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= My Life

when i was four years old i started in junior marines and in 1992 i was getting ready to go to desert storm as a Major and commander of special operations Task force of 4th infantry 12th division of the northern and central command center in southern Iraq. on july 12,1993 to august 1,1994 we was persioners of war. by the time i got back i was a major General. i stayed home from 1994 to 1999 as a Major General of junior marines and as commander of joint chiefs of staff to all junior military divisions of the junior Marines and President Clinton pointed me chairman of joint chiefs of staff to all junior military divisions on june 15,1999 to january 20,2001. i worked for the pengaton as chief commander of 19th infantry division of operations task forces to the Middle east to june 15,2002 when i retired from junior marines i was given my third star making me a three star Lt General spet on Monday the 23 of March i was given my fourth star making me now be a four star General and for the last seven years i have bin the deputy director of the department of CDA and on february 19,2009 my director and his wife was killed in there home making me the acting director to monday the 23 of march when my job closed down.

My Life in office

i was elected to the U.S. peoples House of representatives from 10th district of Texas in november 4,2008. i am the speaker now spet i was the Majority leader for six years and Majority whip for four years and i am chairman of six committees and chairman of four subcommittees and i am a ranking member of six committees and a ranking member of two subcommittees. i was secretary of Immigration reform and urban affairs from june 21,2007 to june 9,2008.

Editing inaccurate and promotional information in the Medical Tourism article

Since I am involved in the medical tourism industry I did not want to appear to have a conflict of interest by editing the Medical Tourism Article. I posted concerns on the article discussion page along with links to references hoping they would be addressed. Thus far they have not. Below are my concerns. How can I get these concerns addressed?

1. Since I am health care professional and involved in the industry, I will not edit this article. I do hope the administrators will take note of what follows and act accordingly. The following statement placed in the article appears to lack neutrality and appears to be more commercial puffery than factual. "While the tourism component might be a big draw for some Southeast Asia countries that focus on simple procedures, India is positioning itself the primary medical destination for the most complex medical procedures in the world. India's commitment to this is demonstrated with a growing number of hospitals that are attaining the U.S. Joint Commission International accreditation to help to capture the US medical tourism market, while others looking beyond just the US market to potential clients from the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia may also look towards other international healthcare accreditation schemes for brand advantage." In fact the primary medical tourism destinations in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore all perform complex procedures and are competent to do so. Singapore for example is home to Dr. K.C. Tan one of the world's best liver transplant specialists (http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/03/06/WLBG2006030657679.html). In Thailand Bumrungrad, Bangkok Hospital and Samitivej Sukhumvit all have accreditation by the US based Joint Commission International Program (http://www.jointcommissioninternational.com/23218/iortiz/). Singapore has 14 JCI accredited hospitals. Additionally Bumrungrad Hospital was selected by Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, an American Health insurance company as the first non-US hospital to be accepted into its network of providers (http://www.bcbs.com/news/plans/bluecross-blueshield-and.html). To say that the focus of some Southeast Asian countries involved in medical tourism is, "simple procedures" is not factual. All of the countries actively involved in medical tourism offer a broad spectrum of competencies as evidenced by JCI accredditation and in one instance accreditation by BCBS of South Carolina. To claim otherwise merely serves to degrade the reputation of the facilities in that region

2. The following additions also appear to be more commercial puffery. Both organizations are newly founded and aside from their own press releases are not recognized authorities on health tourism as they suggest. While they may become independently recognized as neutral sources for information in the future, that is not currently the case.

"The Society for International Healthcare Accreditation, or SOFIHA, is a free-to-join group providing a forum for discussion and for the sharing of ideas and good practice by providers of international healthcare accreditation and users of the same - the primary role of this organisation is to promote a safe hospital environment for patients, wherever they travel to in the world for health care."

"HealthCare Tourism International, or HTI, is the first U.S.- based non-profit organization to accredit the non-clinical aspects of health tourism such as language issues, business practices and false or misleading advertising prevention. The group has accreditation for all the major groups involved in the health tourism industry from hotels, to recover facilities to medical tourism booking agencies, etc. NYerkes 05:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)"

3. The Following addition appears to have been placed with the intent of disparaging Thailand rather than offering objective neutral information. "However, there is indisputably a major HIV/AIDS problem in Thailand, as acknowledged by the World Health Organisation [17] and dengue is becoming increasingly common." The linked report is dated material published in 2001. Other countries mentioned in the 2001 WHO report that are also medical tourism destinations are not mentioned. No mention is made of Thailand's HIV prevention treatment program being suggested as a model for other countries (http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=39235. Further, the addition of the information about HIV serves no purpose in the context of this article. HIV is not airborne nor is it spread via vectors. Thailand's hospitals practice Universal Precautions which makes nosocomial transmission highly unlikely. Regarding dengue fever, it common in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific countries (http://www.who.int/features/qa/54/en/index.html. Again, no other countries offering medical tourism were singled out for inclusion of this information despite some having a higher incidence of dengue fever than Thailand. There is no suggestion by the WHO that Thailand is experiencing an increase in the number of cases of dengue fever. Thailand is not mentioned by the WHO in reports on major Dengue Fever outbreaks (http://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/disease/dengue_haemorrhagic_fever/en/index.html). Thailand has not been associated with major outbreaks of Dengue fever unlike some of the other medical tourism destinations (http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DVBID/DENGUE/)

4. The insertion of the line "Dubious given that Rockefeller was in Thailand from the early 1920's and Mahidol was a low-ranked royal, not in Thailand most of the time]." It is an expression of opinion and is not supported by the facts. "During the first period of his residence at Harvard, Prince Mahidol also negotiated and concluded, on behalf of the Royal Thai Government, an agreement with the Rockefeller Foundation on assistance for medical and nursing education in Thailand." (see http://kanchanapisek.or.th/pmaf/complete-biography.en.php). Mahidol was not a low ranking royal as suggested. He was the youngest son of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). His two male children, one of whom is the present monarch, would become kings of Thailand. In 1921 Prince Mahidol was appointed Director-General of the University Department, Ministry of Education giving him considerable authority to implement the improvement of Thailand's medical education system.

Are the links to the information insufficient or do I need to do something additional? Thanks NYerkes 03:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Even though you don't want to edit the content of the article yourself, it would not be at all inappropriate for you to add tags to statements or sections of the article. E.g. you might add {{fact}} or {{NPOV}} tags. Sbowers3 12:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

If I were in your shoes, I'd declare my interest then go ahead and edit the article. Being in the industry is not the same as person X editing his own article or company Y's PR department editing its article (and we have plenty of those things going on). If your edits prove controversial, then that's what the talk page and dispute resolution are for. AndyJones 19:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

There's a difference between being knowledgeable in a field and having an agenda. Julia Rossi 23:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

To NYerkes: I agree whole-heartedly with some of your points, but not with some of the others you make. This particular article, "Medical Tourism", is problematic in view of the great commercial importance of medical tourism (and its huge potential) in some parts of the world, including Thailand - as a person born and brought up in the USA, I would assume you are well familiar with commerciality in medicine and healthcare, and in many of the countries included within this article they are doing exactly that - being commercial ! However, we all know that the whole world does not revolve around the USA - for example, JCI/JHACO is not the only decent hospital accreditation system in the world - although it is probably the best marketed scheme - and some of the other accreditation groups come from countries ranked well above the USA in the WHO lists ranking healthcare systems (UK, Australia and Canada). JCI also charge a lot of money.

In fact, standards of healthcare, staff training, ethics etc. are really not too bad in some countries outside of the USA - for example, Dr K C Tan, who you mention specifically, trained in surgery in the United Kingdom (see http://www.kctanliverclinic.com.sg/our_team.aspx?pid=34390 for details). You often allude to US-sourced examples in what you write, and I would certainly not wish to base my complete scientific analysis on Michael Moore's "Sicko", but the fact that a hospital in Thailand (however excellent) happens to be chosen as a provider by a US-based insurance scheme may conceivably have something to do with cost rather than just excellence.

SOFIHA (the Society for International Healthcare Accreditation) is a free-to-join group (no one is making any money out of it !) which merits attention because it is interested in both in the quality and availability of healthcare accreditation and, potentially, in seeking out high-quality healthcare accreditation for those hospitals in based less wealthy countries (including those which are interested in medical tourism) which would be both less costly to them and less overtly didactic in its content than some other schemes. Because it is British-based, there is, naturally, an interest in socialised medicine as well as in safer commercialised medicine (we are all keen that patients who go overseas as medical tourists come back alive and well). Would you agree that it would be good to get a few non-commercially orientated voices on board to balance the arguments ?!

On to travel health. The Thai problem with HIV relates more to the "tourism" part of the equation than the "medical tourism" part of the equation. Any pre-travel healthcare professional in the field worth his or her salt would include HIV prevention in the briefing - prevention is always better than cure, as people are living breathing creatures who occasionally have sex, and sometimes engage in it in an unsafe fashion. In the hospital context, as long as staff obey universal precautions and as long as blood products and human organs are sourced according to what would be universally regarded as good practice, there should, of course be no problems. However, no one should ever assume that all human beings know how to protect themselves against HIV in the social settings they encounter - anyone who has ever worked in a sexual health clinic knows the utter stupidity of such a viewpoint. The Thai authorities should be commended for the work they are doing with HIV, but they would no doubt admit that they still have much to do.

As for dengue in Thailand, try a few more web sites for further information (for example, "Deadly dengue fever explodes in Thailand" 2005 - 0681.htmhttp://www.cdnn.info/news/travel/t050210.html ; CDC site http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no10/02- Science site - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040122083820.htm). There are many many more. I myself have had dengue, caught in South-East Asia, and I can vouch that it is not a pleasant experience. It is reasonable to advise a traveller coming to Thailand to use DEET liberally, which will not only repel Aedes but will also help to repel the Anopholes mosquito, the vector of malaria, which the US CDC will tell you is extremely common around the borders of Thailand. As for countries other than Thailand, you may wish to insert some appropriate data for dengue and hiv prevalence for them too - this web site is about facts, not selling.

If you have problems with the way that other countries are portrayed in this article, you should feel free to edit, as long as you provide evidence. Others will take you on if they feel you are wrong, being unreasonable or being biased. However, I would humbly suggest that no one should ever take too much of a US-centric approach (e.g. with respect to accreditation) when it comes to discussing such points - healthcare is a universal phenomenon, and it would also be wrong to take too much of a stance viewed from an an Anglo-centric, a Russo-centric, a Thai-centric, a Franco-centric, an Isreali-centric, a Sino-centric........ you know what I mean !

Best wishes,

Professorial

Formally asking for collaboration with articles

A doubt about Wikipedia's functionalities:

Suppose that one is making an article, and wishes others' help for some issues. Particularly, for example:

• Formatting references.
• Correcting or introducing links.
• Correcting style issues.
• Translating text that is to be inserted into the article.
• Finding or editing an image.

We can, of course, leave a note in the talk page, and that's what I've done so far. Is there any more formal way to mark an article for a pending task, so others can find it? For example, using tags or any kind of metadata? That is, when you create an article, leave an indication of the kind "I can't do this X thing by myself; if you like and can, please do it".

I'm guessing that there are Wikipedians for every task; that I will always find someone that would be glad to do the task X, and will do it better than I would. But, how to leave the indication for them?

Thanks in advance for your help. Alfredo J. Herrera Lago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.220.222.140 (talk) 03:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there is. Assuming that it's just cleanup issues, there's a host of tags at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup. (Ie, insert {{FACT}} after a statement that needs to be sourced). Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 03:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Also look for a WikiProject that covers the article. --Teratornis 19:31, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Iggys House Realty, Inc

I would like to see an article on Iggys House Realty and Buy Side Realty. Please help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.26.189.239 (talk) 06:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Two of Wikipedia's most important policies are notability and verifiability. A subject must be sufficiently notable to be worth including in the encyclopedia and that notability must be able to be verified through references to reliable sources.

Put simply, if there are newspaper articles with enough information to write about a subject, then that subject is notable and those articles can verify the information in the Wikipedia article.

If you cannot find newspaper web sites that provide information for an article, then the subject is not notable or verifiable and almost certainly will be deleted. Sbowers3 12:03, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Odd Diff results-- a bug?

• There was a version of a page that did reflect what I wanted. [1]
• The system log reports me as having made a very weird edit which I don't remember making. The diff looks most strange.
• But visually inspecting the two version fails to show that they are substantially different.
• When I self-reverted the edit I don't recall making using the undo function, the diff reports no substantial change.

Any idea what's up?? --Alecmconroy 06:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

That's very strange. In the second diff, you can see in the edited section that Gwern's comment should appear on the page twice, but it doesn't. Still, the diff of all three edits shows that it's fine. Weird. WODUP 06:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a bug in the diff engine, I think. It's happened to me before (and I even reverted a legitimate edit as vandalism due to it). It tends to clear itself up after a while. --ais523 15:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Maybe there was something odd before, but now I don’t see any weird thing going on to be honest, diff 1 and diff 2 (the undo) just removes and adds back a period (.) behind Wales of two links to [[User:Jimbo Wales]]. --Van helsing 12:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleting account

How can I delete my wikipedia account? 195.195.166.31 07:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Due to the fact that Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL, all edits must be kept for attribution purposes, and so your account cannot be deleted. You do, however, have the right to vanish, which you can exercise by (1) requesting your user page (found at Special:Mypage) and/or user talk page (found at Special:Mytalk) be deleted, by adding the {{db-userreq}} template to them; (2) requesting to change your username to something that is unconnected with you (possibly a random collection of letters and numbers); (3) never logging in to your account again. If you do this, you are still free to register a new username if you wish to continue editing Wikipedia. --Silver Edge 07:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleted Article

It's me again. Thank you for your answer and i'm planning to make my first article on the "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" animated special. To make sure I'm not violating anything, I took a look on the book article. The small article created on the TV special doesn't seem to be there anymore. I'm afraid it might have been deleted. Is there any way to bring it back? Also, is there any way I can put pictures on my article --Silvasdfj, 5:13 AM (EST), 1 November 2007 Silvlasdfj 09:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• If you want to add an existing image to an article, type [[Image:File name.jpg|center|Optional caption.]] to the article – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, center with the alignment of the image on the page and Optional caption with the caption, which of course, is optional. See our picture tutorial for more information.
• If you want to upload an image from your computer, to put in an article, you must find out what license the image is licensed under. If you know your image is licensed under a free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, where all projects have access to the image. If you are unsure what license your image is licensed under, see the file upload wizard for more information. Also, please read Wikipedia's image use policy, because if you upload the image under a false license, you may be blocked.

Hope this has helped. --Silver Edge 09:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hi!

I published an article about Tilgin on Wikipedia and got the message below:

"This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. The reason given is: It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11) Speedy concern: It is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. (CSD G11)"

What is wrong in the text? It´s an objective text about a company. EVery sentence is 100% right. Can you please help me? I don´t understand what I have done wrong...

Kind regards

Caroline —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tilgin (talk • contribs) 09:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

First, you may want to read CSD G11 for yourself. Basically, information is deleted even if it's all factually correct if it appears to be there only for advertising purposes and not an attempt to present a neutral encyclopedia article. Advertisments and encyclopedia articles tend to be quite different in style; note that if notable and referenced negative information about a company comes to light, it would also be included in an article about a company, whilst such information would generally be omitted from an advertisement. You may also want to read the project page about spam, and about how not to be a spammer or advertiser; for users unused to Wikipedia, it's sometimes possible to produce spam or advertising material inadvertently. --ais523 10:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I should also note that the user name "Tilgin" violates our policies on user names. User names should not be used to promote a product or company and should not include trademarked names. Rklawton 14:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Unable to print an article

Hi Folks, When I try to print this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy_SEALs

my browser hangs. I have tried this about 10 times. Any suggestions? Sorry, if this is the wrong place for this question. If so, can you please tell me where would be the right place to ask this question. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.236.110.88 (talk) 13:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean it "hangs"? Try going to the printable version directly. - Rjd0060 14:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I think he means it gets a run-time error and times out. Leebo ^T/C 14:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I just tried it via "Print" and "Print Preview" and it freezes up both ways. I don't know how to fix that. Sorry - Rjd0060 14:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

You could try copy-pasting the article into a word processor and printing from there; that sometimes solves printing problems in Web browsers. --ais523 14:39, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Another option is to view the (HTML) "page source" of an article in your browser, and copy and paste the HTML into an HTML editor which is able to render and print HTML. HTML editors are probably more common than editors which could understand wikitext. And if you only want to print the text of an article, see TomeRaider. --Teratornis 21:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Don't know if this is too low tech to help, but as a Mac ox 10 user, I save it as a pdf file and it will print from that. Julia Rossi 22:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

School assignments

Do we have an "educator's section" of Wikipedia we can use to brief teachers and professors about Wikipedia? Useful topics might include an overview of our censorship policy, school blocks, and a "how to" or FAQ on the do's and don'ts of making class assignment out of creating a Wikipedia entry.

Why?

Apparently (and I'm in the middle of one now), teachers/professors have been known to make poorly thought out projects which require their students to create new Wikipedia articles. This often results in ill considered articles and associated deletions not to mention (possibly) underage students being forced by their teachers to give up their intellectual property rights (GNU Free Document License).

Indeed, it would make sense to have an "Educators" link to this and related information in the "Interaction" navigation box or in the Community Portal.

Thoughts? Rklawton 14:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:School and university projects? x42bn6 Talk Mess 14:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

User:Teratornis/Tips for teachers is kinda like that, but not exactly. Leebo ^T/C 15:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Any ideas for promoting this to a higher profile? Consider the novice professor attempting to guide novice students. Where can we place a link where such a professor is likely to stumble across it? Rklawton 15:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

See WP:EIW#School. (The Editor's index is where we try to list all the information relating to editing on Wikipedia; it is very comprehensive. But it is also not yet complete, so there aren't a lot of links to the index that new users might find readily.) As far as how to make particular items of information more noticeable to particular groups of people, consider that Wikipedia draws tens of millions of unique and highly diverse visitors each month. Obviously we cannot give equal emphasis to every particular item that every particular individual or group needs to see. To get an idea of how much "essential" information there is (essential to someone), browse through the Editor's index. Until computers can pass the Turing test, and become smart enough to intelligently advise their human users, we will have to limp along with the current unsatisfying situation in which everyone is under-informed to a greater extent than we would prefer. While we're on the subject of schools, I will shamelessly repeat Leebo's plug of my User:Teratornis/Tips for teachers user subpage (which may go into the project (Wikipedia:) namespace someday, if people think it's worth putting there). --Teratornis 19:01, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

While I'm yapping, I might also add that that passive methods of informing people (such as writing instructions for them to read) tend to be unreliable. Note how many people ask questions on the Help desk which demonstrate they ignored the instructions at the top of the Help desk. Many people who are new to anything as complex as Wikipedia are prone to making Hasty generalizations. There is a very strong human tendency for people to look at Wikipedia for the first time, and immediately assume it would be perfect for whatever arbitrary purpose pops first into their minds, without first making a serious effort to read the guidelines, or ask for exert advice. That means newcomers to Wikipedia are always going to make some mistakes, and the community of experienced editors will have to use their human intelligence to recognize the mistakes, and provide mild corrections as necessary. Now, one would hope that teachers (of all people), would know enough about Critical thinking not to make the hasty generalization fallacy, but often that appears not to be the case. Wikipedia is unlike anything most people have experienced before, so it's not surprising that Wikipedia tends to be initially misunderstood. Which is a long way of saying that even if we could somehow insure that every educator sees some customized instructions, the instructions won't always sink in before some educators do something inappropriate. --Teratornis 21:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

why not accept it?

Dear wikipedia,

I am talking about new art movement in the United Arab Emirates, called UAEism and about its artist founder Wasel Safwan. Why do I get warning and deletion about it? How can you help me on adding this cultural issue to wikipedia please?

Best Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by WaselART (talk • contribs) 15:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

It's being deleted because the content is promotional rather than encyclopedic. Your username suggests you have a conflict of interest. I recommend you review Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Spam, and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Leebo ^T/C 15:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted?. Also see wikiindex:Category:Art for other wikis which accept a wider range of articles about art than Wikipedia does. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so Wikipedia tends to be much fussier about content than many other wikis which specialize in a particular subject. --Teratornis 19:04, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikidrama

Good morning:

A Wikipedia user identified as Sukecchi has used an extension of your site to pronounce his sexuality and express his wish for a boyfried. This is info that is better suited for My-Space or other sites. His abuse of your site weakons your its redibility.

Concerned Parent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Green Kirby (talk • contribs) 15:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I see no violations of Wikipedia:User page here. Rklawton 15:33, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Turns out this is part of a Wikidrama between Green Kirby and Sukecchi. I fear it needs to go to the admins. --Orange Mike 15:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

It's not abusive to provide basic info about yourself. Unless you are suggesting it would be equally inappropriate for a straight male to announce his interest in obtaining a girlfriend. If you think that's the case, then you have a general disagreement with Wikipedia's user page standards and should seek to change consensus. It's not disallowed for a user to have a userbox saying they are gay, or bisexual, or whatever. In fact, it promotes discussion between those interested in such encyclopedia topics as those falling under WP:LGBT. Leebo ^T/C 15:39, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

 Unrelated - Although this isn't really that relevant, can I ask why you state that your a "concerned parent" here, whilst on your user page and user talk page, you appear to be 12 or about that. Rudget _{Contributions} 16:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

The account was created by the son, but the parent has taken it over. Rklawton 16:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I see. Regards, Rudget _{Contributions} 16:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

See also WP:VPT#Parental control. — Sebastian 20:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Browsing answers for a response to my previous question

How do I gain access to the place where, hopefully, someone has responded to my previously posed question?

I have been juggling the various pages on your site, trying to find my way back to where I was when I typed in my question. 90.194.116.56 15:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Just below the 'Click here to ask your question' box are links to the Help Desk archives; follow the links there to see all the questions and answers on a particular day. You can also search the archives via Google: use inurl:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk as one of the search terms. (You need to click on 'repeat the search with the omitted results included' to get more than 2 results if you do that.) --ais523 15:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

If you can figure out which IP address you used to ask the question then you can find the question in the contributions. The only contribution for the IP used here is this question: Special:Contributions/90.194.116.56. If it was asked with an account then just log in and click "my contributions" at the top. PrimeHunter 18:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Someday, maybe, we will replace MediaWiki's talk pages with a real threaded discussion tool: mw:Extension:LiquidThreads; when that happens, you might, for example, be able to get e-mail notifications whenever someone adds a reply to your Help desk questions. That would obviously be useful, because multiple replies for a single question can dribble in for days after the question first appears, and the later answers often add important information. --Teratornis 19:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I might add that when you search the Help desk with Google, you may prefer to use a link like this:

• Search Wikipedia Help desk with Google

which uses a longer syntax than the {{Google}} template, but generates a nice search page. (I might write a variation on the {{Google}} template that generates Google custom search forms from a compact wikitext syntax.) Also note that Google takes several days to index new pages on Wikipedia, so if you search for a question you asked very recently, Google might not find it yet. --Teratornis 19:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I wrote {{Google custom}} which can, among other things, generate links like this:

• Type this wikitext: {{google custom|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk||Search Wikipedia Help desk}}
  • to display this link: Search Wikipedia Help desk

--Teratornis 23:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Clear Search History

How do I clear the list of searches that appear below the search window of the left side of the browser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.166.104.67 (talk) 15:55, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

That's a question for whoever made whatever browser you are using and has nothing to do with Wikipedia. Sorry. Rklawton 15:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Or you could just avoid those pages and then the computer will eventually "forget" them. :) Rudget _{Contributions} 16:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Usually, if you highlight them and click delete on your keyboard, they disappear. Woodym555 16:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

How to find the author or editor of an article.

How do you find the author or editor of an article?71.53.96.150 16:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC) I am doing a research article on Moses in Christian thought which is listed under Moses.

Click on the history tab at the top of the page to find which editor added certain pieces of text. As a whole the wikipedia community creates the article. See Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia for some information on how to cite wikipedia. Woodym555 16:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:How to read an article history#Who has worked on the page. :) PeaceNT 16:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

i want to make my own wikipedia pages

billy wayne engle jr —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.14.16 (talk) 16:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Are they notable? Rudget _{Contributions} 16:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Please also be aware of WP:COI. PeaceNT 16:31, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

First try the WP:TUTORIAL. And check WikiIndex to see if some other wiki is more appropriate than Wikipedia for the pages you want to create. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that sharply restricts the type of content which belongs here. There are thousands of other wikis, almost certainly including some that are appropriate to whatever you want to write about. If you decide that what you want to write really does belong in an encyclopedia, then you have to create an account before you can create new pages here. And see Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted? to see what often happens to new articles by new users. --Teratornis 19:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

question re: finding "future" entries

Hello,

I'm doing some research on wikipedia entries that report on future events or activities. For instance, this entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Songdo_City about is about a planned city to be built in Korea (but doesn't currently exist). I've noticed others, such as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongtan - which includes the disclaimer that the entry contains information about "planned or expected infrastructure.".

My question is: I'm looking for other entries (not necessarily about cities, they could be about anything) that refer to a future or planned event. Is there a way to search using tags?

THANK YOU! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.74.215.41 (talk) 16:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

In general, we discourage articles about future events. However, some future events receive significant coverage from reliable sources, and so they might rate articles. Movies under production by major studios often qualify. Rklawton 16:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi. You'll probably find Category:Future events[2] will help you ! Pedro :  Chat  16:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Phillip Goldson International Airport in Belize

Your article on the Phillip Goldson International Airport is incorrect in many aspects including the runway lenght, expansion project and bus service. For correct information kindly visit our official web site at www.pgiabelize.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.14.37 (talk) 16:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. You may get more of a response at Talk:Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport. If the changes are uncontroversial, and can be sourced to verify them, then you can make those changes yourself by clicking on the "edit this page" tab. Controversial edits should be avoided if you are affiliated with the airport. Leebo ^T/C 16:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

As far as I can see, the page doesn't show what you suggest may be wrong. Could I ask specifically what you are referring to? And remember, as Leebo says, verifiabilty is important. We couldn't possibly base the whole of the majority of the article on one website, if you could I would suggest trying to get more internet pages or literary references (books) to cite sources. Regards, Rudget _{Contributions} 16:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I think Rudget is being a little unfair here. I sounds like you are asking Wikipedia to correct factual information about your airport and providing a source where the correct data might be found. IMHO, to say "We couldn't possibly base the whole of the majority of the article on one website", when it already seems to be based on a single source, is not really being fair to someone requesting a change and armed with a source that is the airport's official site. Astronaut 17:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Google summaries: Where are they entered?

See for example this: http://www.google.com/search?q=energy&as_sitesearch=wikipedia.org

That description looks hand-written. Where does it come from? Did someone submit it to google or is it on this site? Functor salad 18:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, thats a good one. That sentence isn't in that article, so I don't know where it comes from. Maybe somebody else will. - Rjd0060 18:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Typically Google's web crawlers just take the first sentence of a page and that's the description you see. However, there have been situations where vandalized versions of articles were the ones to be picked up, so maybe they're changing their policy and giving popular static articles simple descriptions. Leebo ^T/C 18:34, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Google gets many of its descriptions from Open Directory Project, including this one which is from http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Energy/. The description will either have been written by a volunteer ODP editor or submitted to the ODP by the public. You can suggest a changed description to ODP by clicking "update listing" but the reviewing editor may reject it. PrimeHunter 18:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Functor salad 18:46, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

By the way, Google Directory [3] is an ODP copy with each category sorted by PageRank. It copies all the descriptions, including this one.[4] PrimeHunter 18:49, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Correcting a MIsspelled Title

01NOV07 - I inadvertantly misspelled the word "continuous" in the internal link to an article on Continuous Integrated Triage spelling out "Continous Integrated Triage" rather than "Continuous Integrated Triage" when I editted the Triage article. I used the misspelled link to create the article on "Continuous Integrated Triage" except the title is now "Continous Integrated Triage" and does not correctly search nor link to the spell corrected triage article. How do I fix the title? Do I just copy and paste the article from the misspelled title to a new article page under the correct title? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renaissancedoc (talk • contribs) 19:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorting it on user's talk page. Tiddly-Tom 19:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Wong picture?

Your page on Potter Stewart . . . is that a picture of Byron White? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.178.35.223 (talk) 20:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Not unless the Library of Congress has their records wrong - that's his official picture. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 21:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

e-mails - are they considered real-time?

e-mails, are they considered real-time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.213.72.2 (talk) 20:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean, but I think you'd be better off asking at the Reference Desk - they handle knowledge-type questions, we only deal with how to use Wikipedia. You may also want to take a look at the article on Email. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 21:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Check out the definition in Real-time computing; I don't think e-mail satisfies that definition. E-mail is more properly a form of asynchronous communication. A wiki such as Wikipedia is another example of asynchronous communication. --Teratornis 21:23, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Instant messaging is probably closer to satisfying the definition of "real-time" than e-mail is. --Teratornis 21:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Pass word protected information

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a section where technical information for a specific company Service information could be posted but password protected for only Company personnel. Thanks, Donna --DonnaLauzon 21:46, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

If you want to download the MediaWiki software and run it for your own company (separate from Wikipedia), that is allowed. That said, if you actually mean to create a locked article on the company, please read WP:OWN and WP:COI. No, it is not possible to get your own section of Wikipedia for your company's use. -- Kesh 21:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

If you have installed your own wiki based on MediaWiki software then see mw:Extension:PageProtectionPlus. PrimeHunter 23:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

See b:Wiki Science/How to start a wiki for more information on setting up your own corporate wiki. If your company has a competent system administrator, he or she should easily be able to install MediaWiki on your company's intranet. However, it may be a challenge to get enough people in your company trained to use your corporate wiki, and motivated to add useful content. But at least the MediaWiki software is free, and relatively easy to install. You might as well put a wiki in and let your people start experimenting with it. --Teratornis 03:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Solar Roast Coffee

It came to my attention that Solar Roast Coffee was deleted from the wikipedia site. I assure you that this is not spam, and the method that we use for roasting coffee is unique. The methodology has been featured in articles by Home Power, Tea and Coffee, USA today, and CNN radio. Please advise. Thanks, Mike Solar Roast mike@solarroast.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.160.41.221 (talk) 21:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

It looks like Solar Roast Coffee was marked on grounds (pun seriously not intended) of being spam and issues regarding notability. Without being able to see the article as it was, I will point out that all articles on Wikipedia have to be written with a neutral point of view, and verifiable through references to reliable, third-party sources. While it appears that there are certainly enough media articles (and proper articles too, it seems, not a one-off mention in an article about something else) to pass the grounds of notability, I'm guessing that the article itself read like an advertisement, which is guaranteed to be non-neutral. Also, since you are apparently associated with the company, there is a conflict of interest concern that would occur if you were involved in writing the article. I would suggest you take a look at the Wikipedia Business' FAQ, and then perhaps try to write something passable at articles for creation, where it will be reviewed and then, possibly, recreated. Confusing Manifestation 22:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

adding a person

Greetings-

Our Hollywood based production company (Bliss Productions) is centered around the creative efforts of director / actor Stefan Lyenko:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529263/

www.blissing.com

We would like to add Stefan Lysenko to Wikipedia due to his long time contribution to the industry and his unique approach to the arts. Our attempt is to follow the Wikipedia rules and regulations so we have sent his reference information along with the Bliss Production website which he heads. Looking foward to hearing your suggestions. Cheers and thanks-Bliss Productions 1blissing 22:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Looks like Mr. Lysenko meets the notablity guidelines; just remember to cite reliable independent sources. You are discouraged from creating or editing articles about yourself or things you are related to, except to correct factual errors, so you may want to check out the drawing board to get other's opinions on the appropriateness of the article for Wikipedia. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I have always found the guidelines for conflict of interest guidelines that should be taken with a pinch of WP:COMMON and a dash of WP:IAR. Do be very reluctant in writing about something you have a conflict of intrest in. But if you do write something, and maybe ask for comment on it, declaring your conflict of intrest, it can lead to a very decent article. You will just have to accept that it will be edited mercilessly, and that it could happen that none of the information you provided ends up in the final article, or that the article may paint a picture that you don't agree with. Other editors may strongly disagree with me on this one though. Martijn Hoekstra 23:17, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, please note that for legal reasons, we can't have role accounts. I.e., you can't share one account between multiple people. --Bfigura ^(talk) 23:21, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

November 2

research project

I have to make a project based on couple of topics which i haven't been able to decide on i.e. 1.day of the week effect on the emerging stock markets i.e.BRIC's 2.Fed rate impact on the BRIC's 3.Using oil Future as an hedge against the European equity markets —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.225.166.9 (talk) 00:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I can't really tell what your question is, but:

• Wikipedia does not do your homework for you.
• Any general knowledge questions can be answered at the Reference desk. They can answer just about any question you have, but again, they do not do your homework for you.
• The Helpdesk is for questions about using Wikipedia.

NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 00:14, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Delete Account

Hello- I was once a keen wikipedia user, perhaps a bit to keen and probably have made some comments taht could come later to bite me on the back. Can i somehow delete my account or wipe all of my records from wikipedia or something. Thanks

p.s i would like the most comprehensive way to clear this account of mine. THank you.

Catalyst in Society (talk) 00:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Right to vanish. Unfortunately, for GFDL purposes, your account cannot be deleted and your edit history cannot be wiped. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 00:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

air force ranks

Would like to know ranks and see pictures of rank pins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.108.50.252 (talk) 00:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 00:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Rather than bother the folks at Reference Desk, try answering your question yourself. Type "air force ranks" in the search box at the top left of the screen (scroll up if you can't see it), then press the Search button. You will see lots of articles related to your query. Surely, some of them will answer your question. That will be faster than waiting for someone else to answer it, and you will learn how to answer questions so that the next time you can do it yourself. Sbowers3 00:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Have a gander at Air force officer rank insignia, contains most of what i think you want. Woodym555 00:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Am I being censored on wikipedia?

I keep trying to post truthful information about yahoo not having a general customer support number and it keeps getting taken down. WTF? I thought it would say "neutrality disputed" if for some reason I was assumed to be lying, which I'm not. Try calling yahoo on the phone and complaining about their lack of a phone number and you have no human being to speak to. Is wikipedia neutral or am I being censored to write the truth? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.243.67 (talk) 00:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this is a case of you being censored. It looks more like a conflict with our policy on no original research. If you find a news article that discusses this issue, and cite it, you'll be fine. If not though, the material will be removed, since whether or not Yahoo's lack of a phone number is important is a matter of opinion (unless backed by a reliable source). Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 01:01, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

most friendly used English word

Dear Sir.

What are the most popularly and friendly used English words in everyday life in US?

Regards

Frank —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.116.121 (talk) 02:15, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Try the Reference Desk. :) –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 02:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Also note that English words are not "friendly". They can be "offensive" or "not offensive". If you want a list of English word frequencies, a study on it was done by Zipf. It shouldn't be hard to google for Zipf word frequencies and find many references to it. -- kainaw™ 03:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Saying "hello", "please" and "thank you" - with a smile - make you appear friendly and will get you a long way. Same is true anywhere... learning to say these three simple words in some other languages is my top travel tip. Astronaut 09:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

People speak English all over the world, and even within one country (such as the United States), what is offensive to some people may be terms of endearment to other people. See for example -izzle. --Teratornis 23:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Why my page is deleted?

I created a page named "National ICT R&D Fund". It might be containing some information breaching having conflict of interest. Now I want to edit it so that it does not contain any information voilating wikipedia rules & regulations. Help me about this issue as early as possible? B.R. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ihsanelahi (talk • contribs) 03:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

A version of the page was previously deleted as a copyright violation, under Criterion for Speedy Deletion G12. All content on Wikipedia needs to be original - it cannot be copied from another website, textbook, or any other form of printed or electronic source, unless it is very clear and verifiable that the content is freely available and compatible with the terms of the GFDL. In general, it's not. If you can write an article in your own words that is referenced with reliable, third party sources for easy verification, and you can establish in the article that the group is notable while remaining neutral, you should be fine. For more tips, you can read Wikipedia:Your first article and/or Help:Starting a new page. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:53, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

No Reference on Bio for Chad Kroeger.

Hey there, I was reading the page for Chad Kroeger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Kroeger) and at the end of the 'Career' section it says: "However on 23rd October 2007 Kroeger stated that NickleBack are most likey to never record again." There is no reference to where this was quoted from and I've searched the internet looking for more information on this and can't find anything. Other Wiki pages related to Nickelback don't say anything with regards to this either. In fact the Nickelback (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback) page indicated that they are taking a break before recording their next album - and that comes with a reference.

In searching your site on how to complain about this unreferenced remark, I ran across this: "If an article has no references, and you are unable to find them yourself, you can tag the article with the template

, so long as the article is not nonsensical or a biography of a living person, in which case you should request admin assistance." On the page for siting sources - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources). Since this is a bio on living person, I'm requesting the admin assistance.

Thanks.

I took care of it. It was vandalism. In the future, you can remove vandalism on your own by clicking "edit this page". Smokizzy (talk) 04:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I reverted further back since the preceding edits also looked like vandalism. PrimeHunter 04:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

How about a Wikipdedia Armed Forces???

Dear fellow wikipedians,

This idea might seem a bit crazy, but if you already have a Wikipedia army, don't read the rest of this letter.

Okay, so this idea I have, that, just like HALOPEDIA, we should have a TSWO!(Top Secret Wikipedian Organization)

We (hopefully) could base everything on the Halopedian Warz thing. And if you guys make it happen, I just want to be a General, not a founder, as I say, "Those who thinks power is there rite, power isn't fit for them, but when power is thrust upon those who don't expect it, they are the ones fit for power (most of the time)." The idea is stupid, but I was thinking that this can happen, you know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darth Chyrsaor (talk • contribs) 04:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, we aren't a social networking site. I suggest you try Kings of chaos. Viridae^Talk 04:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

There is no cabal. --Teratornis 13:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

NPOV-related guidelines on editors?

I recall seeing NPOV-related guidelines which specifically referenced corporate PR departments editing articles about their own company. I've found a similar issue, and I'd like to warn the user, but I cannot find the guideline. Is it my searchbox-fu or my memory which faulty? Porkrind 04:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

See the Editor's index, which links to just about every editing guideline page. See for example: WP:EIW#Company and WP:EIW#COI, and of course WP:PEACOCK which explains how what we want is pretty much the opposite of what PR departments do for a living. --Teratornis 05:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Code stuff

Hi, I was wondering, how do I colour writing, make writing bigger, and make coloured background things? If possible, could you tell me how to do things like this? Thanks! Ryan 05:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Our userpage help pages give this kind of information. There's Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help/Formatting Advice and Wikipedia:User Page Design Center. WODUP 05:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. This will help heaps. --Ryan 06:00, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Where can I see recently deleted articles?

Like Special:Newpages, but for deleted pages. 172.202.79.43 05:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, you can see the titles as Special:Log/Delete, although the pages themselves are not visible (except to admins), because they are, well, deleted. Hope that helps. --TeaDrinker 05:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks, yes I was only interested in seeing the titles and frequency of deletions, so that's the list. 172.202.79.43 05:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Unless you are an administrator, you cannot view deleted articles or edits on-wiki (that is, here on en.wikipedia.org). If the article is old enough to have been caught by a crawler such as Google, you might be able to access a deleted page there. Otherwise, you might want to peruse Category:Wikipedia_administrators_who_will_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles and contact an admin on their talk page. If it is not a copyright violation or a personal attack, most will be helpful. Please note that I do not include myself in that category. Keegan^talk 05:40, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Not displaying Correctly

Hi, i was using wikipedia, and when i returned to the site later in the day it wasn't displaying right, i use the latest version of firefox.

thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.42.190 (talk)

It looks okay to me. What specifically is wrong? WODUP 06:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

recent changes

i am on the administration team for a website that has the MediaWiki software... i'm trying to change how the Recent Changes page displays, but i'm not sure which System message to edit... basically what i'm trying to do is whenever there's an IP edit, when you click on the IP it will take you to the 'User' page for the IP rather than the contributions for that IP... is this possible? and if yes, how so... if i missed a Help article on this, just pointing me in the right direction would be extremely helpful... thanks...
-- Dani Banani 09:26, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

That can't be done via editing the MediaWiki namespace. You'd need a dev on your wiki to patch the code of MediaWiki itself, and that isn't at all simple to do. --ais523 10:23, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Much how-to information for MediaWiki is available with these two searches:

• Search Meta-Wiki with Google
• Search MediaWiki.org with Google

--Teratornis 14:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

list

Where can I find the list of administrators who should not be administrators? Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hitler-Barassi (talk • contribs) 10:07, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

There isn't one. If you want to make an informal complaint against and administrator I'd sugest you contact them first. If that fails try WP:ANI. On another note I'm not convinced about your user name. Would you consider changing it? Pedro :  Chat  10:10, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Is there a page on Wikipedia to request that pronunciation be added for a page? Something like Wikipedia:Requests for Pronunciation or something similar? I'll create it if not --Montchav 11:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

• Remember your capitalization, that 'P' shouldn't be capitalized. I think the best way to go would be to discuss it with the people who work at Wikipedia:Requested recordings, perhaps they're interested in integrating it in their project page so requests actually get handled. If that is the case, you could build a redirect instead of a new page. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
• {{Pronunciation needed}} can be added to a word. PrimeHunter 15:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

hello

i was just wondering(step by step) how to put one of my pictures up as the main page of an article. ThanQ, CaMeRoN —Preceding unsigned comment added by SharinganXYZ (talk • contribs) 12:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

let me rephrase that how do i put one of my pics as the main picture of an article —Preceding unsigned comment added by SharinganXYZ (talk • contribs) 12:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

1. Upload the image to Wikipedia. Click the Upload file link on the left. Choose the description that fits your photo (if you took it, it will most likely be the first, "It is entirely my own work." Read all the instructions on the next page. Use the browse button to find your file, and add a descriptive name in the "Destination filename" box. Fill in the rest of the boxe and don't forget the licensing. You can choose between a number of licenses to release it under - if you don't add a valid license, the photo might be deleted in the future. (Make a note of the destination filename - you'll need it.)
2. When you've uploaded the file, you can use the instructions here to add it to an article. For example, [[Image:mypic.jpg|300px|thumb|right|My first picture]] will add your picture, resized to 300 pixels to the right hand side of an article with the caption "My first picture". Lots more information available here. --Kateshortforbob 14:01, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

saving a page

How do I save a page to my computer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hement (talk • contribs) 13:27, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

In Internet Explorer, go to File, then Save. In Firefox, you can press Ctrl + S. When the Save box appears, chose the place you wish to save it to, make sure the Save as type setting is Webpage, complete (so that you get all the pictures and formatting), and press Save. This will save the page you are currently viewing. --Kateshortforbob 13:51, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Spelling

On the page Antarctica I have changed to the right spelling of Otto Nordenskjöld's surname and also added the captain's name Carl Anton Larsen. The Nordenskjöld expedition took place 1901-03. In the chapter Antarctica expeditions: I have added the Jason-expedition 1892-93 and 1893-94 by captain Carl Anton Larsen. CA was the first person to ski in Antarctica. He also found the first fossils in Antarctica that proved earlier tropical times and presented them to the Royal Geographic Society in London, which started the heroic polar exploration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thlinda (talk • contribs) 14:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

(moved to new section)

Hi! I can't see any edits to Antarctica from your account User:Thlinda. The article seems to be semi-protected at the moment due to vandalism which means new users are unable to edit it. If you made changes to the article, they wouldn't have been saved. If you would like to make changes to this article, there are a number of things you can do:

1. Wait until your account is four days old (after that it will not be considered "new")
2. Request unprotection giving a reason, and an administrator will decide whether the article should be unprotected
3. Discuss changes on the Talk:Antarctica to get opinions and assistance from other editors interested in this area.

Remember that any factual changes should be verified by a reliable source, otherwise they may be removed. --Kateshortforbob 15:08, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

After some searching I guess you edited List of Antarctica expeditions as User:212.181.115.254 on October 25. I don't know whether you have edited other articles about Antarctica with other IP addresses or accounts. If you want help then please say the exact name of the article it is about. Often we can figure it out by looking at your previous contributions but the account used to post here has no other edits.[5] PrimeHunter 15:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Electric shock

Never mind it was fixed as I was typing :) In the article on Electric shock there seems to vandalism. I saw undo buttons on the history page but the article was changed in 2-3 edits so I was not sure if I should press the undo button only on the last one or all the 2-3 edits? Can some who know do it?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.19.46 (talk) 14:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

What you should do if this happens again is go to the history and click on the date of the last good version. Then click "edit this page" and save it. That will put the article back to the way it was before the vandalism no matter how many edits were made since then. It is sometimes possible to undo edits after others have been made, but only when the two edits are to different sections and don't affect each other. For more information, see Help:Reverting. Leebo ^T/C 14:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

leebo

This dude leebo keeps reverting my edits. I am just asking for help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.9.250.65 (talk) 15:13, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

If you stop making personal attacks and ask a question related to using Wikipedia, your comments won't be reverted. Leebo ^T/C 15:15, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

How do I change the title of the page i created?

I need to change the Title of the page from Hallertauer to Hallertau? I am having difficulty finding this option? Chuckwikiwiki 15:31, 2 November 2007 (UTC).

You can do this with the "move" tab at the top of the page. To read more, see Help:Moving a page. Leebo ^T/C 15:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

wonderball

We need the address for Nestle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.160.119.252 (talk) 16:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Leebo ^T/C 16:41, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The article Nestlé has no street address and an encyclopedia article in Wikipedia should rarely have that. But there is a link to their website where you can find http://www.nestle.com/Common/Header/ContactUs.htm. PrimeHunter 17:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Linking Within Wikipedia

After linking to another page once within an article, is it approriate to continue to do so afterwards whenever the term/person in question appears again? It seems redundant to link multiple times to the same page, but I'm not sure if there are guidelines/protocol already in place. AliothRising 19:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You're correct, that there is no need to do so more than once. You can review the Manual of Style for Wikipedia, which also confirms that, but the first mention of a person/item is linked, and subsequent mentions need not be linked. Hope that helps! Ariel♥Gold 19:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

It does; thank you! AliothRising 19:51, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Typefaces

Can written material be printed in different typefaces on WP? --Mentifisto 20:20, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

It can. Just declare it with regular old <font>. For example: Times New Roman Lucida Sans Unicode. Articles on fonts usually have an example of the font. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 21:29, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

That worked, thanks! --Mentifisto 21:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

how do I get my external links to work?

I just created a new page called "Cultural Development Corporation" and my external links all take me to a "page not found" instead of to the links. The links also all have a lock symbol next to them. How can I get the links to work?

Also, I would like to know how to delete this page, I wasn't ready to post it, but I did, and know I don't know how to take it down while I work on further edits.

Thanks 64.0.115.67 20:54, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thats odd. Check to make sure you put in the right site. Have a nice day and happy editing:).--SJP 20:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

It would be easier for people to help you if you provided a wikilink to your page, i.e. [[Cultural Development Corporation]]. That would not have helped in this case because there is not now a page by that name, so probably it was speedily deleted after you created it.

When I create a new page, or edit a long section, I first create it in my own sandbox, then copy and paste where it belongs. That way I can do all the editing I need to do without anybody else deleting it or intermingling their edits. Sbowers3 21:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the precise name of the page? There has been no article called "Cultural Development Corporation", your IP address has no registered edits to any similar name, and Special:Log/delete shows nothing resembling that name since you posted here. If you don't remember the name then which account did you use to create it? PrimeHunter 22:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally If there's a lock symbol, that is probably that it is a "https" link, so you maybe mistyped "https" instead of "http" —Random832 19:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

How to restore contests of my talk page

Hello. Could somebody please tell me how to restore contests of my talk page. I've made quite a mess there blanking it for few times and I'd like to bring everything back now. Thank you--Mbz1 22:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You can click the "history" tab at the top and undo each revision. Otherwise you can look at the history and tell me which date and time you want restored to and I will do it for you. - Rjd0060 23:11, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the responseRjd0060. I've tried to hit history and undo, but it did not work for me. Could you, please restore absolutely everything here (It is my commons talk page) leaving what I have there now intact. Thank you for your time.--Mbz1 23:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I thought you were referring to your Wikipedia page. I cannot do it on commons because I would have used Twinkle and that is only available here. - Rjd0060 23:24, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

So is it any easy way to restore my Commons talk page. It should be. Thank you.--Mbz1 23:35, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

How do you undo faster?

I keep undoing vandalism but keep getting into edit conflict. Its frustrating. How do u undo faster like all those other ppl? Stupid2 23:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

See Help:Reverting. PrimeHunter 23:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You can also use semi-automated tools to help revert vandalism. See WP:TWINKLE, or WP:CVU under tools for more info. --Hdt83 ^Chat 00:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Policy regarding race/religion in lead?

I recall once reading that race and religion do not belong in the lead sentence of articles about people, but cannot find that policy anywhere now that I need to refer to it. Can someone tell me if I am mistaken, or is it just that I can't find it? Jeffpw 23:31, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Opening paragraph says: Ethnicity should generally not be emphasized in the opening unless it is relevant to the subject's notability. PrimeHunter 23:46, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Prime. You're a peach. Jeffpw 23:51, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

November 3

Picture upside down

[[Image:STS087-715-70.jpg|thumb|Satellite view of Karachi]] Karachi Harbour's satellite picture is upside down. I could not edit it. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pendancious (talk • contribs) 00:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:STS087-715-70.jpg is oriented like the NASA original at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/scanned/lowres/STS087/STS087-715-70.JPG. Do you want to rotate it 180° so north becomes up? PrimeHunter 14:37, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

performance mangement

how to define a policy that performance is linked to input output process —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.123.18.17 (talk) 03:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

This help desk is for questions about using Wikipedia. You could try the reference desk. - Rjd0060 03:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

an IBM thinkpad year 2000

i need help giving it an OS think its operatingsystem. kps sending me a message wen it boots up...OSmissing...press any key to activate floppy. nothing happens. ilovethe laptop, butit was loaned and misused and returned to me in poorshape can you help me. iceprincs2002@yahoo.com

thasnk you....my name is lori —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.88.162 (talk) 03:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but this Help Desk is for questions about using Wikipedia. - Rjd0060 03:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried the computing 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. PrimeHunter 04:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Using Search

How can I use Wikipedia's search to search for information inside an article currently being viewed?

Specifically, I am viewing DSM-IV Codes and I want to use the search box to find a specific code.

I understand the <Ctrl>F will let me search text, but I want to be able to use Wikipedia's search box, by using a browser's built-in search engine feature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.166.178.22 (talk) 04:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia's search engine doesn't really work that well, and certainly doesn't allow you to search for information within a single article. If you plan to use an external search function to do this, I'm afraid we won't be of much help, as we can only provide assistance with Wikipedia-related functions. Sorry. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 06:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

2007 Oct., 10, 1.10 Redirect term is not hit by google.([[6]]) This response is not directly for your problem. Wikipedia search is poor. Even using Google, redirected term is not hit. As far as particular wrod(s) is appears in a article, Google might hit that article. Google may be much useful than serach of Wikipedia, I believe. --Namazu-tron 08:55, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

If you want to search a specific article with Google, such as DSM-IV Codes, you can, by using my brand-spanking-new {{Google custom}} template. Check this out:

• This wikitext: {{Google custom|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-IV_Codes||Search Wikipedia's DSM-IV Codes article}}
  • produces the link: Search Wikipedia's DSM-IV Codes article

which you can click on to get a custom Google search form that searches just that page. However, the search results only show the first instance of your search term(s). When you use a Ctrl-F search in a Web browser, you can repeat the search to find additional instances of your search string. Another disadvantage of Google search is that it only links to the top of the DSM-IV Codes page; clicking on the page link that Google displays does not scroll forward in the page to the location of the text that Google found, so you still have to do a Ctrl-F search to get there. However, {{Google custom}} does indeed make it possible to search a single Wikipedia article with Google, and the template call syntax is somewhat less ugly than editing the Google custom search URL yourself. Actually, I wrote {{Google custom}} as a variant of {{Google}} (written by other editors) not to search single pages, but to search sets of pages, such as the Help desk archives (see the examples I included in the template documentation). But it does work for searching a single article, so there you go. --Teratornis 22:52, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

"The..."

I was intending to start an article which would be called The American Company, which I would have done by moving William and Lewis Hallam there, then expanding. I would then have made American Company (which now redirects to List of United States companies) a dab. However, is it right that there's some sort of rule that my article shouldn't start with "The"? If so, presumably, my article should go at American Company (with a link at the top, to the list) and The American Company should redirect to it. Is that right? (And where do I find the rule, if so?) AndyJones 09:06, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Slight amendment to my question: it's American company not American Company which now redirects to the list. AndyJones 09:08, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Out of curiousity what is the connection between William and Lewis Hallam and American Company? WP:MOS#Article title says don't use "The" unless it is part of the proper name, e.g. The Beatles, The New York Times. Sbowers3 13:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

It was the name of their theatre company. Actually they performed as the Hallam Company in their first incarnation, and I'm intending to have that redirect to my new page, too. Researching this further, it looks like the Cambridge Companion doesn't capitalise the "the", so I'll work on American Company. Thank you for your help. AndyJones 16:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Remember that titles are case-sensitive. Yours should be American Company (but if they called themselves The American Company, include the "The" in the title). Then you could leave American company (lower case company) alone or have it be a dab. Sbowers3 23:19, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

TV vs T.V.

What should be used in articles TV or T.V.? Peachey88 ^{(Talk Page | Contribs)} 09:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Neither; television (i.e. spelling it out) seems to be prevalent. I suppose that you could choose if you are editing an article where you have to use it, much like British or American English. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 11:11, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

You might look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television to see if they have any relevant guidelines. --Teratornis 22:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television) mentions "TV" several times (all in passing), but not "T.V." --Teratornis 22:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

help

help you deleted my edits on salisbury witshre econemy and bishopstone salisbury wiltshire please im not a fucking vandal

Stop sorry Jack —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackslee (talk • contribs) 11:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Who specifically? You could contact the person who reverted your edits on their talkpage, but there's not much else you can do. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 11:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Many of your edits are unconstructive and indiscriminate, and quite a few are indeed vandalism and nothing but. What was your intent with creating a page with the text: "hellllpppppppppppppp mmmmmmeeeeeeeeee salisbbbury"? How about when you defamed a student at your high school and in the next edit attacked the school and its teachers? Don't add negative content to any articles without backing that up with sources, including proclaiming that particular towns are full of drug use. Further attacks on named individuals are more serious and will quickly result in a block.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Preview and sandboxes

Why exactly do sandboxes exist if there's the 'show preview' function that could easily let you see the results of tests? --Mentifisto 14:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Sandboxes (in userspace, anyway) are usually used to write articles before actually posting them in article namespace. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 14:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

If an editor wants to work on an article or list in more than one go then they might create a sandbox. It is also helpful when developing or updating complicated templates. Woodym555 14:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying it. --Mentifisto 17:58, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Having sandboxes for testing also reduces the chance that a brand-new user would save a test edit in an actual article instead of merely previewing it there. We would rather not have brand-new users experimenting on actual articles, when they just want to try their first wikitext edits. That would be an invitation to disaster. (Of course, having "edit" links everywhere does invite disaster, but we have thousands of experienced users cleaning up the occasional messes.) --Teratornis 23:01, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Sandboxes also reduce the chance that a not-so-new user would hit the "save page" button by accident (for example, by hitting "enter" with the focus outside the main text area). Also, sandboxes are the only way (I know of) to experiment with templates. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 23:26, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Depending on how boldly one wants to go with templates where no one has gone before, a possibly even safer way to experiment would be in one's own personal wiki (see for example mw:Manual:Wiki on a stick). Then when a coding error reduces everything to a smoking crater, nobody else has to know. --Teratornis 23:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

No I prefer it when everyone can see my misguided attempts at manipulating parser functions. ;) Woodym555 23:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Custom skin and CSS files

Hi, I'm in the process of creating my own skin, for which the UI elements are quite a bit different from Monobook, so I am basing it on the (empty) "MySkin" files. Now, while I want the UI elements to be different, I'd like the way articles look to be identical to the monobook skin. I'd have expected the rules for "UI elements" and "article elements" to be in separate css files, but it seems (from WP:CSS) that they are lumped together in monobook/main.css, MediaWiki:Monobook.css etc. So do I have to copy the specific rules for article text that I want individually to my skin file, or is there something I'm missing? Thanks. -- DatRoot 15:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I think you'd be better off asking at the Tech Village Pump - the volunteers there will probably have a better idea of what you're talking about, and will certainly have a better idea about how to do what you're proposing. Good luck! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that! Will do. -- DatRoot 17:54, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Why don't you fix the bug, worm, or virus that wikipedia has in the mobile google search engine ONLY effecting wikipedia?

I am furious! This is the second time, while using my mobile phone, when clicking on a wikipedia search that YOUR site has caused me to lose my site, and accessability to google. More ever, when TRYING to send a request for a fix for this problem, Wikipedia is 100% unavailable for help of a response of any kind. Your "contact wikipedia leaves a lot to be desired, and is an insult to anyoe of even preschool intelligence. Get this fixed or I will contact the FCC and let them know you are sendig bug, worms, or viruses via search engines outside YOUR search engine. I garruntee your claims of no liability will not stand a snowball's chance in hell for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.243.146 (talk) 15:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Bugs should be brought to notice at Bugzilla and I have done so on you part at bugzilla:11862. Feel free to post a comment if you have anything else to say. ChrisDHDR 17:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Please also do not make legal threats against Wikipedia. Legal threats are taken very seriously and can result in a block from editing. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

The OP has been blocked six months for that very reason. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 20:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you expect anybody here to do, when you don't even give any details of what sort of mobile device you're using, what sort of search you were making, were you actually on the Wikipedia site or Google (you mention both), and so on? The problem could be with your mobile provider (maybe it just happened to drop connection while you were doing the search), with your device's hardware manufacturer, with Google, with a third-party site you reached through a search or external link, with yourself for failing to use the controls of your device and the features of the sites and service you're using correctly, or maybe even with Wikipedia, but there is insufficient information for anybody to tell, or for the FCC to know whether it might fall under their jurisdiction. *Dan T.* 18:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sure that the FCC will require that we give this user a full refund of his Wikipedia subscription fee. -Arch dude 20:56, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

In his choice of dollars, euros, pounds sterling, or Iraqi dinars. *Dan T.* 21:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

On Wikipedia, we have a Help desk, which doesn't always help, but we try. I haven't seen anything on Google yet that resembles a way to get help. Just in case Google is causing this problem, whatever it may be (I'm with *Dan T.* - I can't make any sense of the help request, but then I don't use Wikipedia on any mobile computing device yet). If the mobile phone could take a video of itself, the questioner could upload it, so we could see what is going on. But that would probably require two devices: a camera phone or video camera, with which to video-record the misbehaving device. --Teratornis 22:19, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

editing an article

Hello, I just have a quick question, as I have never used Wiki except for reading the info provided. I did search a bit in the faq. Sorry, as I know this is probably an easy one. My question is, if people are allowed to edit these articles, who makes sure that someone doesn't post improper or inacurate content? It is a vast knowledge database, so I was just curious about that.

~fewjr~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fewjr (talk • contribs) 17:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

There are a group of editors who help with the Counter-Vandalism Unit to patrol the new pages log and recent changes to help stop the spread of vandalism on the site. Also, any information added must be reliably referenced, to ensure that it is in fact correct. Any unreferenced, controversial information can be removed at any time by any editor. It's a huge system of checks and balances, but the correct information generally comes out on top. You might also be interested in looking at the essays on Why Wikipedia is so great and its counterpart, Why Wikipedia is not so great. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 17:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

(EC) A number of people regularly monitor the Recent Changes and they revert any vandalism. - Rjd0060 17:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

We even have robot programs running there that are programmed to revert vandalism and warn administrators. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:01, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Another page you might be interested to read, if you haven't already, is Replies to common objections -- DatRoot 17:35, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Of course, despite the never-ending battle against vandalism, enough goes undetected long enough to be noticeable by average readers. If you read much on Wikipedia, especially articles that don't get a lot of attention, you are bound to run across some vandalism sooner or later, but probably not as much as you would initially assume for a site that lets anybody edit almost anything. One study found that 97% of vandalism comes from unregistered users. This fuels a perennial debate about whether to require accounts for all editing (currently, accounts are necessary for creating new articles, and for editing semi-protected articles - over the years, Wikipedia has gradually reduced the editing privileges of unregistered users). You may be interested in my take on this issue at: User:Teratornis/Should editors be logged-in users? While I don't necessarily disagree with the current policy (after all, Wikipedia clearly works), I'm not impressed by some of the arguments advanced to justify it, which suffer from some logical fallacies and a weak evidentiary basis. --Teratornis 22:10, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

business environment

achievements of economic planning —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.21.242.165 (talk) 17:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

• This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please post your question at the reference desk and make use of full sentences so we can understand what you want. Remember, the help and reference desks are not search engines. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:00, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

davidlettermanwhydoeshewearwhitesocks?

whydoes he wear <website name removed> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.5.140 (talk) 23:50, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. - Rjd0060 00:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

November 4

Creating keyword rerouting

I am trying to get the phrase(s) "sea witch" [and/or "sea witches", "octopus-mermaid", "octo-mermaid", etc.] to be automatically redirected to the Wikipedia article cecaelia when doing a general Keyword search. How do I do this without creating a separate article for it? And what is the code I use to create this redirection? (I am not a member of Wikipedia at this time.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.166.86.99 (talk) 02:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Make a page with the text #REDIRECT [[Cecaelia]]. See more at Wikipedia:Redirect. You must currently be logged in to make a page. PrimeHunter 03:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

New article not appering in search

Hi Everyone:

I tried to research further, but seem to be strking out.

My understanding is that all articles should appear immediately. I have authored the following page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._J._Trolio

When I do a generic searches 'Trolio', 'V.J. Trolio', it says there is not article. I even double-checked 'My Contributions' and it is there.

Does anyone has any ideas?

Thanks.

DAN —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danimal59 (talk • contribs) 03:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You must wait for Wikipedia search to index the article. The "Go" button (activated by pressing Enter in the search box) works right away but only when the title is an exact match. PrimeHunter 03:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...I thought it could possibly be an 'indexing' thing, but wasn't sure.... Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danimal59 (talk • contribs) 03:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

How to leave message for unpaged user?

Hi, I went to the article in the Hi Everyone section and would like to leave a message for the user on their talk page, but there isn't one. Is it okay for me to create one? Julia Rossi 04:00, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's what talk pages are for. --Bfigura ^(talk) 04:03, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks – I just thought it was an invasion if it's the User's. Cheers Julia Rossi 04:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Kaije Armena, Jr.

Keith Jesse "Kaije" Castrence-Armena, Jr. (November 22, 1992) Illustrator. He was born on November 22, 1992. Legazpi city, Philippines. Fred Gallagher's Website at <website removed> this is my e-mail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.97.218.14 (talk) 04:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

If you're asking if this person deserves to have his own article, the answer looks like probably not. Please read our notability guidelines for more info. GlassCobra 04:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Oscar Sanchez

I created a page called Oscar Sanchez. I created the page two weeks ago. Yesterday I did some editing on the page. Today, the page is not there. I checked the deleted page log and Oscar Sanchez is not there. What happened to the page I created? When I did a search for Oscar Sanchez, I am redirected to other Oscar Sanchez. I have created another page that was deleted, however, I was alerted to the reason it was going to be deleted and the page is in the deleted log.

Please let me know what happened to the page I created named Oscar Sanchez. Again, it is not in your deleted log.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by OscarRSanchez (talk • contribs) 05:06, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

The article is still there. I think you forgot to use the accents on the o and a. Did you mean Óscar Sánchez? I'm also afraid this article does not appear notable, so I requested speedy deletion. — jacĸrм (talk) 06:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

And also, if you meant Óscar Sánchez or not, please do not delete a disambiguation page for a page about youself. You do not seem to be notable, but if you are, you do not explain why you are. — jacĸrм (talk) 06:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Add Comment to Citation within a Reference as part of a Wiki Article?

I would like to add a comment to a Citation. For example, a one or two sentence description of a Journal article. I was thinking of overloading location = in order to to do this. My citations are within a reference block <ref>....... </ref> Using Location = does not work in this context.

Any Advice Out There? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ITBlair (talk • contribs) 06:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

These are usually meant to be summed up in |title= and |work=. A one or two sentence is a rather long comment to have in a citation. My suggestion would just be to put who the journal is by, a date, and the basics. — jacĸrм (talk) 06:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

If you are trying to include a quotation to a reference, you could use the "quote" parameter, but that is for quotations only, not comments. --Silver Edge 08:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I have seen long commentary in a reference. They way they did it was to put it just before the /ref after the closing braces ( }} ) of the cite. Sbowers3 13:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

creating new pages

How do I Create new pages?

Zeno Boy 08:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. --Silver Edge 08:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Administrator Review of an Article

How do I go about submitting an article for review by an administrator? I have an article that I believe needs looked at by one, due to disputes over article content. Kennedy ^(talk) 09:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Administrators are no better content reviewers than other regular editors, and an article would benefit the most if reviewed by an editor who has knowledge in the subject. Thus, if you have a page that needs outside input of other users, you might follow the process of Wikipedia:Requests for comment or Wikipedia:Third opinion. :) Best, 10:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by PeaceNT (talk • contribs)

If the article was part of an active wikiproject then they might be of some help. Projects like milhist/maths/bio/Anime are very active and have a large knowledge base and might be able to help you. If talking does not work then the mediation cabal could help you. You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for some further reading. Woodym555 11:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

What the article needed was a review of the dispute, not a review of the content. One user reverted 7 times in one day - from 14,000 bytes down to 300 bytes. He complained that it was badly written. Other users challenged him to improve it, not delete it to almost nothing. Someone finally issued that user a 3RR warning.

KennedyBaird, if a user reverts 3 times in one day, then warn him about the WP:3RR policy. See {{uw-3rr}}. If he continues to revert, then write a report at WP:AN3. If you need help formatting the report, then just ask for help. Sbowers3 14:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for all the advice. Thanks for looking into it for me Sbowers3. Kennedy ^(talk) 21:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

My thanks and best regards to the team of Wikipedia. Here is a suggestion you may like to consider, which I experienced and others also.

Kinldy put "sound effects in spelling" some words which are commonly mis-spelled. In other dictionaries, there is a sound icon which reflects the sound of a word.

Best regards. SarwarMazumder —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarwarmazumder (talk • contribs) 11:37, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You might want to try Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). What you have to remember though is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. You might want to try wiktionary] which is a dictionary. Hope this helps. Woodym555 12:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary has pronunciation sound-clips - why don't you look there? Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and most people associate sound-clips with a dictionary. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Sarwarmazumder does have a pont, though I think that would have limited use here. I could see it being helpful for the pronunciation of foreign terms if they are the title of an article or a subject header, for example. Jeffpw 12:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Richard Prescott

the author Richard Prescott Officially Dead —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.194.69.6 (talk) 13:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but what is your question? This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. If you have a general knowledge question, you may want to try the Reference desk. Otherwise, can you please elabourate? NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 13:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

changing article name

How do you correct an article name? The name is incorrectly spelt and I can't modify the article name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.38.140.27 (talk) 14:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the article? You rename an article by moving it, but you have to be a registered user to do that. Sbowers3 14:08, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

It is entitled 'Iyad Allawi' when it should actually read 'Ayad Allawi' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.38.140.27 (talk) 14:09, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

thank you very much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.38.140.27 (talk) 14:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I moved it. Even before you replied, I looked at your contribs and guessed that it might be Iyad Allawi. The subject himself and most of the refs spell it Ayad so I moved it. First time I've ever done a move but the motto here is be bold so I did it and it worked smoothly. Sbowers3 14:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

The mystery country

is argentina the mystery country for history —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.200.58 (talk) 15:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Your question appears to be a homework question. We apologize if this is a misevaluation, but it is our policy here to not do people's homework for them. If there's any other way we can help, feel free to let us know. Thanks! GlassCobra 15:17, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

In full agreement with the above message, you may find our article on Argentina useful and come to your own conclusions.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:25, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and for factual questions you want the reference desk. Hut 8.5 15:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Categorization

I want to categorize an article I have written.

I have found a great deal of discussion about categorization.

What I cannot find is a tab or box which says:

"Click here to enter a category for this article" or something similar.

P.S. - I have no idea what this means:

Please sign your question using Cycleman 16:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC).

Signed, Cycleman 16:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC).

Hey Cycleman! For help putting an article into categories, check out Help:Category#Putting an item in a category. As for signing, that just means four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the date after your post. Hope this helps! GlassCobra 16:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

(E/C):Hi, when you use the ~~~~ your signature is added by the software, as you can see above. With regards to categories, to add an article to a category, e.g. the "fluffy creatures" category, you would edit an article and enter [[Category:Fluffy creatures]] at the bottom. It will be added to category when the article edit is saved. See the Wikipedia page on categorization for more info. Woodym555 16:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

(after EC}:Hi Cycleman. The way to categorize an article is to add categories it fits into at the bottom. A random example: [[Category:Chemists]]. To make it sort in the category by last name, you would type [[Category:Chemists|Doe, John]]. For multiple categories, however, instead of piping the name, you can add above the list of categories a single template which sorts into all of them: {{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, John}} To find such categories, you can browse Wikipedia:Categorical index, but I find the best way is to find an article on a similar topic to provide an example to use. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 16:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Fred Thompson article

The Fred Thompson article has been locked indefinitely and the talk page says that it will be locked until the election is over. I believe this means the administrator means to keep the article locked until after November 2008. Could someone help unlock this article. Remember 16:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

The user who is writing on the talk page about locking forever is engaging in subtle irony. He is not the admin who locked the page and is not in fact an admin at all. Sbowers3 18:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Leave your request on WP:RFPP under the requests for unprotection heading. Administrators there will be happy to discuss it with you. Woodym555 16:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Gaster could use some looking at

Gaster used to be a surname redirect page, but it's also an anatomical term referring to the "abdomen" of Apocrita Hymenoptera (ants wasps and bees). Probably one of the two functions should be moved to a disambiguation page, but I'm not sure which one. Move the anatomy to Gaster (insect), or the surnames to Gaster (surname)?

Advice (or just plain action) from someone more experienced would be appreciated. 71.41.210.146 16:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the surname information to Gaster (surname). The anatomical use of the word remains at Gaster. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 17:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, looks good! 71.41.210.146 20:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Always happy to help. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 20:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

to create new page for a new place

hi, 17:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)i want to create a page about my native place OBRA(Aurangabad) ,bihar, INDIA220.227.149.135 17:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC). so how can i create this page? Guide me as soon as possible.

First, you need to create an account. Then, just type in Aurangabad in the search box, and click go, and hit "create a new page". Or, alternatively, come back here after creating an account, and click on the following link: Aurangabad. Hope this helps~! 17:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smartyllama (talk • contribs) Edit: Apparently, the page already exists. And why in the world did sinebot do that? 17:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

SineBot saw you didn't sign properly with a user page link. The question appears to be about the place Obra in Aurangabad district, Bihar in India. There is already another Obra, India. I'm not sure about the naming convention here but Obra, Bihar may work. You can create an account and make the page - or wait to Friday where anonymous page creation may become allowed. PrimeHunter 20:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

how do I attcah a photo to my edits article page?

Dear Editor,

I am trying to edit an artcle (DROPme)and would like to attach a relevenat jpeg image. I have tried copy& past but that doesn't seem to work.

Any suggestions, redirections please.

Thanks

Tinje —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinje (talk • contribs) 18:10, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not accept external images. If you want to use your image in an article, you'll have to upload it. Make sure it complies with the image use policy, though. GlassCobra 18:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Read more: Wikipedia:Images

Don't forget that to embed the image in the article, you must type [[Image:Example.jpg]]. You can also type [[Image:Example.jpg|Xpx]] to shrink or enlarge the image to X by X pixels. For example, typing [[Image:Example.jpg|20px]] will display the image in a 20 by 20 pixel space.NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 18:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, be sure that the image is not copyrighted. Corvus cornix 00:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

What to do about repeated addition of copyrighted text?

The article Beijing National Aquatics Centre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under frequent attack by various accounts (first an IP account from Australia, and then by various SPAs). What can we do about this?

• Checkuser is a big effort for little and short lasting effect. The user will just keep creating new accounts.
• Temporary semi-protection is not possible, since none of the conditions of WP:PROT apply. Moreover, it only would work indirectly, hurting our prospect of improving this stub, and not addressing the problem at the root.
• AN/I does not apply, since it doesn't specifically require admin action
• Just keep reverting. So far, I'm the only one. And frankly, I feel we all have better things to do here than repeat doing the same thing over and over again.

I am a bit frustrated, not just about the obnoxious user, but also about our bureaucracy that makes it so hard to find a way to deal with this. — Sebastian 19:20, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You could request the page be fully protected, but if you feel the protection policy doesn't apply, then there's no reason not to bring it up at AN/I; if the admins can't help you (which I find odd in this case - they take copyvios very seriously), then you could try Dispute resolution. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 19:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Full protection would even be worse - that would be like shooting a rat with a cannon! I am trying to avoid AN because I know how much backlog we have in many areas that do require admin action, so I don't want to compound the backlog by add some that shouldn't require admin action. That would only hurt Wikipedia overall. Moreover, I just don't know what else an admin could do, anyway. — Sebastian 20:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

This seems to me to be a warn and then take to WP:AIV issue. The first time a copyvio is posted you warn ({{nothanks}} or {{uw-copyright}}). Once warned and then ignored, further posting of the material by the same user or IP is vandalism (which is not subject to 3RR by the way). Just follow up in an escalating series as you would for any other form of vandalism ({{uw-vandalism2}}, {{uw-vandalism3}} and {{uw-vandalism4}}). Once the material is added after a final warning, report for the block. I'm not saying this is not without its slowness and frustrations, and of course it's subject to gaming (for example if they wait before posting again it's not within the technical requirments of AIV), but once it becomes complex, it is a proper AN/I issue. But you likely won't get far if you haven't taken the steps to warn first.--Fuhghettaboutit 20:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I didn't think of AIV, because it's not really vandalism. Still, that might be a good idea. There have been several warnings like the ones you describe already. I really don't care that terribly about this one article. My question was only to find out if there is a way to fight such attacks in a way that aren't more work intensive than the attacks themselves. It's easy to create a new account and to revert a change, but if those who want to defend Wikipedia have to jump through several hoops for each attack, then that's just no solution. I have to leave now, but if there's really no straightforward way that I overlooked then maybe I'll post it on the village pump later. — Sebastian 21:00, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I sympathize with your time cost versus benefit argument. Note though that continued copyright violations after a warning is indeed vandalism, and of a pernicious stripe.--Fuhghettaboutit 21:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanations and your sympathy. The problem is that we can't say it's repeated until we checkuser. I decided, unsatisfactory as it may be, it's not worth my time to pursue this any further and I'll just unwatch that page. I don't want to hog the help desk either, so if anyone wants to keep discussing this, please just drop me a note. — Sebastian 02:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

PS: I just noticed that the same applies to the Chris Bosse article: [7]. But I'll stay with my decision to practice WP:DISENGAGE and I'm not reverting that; maybe someone else wants to do that. — Sebastian 02:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Oscar Sanchez (2)

created a page titled Oscar Sanchez. The page was running for about 2 weeks with no problems. Yesterday, I went to edit my page and if was not there. I received no notice of deletion and no explanation. I checked the deletion log and my page was not in the deletion log. I don't know what happened to my page. I thought that someone from the outside deleted my page. I created the page again last night. Today I received a notice that I was vandalizing the page Oscar Sanchez page. I don't know what is going on. My user name is OscarRSanchez I was not vandalizing Oscar Sanchez. Can you please let me know what to do. Is there something I can do different so that my page does not get deleted again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OscarRSanchez (talk • contribs) 20:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You created your article by modifying a disambiguation page. That is not the correct place to create an article. You can create it using hatnotes at, for example, Oscar Sanchez (entrepreneur). NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 20:37, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Read more: Wikipedia:Disambiguation, Wikipedia:Hatnotes

Please note that if you were to create an article about yourself, it would be a conflict of interest and would probably be deleted as you, unfortunately, do not pass the notability guidelines at this point. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 20:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Read more: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Notability

I guess your first "created" page was this edit to Óscar Sánchez which also overwrote a disambiguation page instead of creating a new page. Oscar Sanchez redirects to Óscar Sánchez, so you may be at the latter when you think you are at the former. PrimeHunter 21:03, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Oscar Sanchez - 2

I did a search for Oscar Sanchez and received a message that there were no pages with that name. I was received a promp that I can create a page for Oscar Sanchez. I did. I created the page and spent alot of time and efford editing the page. The page was running ok until yesterday. When I tried to go into Oscar Sanchez to add some more information, I found another page. I checked the deleted loge and the page was Not there. I als received no messages about the intent to delete. I thought that someone from the outside deleted my page. I recreated the page. Now Iam getting a notice the I modified a disambiguation page. The answer I received is below. I created the page first. When you did a search for Oscar Sanchez, my page came up. I am not Oscar Sanchez. I work for Oscar Sanchez and he is a notable person in South Florida. Several articles were written about him in our local news papers. Maybe I have made mistakes creating his page, but I did not have a chance to correct the mistake. Can you please investigate this matter. The page I created was created first. Then it became a disambiquation page. Please let me know what I need to do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OscarRSanchez (talk • contribs)

You created your article by modifying a disambiguation page. That is not the correct place to create an article. You can create it using hatnotes at, for example, Oscar Sanchez (entrepreneur). NF24(radio me!Editor review) 20:37, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

It appears the above reply was pasted from somewhere, but let me just expand a bit: I realize Wikipedia might seem confusing at first, (please click on the blue words to read the policy/guide they refer to). Wikipedia is not like other sites you may have come across. First, it is an encyclopedia. What this means, is that it is not MySpace, or FaceBook, or a place to host personal webspace, or a place where editors can make articles about anything they wish. Wikipedia has Core policies, such as neutrality, notability, verifiability, etc. What does all of this mean? Well, it means that any article on Wikipedia must demonstrate notability (meaning it must be note worthy, covered by the media, etc.), and have reliable, third-party sources (such as news media articles, magazine/trade journal articles) written about the subject, and the information given in the article must cite those sources to verify it is true. As mentioned, you cannot just over-ride a disambiguation page, with your own content. Additionally, looking at the version you put up, I'll have you note again the biography notability requirements, it would appear your article would not meet those requirements. I could, of course, be wrong, but you'd need to provide reliable third-party sources to verify your notability. However, and perhaps most importantly, your username would suggest that you are the person you were writing about. Wikipedia has a conflict of interest guideline that states you should not create or edit articles about yourself, your company, your family, friends, etc., as you'd likely be unable to do so neutrally. If you are notable enough, and article would be created by other editors. There are many, many business owners out there who would not meet the notability requirements for an encyclopedia, so please don't take this as saying you're not important, the two are not the same thing. It is just that Wikipedia uses the same standards as other printed encyclopedia, so you may wish to review all the policies and guidelines linked here. I hope that helps to explain the issues! Cheers, Ariel♥Gold 21:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Also previously answered here. Ariel♥Gold 21:30, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

And also answered in the section above. Please stop creating new sections about the same. Click the edit link to the right to add a comment to an existing section. There is clear proof that you changed a disambiguation page here - and you probably also did it before logging in here. PrimeHunter 21:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles of a Prince

The articles that I posted were deleted and the reason was because they weren't significant, Last time I checked anything that is written in this encyclopedia is NO FACT And can't be trusted, so who are you people to say what is or isn't important? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kreedskulls (talk • contribs) 21:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

It is too bad that you're under that impression. Please review the core policies of Wikipedia, to understand why verifiability, notability (importance), and neutrality are some of the basics that determine if an article is deleted. I think you'd find that the majority of articles on Wikipedia, especially the good and featured articles are highly accurate, well sourced and cited, and demonstrate the dedication of the millions of people who work to create this repository. Ariel♥Gold 21:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

We here at wikipedia have some rules on what is notable or not. If your article fails these, then it will be deleted. I would suggest you read, and follow our notability guideliness. Also, only a small amount of our edits here are not true. The majority of what is written here is true. Cheers!--SJP 21:43, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Making a page easier to search for

Is there any way to add a keyword for a page to make it easier to find? For example, I was searching to find out what a wad cutter is and typed in the search wad cutter. This didn't come up with anything, however when the word is mispelled as wadcutter, it directs you to the wadcutter page. I want to discuss changing the spelling on the page before I edit it, so is there at least a way I can make it easier to find the page through the search engine? Flash176 21:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Should the page be titled "Wad cutter" or "Wadcutter"? If it is the first, then a user can move the page to the correct title. If it should be "Wadcutter", we could create a redirect page titled "Wad cutter" that would redirect to "Wadcutter". Which is correct? — Soleil (formerly I) 21:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

First of all, please sign your name by clicking that tab on the top that looks like a signature. It is okay that you did not since you did not know to:) Are you sure that you did not spell the word wrong? That could be the problem. As for doing something to the search engine, you can make a re-direct to the article. For an example, someone may look up The Group Hamas and have nothing come up. If you add a re-direct to Hamas, then it will bring them to the Hamas article. Happy editing!--SJP 21:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

"Wadcutter" has 88700 Google hits [8] and "Wad cutter" only has 15400 [9]. This indicates "Wadcutter" is the more common name and should be used per Wikipedia:Naming conventions. I have created a redirect from Wad cutter to Wadcutter. PrimeHunter 21:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was just adding my name when you edited. :) Some people spell it as 1 word, but I believe most, including the companies that make the ammo, spell it as 2 words. But my question is until the spelling of the page is changed(if it ever is), is there any way to get the search to show that page? Because if you do a search for wad cutter, nothing comes up for that page, I had to find it some other way. But I just saw PrimeHunter's edit, so it's a moot point. Thanks, guys. Flash176 21:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

If there is, I assume only a developer will be able too. Since I am not a developer, I cannot help you. Sorry:(--SJP 00:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles Copied from Another Website

What is the proper procedure for dealing with articles that may have been directly copied from another website? One article I noticed is partially written in 1st person as if it was copied off the company website. -Zomic13 21:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the article? It may have copyrighted text, it may be written like an advertisement, it may have a non-notable subject. The procedure depends on the circumstances. PrimeHunter 22:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Yellow Book (directory) -Zomic13 22:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It was User:Yellowbookdenton who added "Today we publish 835 directories ..." [10]. It's the only edit by that account and a copyright violation of http://www.yellgroup.com/english/aboutyell-yellowbookusa, so I have reverted it. PrimeHunter 22:18, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Websites are generally copyrighted unless otherwise stated. In this case the original page directly says "Copyright 2007 Yell Limited", and http://www.yellgroup.com/english/sitetermsconditions says: "No materials from this website may be copied, downloaded, reproduced, broadcast, shown or played in public, republished, uploaded, posted, stored, transmitted or distributed in any way or adapted or changed in any way." It was probably somebody from the company who added it to Wikipedia for promotion (violating Wikipedia:Conflict of interest) but that doesn't change that it must be removed. PrimeHunter 22:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

adding a biography

how does one do this please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.212.48.40 (talk) 23:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

You will need to first register an account, which has many benefits, including the ability to create articles. Once you have registered, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 23:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

High contrast skin option?

Hi - don't know if this is already possible with regular wikipedia options but I was wondering if there is a skin/way to view wikipedia with inverted colours (ie, white text/black background). I view wikipedia a lot and find the black text/white background to be very jarring on my eyes after a while.

I read somewhere that when looking at a reflective surface (like a computer screen) it is easier for the human eye to read light text on a dark background.

Rokos 23:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

An inverted colours skin is not built-in to Wikipedia. You can create your own skins (I think), but I'm not familiar with the skinning process other than the fact that you must know at least some CSS. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 23:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Is there somewhere (like an accessibility page) that I can request one be made? It would be a great help for my eyes :)Rokos 00:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi there, you might want to have a look at M:Gallery of user styles to see if theres maybe a style there you could use. Hope this helps Andy^reply 00:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Also WikiProject Accessibility might be the people to ask. -- DatRoot 00:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, guys. I don't really know how to do the CSS coding but I did lodge a suggestion on the Accessibility page.Rokos 00:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

November 5

Created Articles

Is there an automatic way (on wiki or off wiki) to see a list of articles an editor has created?--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 00:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Created? Perhaps not. But you can see all their contributions by going to their user page and clicking "User Contributions" in the toolbox at left. Geologyguy 00:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 00:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You can use the New pages log for some recent ones but i think it has a time limiter on it though. yours for example. I think the question came up before here and no-one could find one, if i remember correctly. Woodym555 00:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, some keep a list of articles they have created. I do here. It is not a universal thing though, so not everyone does it. Cheers!--SJP 00:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking of making a list like that for my private use, but I've forgotten which articles I've created; thus my question.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 00:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Making a Barnstar

I'm wanting to make a barnstar but I don't know what to do/page to make so that other people can use the barnstar. I know normal barnstars you do the whole "{{subst nameofstar" etc......but HOw to do that for me >_< --Diaboli 01:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Please reply to my question on Talk Page since I have no desire to watch this page and check every update to see for a reply, thanks in advance --Diaboli 03:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleting Information

How does one delete prejudicial information on a site that the owner's of said site want eliminiated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drjcoby (talk • contribs) 02:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If you are talking about St Matthews University, then you need to discuss changes on the articles talk page. Anyhow, those edits you made to that article weren't necessary anyways. Are you talking about something else? You have to be more specific. - Rjd0060 02:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

And if that is the edit in question, then just because material is negative about the subject is no reason to delete it, especially if the information is properly backed up by reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 03:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism---Answers.com

What should I do if I find a user who has written thousands of articles mostly by copying and pasting from answers.com? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky210 (talk • contribs) 02:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, Answers.com is itself a mirror of Wikipedia. Do you have any evidence? You also seem to be personally attacking them (User:Bryson109) on their talkpage. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 02:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Since Answers.com uses Wikipedia articles, it is much more likely that Answers.com is using the articles he wrote. Mr.Z-man 02:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It just does not seem likely that a user who has written almost entirely identical pages to those on answers.com and all are around 2 sentences long, that the information was obtained from somewhere other than that site obtained from that site. This user has quite literally no non-stub articles. Why would anybody really go around making a bunch of stub articles on one subject? If they really liked the topic they'd delve deaper. It seems like more like someone found a topic wikipedia didn't have articles on and created a bunch of articles on it to make them look smart or have a bunch of edits —Preceding unsigned comment added by Franky210 (talk • contribs) 02:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Again, Answers.com is a Wikipedia mirror. The length of the articles they write does not matter. Many articles start as stubs simply because there is not much to write about, or because of a lack of third-party information. Take U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 305 for example. (Yes, I wrote that article). It is a very minor road which does not provide much to write about, and due to the lack of USVI governmental presence on the Internet, there are no official sources. Thus, a stub. The pages will be identical because Answers.com "scrapes" the text right off of Wikipedia and places it on their page - crediting Wikipedia, of course. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 03:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I really don't see the connection here. How does writing a stub article make you suspect of plagiarism? Maybe this user likes writing stub articles. Delving deeper into stubs or not is a personal preference, not a sign of guilt. And as Mr.Z-man and NF24 said, you chose the wrong article source to investigate. You cannot investigate a Wikipedia mirror and then accuse a Wikipedia editor of plagiarism. That would be the same as looking at yourself in the mirror and then accusing yourself of following your reflection. Dr.K. 03:13, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Natalie Suarez

Can Wikipedia PLEASE delete anything that was written about "Natalie Suarez" out of the database and off the internet? That would be great. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigistar (talk • contribs) 03:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If it was an attack article, it's likely that an administrator has already deleted it. Regards, Neranei (talk) 03:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, looking at the logs, it was deleted because she was a non-notable model. It has been deleted. Regards, Neranei (talk) 03:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Donate button

the Donate button shouldnt be in red, it reminds one of stopping, esp next to the green —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.235.9 (talk) 05:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Using a Published Text That's Not Available on the Web as a Reference

If I am using a published book, such as an autobiography, to add content to a page, how do I appropriate source/reference that on the page so that the information is not challenged? Specifically this text is not available on the internet to just read for free. TheGoonSquad 05:49, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You can use Template:Cite book. --Silver Edge 05:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks kindly. Could you review Starrbooty and RuPaul Is: Starbooty! and look at the reference section I added and tell me if it is sufficient. The articles are being challenged by some anonymous person who claims the films are not noteworthy which to me seems ludicrous, but I want to cover my bases. TheGoonSquad 06:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

People who don't clean their house

Hi

Does anyone know if there is a medical condition that prevents people from cleaning their house?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.246.9.122 (talk) 07:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You mean the condition that Oscar the Grouch suffers from? =P You should try the Reference desk. --Silver Edge 07:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

How do I...

Deal with a dead link? It's a URL that's supposed to connect to CNN, which it does just fine, but gives a 404 message. In brief, nothing there anymore. I'm tempted to delete the whole thing, citation included. Advice?

Timothy Perper 09:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Dead external links for instructions on what to do. Bascially, don't remove a link just because it's dead; try to repair it if you can, or use {{dead link}} if you can't. --ais523 09:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Getting an opinion on language

Is there a way to get a native English speaker's opinion on an article? I've been trying to fix an article I consider to have pretty bad grammar and language, but after a couple of reverts I'm worried about ending up in an edit war (and about doing a lot of work for nothing). Tales 10:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Assuming it was the article Margit Sandemo, the last paragraph of the first section (Childhood) was written pretty badly, by a seemingly non-English speaker (If it was you, Tales, no offence! I am VERY stringent when it comes to grammar). Copied from the Swedish/Norwegian Wikipedia, perhaps? The section Literary career had minor errors. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

No offence taken even if I had written it. :) Well, you have less to criticize than me, so maybe I'm wrong. Phrasings such as the last part of "In the central role are distinct amulets, old writings and symbols, which deciphering the main characters solve riddles stage by time and fight against the evil powers" left me a bit confused. Tales 14:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Printing an article

Greetings,

I must admit I am not very computer savvy. I know know that anyone can contribute to this site and therefore sometimes the information isn't always 100% correct, but I would really like to know if it is possible to print an article I am interested in?

Sincerely, Diana Womack —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginiawomack (talk • contribs) 10:35, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Just use your browsers 'print' feature (on the 'File' menu in most browsers, or the menu next to the icon of a printer in Internet Explorer 7). You may want to choose 'Printable version' in the toolbox to the left of the page first; this will put the page into a form more suitable for printing. --ais523 10:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Gregg paskins

how do i sign in and that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Collinmcrae (talk • contribs) 13:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You have signed in, your user name is Collinmcrae. I have left a welcome message on your talk page with links on how to edit wikipedia. Have you got a specific problem signing in? Woodym555 13:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

How to upload File/Images of Articles. Public can Allowed to see and not allowed to Edit....

Hi I am Sunilkumara, My I had couple queries while using WIKIPEDIA. Please help me How to upload File/Images of Articles. Public can Allowed to see and not allowed to Edit.... Please reply.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.123.182.161 (talk) 13:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

• If you want to add an existing image to an article, type [[Image:File name.jpg|right|Optional caption.]] to the article – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, right with the alignment of the image on the page and Optional caption with the caption, which of course, is optional. See our picture tutorial for more information.
• If you want to upload an image from your computer, to put in an article, you must find out what license the image is licensed under. If you know your image is licensed under a free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons, where all projects have access to the image. If you are unsure what license your image is licensed under, see the file upload wizard for more information. Also, please read Wikipedia's image use policy, because if you upload the image under a false license, you may be blocked.

Hope this has helped. Note that you must create an account to upload images; why don't you go do that now? NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 13:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If i am judging your question correctly, the answer is you can't. This is because Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that everyone can edit. There is no way of preventing edits to an article because you don't want people to edit them. See Wikipedia:About and Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia for a more detailed response. Hope this helps. Woodym555 13:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

How to request WIKIPEDIA Officers regarding Kannada Language as to List in other languages like English, Chainese, Hindhi Etc

How to request WIKIPEDIA Officers regarding Kannada Language as to List in other languages like English, Chainese, Hindhi Etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.123.182.161 (talk) 13:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Please phrase your question as a question. What Wikipedia officers are you trying to find? Admins, bureaucrats, stewards? Do any of those words sound familiar to you? Or, are you looking for the Kannada Wikipedia? It's located at http://kn.wikipedia.org. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 13:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If your post is about links in the "In other languages" box to the left on many pages then see Help:Interlanguage links, and come back if you have a specific question. PrimeHunter 15:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate Image?

Hi, I was just wondering whether explicit pictures are acceptable on Wikipedia. I have just come accross this article Frenular_delta, and as you can see it contains a rather graphic image. Should this be removed or not? Thanks. --79.72.113.19 14:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, may contain images and content that some find offensive. The encyclopedia is not censored, and you may find other articles like this that contain encyclopedically appropriate images of human anatomy. Leebo ^T/C 14:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Creating a Wiki for Mass Effect!

Hi I was wondering how does someone go about creating a Wiki for an upcoming video game that will overload the standard Wiki page. You see Mass Effect is a video game that comes out on the 20th of this month and it contains a whole SciFi universe of content from planets to weapons just like Star Wars or Halo and it should receive it's own Wiki Project in my opinion before the game is released. Any help to create one or an invite to help one that is in the works would be appreciated. Oh I know my Wiki profile is new but I have been with other Wiki projects under the same name for a while. Bioevil087 14:52, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It would help if you could clarify what you mean a little bit. You are using several terms that mean different things as though they're synonyms. Firstly, Mass Effect has a Wikipedia article, but that doesn't seem to be what you meant. It's part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games, and having its own WikiProject would probably be inappropriate; at most it could have a task force for articles related to the game. Perhaps you mean that it should have its own wiki unrelated to Wikipedia. If that's the case, I can't really offer much help, because such a wiki may already exist. Does any of that sound right? Leebo ^T/C 14:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikia has a Mass Effect Wiki at http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki. Category:WikiProject Video games shows many games have their own WikiProject here at Wikipedia. Creating one for a game which hasn't been released yet sounds a bit odd to me, but it can be suggested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. PrimeHunter 15:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Background image on wiki page

Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to put a background image on a wiki page (like a faded watermark) and have text flowing over the top. If so, how do I do it please. Thanks Annie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anniehall53 (talk • contribs) 15:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean on your user page or in an article? The latter would not be acceptable. --Orange Mike 17:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC) (and please remember to sign your posting with four ~ tildes)

Oops! Sorry. I forgot. Our company has its own wiki and I'm editing my regional office's page. Its on that that I want to include a faded background image (behind the text). Can you help please? Anniehall53 16:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

VIETNAM WAR

What was the cause of Vietnam war. How come the Americans got involved? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.77.149 (talk) 16:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

See Vietnam War. PrimeHunter 16:20, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

How do I make a wikiproject?????

Hi, I would like to make a wikiproject on McDonalds? Thanks--S.C.Ruffeyfan 16:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

The page for proposing a new WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. Take note that it can be very difficult to run a WikiProject and keep it going smoothly. It takes a lot to get it off the ground. Also note that McDonald's already falls under the realm of several other projects, which can be seen on the talk page. It's possible that a task force within one of those existing projects would be better suited for your needs. Leebo ^T/C 16:37, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

robotc power supply

is it possible to use ac power supply for a mobile robot whis moves or performs through a predefined path? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.51.180.18 (talk) 16:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. Leebo ^T/C 16:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

English Speaking Schools in Europe

Hello,

We currently operate an independent English speaking high school in Europe. The school provides a unique learning environment for students from North America and abroad. We would like to link our website to Wikipedia and I am asking if this would be possible and how I would go about doing this? You may contact us with a response to <removed e-mail address for privacy reasons>.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.117.200 (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by "link[ing] [y]our website to Wikipedia"? --Orange Mike 17:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

crystals

Do crystals grow at the same rate? We are doing a science project for school. Thank you, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penwill72 (talk • contribs) 11:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

• Kind of a vague queation. Have you thought aboout looking it up in the library rather than asking someone for an answer? --evrik ^(talk) 17:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
• See crystallization. If you have a more specific question then: Have you tried the science 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. PrimeHunter 17:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Style question

If I want to include an external {{link}} as part of an article. including it as part of the "External links" section puts it too far away from the text to make it useful. It's also not a reference. Stylistically, does anyone have good examples of what could be done? --evrik ^(talk) 17:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the article and link? PrimeHunter 17:13, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If you just want to put in a link, bracket the full URL with single square brackets like [11] <-this. But if it's neither a reference nor an external link adding to the article as a whole, be cautious about inserting it. --Orange Mike 17:14, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

• The article in question is Scouting in Pennsylvania. Each of the individual councils has its own link. Right now they sit at the bottom of the article, but I think they should somehow be integrated into each section. This is an issue with each of the 50 different state articles, and I'd like to propose a uniform solution. --evrik ^(talk) 20:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keeping links together in the external links section seems OK to me. But I'm not sure every council should have its own link, especially when many councils have their own article. Wikipedia is not a link farm. Something like Scouting in Illinois#Three Fires Council needs a link pruning. PrimeHunter 22:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
• I agree with you. I want to minimize the number of links. This is why I was looking for some style suggestions. Since the write-up on each of these councils is so short, i don't think that adding the external link is a violation of WP:NOT#LINK. --evrik ^(talk) 17:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Home page

Hi. Just a simple question really. How do i make Wikipedia my home page? Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.135.181 (talk) 17:21, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If you're using Internet Explorer, click on Tools at the top of the screen, click Internet Options at the bottom. Then change the home address. Rudget _{Contributions} 17:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Many users in the past requesting this have sought to have the random article feature be their homepage (thus a random Wikipedia article pops up when you open a window). If you'd like this, follow the directions above and use as the address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random --Fuhghettaboutit 18:25, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Adding Switch and Data's PAIX (Peering and Internet Exchange) to the list of US providers

Hello,

In your list of Exchange Points by size you mention that "This list is not exhaustive. Particularly data of IXPs from the United States is hard to come by. Other large peering points are the MAE group, FreeIX, Equinix, NAP of the Americas and PacketExchange." I see that PAIX is not included in your list in this paragraph. Since we operate a larger exchange than NOTA I feel that it is only representative that PAIX be included in this high-level list.

Please let me know if there is any specific ionformation that we can provide to help make your tool more accurate and valuable to your users.

Thanks,

Drew Leoanrd Director of Product Marketing <removed e-mail address for privacy reasons>—Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.208.9.10 (talk) 17:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If an impartial, third-party source can be provided for this information, additional points can be added by any editor. Please be aware, however, of our policies on conflicts of interest and self-promotion. --Orange Mike 17:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

How to Edit the Page Name

I created a page for a person under his name. The last name mistakenly does not display with the first letter capitalized. How do I edit the page name to fix this? (i.e. I want to change "Jacob teitelbaum" to "Jacob Teitelbaum"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rscrouse (talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

 Done -(See:here)- Rudget _{Contributions} 17:30, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

See m:Help:Moving a page for how this is done.--Fuhghettaboutit 18:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Text boxes: Table: Colors etc

Can anyone tell me where I can learn the codes used by Wikipedia.Ron Barker 17:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Ron. Help:Table should have the specifics you need on how to build a table. Good luck! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 18:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC) Thank you very much Ron Barker 20:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

help uploading an image

Hello,

I have uploaded an image several times now and it has been taken off the article last time. I don't understand why? The copyright holder is Adrian Piper. She took the picture herself and she is happy for it to be in the public domain. How does this work? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cglaeser (talk • contribs) 18:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

If you didn't take the picture yourself, you will need to carefully follow the instructions here. Copyright is taken very seriously, and so those procedures need to be followed to the letter to make sure we're not violating any copyrights or the terms of the GFDL. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 18:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

KACE?

Hi

I am trying to get a post about a company that shares its name with a radio station KACE

I have offered ample evidence that more persons are interested in the KACE company topic than the KACE radio station topic

However, My evidence is being ignored...ple.ase let me konw who I can make my KACE to :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaceuser (talk • contribs) 20:10, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

You could use hatnotes. Perhaps you could name your article "KACE (company)". NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Further reading: Wikipedia:Hatnotes

The user (since banned) wanted to take over the long-standing page for the radio station, because his company was "more important." We've create a dab page now; but there's a user (new or sockpuppet) who wants to undo this, or at least go to as generic a name as possible, even though there are other companies out there called KACE or Kace something. --Orange Mike 22:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible to center align text?

Using wiki, is there a code to center align text? What is it? How, oh how, do I center align?

Thanks!

Beseechedspark 22:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Since MediaWiki accepts most HTML input, you can use plain old <center> tags.

Centre-aligned text

Hope this helps! NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:03, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Is there a wiki-specific code? One that uses the double brackets and doesn't involve HTML? Beseechedspark 22:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

No, I don't believe so. Double brackets/braces are for linking and templates. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

For Wikipedia specifically, the template {{center}} will work. The code {{center|Lorum ipsum est centrerino}} appears as

Lorum ipsum est centrerino

The tag is a few keystrokes shorter than the center tags, but uses similar html tags (in this case, div align=center). Is there an application which you have in mind? --TeaDrinker 23:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's good to know that I can use HTML on Wikipedia, but my further question is actually for Wikispaces. I thought they might translate to one another... Beseechedspark 03:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Uploading and deleting images

1. How do I upload an image onto a page? 2. How do delete surplus images listed under "My Contributions"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by High Distinction (talk • contribs) 22:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Q1: Type [[Image:Example.jpg|XXpx]] where Example.jpg is the filename and XXpx is the size in XX by XX pixels. (e.g. [[Image:Example.jpg|25px]] will display Example.jpg in a 25 by 25 pixel "box".) That's to display images on a page; to upload images, you must go to Wikipedia:Upload.

Q2: Unfortunately, for GFDL purposes, you cannot delete contributions except in extenuating circumstances (i.e. the edit contains dangerous personal information) — and even then you have to get a user with Oversight permission to do it. Hope this helps! =) NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:45, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Further reading:Wikipedia:Images, Wikipedia:User access levels — Useful links:Wikipedia:Upload

E-Mail

how can I e-mail other wikipedia users? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlddw (talk • contribs) 23:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Go to their user page and click on the link in the toolbox to the left that says "email this user". By the way, it only works if the user has submitted an email address. Dismas|^(talk) 23:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, both you and the user have to have submitted email addresses, as I understand it. --TeaDrinker 23:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It's more normal to contact another editor by editing their user talk page, like yours at User talk:Jdlddw. PrimeHunter 00:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Posting a user page

I have finished working on a page jsdietsch/michael Benjamin Younan. I need someone to review it and let me know if it is okay. Then I will need someone to explain how to post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsdietsch (talk • contribs) 23:50, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

(Here's a link: User:Jsdietsch/Michael Benjamin Younan) First, it's great that you created it in your sandbox instead of creating it as a regular article. That gives you time to work on it without others trying to delete it for not being up to Wikipedia standards. And I'm afraid that it is not yet up to standard. The main thing you need - that every article needs - is references to demonstrate notability. You should have inline references for most of the facts in the article, so that other editors can verify the accuracy of the facts. Can you find newspaper articles about the subject? If so, those articles will demonstrate notability and can serve as references. Once you have enough references to demonstrate notability there are some formatting tweaks needed but first you need references. I'd like to hear from other editors but my first impression is that the subject might not be sufficiently notable. Sbowers3 00:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jsdietsch. Adding to Sbowers3's post above, please note the section of Wikipedia:Notability (people) which relates specifically to politicians and finds notable "Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures", as well as deletion precedents, which states that "Candidates for a national legislature are not viewed as having inherent notability."--Fuhghettaboutit 01:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

New article?

How do I make a new article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockeydude66 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Hockeydude66, and WP:Welcome! I realize Wikipedia might seem confusing at first, (please click on the blue words to read the policy/guide they refer to). Wikipedia is not like other sites you may have come across. First, it is an encyclopedia. What this means, is that it is not MySpace, or FaceBook, or a place to host personal webspace, or a place where editors can make articles about anything they wish. Wikipedia has Core policies, such as neutrality, notability, verifiability, etc. What does all of this mean? Well, it means that any article on Wikipedia must demonstrate notability (meaning it must be note worthy, covered by the media, etc.), and have reliable, third-party sources (such as news media articles, magazine/trade journal articles) written about the subject, and the information given in the article must cite those sources to verify it is true. From those sources, information is summarized, paraphrased, condensed, and worded neutrally to make an encyclopedic entry (information cannot be copied from other sites). See Wikipedia's manual of style, layout guide, your first article, article development, and how to edit for assistance. Additionally, Wikipedia has a conflict of interest guideline that states you should not create or edit articles about yourself, your company, your family, friends, etc., as you'd likely be unable to do so neutrally. Hope that helps! Ariel♥Gold 23:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 00:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Template and IE/Firefox formatting

I suppose this is already answered for a thousand times, but...

I made the template template:Case Closed names and used it on List of characters in Case Closed. The spacing under eact section is correct under IE, but was wrong under Firefox, so I added some empty row spaces to correct formatting. Today there was an edit [12] that removed such white spaces since replaced excessive white spaces; they appear to be here to compensate for bad formatting. Since I think this edit is good faith, I wonder if there are template codes that can help with this problem?--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 00:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I've made an attempt to fix it to how I think you want it to look, by adding a {{clear}} template above every {{Case Closed names}} template, to make sure the box lines up with the paragraph about the character (now I think about it I should've just added it to the template itself, doh!). Just say if it isn't right. -- DatRoot 11:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Helen Keller

Please unlock this article. Why lock this article? There is no reason to do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanispay2 (talk • contribs) 00:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You can simply wait until your account is four days old, then you can edit semi-protected articles. If the article was fully protected, you may request unprotection at WP:RFPP. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 00:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Further reading: Wikipedia:Protection policy

example of a good article on a (non-university) school

I frequently run across articles on high schools, junior highs, elementary schools, etc. While most of them are poorly written, I'm not altogether sure what information to remove and what to attempt to NPOV, eg [13]. Also, I'd like to be able to point authors to a good example (of course, if I manage to create one, then that will serve the purpose). Xiong Chiamiov :: contact :: 01:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey there. I would start with this link. Yes most of them are universities, but you'll find a significant number of secondary schools as well: Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) and Aquinas College, Perth and De_La_Salle-Santiago_Zobel_School and so on.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 03:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Then, move on to the really, really good articles, including: Plano Senior High School and Stuyvesant High School.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 03:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank-you for the feedback

thanks

November 6

How Wikipedia can help the environment

Hey. You may be aware of the site "Blackle" www.blackle.com, how it cuts power consumption on rear projection monitors by providing google with a black background. Wikipedia is a site vistited by ALOT of people every day.

I think it could be an easy step to work towards less power consumption if we could possibly make wikipedias blackground black for a week or two, or even permanentely —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winebarrel69 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. If you would like to propose a change at Wikipedia, the village pump might be a good place to go - probably either the proposals or technical sections might be appropriate. Most decisions at Wikipedia are based on the consensus of our editors, and a major change like that might require agreement from a large proportion of users. Note that our article on Blackle mentions that power conservation was mainly on cathode ray tube monitors (as you mention), rather than the increasingly popular liquid crystal display monitors. In the meantime, you could use a skin to change the appearance of Wikipedia on your account if you prefer a dark background. -- Kateshortforbob 10:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

While we should all try to save energy I'm skeptical of this method, especially since CRT monitors are being replaced by LCDs, to which this doesn't apply, and which use much less power anyway. Indeed, the site http://www.blackle.com seems to be being a little deceptive in the way it shows the amount of energy saved. -- DatRoot 15:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Garrett's Miss Pawhuska

I was adding information of the missing horse Garrett's Miss Pawhuska with complete pedigree and horse info box that was used for all the other Quarter Horses listed under American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. This is the only horse that was not completed from this list and I was just supplying the same type of information that all the other horses already have listed. Poco88 03:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)Poco88

I'm not quite sure what your question is, but that page was speedily deleted under CSD A1 - "Articles with very little or no context about the subject". You probably need to add a little more information about the horse - for example, why it is notable, and several reliable sources for verification. You may want to see WP:STUB for information on what we consider the minimum amount of information for an article. If you contact the deleting administrator, they may be willing to restore the text of the article to one of your user subpages for you to continue working on it. I hopes this helps you sort things out, if not, feel free to post again. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

trying to attach a copyright tag to an image.

I have uploaded an image several times and tried to attach a copyright tag to it from the drop down menu. Each time I am told the image has no copyright tag and will be deleted. What am I doing wrong? Jpeastman 04:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

It has been corrected for you by User:Hersfold. - Rjd0060 04:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Not really sure, as usually the menu works and your log entries clearly show that you meant to apply a {{GFDL-self}} tag. I've fixed the tag in the meantime, but I'm not really sure how to explain what went wrong without being able to see what you did. If the menu misbehaves again, however, you can always manually type the code you want using the lists here. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Phoebe Snow

I just wanted to tell you that I looked up the name Phoebe Snow. My dad worked for and retired off the MO Pacific Railroad. When my Mom was expecting me, he came home from work and told her that if they had a girl he wanted to name me Phoebe after the boxcar. I lost my dad 5 or 6 years ago, so it makes my memory special because of my name. He calle GE on the railroad.  :)

Phoebe

<email removed for your security> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.200.12 (talk) 05:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Did you have a question? I've removed your email address, as putting it here puts you at risk of getting spammed and we don't reply via email anyway. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 07:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

While you are reflecting on how great the Phoebe Snow (character) article is, see: Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great. And now that you have us feeling all sentimental, I might mention that I picked my username after the Teratornithidae article. Just imagine what your name might have been if Wikipedia had been around for your dad to read (may he rest in peace). --Teratornis 16:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirecting to a Category page

I have a page that I want to redirect to a Category page, so I place #REDIRECT [[Category: xxxxx]], but then the redirect page becomes part of that category, which I do not want. What is the best way I can get around this, without creating another page for a list, keeping it on the category page? Oddeven2002 05:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

If you want to avoid the page being part of the category, you need to add a colon in front, like this: #REDIRECT [[:Category:xxxxx]]. In the case of the link from an article to a category, I'm not sure if it works or if it is even appropriate, though. Maybe there are better ways to achieve this, from a usability point of view. — Sebastian 05:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Right, right. I keep practicality and standardization in mind. It is not for Wikipedia, anyway. Thank you for the response. Peace. Oddeven2002 05:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

contacts

wanted to know according to the country and state and city the list of individuals of different profiles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.136.18.22 (talk) 07:28, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for, but I do know you're in the wrong place. The reference desk should be able to answer your question, if you ask over there. They deal with knowledge questions, we only tell you how to use Wikipedia. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 07:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Searches of ANI

Question moved here from Wikipedia talk:Reference desk.  --Lambiam 08:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The "Administrators Noticeboard Incident" search that shows up on each ANI archive page is apparently not searching achives more recent than #235, which was archived Spring 2007.

Can you please tell me if there is an alternate tool, or who can "fix" the current tool?

Thank you. Wanderer57 06:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Try http://www.google.com/custom?domains=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'--Fuhghettaboutit 12:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible to use Image:Suicmezmuhammed.jpg in German Wikipedia and how can I do it?

Hallo dear English speaking users. I hope I am right with my question on this page. Does anybody know, if and how I can use the Image Image:Suicmezmuhammed.jpg for my german article about Muhammed Suiçmez? I would be very thankful, if somebody of you would look at the image-license and give me a hint. Greetings and Thanks a lot from --Projektil 08:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Save the image and upload it to Wikimedia Commons. You can use it any language Wikipedia then. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, thanks a lot. You alreddey did it for me? --Projektil 14:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Saving search history

Is there a way to save my search history (or bookmark certain articles/topics/subjects) to come back to them later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bperunovic (talk • contribs) 09:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You can add articles to your watchlist (click "watch" at the top of the page). To view pages in your watchlist, you can click "My watchlist" at the top right of any page when you are logged in. You can't watch search results; probably the best way would be to bookmark them in a "Wikipedia" folder in your browser or use a service like del.icio.us. -- Kateshortforbob 10:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You might find something useful in Category:Desktop search engines, such as Google Desktop, Spotlight (software), or Beagle (software). For example, Google Desktop allegedly indexes your Web browsing history for later searching. I don't know how well that feature works because I have not tried a recent version of Google Desktop. If you find a desktop searching tool that does what you want, please let us know, because the question you ask comes up occasionally on the Help desk (search the Help desk archive for: save search history). --Teratornis 16:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Image help

Can someone clarify the image policy for me; I have real trouble understanding it? Last night I uploaded Image:Martial arts troll.jpg to Commons, a photo I had taken to illustrate the Troll doll article. This morning it was tagged for speedy deletion as a copyvio of a creative work. I had wondered about this, but checked other toy articles, which seem to have pictures, so (foolishly) assumed it was alright. My question is, if a picture taken by a user of something which has a copyright/trademark is a copyvio, how does any article about a product etc. have a picture? Why is there a photoreq tag on articles where presumably any image would violate copyright? Sorry to be asking what are probably very basic questions, but I want to make sure I'm not breaking any rules before I upload any more pictures. Thanks -- Kateshortforbob 10:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

From reading Commons:Derivative works, it seems a toy like that is considered a three-dimensional work of art which can be copyrighted. However, Wikipedia does allow using non-free content where no free alternative could be created. So make that image smaller (as per the "Minimal extent of use" policy), and stick a {{Non-free 3D art}}, or {{Non-free character}} template on the page as well as a {{Non-free use rationale}}. Does this make things clearer? — Ksero ^{t c} 10:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the information - that makes more sense. I understand that commons doesn't allow non-free use, so it (and the other similar image I uploaded) will probably be deleted there soon. I'll try to upload to Wikipedia with the qualifications you suggest when I have the opportunity. Thanks again --Kateshortforbob 11:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

submiting an article ???

Hi, I have been trying to submit an article for Wikipedia. I have saved the article in my user page 3 times now, and it does not seem to be submitting. I can not work out how to actually submit the article for review, so it can be published as a 'Wikipedia' article. It is very confusing to me and I am getting frustrated. Can you tell me in simple words exactly how I submit an article.

Honestly, I'm not even sure how to submit this question. Down the bottom, all I can see is the same buttons; 'Save Page', 'Show Preview', 'Show Changes' ??? Also, how do I insert an image and how do I make a link to other information pages on the internet. When I click the buttons along the top, they just automatically insert some 'Example' images or links, like it is a practice page or something???

I don't know what I am supposed to do regarding the squiggly lines for signature etc either. I have gone through the tutorials and how to edit and all that stuff carefully, and I am none the wiser.

I think Wikipedia is great, I even donate to it... but submitting an article has got me stumped. I know I'm going to get a whole bunch of people telling me how dumb I am now. That's ok, I know that. I have a doctorate in science and 4 other Uni degrees, just means I'm intelligent, NOT SMART... big difference!

I'll tell you how dumb I am, I'm even going to have trouble finding my way back to the answer to this question.

Hope you can help me Thanks regards Chris —Preceding unsigned comment added by Argentriol (talk • contribs) 12:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I have done all those things you recommended. I have also written the article from an objective point of view, to ensure it simply presents the information in an unbiased manner, and as information that can be extrapolated and researched by the reader at their own discretion. I believe it is a very pertinent article, and I have researched to see if any other articles already exist as the same, and found none. Effectively, I believe I have addressed all the appropriate criteria. I read in the information about 'writing articles' , that an article can, or is, submitted for review, which I encourage. However, I do not know how I identify, when the article is approved or declined, and if approved, does it just then appear as an article in 'Wikipedia' when people go searching for that subject. If you could let me know, because I am anxious to have the information published, as I already am considered the world authority on the subject and have people constantly asking me about the subject. So I believe it is high time that a basic overview about the subject was readily available for anyone interested in knowing a about it. There are other people around the world who inform and teach on the subject, but for some reason they all turn to me as the foremost authority. Perhaps because the subjects I lecture on at University, encroach on the prime subject, and it seems to permeate throughout most subjects in the disciplines of Science and Art I teach. So essentially, I just want to know, how to submit it, if it is accepted, how to insert some images, and how to create links through words or phrases within the article, to other sites with more educational value on the subject. And, also if I need to add any codes etc when inserting artwork that is my own original work, purely as visual aids to enhance the subject matter. I have a philosophy of 'Education through Entertainment' so images help exploit that. Thanks again regards Chris Argentriol 13:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I have read the proposed article and it appears to me to be quite firmly in the realm of original research. Other sites may be appropriate for such material but I do not think it belongs on Wikipedia. An encyclopedia is a tertiary source. Thus, articles must be written by synthesizing primary and secondary sources that are already pubished. Novel theories, religions—new things—should never be announced on Wikipedia, which includes the use of published and reliable sources to come to a conclusion that the original sources did not; an "unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material". All that having been said, there are two ways to post the article. One is to move your user page to the correct article name. Or, since there is no GFDL consideration here, you can create an article here and paste the material into the page you create.--Fuhghettaboutit 13:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I assume the page you have in mind is this one. I'm not sure it's appropriate as an encyclopedia article. Its biggest weakness is the lack of reliable sourcing. If you cannot provide published sources for the article's claims, it might be better on another site. The various policies and guidelines are linked in NASCAR Fan24's posting, above. AndyJones 13:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit conflict]New articles do not get declined or approved; they simply appear. Now to answer your questions:

• To insert an image: You can type [[Image:Example.jpg]]; but if you want to specify a size, you can type [[Image:Example.jpg|XXpx]]; then the picture will appear in the article, but at the size you specified (XX by XX pixels)
• To link to other articles or sites Type [[Article name]] to link to other Wikipedia articles. To add a link to an external site, you can type [http://www.example.com], which will display as [14], or simply excise the brackets and it will display as http://www.example.com. You can also specify a name for the link by typing [http://www.example.com Example.com], which will display as Example.com.
• Your artwork: to insert your artwork, just upload it as an image. Remember that we only accept GFDL-licensed, Creative Commons-licensed, public domain, or fair use images. If you decide to freely license it (i.e. GFDL, CC, PD), upload it to Commons instead. You may want to consider licensing your work under the Free Art License, in which case you enter {{FAL}} in the "summary" section while you are uploading, again, to Commons.

Hope this helps! NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 13:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Well thanks again. I am impressed by the rapid response to these queries. I do empathize with your opinions and considerations for the article. Yes it is the Article you presume. There is actually a lot of ancillary information and reference to this subject in all manner of publications, from the 'Book of Revelations' in the Christian Bible, the Koran, The SinSet, The Kabbalah, through to modern spiritual and theological publications and symposium. However, collating that work to support or validate the concise work on the specifics of the Argentriol, is a veritable nightmare embroiled in chaos. So I am not prepared to go to those lengths at this stage. However, both of you (I am assuming that Fuhghettaboutit & AndyJones, are two different people) suggested other vehicles where it might be more appropriate to initially publish this article. I wonder, if you would be kind enough to perhaps point me in a few directions (publications) regarding that proposal. Perhaps, if I can established enough generated interest through other publications, and we are able to accumulate additional evidence and argument, then we could reconsider an entry as a Wikipedia article. I essentially work from a platform of science, so it is in my nature to gather evidence to support any theory or theosophy. I am responsible for the development of 'Transverse Magnetic Poling', the 'Photomic Energiser', and the gravitational dynamics principle in the 'G-Ions theory'. I did not stumble across these, it took years and many uncounted hours of hard research, calculation and development, just to form sound basic theories, let alone substantial operating platforms. So I am not about to unleash information on the world without at least a reasonable degree of research into the subject. It is however, a subject of disputable argument. But then so are nearly all theological presentations and arguments, and also many scientific theory. I work in a field of science that has more holes and questions than a our own solar system, 'Quantum Physics and Cosmology'. Yet we carry on, searching , extrapolating, pondering, postulating, theorising and contemplating, until we find answers. So if you are able to assist me in getting this little bit of information out and accessible to any one who is interested in learning about it, then I am in your debt. with respect Chris Argentriol 14:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

From your comments, it appears to me that you may not realize that submitting work to Wikipedia means that you will have absolutely no ownership of the work in any way. It will be public and everyone else will be able to edit it, delete sections, append new sections, and so forth. You've repeatedly made references to it being "your article" - not just "an article". So, I want to ensure that you won't be back in a short while asking how to keep people from changing your article. -- kainaw™ 14:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

No! I was under the impression that any article I submitted was open for discussion, amendment, addition, etc. I was encouraged by the concept that the article could be published in a domain where people could add to it and debate it. So I had no reservations about people making changes to it, I expected that other peoples opinions and submissions on the article would only serve to help develop an education and awareness of the subject matter.

However, your comment does raise one issue. This article is an excerpt from a much larger work that is being published, and the copyright belongs to the entities that have publishing copyright, intellectual and creative ownership. In saying this, I have total authority of copyright ownership to re-produce or copy any portion or whole of this works, to whatever publication or public access vehicle I feel appropriate. So in terms of copyright issue to Wikipedia, there is not one. But does the publication of this article on Wikipedia, mean it is then ineligible to be published in the original works? You said I/we would no longer have ownership of the article. Is this in the context of it being accessible to anyone who wishes to edit the article via Wikipedia? If that is the case, there is no issue. Or, is it in the context that Wikipedia would then own the reserved right of copy, including creative and intellectual ownership? If that is the case. we can not publish it on Wikipedia anyway.

I am however, interested to know your recommendations for other vehicles you feel might be appropriate for the article, as you mentioned earlier. Thanks again. By the way, I really appreciate the time and consideration you have all devoted to me on this issue tonight. with respect Chris 124.180.200.238 14:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

By "ownership", I was referring to copyright ownership. Anything on Wikipedia is public. If I wanted to, I could publish a book using nothing but Wikipedia articles. The authors of those articles have no legal standing to block me from publishing the book or requesting payment for their work. I would ensure that this does not interfere with any business you are currently doing. I wouldn't want you to give a good article to Wikipedia only to have your publishing deal get hindered because of it. -- kainaw™ 14:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict) If you are submitting something to Wikipedia, you are licensing it under the GFDL. You don't retain the copyright on the text you've submitted. Also, Wikipedia does not want such material directly copied from other sources, as it's extrememly unlikely it would meet Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Your options include publishing your content elsewhere, or perhaps create your own wiki. Leebo ^T/C 15:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

If you take a look at the article in question, you'll see that this is all irrelevant anyway, as the article (aside from inappropriate tone) is blatantly Original Research, and therefore not suitable for an entry here. --Orange Mike 15:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

song "Satin Sheets"

You have it wrong on who wrote the song. How do I make sure the right song writer is recognized for her work and not the song writer you have posted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.7.83.191 (talk) 12:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You can change it by going up to "edit this page" at the top. Be sure to cite reliable sources. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 12:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Further reading: Wikipedia:Citing sources

Should red-links be red?

Here's an interesting one. I recently created the page American Company, and in doing so linked the names of four people who are potentially notable in their own right, namely:

• William Hallam
• Lewis Hallam
• David Douglass &
• Lewis Hallam, Jr.

I then realised that someone looking for, say, Lewis Hallam, Jr., would want to find my page rather than be told there wasn't one. So I turned all four names into redirects to American Company.

However I then realised that the links are no longer red: they're blue, and they're just circular. So all the benefits of red-links (mainly that someone will come along one day and write the article) may be lost.

On the whole, I think I made the right decision in redirecting: but does anyone have another view on this? AndyJones 13:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the redirects should be deleted. As you noted, what you have done is create a loop and guaranteed that some who might start these articles would not as they appear to already exist. Red links are not a bad thing at all and appear all over the place, including in featured articles, as an invitaion to write the articles, and as markers telling readers that the articles don't exist. See WP:RED for more information. You can have the redirects deleted by tagging them with {{db-author}}, or better yet under these facts, using {{db|explanation}}.--Fuhghettaboutit 13:46, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, fair enough, but isn't that trumped by the argument that the person who types "Lewis Hallam" and presses "GO", or the person who finds Lewis Hallam's name linked in an article, actually gets some useful info about him, rather than a message saying Wikipdia has no info. (Agree with you that red-links are good in principle, of course.) AndyJones 13:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

If you think it's conceivable that someone would be looking for the Hallams, then just leave the redirects but take the brackets off of their names in the article. If someone sees that their names redirect to the company article and they feel that they have enough info to create an article about those people, they'll just go to the redirect page and edit over the redirect. They would then add the link back to the American Company article. Dismas|^(talk) 13:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The redirects are not necessary. Yes - someone searching for one of the names will be told that the article doesn't exist, but they will also be shown articles that contain the name they searched for. So, you get the best of both worlds. Red links tell users to create the article. The search function directs users to the article. -- kainaw™ 14:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

It's a bit of six of one, a half dozen of the other. In any case, if you decide to leave the redirects, consider tagging them with {{R from member}}.--Fuhghettaboutit 14:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Unregistered user edit approval

Has English Wikipedia implemented the rule where unregistered user's edits have to be screened first or is it still being tried out on German WP? --Seans Potato Business 21:42, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

It's still being tried on German Wikipedia. Martial BACQUET 22:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...and I pray to God so that that's never implemented here. --Agüeybaná 04:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I imagine many vandals utter the same prayer. --Teratornis 14:08, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Flagged revisions for more information about the various plans for extensions that could do this or something similar (I think they could also be set to show the unscreened version by default, but have a link to the screened version available). --ais523 14:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

When will the testing be deemed complete? --Seans Potato Business 15:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

We're actually stepping in the other direction, since unregistered users will be able to create articles beginning November 9th. Leebo ^T/C 15:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Damn! You're gonna have to start drafting admins to pick up the fewmets. --Orange Mike 15:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

It's been suggested, but I'm not sure it will cause an immediate floodgate response in new pages. Leebo ^T/C 15:35, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

That raises a whole problem with the administrator process. Instead of targeting users who are highly active, the current process looks for people who want to nominate themselves. That falls into the trap of those that would make the best use of power are those who who will not actively pursue power. So, as mentioned in that discussion, attempts to draft active users need to be improved. -- kainaw™ 15:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, it seems to me from some folks' comments on RfA debates that they believe self-nomination (or at least repeat self-nomination) is almost per se a disqualification. --Orange Mike 15:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Correct. The original idea was that users would be so impressed by someone that the great user would be nominated. In practice, it is a "you nominate me and I'll nominate you" or a "self nomination" system. If you have an idea for targeting great (active) users without a flawed nomination system, please let us know. -- kainaw™ 16:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

science fair project

HI! I am doing a science fair project for school and have referenced Wikipedia quite a bit for information. I now have to create my bibliography and can not find the information for it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.Lin428mic 15:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Take a look at Citing Wikipedia -- DatRoot 15:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

edit conflict Well hello there! Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia will be of interest to you. Alternatively, you can go to the article you wish to cite, then click "Cite this article" on the left-hand side of the page. Hope this helps! =) NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 15:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm sorry, my initial reply was rather terse -- DatRoot 17:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Image FU

Can somebody go through removing deletion notices from images and add fair-use rationale (the proper rationale, of course) on their own? I think there is no problem with that, but wanted to double check. - Rjd0060 15:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You mean browsing the category and adding the rationale when the uploader didn't? Of course that's okay, assuming you can supply all the information. The goal is to get appropriate rationales, not to delete good images. Leebo ^T/C 16:10, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes that is what I mean. Actually I cheat, and use User:Betacommandbot's contribution list, because it adds the deletion notices to all the images. Here is an example of what I'm talking about. - Rjd0060 16:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Well, that rationale is not sufficient, since it's pretty much just a source, without any of the other required rationale information. Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline outlines what's needed. Leebo ^T/C 16:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, that's a template with pre-filled rationale. Didn't see it because I have my preferences set to not include the body of a page in the diff. Leebo ^T/C 16:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I was wondering why you thought that. Thanks for your help. -- Rjd0060 16:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that rationale is sufficient, as the page it links to does not have that logo on that page. You should specify exactly which website page the logo came from. Corvus cornix 19:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Wrong display of an image

Hi,

In the article "NLR National Aerospace Laboratory" subsection "Structure", the image that is being displayed is not the same as the one stored. Why isn't the correct image being displayed?

MaRuKo 16:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by "stored"?

MindstormsKid 16:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes the pages get cached with previous versions of an image, and don't get updated as often as they should be. I've purged the server's cache of that page and it's displaying properly now. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 16:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

incorrect URL for St. Jude Medical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jude_Medical

The Profile box shows St. Jude Medica's website to be www.stj.com. That it incorrect, it should be www.sjm.com Can you please correct this? Thanks you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.237.60.105 (talk) 16:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 16:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Report

How do you report vandalisim on a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.145.114 (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

You can warn the user who vandalised the page by clicking on "history", then click "Talk" next to the username/IP of the user who vandalised; then copy some code from WP:WARN to warn them. If the user has already received a last warning, recently was unblocked, or you have reason to believe they are a vandalism only account (registered users only) then you can report them to WP:AIV. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 17:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

edit conflictWikipedia encourages you to revert it (or otherwise fix it) yourself. What you might try, since nothing you do on Wikipedia can't be undone, is to try fixing it yourself. If you're not sure how it turned out, post a link to the article here and I (or another editor) will take a look. In most cases, the vandalism can be undone by clicking on the page history and finding when the vandalism was placed (it is usually the most recent edit). Click on the date and time of the prior edit. When you see the old, unvandalised version up, click "edit this page" (ignore a warning about restoring a old version), enter an edit summary (rvv usually is abbv. for revert-vandalism), and save the page.

It is a good idea to then check the vandal's other contributions (again from history, click the "contribs" link next to their name.

I'd recommend trying the revert yourself. If I've completely confused you, or you really don't want to try, go ahead and post the link here and I'll take a look. But I'd be happy to look over your work as well. Thanks and keep up the good work, --TeaDrinker 17:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Military Conflict issue

Hi, Weird issue with the infobox for Iraq war and Vietnam war. The "casus=" field has information in it in edit view, but nothing is showing up on the article. The other fields "date=", "location=", etc all seem to work just fine. My guess is someone changed the infobox template to one that doesn't show the "casus="? Is this the case or is it something else? Thanks for the help. Publicus 17:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Yep, the Template:Infobox Military Conflict was edited on Oct 23 to remove that parameter. It looks like it was discussed widely on the talk page, Template talk:Infobox Military Conflict, before the change was made. The article is protected permanently, but you can still discuss the change on the talk page. Cheers, --TeaDrinker 17:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

somali boy

i am asking you how to go to london iam dreaming every day to go to london so i can not afford i dont have money even i dont eat food every day so i am refugee in uganda i am searching help from you thankyou —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.0.0.166 (talk) 17:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot give you the money or provide other means for you to travel. We are an encyclopaedia, not a charity. Sorry. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 17:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually we are a charity, as the bottom of every page points out, but not the kind of charity that specializes in getting Somali boys to London. The stunning success Wikipedia has had at allowing millions of volunteers from around the world work together on a mighty project suggests wiki technology could do something similar for outsourcing mental labor to the third world, but this would require first-world businesses to massively adopt wikis first. That process of adoption may be underway, but it's going to take time, first for businesses to wikify, and then for businesses to realize they can use their wikis to farm out lots of grunt work to low-wage nations. But I wouldn't be surprised at all to see wikis someday playing a role in bringing technology jobs to places like Somalia. --Teratornis 06:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Regarding "Barbershop Music"

Under the section "Notable Artists - Chorus's" you omitted one chorus- The Gem City Chorus, Five-time Sweet Adelines International Chorus champions from Dayton,Ohio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CLJordan1 (talk • contribs) 17:42, November 6, 2007

You may head over to the article and fix it yourself. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 17:50, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

How I a report a user that is chaning External links made by me?

212.71.37.66 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jatt2dzire (talk • contribs) 18:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

How I a report a user that is chaning External links made by me?

using with IP 212.71.37.66 is changing then all the links or references i have made and is pointing them to a different site. How do I stop that as him not to do that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jatt2dzire (talk • contribs) 18:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Have you asked the other User their reasons? Corvus cornix 19:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The links were probably removed because the user thought they did not meet the external links guideline, which limits what sort of links should be used. --h2g2bob (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

They didn't remove them, they changed them. Corvus cornix 03:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Adding a term to Wikipedia

Hi,

I'm a new user and would like to add a term that does not exist on Wikipedia. How do I go about this? the term is "commoneo"

Thanks, mp777 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrpopular777 (talk • contribs) 19:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. Andy^reply 19:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

If this is about www.commoneo.com, it seems highly unlikely that a new website still in beta is going to meet our standards for notability of web content. --Orange Mike 19:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a dictionary (whereas, our sister project, Wiktionary is a dictionary). This means that dictionary definitions are not suitable as stand-alone articles. Moreover, new words that are not yet widely used are discouraged to be used in any articles, much less the subject of an article. Please see Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms. Note that even at Wiktionary, words you made up cannot be added. They too require attribution and do not take original research or things "somebody made up one day". There are some exceptions to some of this. For example an internet meme such as lol has been written about in multiple reliable independent sources in detail that goes far beyond a simple dictionary definition, and thus is the proper subject of an article.--Fuhghettaboutit 20:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I suspect he wants to write about commoneo, a new portal website currently in beta. --Orange Mike 20:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Got ya. The use of the word "term" gave a certain impression.--Fuhghettaboutit 23:35, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

mobile edition

Is there a lightweight mobile edition of Wikipedia available suitable for access from pdas or cell phones? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.43.154 (talk) 19:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there is, see WP:PDA for more information. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 19:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

if you just want to read rather than edit - widsets for s60 3rd mobiles is very goods. --Fredrick day 21:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

WXXS, WLTN-AM, WLTN-FM Updates Appreciated

76.118.247.91 21:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I just want to give thanks to NeutralHomer ^T:C for giving my three Wikipedia pages their much needed overhauls. Yes, much information has been omitted but I'm happy that those articles are less subjective and more informative. I mean, hey, perhaps some other people will come along and include some facts about those stations that I never knew myself. Although the two FM stations are my favorite radio stations, I'm sure there are people out there who know more about the stations than myself.

Thanks for the note. If you go to User Talk:Neutralhomer, you can thank him personally. Leebo ^T/C 21:28, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

internal links not linking to right page

Hi, I'm a newbie, so I apologize in advance if this is one is obvious--to me it's not! I have just expanded a current entry, "Gary Taylor (English literature scholar), and there is a banner at the top saying this is an orphaned page. I would like to create internal links to this page from other pages. However, when I go in to, for example, Stanley Wells, and double bracket Gary Taylor, the link takes me to Gary Taylor, strongman from Wales. Though there is a "see also Gary Taylor (English literature scholar) note at the top of the strongman page, this middle step prevents the Gary Taylor (English literature scholar) page from becoming "unorphaned". Is there a way for me to create the link to Gary Taylor (English literature scholar) without having to add "(English literature scholar)" after every occurrence of his name? I tried "moving" the Gary Taylor strongman entry by renaming it "Gary Taylor (World's Strongest Man)", but as this didn't solve the problem, and as I wondered if maybe this was impolite/inappropriate, I changed it back.

Many, many thanks for any suggestions!--1mmmh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1mmmh (talk • contribs) 21:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

For starters, I'd suggest "Gary Taylor (academic)" instead of "(English literature scholar)". There's no reason, though, to privilege this Gary Taylor (or the strongman) above others of that name. --Orange Mike 22:02, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, disregarding the naming of either page, you need to provide the full name of the page if you are going to link to it. If I'm talking about George Washington, but specifically the inventor rather than the US President, I need to put George Washington (inventor). If I want to link to the inventor, but don't want the (inventor) to appear in the text, I need to use a piped link, which would be George Washington. Piped links look like this in markup: [[George Washington (inventor)|George Washington]]. Leebo ^T/C 22:07, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

edit conflict x2 You must type [[Gary Taylor (English literature scholar)]]. You can also type [[Gary Taylor (English literature scholar)|]] (note the added "pipe" at the end; you can type this by pressing Shift-Backslash [under Backspace] on a QWERTY keyboard), which will display as Gary Taylor. You could also move it like Orangemike suggested. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 22:09, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Further reading: Wikipedia:Pipe trick

comments

i would just like to know where you can comment and where you can add information. i would also find a rating system of how researched something is extremly useful - is this possible for wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.100.220 (talk) 22:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

For leaving comments, you can click on the "discussion" tab of any page, as long as your comments relate to improving the article (or are generally discussing the encyclopedia, if it's a user talk page). As for ratings, there status assessments, which can also be found on the talk page. These assessment ratings can be seen here. The only articles that receive rigorous assessments for their ratings are featured status articles, the other ratings are not quite as thorough. Leebo ^T/C 22:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

November 7

Editing a headline

It was brought to my attention today that the article on me, Gay Hendricks, has a headline that says "Homosexual Hendricks". While my first name is Gay, I'm quite heterosexual and do not want to give hope to your homosexual readership or dash the hopes of your heterosexual ones. Needless to say, this headline also concerns my wife of 26 years. How do I/you fix the headline? Thanks, Gay Hendricks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.123.140.214 (talk) 00:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

A vandal moved it 4 days ago.[15] I have moved it back to Gay Hendricks. PrimeHunter 00:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Duplicating Information Already Available on Another Website

A few days ago I was editing the Wikipedia article on "PFIQ", tuning it up by reference to my collection of that publication.

I have since discovered that there is a webpage by the former proprietor of PFIQ, Jim Ward, at

http://www.bmezine.com/news/jimward/20041024.html

which covers the same ground, but has the great advantage of coming from the horse's mouth, as well as being more precise on certain details.

It seems to me that there is no point putting information on the Wikipedia that can be easily accessed via a link to an external site. However, I cannot find any clear statment one way or the other on this point.

Is there a standing policy on such situations? Should I cut the wikipedia article on PFIQ down so it complements the webpage urled above, or should I leave the redundant information in place.

It seems clear that either way, the addition of an external link is in order.

Note that the information on the existing wikipedia page is original, not copied from the other webpage, even though it is essentially the same.

PS: It's me again. There's another specific case with that presents the same type of problem. I subscribe to the Pacific Bulb Society mailing list; the PBS also operates a wiki devoted to bulbs. Generally speaking, the PBS wiki is exhaustive, so for most Wikipedia articles on cultivated bulbous plants, hardly anything more is needed than a link to the PBS wiki. I guess the issue is that (to my mind at least) the Wikipedia shouldn't waste time & resources duplicating information readily accessible elsewhere, but what's the actual policy (if there is one!)?

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.27.140 (talk) 00:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC) 

Actually, according to WP:RS, Wikipedia consists precisely of (and only of) information that has already been published elsewhere in reliable sources. Wikipedia does not (should not) contain original research. Everything in an encyclopedia should merely summarize and restate what is already available elsewhere. The point of an encyclopedia is to have information available on a wide range of topics in a standard format, not to provide new findings, or information available nowhere else. Thus if a Wikipedia article appears to be a restatement of information you find elsewhere, that's exactly what we want. (I like the standard format of Wikipedia articles; almost every time I look up a topic that is unfamiliar to me, I find the Wikipedia article to be a better introduction than I can easily find from a general search of the Web. Many Web pages that are about some subject tend to pick up mid-conversation, as if the reader already knows what is going on, whereas most Wikipedia articles start off with a coherent lead section that lets the reader grasp the basics of the subject quickly.) For the question about external links, see WP:EL. Also have a look at the Editor's index to Wikipedia which has links to policy and guideline pages covering almost every conceivable issue that comes up in the building of our encyclopedia. On the issue of duplicating everything on a specialized wiki: we probably wouldn't do that, because Wikipedia requires topics to be notable, whereas a specialized wiki would probably tend toward comprehensiveness within its topic area. So, for example, a wiki specializing in music might cover a wider range of musical topics (such as very obscure musicians) than Wikipedia would. --Teratornis 06:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use Rationale

Can someone explain to me 10c of WP:NFCC#10c. I've uploaded several images with Fair Use Rationales, but each time I get a message about not having 10c. However, after reading it, I am unsure of what I need to actually do. -Zomic13 01:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

NFCC 10c in a nutshell is: "You must write separate fair use rationales for each article the image is used in". For example, if I use an image of the Ford Motor Co. logo in Car and Ford Motor Co., then I would have to write two fair use rationales: one for Car and one for Ford Motor Co. NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 01:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

But what is the point if they are basically the same rationale? Also, for this particular image, it is only being used in a single article. -Zomic13 03:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The warnings you are getting are from BetacommandBot, which requires a very specific set of conditions in the fair-use rationale - basically, it has to appear in a section that includes a link to the article it's used in (this is, roughly speaking, so that you don't write the rationale for Car only to have the image removed from Car and added to Ford Motor Co., where the rationale may be different). I think making the section header read "Fair Use in (link to article title)" will get BCB off your back, or, failing that, make the first line read "It is claimed that this image is fair use in (link to article title) because:". Confusing Manifestation 06:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy advice

Do we have a policy regarding external links to sources of media of dubious copyright status? For example, in an article on a TV show which is not available to buy on DVD, can editors provide a link to a bit torrent containing an illegal copy? Astronaut 03:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Quoting from WP:EL: "Sites that violate the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations should not be linked. Linking to websites that display copyrighted works is acceptable as long as the website has licensed the work. Knowingly directing others to a site that violates copyright may be considered contributory infringement."--Fuhghettaboutit 03:07, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I thought that would be the case. So I would be in the right by removing just such a link that someone has added :-) Astronaut 03:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

help please

hello, I was in the process of making an article about a minor league baseball player. What happened was when i was going to save it, it was deleted for "not having importance". Number 7 of why articles would deleted. I had no problems last time making an article about a minor league player. Thank you to whom ever responds —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruzin93 (talk • contribs) 03:17, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The administrator who deleted it was User:Tijuana Brass. Go to User talk:Tijuana Brass and explain why you think the player meets Wikipedia:Notability (people). The problem is, you didn't include any sources to establish notability, and minor leaguers are usually not fully professional; they tend to have another job to support themselves financially. But you can try and find sources to back up your belief that he is notable. Leebo ^T/C 03:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

reflist? How to add a reference.

24.5.197.240 04:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Check out Help:Footnotes. Hope this helps! GlassCobra 05:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

To explain what that page says better, you can add <ref> and </ref> html tags. Between these tags, whatever you place will be put at the bottom when you click on the number in brackets. To create the list at the bottom, you can use the template {{reflist}}. If you want to create a more standardized reference, you can use the citation templates. I (talk) 05:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I found that Help:Footnotes wasn't all that helpful so I wrote up my own short and easy explanation of how to do it. Sbowers3 12:49, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

How to submit first article?

Hi,

I am new to Wikipedia and would like to start writing my first article in my account. Does it mean that my work will mean to be 'submitted' or 'launched' on wikipedia after I click 'Save changes' for my first article? Or do I need to go somewhere else to submit it? Pls help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aedas (talk • contribs) 05:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey, you're going to want to check out Wikipedia:Your first article. Hope this helps! GlassCobra 05:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Communicating with other users

How do I communicate with other Wikipedians without using their accounts and leaving a message on their talk pages. I did that once and I got in trouble for it! Nelsondog 7.11.07 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelsondog (talk • contribs) 08:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi! The main way to communicate with other users is through their talk pages or on the talk page of a specific article when you wish to discuss it. You shouldn't "get in trouble" for leaving a message on someone's talk page, but make sure you don't put the message on their user page by accident! If you would like to contact a user privately, you can go to their user or talk pages and click the "Email this user" link on the left column. However, this will only work if they have provided an email address to Wikipedia. --Kateshortforbob 11:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Belkin fax machine

what are the facts about belin's portable fax machine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.187.229.231 (talk) 10:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

This page is for questions related to Wikipedia. You may wish to try the Reference desk, which specialises in factual questions in future - make sure you provide details on what you are looking for. Wikipedia has an article on Belkin; although it is short, there are links to the company's website, which may provide the information you are looking for. --Kateshortforbob 11:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Lübeck Airport

I note that since my recent communication, the entry in respect of the above has been changed. However, it is still unsatisfactory insofar as the word "misleading" in relation to the use of the name "Hamburg". By comparison to Frankfurt Hahn which wiki state as 120km from Frankfurt, Lübeck is only 54km from Hamburg; one could therefore expect the article to be more positive about this aspect. I would also point out that London Stansted Airport is over 60km from Central London by road but there is no criticism of that distance in the relevant wiki entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmwilson (talk • contribs) 10:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

What is your question?--SJP wishes you a happy Veterans Day 11:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)