

See Citation Style 1 for more templates. See each template documentation for all of the parameters. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:31, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Question - Ohio

Hello, I am not computer savvy, so all this edit and all stuff confuses me greatly. I use ya'll lots for checking things out and I noticed that in the Article on "Ohio" that under the history dealing with the statehood, Eisenhower was listed as doing it, in 1803, Eisenhower was born, not much of a politician at that point, I think you may mean the guy in the picture to the right of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janismarie26 (talk • contribs) 15:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

My understanding is that Eisenhower declared the 1st March 1803 as the date Ohio was admitted into the Union and he did this in 1953. At any rate, Eisenhower was born in 1890. Hope that cleared it up for you. Andie ▶(Candy)◀ 15:08, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Custom CSS?

Hi! Recently, I noticed that my custom CSS that bolds/colors unread items on my Watchlist stopped working or taking effect - I then tried to add it to my vector css code, but it still didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks! Theopolisme _TALK 15:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The coding for bold seems to have changed. Try adding the code below. Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:37, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Gorgeous, works like a charm- thanks a bunch! Theopolisme _TALK 15:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Is it really that hard to turn this into a gadget? I assume that whatever the gadget is would modify the CSS anyways. Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:53, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The watchpage changes are also the subject of a discussion at the Village Pump: WP:VPT RudolfRed (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Personal Reference?

My page isn't being created because I don't have enough references siting my information. I have tons of reference websites supporting my work, but I also worked with the parent of the person I'm creating the page for, so I'm wondering how do I site a personal reference? Do I just put her mother's name or how? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HelloStranger24 (talk • contribs) 16:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The short answer is that you can't. The information you provide has to be verifiable by other editors, so just listing the mother's name wouldn't help (though an interview with her conducted by a third party would be helpful). It may also be useful to read our conflict of interest policy. Andie ▶(Candy)◀ 16:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Only published material can be referenced. Roger (talk) 16:44, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I can't find my page

Hello, Yesterday I open an account and a page, but I can't find the page. What is the problem? How can I see it? The name of the page is Arcangeles

Arcangeles (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Arcangeles, I believe you are looking for User:Arcangeles/sandbox. Just make sure you are aware of our conflict of interest policy. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:30, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately your username is in violation of the rules governing usernames, specifically the rule prohibiting usernames resembling those of organizations. Please change your username so that it does not represent any organisation. Only individuals acting in their personal capacity are allowed to edit Wikipedia. The procedure for changing your username is explained here. If you need more help don't hesitate to come back here. Roger (talk) 16:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

SAFEMODE

I cant get my computer to run except in safemode. Even when it gives you a choice of 3 different safemodes to start in & RUN WINDOWS NORMAL, I can click on run windows normal and it still boots in safemode & is very slow. Although it will perform in every program except play my music or let me view my pics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.61.126.182 (talk) 19:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, this is the help desk of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia built by volunteers from all over the world via the internet and this help desk is only for questions about using and editing Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing by clicking here and then posting your question / problem description again. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 19:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Reference hovertext

I just found that hovering over a footnote inside the article text triggers the display of a Reference tooltip. When had this been enabled? Did the activation of this feature result from this discussion? Where was a consensus reached to enable this by default for all users? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 20:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Well, at least I found out how to disable it

My preferences/Gadgets/Browsing (the bottom checkbox at that section)

Just in case this is useful for someone else who happens to stumble over this section. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 20:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I know there was a story the idea in a recent Signpost. See here for more details. Thanks for the tips on how to turn it off too. I personally like it, but it's good to know for those that dislike the feature. -Thibbs (talk) 00:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Question on my article that was on speedy delete

Hello, I had created an article on shawlsmith london, it is the only company to internationally produce and distribute scarves in the city of raleigh and the entire state of north carolina. The article was speedily deleted citing A7. THe facts that I have mentioned already signify the importance of shawlsmith london to the city and state of raleigh and were not included in the article. Their designs mix british sophistication with southern charm which also does not exists in any brand in the world. Each year they recruit many new interns from the south who are able to use their platform to become better leaders. None of this aformentioned information was in the original article. And I ask what more significance would the article need for it to be undeleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik (talk • contribs) 20:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik (talk) 20:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

What was missing was evidence that the company was notable. And indeed a Google search suggests that it is not - the first 30 hits for "shawlsmith london" included no third-party reference to it. You should also read the Wikipedia conflict of interest policy. Maproom (talk) 21:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

How about #9, its from celebritycafe.com if that's not third party what is? and numerous others which fall under "the first 30 hits" which are just online retailers which carry the brand. And the second page also falling within the first 30 hits is yacoubian your statement seems a bit biased because there are many other hits that are from thrid party companies that are not shawlsmith london. How about the notable fact that it is putting a small southern city on the map with accounts in major retail stores such as Neiman Marcus, Barney's etc. How much more notable does it have to be? Please advise as I have read the policies and spent a lot of time and effort on this article to be completely dismissed. For a person to learn about the city of Raleigh is this not something of notable value to them? In fact two separate publication sources thecharlotteobserver and wakeliving had published about shawlsmithlondon but those sources where not given because the material was either not used or was in print and not online source. I happen to know of the ceo becuase of his involvement in my surrounding community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik (talk • contribs) 21:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC) Uamalik (talk) 22:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The notability guideline for businesses and organisations is at WP:ORG. The general notability guideline is at WP:GNG. The company must satisfy one or the other to merit an encyclopaedia article here. Celebritycafe.com appears to be a listings site. Listings are not "significant independent coverage", and nor is the fact that various websites offer the copmany's products for sale. Selling things made in a small city to big national shops does not make a company notable. What you need is articles about this company. Newspaper or magazine articles, tv coverage. Real news or features, not advertising copy or press releases, which verify the company's achievements in terms of the criteria in the notability guidelines. This will provide you with the evidence of notability you need. - Karenjc 22:23, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Karenjc for that simple yet informative answer. The company had articles written about it in a couple news affiliates that are in print and I was not able to get their information which is why I did not use them as a source. I will rewrite this article when I do. Thanks once more for the best answer I had gotten yet.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Uamalik (talk • contribs) — Uamalik (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Note also that peacock words like "Their designs mix british sophistication with southern charm which also does not exists in any brand in the world", "they recruit many new interns from the south who are able to use their platform to become better leaders" and "it is putting a small southern city on the map with accounts in major retail stores such as Neiman Marcus, Barney's etc." are likely to get the entire thing deleted as shameless advertising. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. Do bear in mind that just finding the coverage isn't enough - the sources must be independent, reliable and credible, and the coverage must confirm the assertions you make in the article as to how the company satisfies the notability criteria. And once you've established notability, you then have to ensure the article is neutral. The sentences Orange Mike quotes belong in a publicity brochure, not an encyclopaedia article, and would certainly get the article flagged as WP:SPAM. Just an added caveat - you seem to have a good knowledge of the company, and to care about whether or not it is has an article on Wikipedia. Have you read WP:LUC? Regards - Karenjc 20:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Spin Along

I was on spin along in the 60s with my youth club how do I see a programe at that time please ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.3.23 (talk) 21:43, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello. This page is for questions about using and editing Wikipedia. Knowledge questions should be asked at the reference desk. I think this one probably belongs at the miscellaneous section. That being said, your question is not very clear, at least to me, and a quick search did not reveal what you are referring to. So I suggest that when you ask at the reference desk, you try provide some clarifying detail: what was "spin along" and where geographically was this programme offered? Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:53, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict)A record of the program may no longer exist. Many of those programs were produced by local TV stations, many weren't preserved on video tape or kinescope, and even if they were, they may have been wiped or erased as the station may have recycled or reused the recording media. There is a huge part of television history before about 1970 where there is no known record. --Jayron32 21:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

NRHP articles & references

Hi, I have a question about NRHP articles and another question for references. I've done a fair amount of poking around Wikipdeia, and I've discovered the "edit", "history", and other buttons and places and policies like the "manual of style", but it seems like the manual of style is a general guideline, and doesn't have many specifics for the topic I want to write about, NRHP. How should that type of article be designed / written? My second question is how do references work and how should they be used? I clicked the edit section button for a references section on an article, and all it had was "

" - but the main article edit button shows things within the same type of & that match the references, between ref tags formatted like HTML. Can this be explained? Thanks TheSilentJay (talk) 21:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the references part of your question, I think your best bet is to start at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. Regarding not seeing the citations when you clicked edit on the references section, there is a template which is dedicated to explaining just this matter. Please see {{Edit refs}}.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

See WP:NRHP, which has some guidelines. Nyttend (talk) 02:41, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

pronunciation button isn't working

Greetings, I've always been able use the pronunciation button to hear how a word is pronouced. But now it has stopped working? Its not a sound card problem. I'm running Win XP. Can you tell me why this isn't working anymore? And what I can do to get it back working? Thanks John Hailey — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.117.148.58 (talk) 22:13, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

• Do not provide your email address or any other contact information. Answers will be provided on this page only. BigNate37_(T) 22:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

On which page is it not working? There may be a problem with that page or the sound file that it refers to. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

How to sort My Watchlist

I was wondering if Wikipedia had plans in the works to facilitate the sorting of articles on my watchlist. For example, I would like to see them sorted by "date added," "category/genre," and other possible configurations, besides the standard alphabetization. Omnispo (talk) 22:38, 17 July 2012 (UTC)Omnispo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnispo (talk • contribs) 22:37, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

It's an interesting idea, although it might be hard to define sort schemes for things like "category/genre". I think the best place to go with the suggestion is to post it at Wikipedia's Technical Village Pump where editors regularly discuss suggestions on improving the technical aspects of the website including sorting schemes. -Thibbs (talk) 00:30, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Information

I was trying to find out some information on a product called Kand/ice distributed in Boise,ID. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.197.217.113 (talk) 22:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. RudolfRed (talk) 22:57, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Private persons' name stated in article without consent

Dear Sir/Madame,

I fear that my name and identity has been stated in a Wiki entry, which was deleted in 2008, yet is still visible and reference by your logs and by "wikigrains". What is the process to get this false information permanently deleted?

Thank you, M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erika C 57 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Can you tell us what article this was in? Dismas|^(talk) 23:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I think that you should email Oversight about this. That might not be the right thing to do, but I'm pretty sure that it is. To email Oversight, click here. :) Hadger 23:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Veilleux and all associated logs should be deleted — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erika C 57 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand. That article is completely deleted. Are you sure you are seeing the article at Wikipedia itself and not at a mirror site? Because the article is deleted, and has no publicly accessible history or versions here at Wikipedia. --Jayron32 23:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You might try contacting the owner of http://www.wikigrain.org (a website completely unaffiliated with Wikipedia) and over which we have no control. There is a feedback form at this link. You can also view details about the ownership and other information at this site. It may be difficult as the owner is located in Moscow, Russia but there is an email address provided for him.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

We have no control over WikiGrain at www.wikigrain.org. It is an independent website not run by the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia. I see they have a feedback page. You could try using that but I don't know how they treat requests for removal. As http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Veilleux shows, the page was deleted from Wikipedia. The url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Veilleux gives a HTTP 404 Not Found error message to visitors and should not be indexed by any search engines. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:10, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I could probably help out Wikipedia. I've got language skills, am fluent in Spanish and French. Where's a good place to get started?

--2.97.77.60 (talk) 23:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

If you're fluent in Spanish and French, you can also help out at the Spanish Wikipedia and the French Wikipedia. For how you can help, you can edit a page that you think needs to be fixed or needs more content and add content to it. I'll leave a welcome message on your talk page so that you know the guidelines and policies of Wikipedia. :) Hadger 23:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

You could also translate pages from one language to another. See WP:TRANSLATE. Dismas|^(talk) 23:26, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

(e/c) That would be great; we can use the help. It's not required but you might first sign up for an account which has some benefits over editing by your IP address (it takes but a few seconds and is anonymous) and go through the Wikipedia:Tutorial to learn some basics of editing. For translation, see generally Wikipedia:Translation, and specifically for Spanish and French, see: Category:Articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia and Category:Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia. When you click on one of the articles in these categories, you'll be taken to the English Wikipedia article and you should see at the top a notice about translation with a link to the Spanish or French language Wikipedia article that has the text that the English version could benefit from. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:32, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

July 18

"New message" alert appearing for a non-user

I went to the "Earthlink" article, and there was a link at the top of the page which said that there was a message for me (as if I were a user - which I am not). The message was

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to George Washington University has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. L Kensington (talk • contribs) 03:41, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

To see if somehow I was logged in as someone, I went to an edit page and saw that I was not logged in as anyone.

Ignore it completely. Since you are not logged in through an acocunt you are identified by the software by your IP address. These are not only assigned sometimes to multiple people, but they can change over time and even fairly often. The message you saw was left for someone who made an edit back in February 2011 using the same IP address currently assigned by your ISP to you. See also the notice at the bottom of Special:Contributions/76.102.193.39 which says in pertinent part "This is the contributions page for an IP user, identified by the user's numerical IP address. Some IP addresses change periodically, and may be shared by several users." You can avoid such issues by signing up for an account. Best regards.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:43, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

polonaise and mazur-mazurka dances

how do i upload my expert articles to wikipedia since i am the expert?

Mazurkapol (talk) 00:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You can't. Wikipedia is not a place for people to publish their own original research on a subject. If you have previously published material on the topics, which appears in reliable sources, please use the article talk page to list the sources, so people who aren't you can evaluate the information and incorporate it in the articles. Promoting your own publication on a topic would be a conflict of interest. You may have published something valid, but because it involves your own writing, it should be evaluated before being added to Wikipedia articles uncritically. Thank you for being willing to share your expertise with Wikipedia. We value it, and wish to incorporate it, but we also wish to do it in a responsible manner. --Jayron32 00:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Please take a look at WP:WikiProject Dance and the associated talk page - you will find other Wikipedians interested in dance there with whom you can discuss your ideas. Roger (talk) 06:28, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You may wish to expand and improve Polonaise and Mazurka.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible to create URL using a date instead of a revision ID?

I am wondering whether it's possible to add a date parameter to a URL, so that the content from the last revision before that date appears, e.g., something like "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_City_A.F.C.?as_of=20110407" to show this page as it appeared on April 7, 2011.

I'm thinking of writing a browser extension that would let users browse Wikipedia as it existed at a certain date, and something like this would greatly simplify things. Jdfoote (talk) 01:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

What if more than one revision was made on that date? I'm slightly confused as to what you're saying. Floating Boat (the user formerly known as AndieM) 07:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The URL modifiers are listed at mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php. As far as I can see, the only way to access an old revision is by using the "oldid" parameter. And when you use that, you don't quite get the old version of the page, as the old page is rebuilt using today's versions of any relevant images or templates, not the versions in use at the time of the old version. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The best you can do with a query url is to get a page history only showing the latest edit at that time: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swansea_City_A.F.C.&offset=20110407&action=history&limit=1. Do you know Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/TimeTraveller? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Can Wikipedia Tell a Story?

Hi Wikipedia,

I think it would be neat if you had a feature to tell a story about something. Put relevant information in chronological order, add history to give context, show images of the time... etc. I think this would be pretty neat.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.196.90.50 (talk) 02:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

All our articles tell a story, although not necessarily in chronological order which is best suited to articles about historical events.Roger (talk) 06:33, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

covertable car tops

what type cars convertable tops will interchange with a 1997 chevy cavalier — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.162.143.221 (talk) 03:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. RudolfRed (talk) 04:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Fontana High SchoolWikipediaSchool · Cullman, Alabama.

Fontana High School is in Fontana California - San Bernardino County.\ It came up Cullman, Alabama on my facebook page. I know I have the right high school as it mentions Kaiser Steel .. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.190.172.81 (talk) 06:13, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia, we have no control over what happens on Facebook. To get help with your problem see the Help desk on Facebook. Roger (talk) 06:37, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Facebook community pages may incorporate content from Wikipedia— such use complies with Wikipedia policies on reuse of content. We at Wikipedia have no control over how the content is included nor can we help to remove it. Facebook does have a topic on Community pages and profile connections on their Help Center.

I guess you refer to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fontana-High-School/104075942962584 which says "Description above from the Wikipedia article Fontana High School". This only applies to the part with heading "Description". The alleged location in other parts of the page is inserted by Facebook and not taken from Wikipedia. I don't know how Facebook generates location information but they sometimes get it wrong. Our article Fontana High School doesn't make the mistake. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:46, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Will my article be reviewed?

Wrote an article in my sandbox but haven't published it yet. The article can be found here. Is it going to be reviewed or do I need to publish it first? Feeling really lost, appreciate any advice. Thanks! Giulialap (talk) 07:14, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Try submitting it into the Articles for Creation page. Floating Boat (the user formerly known as AndieM) 07:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The blue box at the top of your sandbox page includes a handy link for doing this. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Template for tagging paywalled references

Is there a template or something I can use to tag a paywalled reference as such? In the article Singapore Exchange, there is a statement using cites no. 26 and 27. Cite 26 died a while ago and cite 27 became hidden behind a paywall. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 07:36, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Try {{Subscription required}} -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I added it inside the ref tags. But somehow it looks a bit odd. Did I apply it correctly, ie should it appear at the end of the reference, like it does now? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 07:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I think that's right, though I've added a space. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Should do for now. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:13, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

File:Jukti Takko Aar Gappo scene.ogv

I tried to upload an ogv extension file, but I can not see the video. I can not understand what went wrong! Yes, before uploading I made it low quality. Do I need to delete this file and try re-uploading? --Tito Dutta ✉ 07:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

My guess is that the Cortado player does not support the file format. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Media help. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:06, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't know whether we have a project (WikiProject or something like the Graphic Lab) dealing with audio files. I am not aware of it. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 08:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Besides, the use of this file in Jukti Takko Aar Gappo appears to be violating NFCC Policy 8. The current use is purely decorative. In addition, I also have concerns with respect to NFCC#3b. The use seems inappropriate to me. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 11:57, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Succession and nav box not showing

The Succession box at the bottom of the 1909 Wimbledon Championships page does not show (Chrome, IE, FF). The same applies to the Wimbledon navbox {{Wimbledon Championships}}. On all other Wimbledon Championship pages, e.g. 1908 Wimbledon Championships these boxes appear normally. The code for the boxes is present when editing the page. I removed the relevant code and copied it from 1908 Wimbledon Championships but it still doesn't show. Any suggestions? Thx!--Wolbo (talk) 09:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Dismas|^(talk) 10:03, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast. Thanks! Was it a code error?--Wolbo (talk) 10:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome. You can see what I did by clicking on the link that I provided. Dismas|^(talk) 10:37, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You linked the wrong diff. It was [1]. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Ah, so I did. I just used the "Last" link from Twinkle and didn't look at what it was. I didn't think that someone was going to come right behind me and make another edit so quickly. Thanks and sorry for the confusion. I've fixed my link above. Dismas|^(talk) 10:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Inquiry about printing

PLEASE TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PIGMENT AND REACTIVE PRINTING (FABRIC). wHEN AND WHY I HAVE TO DO PIGMENT PRINTING AND WHEN I HAVE TO GO REACTIVE PRINTING — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.59.80.173 (talk) 11:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm about to tell you you're in the wrong place, please ask your question elsewhere but before I do I want you to understand that that you need to stop SHOUTING AT US. This is true pretty much across the internet. Typing in all uppercase letters is interpreted that way, and will make it far likelier that what you type will be ignored. Anyway Have you tried the miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:54, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Reactive dye printing and Textile printing may help.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

What is the full from NASA

WHAT IS THE FULL FROM NASA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.61.38.161 (talk) 13:16, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, what is the full what from NASA? I don't understand the question. And please do not SHOUT. Britmax (talk) 13:24, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Please don't SHOUT AT US! The answer is in the first few words of NASA. Roger (talk) 13:25, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Arcandam (talk) 19:44, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Image won't update

I've just uploaded a revised version of a file, but when I go back to the article that uses the image it still displays the old version. Still more confusing: when I click on the old version, it takes me to the image page which clearly displays the new version. This is the image. — Fly by Night (talk) 13:50, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, I only got the new version. I purged the page just to be safe, which is probably what needed to happen. Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:54, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try that now. In the meantime, I uploaded the image to Commons with a different name. How do I use images that are hosted on Commons? — Fly by Night (talk) 14:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

It's exactly the same syntax for images from Commons as for local images. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:14, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The problem is called "browser cache". —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:17, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Nutritional Products

Dear Sir / Madam,

In the present scenario, 'N' number of companies are cropping up bringing out many Nutritional Products for weight management and also targeted areas such as Herbalife International, Forever Living, Amway, Unicity and so on & so forth. The cost of the products are very high, though the quality is good. These companies show the result pictures also. Their plea is that the grains, fruits and vegetables which we are using are not at all having any nutrition when they come to our houses due to growing methods, storing methods and cooking methods. Is it that much true or to increase their business these companies are creating panic among people? They are distributing money as commission to the extent of 73 to 75% among the associates. Are these products are really worth of that cost? Everybody is concentrating on political, social or other problems except the nutritious food problems which is the main problem. Food can change a person's mentality also. Nobody is giving prominence to this point. Is this politically motivated thing? Kindly look into this matter and reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vijayakrishna60 (talk • contribs) 15:21, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

This is a help desk for issues regarding the use of Wikipedia. It is unclear what you are asking, but if you think there is a problem regarding our Herbalife, Forever Living Products, Amway or Unicity articles, I'd suggest raising them on the relevant article talk pages initially. You will have to be more specific though. And note that we base articles on published sources - we don't engage in investigative journalism, or scientific research, or other enquiries into the nutritional value of products, or into whether they can 'change a person's mentality'. On a purely personal note, I'd suggest that if you have worries about the nutritional effects of expensive products pushed by multi-level marketing, you might do better to buy similar products from more conventional sources instead. They may not be any better for your health, but there is no evidence that they would be any worse, and you will save your money. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is so confusing for someone who wants to create a page

Dear Wikipedia,

I want to create a page for something that doesn't yet have a page. Do you know I ended up spending hours clicking through wiki page after page of technical instructions, policies, guidelines, and when I tried to do the editing "sandbox" etc - I could not understand how to edit text in the sandbox (where was the text I was supposed to test edit?) or create a new page. Even trying to contact you to send this comment was complicated and I had to click around FAQs for 10 minutes even though I kept clicking on a "Contact us" link. I'm not sure if I'll try again. It's the kind of thing where you need someone who has already edited pages to sit and show you what to do. The instructions are pretty confusing and bad, in my experience they didn't succeed.

It's true that you only have a certain kind of contributor - someone who is already code savvy and can spend hours and hours figuring out wikipedia's techno jargon.

Thanks, Reader, failed contributor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.112.50.75 (talk) 15:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I've put a welcome notice with some links on your talk page in the hope that it's some help. Britmax (talk) 15:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Don't despair, the fact that you have managed to post here is an indication that you can edit a page - that is what you did here. Don't worry too much about the formatting - just type away in your sandbox. You can always ask someone to help with the formatting until you get the hang of it. Trying to create a new article is quite daunting to a total beginner so a good way to figure out how stuff works is to do minor edits to already existing articles such as fixing typos and so on. Roger (talk) 15:55, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The truth is, while Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, it is not the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It is just as it is with many things in life: sometimes it takes time and patience to get used to it. However, if you really want to edit here and have the patience to learn the necessary basics, the rest will come naturally. A good place to start might be Help:Wiki markup. Try to experiment a bit with it at Wikipedia:Sandbox. Go to the page, click Edit and try some stuff out. If you need help with the wiki code, feel free to ask. And don't be afraid of asking dumb questions. If you need help with something, just ask. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 16:07, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

You might also want to check out WP:New contributors' help desk and WP:Teahouse. The people I've seen there are very good at explaining things in detail. - Purplewowies (talk) 17:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

THANKS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.112.50.75 (talk) 17:57, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I really appreciate the advice and links! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.112.50.75 (talk) 17:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

What to do after my page was deleted?

My page (Thatchers' Fine Timeless Fabric) has been deleted due to inadequate and unreliable sources. I want to research additional evidence to prove notability then be able to repost.

What suggestions are there for re-posting, when these resources are found? (Lwilkins93 (talk) 16:15, 18 July 2012 (UTC))

The Articles for creation process is probably the best way to go - you get feedback while you create the article. Roger (talk) 16:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Question

How do you know if the HD picture format for a TV show is 720p or 1080i. Thanks! TBrandley 17:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. Floating Boat (the user formerly known as AndieM) 17:56, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Well, actually, on my Awake article it currently uses 1080i, but others use 720p and 1080i. I was wondering what too use on the article. TBrandley 18:10, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I still don't know what you are talking about. Sorry. Floating Boat (the user formerly known as AndieM) 18:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

See 720p and 1080i for the mind-boggling technical details. One possible answer is that you should find a reliable source for the video format rather than trying to work it out yourself! -- John of Reading (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

paraprashing

How could: ""We read it and really believed it was a network show. I just don't accept that the difference between cable and network dramas is how smart it is." be paraphrased per Wikipedia guidelines. This is for an article. Thanks, TBrandley 18:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Depends on the source and the context. Are you trying to paraphrase a speaker's direct-speech quote into indirect speech? If so, it might be better to leave it as is, and source it. Alternatively, you could say something like X said that (s)he believed it was a network show when (s)he saw it, and didn't accept that the difference between cable and network dramas was their degree of intelligence, although it seems n overcomplicated way to do it and you'd still need to source it just the same. On the other hand, if this is not a direct quotation from someone then it's personal opinion, which doesn't belong in a Wikipedia article no matter how you reword it. - Karenjc 18:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

"the concept of the way your dreams feel real, the way you seem to experience them as something that you don't blink at until something crazy happens that sort of bursts that balloon. I think I became interested in the question of what if nothing ever popped that balloon? What if you couldn't tell the difference between when you were awake and when you were asleep? And then I started looking for a way to marry those two ideas up, and a few months later we had Awake". Also don't know how to really paraphrase that. Thanks. TBrandley 19:18, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Is there a particular reason why you're wanting to paraphrase them? I can see they might be seen as a tad unwieldy, but paraphrasing the whole thing and necessarily having to stick it into indirect speech won't make it any shorter. The alternative is to say something like "X said the concet of Awake is based on the concept of not being able to distinguish between dreams and reality", which is short and sweet but loses a lot. You'd really be better taking these changes to the article's talk page and looking for consensus. - Karenjc 19:47, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The article Awake (TV series) has been nominated for FA, and they've told me to paraphrase because it is a "quote farm" in the Conception and Writing sections. TBrandley 19:58, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Not all parts/sentences have to be paraphrased. But the ones remaining mainly the "Writing" need to be paraphrased. TBrandley 20:05, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

That makes sense. I'll see if I can give you a hand, but maybe a request at the GCE request page would bear fruit? I know they get backlogged, but they might have a good paraphraser champing at the bit to help a potential GA? - Karenjc 20:15, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

My First Article Review/Feedback

Can someone review my draft article for me? Just want some feedback before I officially submit it. This is my first article and just need a little confirmation.

I've collapsed removed your article - the Helpdesk is not the place to paste draft articles. I see you wrote it at User:Hitm6337/sandbox, and it's quite OK to invite others to look at it there and offer feedback. It's also not necessary to use large or nonstandard type when asking questions. That said, you're very welcome to Wikipedia and warmly encouraged to join us and improve the encyclopaedia. I'll post some helpful links on your talk page if it's not already been done, and take a look at the article, although it's obviously nowhere near finished yet (no references, for starters). - Karenjc 19:03, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

OK, I've had a quick look. There are various issues, but the article's main problem is that it does not address notability. There is no assertion of why this company is notable enough, by Wikipedia criteria, to have an encyclopaedia article. The article needs to show, with reference to multiple independent reliable sources, how the company satisfies either the general notability guideline or the specific notability guideline for businesses. Unless it does, the article will almost certainly be speedily deleted as soon as it goes live. I have done a Google search and I cannot find any significant independent coverage of the company - no news articles or features about it, just its own website (which doesn't count) and those of companies that list its products. It may be that you can find some sources, but if not, then the company will not satisfy the inclusion criteria at this time. I've now removed the collapsed text from this page. because it doesn't belong in mainspace, and would encourage you to continue working on the article in your sandbox if you feel you can improve it to the point where it satisfies the criteria. - Karenjc 19:21, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

edit conflict

I disagree with a user about the compilation of a page. The article had no reele information so I could easily come in contact with some who might try to find anything about it because the topic is very popular. The user's talk page is full protected permanently, so hvordna should I come in contact with him.? --80.161.143.239 (talk) 20:14, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

User talk pages shouldn't be fully protected, however some administrators will semi-protect their talk pages due to persistent harassment. Many of them offer an unprotected talk page which you'd be able to edit; aside from that, you could leave a note on the article's talk page. Without more specific information about the article in question or who you're trying to contact, I'm afraid we can't help more. Hersfold non-admin^(t/a/c) 20:30, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia app for Android

Hi. The current wikipedia app on my HTC is for browsing only. Is there an app available that will allow me to vand- ER ER ER I MEAN "EDIT" wikipedia instead? 94.1.62.19 (talk) 21:30, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I think this can go without response... Hersfold non-admin^(t/a/c) 21:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

This responsd is typrf, with some difficulyu, uding the broeser thst came installrd on my Android (Samsung) phone. So it is posdible, but I really don't recommend it. Maproom (talk) 21:52, 18 July 2012 (UTC).

Yes, hence why I was wondering if an app had been created to help me make IMPROVEMENTS to wikipedia. 94.1.62.19 (talk) 22:06, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

WP:MOBILE lists some unofficial apps. See if any of those will do what you want. RudolfRed (talk) 22:28, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

I find that I can edit fairly well from the default browser on my Rhyme with my phone's T9 dictionary on. I'm actually writing from my phone now. The easiest edits I make are things that don't require typing like undo and rollback. I'm waiting to make bigger edits until I can use a real computer again, though. - Purplewowies (talk) 22:43, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

CSD criterion

Resolved

Which CSD criterion applies to an empty page in mainspace? -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 22:09, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

{{db-empty}} will give the answer you seek--Jac16888 ^Talk 22:11, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 22:15, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Battle of Tremseh references

Many of the references of Battle of Tremseh are not properly formated i.e. they only contain the name of the external link site. There has already been a complaint with respect to this. I am not in the mood to expand all these sources. What is the approriate template to signal that all sources must contain complete citations? Is there a tool that can expand the incomplete citations? Thanks in advance. --P3Y229 22:16, 18 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by P3Y229 (talk • contribs)

Does {{citation style}} or {{unreliable sources}} help? 71.146.10.213 (talk) 22:20, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I suggest to use {{Cleanup-link rot}} to tag the article. As for the tool, see WP:REFLINKS. -- Toshio Yamaguchi (tlk−ctb) 22:24, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Javed Singapuri

Help me to prevent deletion of the article. Xentram (talk) 23:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

No, sorry, the subject of the article is not notable according to our criteria. Arcandam (talk) 23:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I have declined the speedy deletion request, as it did not qualify for any of the criteria for speedy deletion. However, be aware that the article is likely to be deleted via the more deliberative Articles for Deletion discussion process. You're going to have to establish a more substantial article, with some significant references to reliable sources that show that a substantial number of sources have discussed the life of Javed Singapuri in some real depth. If you can't find evidence of that writing anywhere in the world, I forsee the article being deleted. If you can find that source text, it won't be. It is that simple. All that Wikipedia articles need to be kept is substantial source material to draw from when writing the article. No source material means no article. The source material needs to be both independent (i.e. not written by or at the behest of the subject) and reliable as defined by Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Good luck expanding and improving the article. --Jayron32 23:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

July 19

Wikipedia Book

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• Hello, above is the link showing a book of Wikipedia.The website is selling the book too costly.I want to ask if this book is officially sold by Wikipedia or by its afflicted store? Thanks.14.97.56.134 (talk) 00:14, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Nope, completely unaffiliated with Wikipedia. People are allowed to reuse Wikipedia content for their own purposes, including putting in a book and selling it, so long as they adhere to the terms of Wikipedia's licenses, GFDL and CC-BY-SA. Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content and Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form has information which is relevent. --Jayron32 00:29, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

he correct writing of einstein'ts theory of general relativity

My search has turned up at least three different way to present the equation for special relativity or general relativity. I don't which. I find: E=MC2; e=mc2; E=mc2 e=MC2. There must one correct way to write the equation.

bill freeman

Thanks for your attention — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billfreeman8888 (talk • contribs) 00:44, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

E = mc² is the correct way. Thanks to the MediaWiki extension Math we can make it look pretty: $E = mc^2 \,\!$ Arcandam (talk) 01:02, 19 July 2012 (UTC)