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Milliot (talk · contribs) has started a great number of articles. I don't disagree with the notability of the majority of the subjects of the articles. However, it's clear that English is not Milliot's native language, and he or she also doesn't understand that Wikipedia articles shouldn't include personal opinion as to the wonderful work that the subjects of the articles do or did. Milliot feels that the use of adjectives such as "celebrated" "renowned" and "distinguished" is appropriate, and became upset when I removed them from just one of his/her articles. Can somebody give me some help? I have no interest in starting a war with Milliot, but he/she has written a great number of articles which need a lot of rewriting. Corvus cornixtalk 23:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Corvus cornix (talk · contribs) has made his/her point heard, and I should make mine as well. The information in the articles that I have contributed to & or started, are based on factual information from existing books, encyclopedias etc. The articles do not reflect my personal opinion.
My English I think is as good as most native speakers. People do have different styles of writing that is certain. Expanding wiki is the objective here, correct? When legendary artists, scientist etc. contribute to history, they earn the right to superlatives. As they are mentioned in such ways in pre-existing books & or encyclopedias. That establishes "fact" to that particular individual.Milliot (talk) 00:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
ps: I have stated this earlier in our "talk back" section:
"Corvus, I notice that you are not an administrator. If you are a commited wiki contributor, you would see how much I have contributed. And calling my article sneaky is rather adolescent of you. The dynasty of Leonid Kogan and his wife Elizabeth Gilels, is an important one in the music world. Leonid Kogan is described in all of the history books, and encyclopedias as a legendary violinist. His wife is from the same circles and is considered an important violinist and one of the great pedagogues of the Soviet School. Her teacher ABRAM ILICH YAMPOLSKY is a world renowned pedagogue of the Soviet School of Violin. Who's students went on to become legendary. These figures of the music world have earned the right to these titles. Every known book mentions them in these terms. If you have issues, look them up to confirm your reservations. But please, stop belittling the legendary musicians and pedagogues by taking out the superlatives that they have earned in history. Would you call Einstein just a Scientist? Merci Milliot (talk) 23:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)"
"Please see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(assistance)#User:Milliot. I have no quarrel with the notability of the subjects of your articles, nor do I want to take anything away from the large amount of work you have done, which I applaud, but there really needs to be a lot of work done to your articles to get them up to encyclopedic (and English grammatical) shape. Please don't take this as an attack, as it really is not, in any form. If you find this insulting, I strongly apologize, because I am really not trying to insult you. Corvus cornixtalk 23:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
No problems here. I have provided references where citation was requested. Perhaps you would like to offer me a service badge for the large amount of work I have done? :) Milliot (talk) 00:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)" Milliot (talk) 00:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I don't know if what they have done is wrong or not. The user JCV9276 just appears to have duplicated Michael Jordan's article and put in his own (exaggerated) details. Is this something that is allowed or not? She'sGotSpies (talk) 12:33, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi
I'de like to transfer this image (File:Lorica range.PNG) to commons : is there an automated procedure ? (There are lot of images interesting for commons !) Poleta33 (talk) 13:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Im not sure if its a 24 hour 3RR situation, but an anonymous user 12.3.155.150 as well as others keep changing the mascot section to either a positive or negative point of view on the school mascot change process section. Either way, the content is unverifyable, and other aspects of the page are repeatedly vandalized. DukeB-120th (talk) 22:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
There is an edit war going on at kurdish people. Comments and other input needed.--Vindheim (talk) 15:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Please help. I seem to be having a problem with emerson7 undoing work that I have contributed. The adds. that I have made are self explanatory. The issue is with "Performers who have used or are using Guadagnini instruments"
The performers who have used (and most of them are deceased), are linked to wiki articles. The instruments that these artists used, are linked to a professional database cozio.com. The links are to specific instruments they have used (which are marked accordingly on cozio site). If emerson7 is not familiar with such information, he/she should either get familiar & or try to correct whatever it is that he/she does not agree with. But deleting valuable information and reverting it back to the way it was, which was insufficient for that reason had these posted: ((Original research)) ((Unreferencedsection))
This is what has been said between us so far:
"any claim made regarding blp must be buttressed by reliable, verifiable references. --emerson7 20:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Can you be more specific "regarding blp" ?Milliot (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
blp is a reference to assertions made regarding living people. further, you cannot use wikipedia articles as references. --emerson7 21:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Just so you are aware, I was not the one using wikipedia articles as references.Milliot (talk) 03:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)" Milliot (talk) 21:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your input Tagishsimon. I like what you did with Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.
interesting choice of words Emerson7. I believe it was you who kept reverting back Nagyvary to a Stradivari article. Which really had no place of being there since it was about his experiments, which have been rebuked by experts in the field. And now you are waging war on relevant information which I have contributed to (in other articles), which you keep deleting. Shame on you. There is no reason for this, as most people here are really trying to make wiki a better source of information. Deleting valuable information, after it has been added is really not nice. Please stop. Now you are doing same with Messiah Stradivari article by deleting very relevant information about a person who played an immense part in its history. If you are not familiar with the history, then read about it. But please take Tagishsimon's advice.Milliot (talk) 01:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like some editors who have a better mathematics education than I, and perhaps some professional scientists (if they have the time, which I realize they don't) to please consider resuscitating WikiProject General Audience. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 07:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering how I might place the 'contribs' in my signature above 'Improve' with a line between them, sort of like a fraction or something or other. Anyone know how to do this?— DædαlusT@lk / Improve\ Contribs 09:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Also, as a side note, please tell me on my talk page/reply on my talk page, I have too many pages in my watch list already.— DædαlusT@lk / Improve\ Contribs 09:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
This discussion doesn't seem to have made it onto the Template:RFCstyle list even though I tried to format it correctly. Any ideas? Yechiel (Shalom) 03:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
At the wiki of Jimmy Bennett the filmography-table is at the bottom, but it should be under the heading 'Filmography'. I can't change it, who helps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Riehcoow (talk • contribs) 08:49, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
A user is adding false royal titles to the infobox of Cyrus the Great (Emperor of Media, Basieleus of Lydia, King of Neo-Babylonia) without providing any reference (in fact he couldn't provide it, since such titles doesn't exist). When I try to show that he's wrong, he replies with nonsense: [1], [2]. I don't know where to go in order to stop him. I've read about vandalism, mediation and arbitration, and I got confused; this case doesn't seem to fit with any of them. Where do I have to go? Thanks in advance. Amizzoni (talk) 04:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Trogocytosis is an unreferenced article (created last week) about some part of the human immune system. The same user that created the article created, just today, an article [since deleted] about a nonnotable scientist who works with immunology. Because the user justified the creation of the scientist's article as "my boss told me to write this page about him", I'm wondering if there's a COI here too. Could someone who knows biology check this page? I haven't a clue about the technical terminology, so I can't do a thing. Nyttend (talk) 13:22, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chan If so, how can the formating be fixed? tnx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catagraph (talk • contribs) 04:17, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm well aware of Wikipedia:No original research, but still have a question: I have written most of the Chrysiridia rhipheus article, and would like to find the etymology of the name. I have found "Etymology: From the Latin Montes Rhiphaeus = Ural Mts." [3] and "Derivation of name: From Rhiphaeus (Greek) – the ancient name of the Urals." [4], which is confirmed by my Latin dictionary. Would saying that is (or is probably) the etymology be original research? If yes, is it "acceptable"? (Note that the original author of the name did not give the real/intended etymology ; Drury's Illustrations of Natural History, see p.40). Pro bug catcher (talk • contribs). 03:50, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking at the Circadian advantage page for the past few days and its sole author is one Wcwinter, who seems to be Dr. W. Christopher Winter, the author of most of the research into this particlular area. As he is an expert, he is clearly in a good place to provide much of the information about this article, but at the same time this is his own research project, so there may be a conflict of interest where he is likely not to report any problems or detractors.
I could just tag the article with ((coi)), but that wouldn't fix the problem. The article seems too small for a peer review. What should I do? I have had a short discussion with him at Talk:Circadian advantage and he certainly means well. Rhebus (talk) 10:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear friends,
I fall in this discussion. I taught it was a good one in order to improve the article, but it came to be personal. As the user is putting in doubt the transparency of my editions (see the discussion), I ask a revision of my works in wikipedia English, Spanish and Commons Wikimedia (User:Albeiror24). If my work is stuff, as he suggested or if I am damaging or altering information, please I want to know where, when and how. Please, I need a refery in this discussion, because the user turned from the article to my person. I have worked in wikipedia for more than three years and I have ready to keep dialogue with anybody. Thank you. --Albeiror24 (talk) 03:26, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Greetings, people. I'd like to know if there is a user-definable markup language. I mean a program that will convert plain text into whatever document by the user-defined rules. A program in which you could, for example, imitate the wikitext markup. So you define special characters and/or tags that will be translated into something else, for instance: '''string''' means <b>string</b>. Is there something like that? --Zajoman (talk) 18:08, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Maybe a more appropriate word for what I'm looking for would be text converter. --Zajoman (talk) 18:49, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you a lot. --Zajoman (talk) 04:10, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Seven sources from major newspapers have been added to the article on Dr. David Neiman. Can someone remove the warning that states there are no references or sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.28.97.228 (talk) 21:13, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
The NASA image File:Yarlang tsango river tibet.jpg was moved to Wiki Commons and deleted from Wikipedia. Therefore, the image was deleted from the article it was in, Yarlung Tsangpo River (Tibet), by a bot. How do I get the image back into the article. I cannot find the image on the Commons. There is no image by that name there. Thanks! –Mattisse (Talk) 13:16, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
In the 1970s, NASA started the Small Astronomy Satellite program, which involved 3 satellites named SAS-1, SAS-2, and SAS-3. Looking at the individual articles there is nothing obvious linking them.
I'd like to add an identical section to each article that would describe the SAS program, and link the other 2 articles. Would it be approprate to transclude a subsection? What is the best way of handling this? --George100 (talk) 06:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Are there any difference between these 2 categories? Weltanschauung☯Ĥòĭnäþbåķtšýñ 12:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
File:Bunyak.jpg is of a deceased person from over 100 years ago. He is from Russia and the image likely is of Russian origin. It currently is listed as non-free promotional, but could this be retagged as public domain, due to age? -- Guroadrunner (talk) 10:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
SnoutBusters is a movie planned to be made in russia. The information gathered about the movie was taken from a source that has since deleted the information, do we:
Cindy Flynn (talk) 06:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to know if there's a page to complain about (probable) professional misconduct by an administrator? Thanks and regards, Mrinal Pandey (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 06:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
I don't really know where to put this, so I just put it where it seemed to logically make sense. I am currently having problems with user added features. The problem is that I have some. Specifically Twinkle and Popups. This is a problem because my pages for things like this are blank. I do not know what is causing this, but if someone could provide assistance, or point me in the direction of assistance, it would be greatly appreciated. Rau's Speak Page 13:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Done
I haven't had any luck figuring out what's going on in this article: List of Phi Sigma Kappa chapters
Any new ref tags are not appearing and the TOC is showing up toward the bottom of the article. I've scanned through the code a dozen times and just can't see what's going wrong. Any assistance would be appreciated. Corsulian (talk) 13:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
On the Toyohara Kunichika page I have an File: [Actor_Red_Face.jpg]. In the last week or two the image has been "overwritten" with some other, very degraded image. If I click on the thumbnail, the correct image comes up. I uploaded the file again, with no improvement in results. I have combed through the source looking for an explanation but can find none. Help! --Clhowson (talk) 21:38, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
I am so grateful to you. I did a control-reload and solved not only this mystery but another as well. Thank you, thank you! --Clhowson (talk) 21:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Done
I just need some editorial help having added a short para about The replica obelisk in Brookwood Cemy to the St Georges Circus, Southwark, article.
I loaded up a pic of this to wikmedia commons calling it IMAG0010 (actually I intended to rename it, but didn't manage to)
Can someone find a way of putting a ref to this pic on the page, if they deem it worthy?
TY
Tanyajane —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tanyajane (talk • contribs) 22:43, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Among the features of ((US county navigation box)) is a line to include the county seat at the top of the template. For various reasons, a few US counties have two county seats, so the template has been coded to allow two seats to be listed. However, as you can see with ((Arkansas County, Arkansas)), when there are two seats, it still displays as "County seat" rather than "County seats". Could someone make a small change to the code so that it will be plural when the two-seat coding is activated? I should note, by the way: because of different terminology, Alaska's seats are "borough seats", Louisiana's are "parish seats", and Vermont's are "shire towns"; the coding is already present, so (if this change is possible) the plurals will simply have to be added for them, too. Nyttend (talk) 14:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Done
Hi,
The anonymous user 117.198.81.42 has made 6 edits. They all involve blanking sections.
Cheers, --unforgettableid | talk 19:35, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure this should go here, but I'd like to draw experienced editors' attention to:
Upon checking the various templates with punctuation-only names, these three stood out to me as being, well, strange. I'll leave it to others to decide what, if anything should be done with them. - dcljr (talk) 23:50, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
((urlencode))
until it was changed, apparently without discussion or rewriting of documentation, into a rather pointless template for !voting keep. ((//)) is totally unused (except possibly for substs, of course) and I can't work out what it's for at all. Algebraist 10:32, 26 June 2008 (UTC)This is Jack Evans,
The information regarding me is not correct in a couple areas.
First - my middle name is Edward
Second - I attended a wrestling school that Tim Flowers was a trainer at, but was not trained by Tim Flowers and would request crediting him be removed
Third - In Calgary, I was trained directly by Stu Hart and in fact believe I was the last student that trained with him. I lived with Stu for near two years and received more training from him than the others you mention.
Forth, the myspace you list is my personal page, My wrestling page is Jack711Evans please change to pint to my actual wrestling myspace page
I am sure you will want to verify this information, please tell me what you will require to correct these inaccuracies and I will do what I can to provide the documentation.
Respectfully Jack Edward Miller (Evans) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.104.177.0 (talk) 00:54, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I see some possible copyright issues at Gas Works Park. I've raised them on the article's talk page, but no one has weighed in. Wikipedia:Copyright problems seems to state that blanking the page (or majorly reverting it) is a prelude to any discussion there, which doesn't seem to me to be in order: I honestly don't know whether the document that was apparently copied is public domain or not. I do know that some document's inline citations were picked up intact without providing the bibliography that would make sense of those citations.
Is there a better venue to take this up? Is someone interested in shepherding this issue and working out what we should do? - Jmabel | Talk 06:59, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Just noticed there's a user in the category of Pope Pius XII... is this appropriate? I don't want to upset anyone...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pope_Pius_XII The captain rommel of the desert (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
This article seems to be pretty screwed up. Not even the sidebar buttons are working. Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.82.23.101 (talk) 14:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Oh. My computer only shows the title and the first four words of the article. Maybe my computer has issues, but since only the one article was giving me a problem, I thought something was up. Sorry! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.82.23.101 (talk) 16:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Yesterday I reverted an anonymous edit that removed various details from the People v. Jovanovic article. Can someone with a better nose for this kind of thing take a look at it and see if any of the details in there are inappropriate? — PhilHibbs | talk 17:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I do hope this is the proper place to post this. (I resently posted this wrong, so I hope this is the right place!) I have came across a conflict with an participant in the talk-page of List of Swedish queens. The conflict is about which peopple should be included. Simple enough, as it may seem, there is an issue about this. In the 15th century, the Swedish regents did not have the title of king, nor did their wifes have the formal title of queen. The regents did, however, have the independent position of a king, as did their wifes have the position of queens, and for this reason, the regents are given a place in the list of kings in history. This is the policy chosen in the list of kings in both Swedish and English wikipedia, and until resently, the regent consorts have, accordningly, been given the same place in the list of queens, both in Swedish and English Wikipedia.
Now, this have been questioned by a user in both wikipedias. I have suggested that the matter should be treated with a majority vote, but the user refuses to respect this. Instead, he simply changes the revision-history of the article. This is a discussion which is also going on at the same article on Swedish Wikipedia at the moment. There, the majority are so far in favor of including, in policy with the fact that the regents are included in the list of kings, with the condition that the regent consorts are marked in some way, just as the regents, are, indeed, in the list of kings. Oddly, he does not seem to wish to exclude the regents from the list of kings. I have tried to ask him why he will not accept my suggestion of a majority vote. On Swedish wikipedia, he has told me that he is not interested to discuss with a non registered user. I would respect a majority descision no matter what the outcome. I hope that someone is villing to help. All I ask, is that he could respect the need for a majority vote. Please, could some one take part in the discussion, no matter what opinion, and ask him to at least respect a majority descision. I would be very grateful for your help! Regards--85.226.235.208 (talk) 12:53, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
I am having a problem -- a user has made a third reversion at Senecioneae. I do not understand what wiki stalking is, but I feel like I am being stalked and if anyone is paying any attention, just a look at the records and edit history of the people involved at my talk page right now and the history of reversions being made at my recent articles -- that feeling I have might be somewhat justified.
Help? -- carol (talk) 08:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
We have come to consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Transcludable XfD discussions that WP:CFD and WP:TFD should use a format like WP:AFD and WP:MFD, meaning all discussions should have sub-pages that are transcluded. This is a huge change to two very important WP pages, and I have no idea how to go about it. How are such things normally done? JohnnyMrNinja 16:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
--Jst007 (talk) 21:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
hi i am luking 4 an adminship. i am trying out self request. but i can't find out ver i should put my request. can u pls assist me.
An editor has uploaded a picture of Billy Gillispie at the Wikimedia Commons which he claims to be the author of, but this link would seem to suggest otherwise. (The picture is the one in the infobox on BG's Wikipedia page.) I believe the same image was deleted from Wikipedia a while ago. If it were on Wikipedia again, I'd deal with it, but I don't have an account at the Commons, and don't particularly care to create one and figure out how they do things over there to get things like this deleted. Can someone who knows the ropes over at the Commons look into this? Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:44, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The article Isle of Man has been severely vandalized to the point where I really don't know what to do since just about everything is gone on that page. Can someone fix it? Mazeau (talk) 03:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
There is a website [6] that has many images of aircraft [7] that I would like to use. Is there a proper, formal, way to e-mail the website owner and seek approval for this? - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 03:49, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to discuss this, but there was nowhere else to go. I read an Okami (game) article and thought a certain piece concerning Ameratsu's gender was wrong, so I cut it out. I then realized that I had made a huge mistake and that the article was completely fine. I read that Wikipedia keeps editing history, so Wikipedia might be able to fix it.
Very sorry for the inconvenience! Mr.Pocket (talk) 23:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, my IP is blocked over there by a "Creol" for abusing multiple accounts and so I can't edit anything. The block is in place despite me being logged in (in theory, at least) through unified login (I have 0 contribs there at the moment, that might be why). Please help! It Is Me Here (talk) 13:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hy there, it seems that I, Flamarande (talk) , am in a 'deadlock situation' in the article Roman Empire. The thorny issue in question is "the end date of the Roman empire". As you can verify in the articles talkpage I provided a proper link to Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/507739/Roman-Empire which clearly shows: Roman Empire, ancient state, [27 bc-476 ad]. I also provided several sources (recent books written by respected historians) that I personally own and re-checked. Most of them show 476 either as the end date of the Roman Empire or, alternatively, of the Western Roman empire. The other side User:Goremite (talk • contribs) is bent on imposing 1453, which is the end date of the Eastern Roman empire (today known as Byzantine Empire) as the only end date and absolutely refuses the compromise previously accepted by several users of having both dates: 476 / 1453, which is in IMHO more than fair.
I do know and acknowledged that the issue ("When did the Roman empire end?") is largely a matter of interpretation. The teaching and knowledge of History is, as almost everything in human sciences, surely debatable and indeed sometimes slowly changes with the passing of time and new discoveries. But Wikipedia is not about the search for the truth, and its articles should and are supposed to reflect our knowledge of history as it is currently taught by historians and teachers.
I also want to point out that among his truly huge amount of edits (15) this user manages: (sorry for the diff's I don't know how to present them correctly):
I argued the issue ad absurdum and ad nauseam with the other side to no effect. Therefore I'm hereby requesting the assistance of a third and neutral party. The article has been the victim of a short edit war and of sockpuppetry (which has stopped) because of this issue and I strongly advise interested parties to read very carefully the articles talkpage. I also want to add that I'm no innocent, but I will not lower myself to the point of personal attacks and I have absolutely no interest in having a revert-war. Thank you. Flamarande (talk) 21:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
How would I change it so that I have a much darker theme on wikipedia, with black backgrounds and white text? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toxoplasma (talk • contribs) 22:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I am trying to work with the SQL and XML dumps of the English Wikipedia and I have some questions regarding the Database Schema – and how to process it. Is this the best place to ask these questions – or should I post them somewhere else. I am sorry if this is the wrong place.
As of now my sources for the following discussion are Schema Diagram and this informal description of the Database Schema in MySQL.
My Question:
I would like to get the list of active pages (not the past history) on the Wikipedia. For this I made the assumption that the Text Table contains this information. Is this true? In my attempts of looking at it it seems that there are previous versions also available
I would be grateful for any help.
--O o 82 (talk) 23:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC) o_o_82
I think I once saw a page which showed a user's contributions across all wiki projects - how do I get to it? Thanks! It Is Me Here (talk) 18:58, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
(AfD discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change Program)
Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change Program
Our page was recently deleted, but I don't feel that I was given enough information regarding notability.
We provided credible, third-party sources. Paraphrased articles so that it didn't plagiarize the content. These third-party sources give notability by discussing the Program, but they also give some background to the universities which is then linked back to additional webpages. Your page mentioned independent sources outside of the subject. So does this mean outside the subject of Education or just from Antioch University?
The comment below:
Delete I see nothing here other than info belonging in a institutional website. No notability established (being a Ph.D. is hardly enough, there are maaaany of those), nor WP is a website hosting service. - Nabla (talk) 18:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
We provided the same basic information using this wikipedia PhD Program: Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program as a guide, and it would also appear on a website for this particular PhD program. So we seem to be on different pages on what you assume is credible and what is supposed to be on this wiki page.
If this program was added to the Antioch University wikipedia page, what then would change notability? Binguser (talk) 17:10, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
On the actor Geoffrey Holder (punjab from the 1982 Musical "Annie") page, there is a weird message that appears in red over the text - it says "AVRIL LAVIGNE ROKZ MY SOCKZ! Brought to you by The Avril Troll - On return from Wikibreak!"
I tried going into edit and removing it, but am not sure how. Any help in removing it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.145.167.209 (talk) 19:58, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
The current Record of Lodoss War page was originally created as Lodoss to Senki way back in 2004, and the latter title is now just a redirect. I was not aware that there was an article history behind the redir, but the redir itself is a mix of English and badly romanized Japanese that isn't useful to users of either language (romanization would be Roudosu tou senki or some variant wth macrons, not Lodoss (which is English) to (which is the wrong word entirely) Senki). That means no one is likely to search for it as such, and therefore it's not really maintaining the article history properly. Could the histories be merged and the redirect deleted? MSJapan (talk) 14:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I thought it was recommended by Wikipedia to wikify years so I've been doing it forever but a bot just removed every year link in this article. Can somebody just clarify whether we are supposed to wikify years or not? Thanks. Fife Club (talk) 01:41, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I need some help. This article has had an edit/revert war going on (see the history). I created a thread on the talk page, found a more general thread on a talk page, and the user (Proxy user) has fought and even reverted my good-faith edits, not to mention another user's edits. Something needs to be done- I don't know what. Tedder (talk) 11:53, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you so much if you can help me. Currently the entry 'SOHO China' has a link to 'Zhang Xin', but it is not the right Zhang Xin. I don't know how to create a new disambiguation page, create a new page with info on the correct Zhang Xin and have the link on the SOHO China page go to this instead. If you can help I will be forever grateful! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chinafundman (talk • contribs) 09:25, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks John, I did what you said and was able to create a page Zhang Xin (businesswoman). I set up the SOHO China page to link to that. However, when I search for Zhang Xin it goes to the Zhang Xin (artist) page. How do I set it up so that it goes to a page with an index of both Zhang Xins? How do I set up the SOHO China page so that it links to the right Zhang Xin without having to tag it as (businesswoman)? Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chinafundman (talk • contribs) 07:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
It seems, unless I have it wrong, that the Request for Translation pages have been not used since March? I note that the Italian Wiki has an article for whereas we appear not to on the English Wiki. If the RfT pages are down/busy/backlogged, where else to go to get this article created? (and as I know nothing, hence searching for it, I ain't gonna start it!) doktorb wordsdeeds 10:57, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
on this page Help:Contents there is a link under resources to Pages needing attention , but that page says it is not active. is there a better page to link to there instead? I find it really hard to find any of the background pages on how wikipedia works or the lists of things that need work. hope this is the right place to post this question, even. --64.231.9.30 (talk) 03:03, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm reasonably new to Wiikipedia and have been editing an article Fire pit because it read like a sales pitch about selling fire pits for the garden. However, I don't know a huge amount about garden-fire-pits, and whilst I've put some information in about fire pits in history, it seems like it's lacking a bit now. Can anyone help me improve the article without it being too short OR an advert for fire pits?
Thanks, Oldandfat (talk) 14:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks. I've searched high and low an been unable to find a way to nest or stack the top image and template at Religion in Africa. Everything I try, including the "combi" template, just slides the two boxes horizontaly across the screen, which looks pretty cruddy. Advice? If I figure out a way to do this, I'll submit a Help file for Category:Wikipedia_how-to. T L Miles (talk) 16:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I came across this lil' article by chance. This is going to sound kind of stupid, I guess, but I can't get right of the article heading (Category:Cities and towns in Maharashtra). I'm completely dead tired right now so maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I did my best. If anyone can help what I did wrong (or more accurate, didn't do), that'd be great. Kind regards and good night, --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 23:46, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for helping out! That's what I was aiming for. --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 17:26, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Here's the deal: Basel is a major city in Switzerland. It was the capital of the Canton of Basel for a long time. In 1833 that canton was divided in two: Basel-City (including the city of Basel and not much else) and Basel-Country.
WP has categories for Basel-City and Basel-Country. References to the city alone go into the former category. Despite some anachronism in historical articles, this seems fine.
For any major city, WP normally has a category, People from [Name of City]. Basel has People from Basel (city) -- not People from Basel or even People from Basel-City. I assume the (city) parenthesis was an attempt to resolve the confusion about the two Basel cantons. Yet some of the people listed were born in Basel-Country (or elsewhere) and resided in the city throughout their lives (e.g. poet Carl Spitteler). I don't think they should be expelled from the category. I do think (city) should be removed from the end of the category name, if possible, leaving it as People from Basel.
Maybe I don't have to explain why People from Basel seems much preferable to both People from Basel (city) and People from Basel-City. Do I?
So: how is a category renamed? Whom do I ask? Will there be a redirect involved?
FYI, People from Basel (city) has 58 members. There is also a category People from Basel-Country. It has one member, Emil Frey, an important figure in the government of Basel-Country and Switzerland. The category seems to suit him, and it may pick up more members. (I'll add Carl Spitteler. He's "from" both Basel and Basel-Country.) -- Rob C. alias Alarob 18:12, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hi.
I am User:Goiken and predominantly active on other Wikimediaprojekts and forgott my en:wp-Password. My morer recent activities here i did as different IPs. Using now GWatch i'd need again access to my en:wp account. Unfortunately while registrating i didnt provide an email. Is there any way i can reobtain my account or do i need to create another global one. For a Proof, of ID i could Provide my e-Mail or you can considder, that the Methylmalonic acid I edited in en:wp was also created by goiken in es:wp.--85.180.131.51 (talk) 19:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd suggest you consider Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. It would possibly get you the name back, but the account history might well be lost (or rather, moved to a new account name). You do not say whether it is the name or the history, or both which are of importance to you, so I cannot deduce whether Usurpation would be appropriate. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
If you look at the talk page for chigger, it's been identified that the article is confusing, since it says that "chigger" can refer to either harvest mite or chigoe flea, but continues to offer "myths" and "facts" about chiggers, without specifying which it's referring to. (it looks to me like it refers to the harvest mite)
There's a note at the top of the page saying the article needs to be cleaned up. I think it should just become a disambiguation page, and the "myths" and "facts" merged into the harvest mites article. I'd do it myself, but I'm not really sure about the etiquette of doing something like this, or the appropriate way to make the changes. I'm writing here in the hopes that someone could take a few minutes to implement this?--Randyoo (talk) 23:36, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
The above is a favourite hobby of mine and is usually fairly straightforward (just editing the image link in the article, so long as an SVG exists). However, with this page the PNG seems to be embedded in some template - ((runic)), I think - but I can't make head nor tail of Template:runic. How do I change the PNG contained within to an SVG? Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here (talk) 19:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
((runic)) is actually a font template. The template the image is in is Template:Thurisaz_infobox and someone's already replaced the png since after you posted the question. --Random832 (contribs) 15:34, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Please help! I am new to Wikipedia and not that computer savvy. I am trying to create an entry for William Walter the musician. There is already an entry for William Walter the boxer. When I created the article on William Walter the musician I did it under "William Walter (musician)". So when you type in "William Walter" you get the boxer and nothing else. When someone types in William Walter I think it should link to William Walter the musician or to a page where the reader can select either William Walter the musician or William Walter the boxer. How would I go about doing this? The title for the "William Walter (musician)" should probably be changed to "William Walter" and some disambiguation needs to be done but I have no idea how to do this. Please please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renaissancevan (talk • contribs) 03:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you Parsecboy. How is it determined which William Walter is the default search result when someone types in "William Walter". Is it determined by which William Walter had their entry created first? Shouldn't it be determined by which William Walter is more relevant? I would argue that William Walter the musician is more relevant. He has recorded several successful albums, plays to large crowds across the country, and is still alive. William Walter the boxer lost his one and only boxing match in the Olypics 80 years ago. It seems more reasonable to me to make a search for "William Walter" to link directly to the musician. Is there anything that can be done about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renaissancevan (talk • contribs) 04:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
Ive read the tutorials and stuff and of course i took a computer class in school, and never retained any of that class because we screwed around most of the time. Anyway thats besides the point, i want to put a picture on a page im creating, and i just straight up have no clue how to accomplish this. Im an idiot i know. Any help would be much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Will561 (talk • contribs) 14:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC) Will561 (talk) 14:40, 18 July 2008 (UTC)Will561
Just a quick question here. The MoS says that linking individual years is discouraged unless the link is likely to add insight. However, I find that on most featured bio pages, the dates are linked. What is with the seeming discrepancy here? Mr. IP (talk) 18:07, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
The referenced category came to my attention today because it was added to a page I'm watching. It shows up as a red link, but when I click on it a category appears with several links; but it shows up looking like it's in 'preview' mode (ie, "Remember that this is only a preview; any changes have not yet been saved!). Can anybody fix this? PKT 21:49, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Is it acceptable to put multiple stub templates on a stub? I'm writing a new article for a non-profit that is also a restaurant in New Orleans. Should the stub have all three stub templates? Thanks. Eclectek C T 16:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
It would be nicer if multiple stub templates did not each contain id="stub" which apparently results in XHTML errors, as all id attributes on a page are supposed to be unique (see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 40#ID duplication). — CharlotteWebb 17:38, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
We have two the same articles Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, and Institute for New Testament Textual Research. The first article is an older (13 March 2008), but has wrong title, it should be "Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung". This article in second edition created also link to Institute for New Testament Textual Research ([8]). The purpose of this link is mysterious, but it means his author should be known about the second article. Second article (18 May 2008) has more information. It is better if a long title is in English. Second article has also redirect pages: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, and INTF.
Of course I am responsible for duplication, but it could be earlier discovered if the first article had correct title ("Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung", but not "Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung"). Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 23:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Are there telephone numbers for a help desk at wikipedia?
Ka tae prabida kong kappachao tang lai Praong satid eu nai sawan Pranam kong praong jong pen ti sakkara Pra-anajak knog praong ja ma tueng Ko hai tuk sing pen pai tam nampratai Nai paendin muan nai sawan Ko pratan ahan prajam wan kae kappachao tanglai nai wan ni Prod yok tod hai kappachao Muan kappachao yok hai pu uen Ya ploi hai kappachao tuuk prajon Tae prod chuia hai pon pai Amen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MsTopeka (talk • contribs) 04:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
I just submitted an article but it got kicked back as copyright infringement. the problem is that the article they are siting, I wrote. It is like stephan king being booted for posting an page from the tommyknockers. Help —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmay22 (talk • contribs) 19:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
"All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.)"
Furthermore, given the anonymous nature of online edits, we can only take release of material under a free license by a verifiable method; we have no way otherwise to know that the person who says they are releasing content, holds the copyright, and thus has the authority to release it. So, in order to show us, the person must either:The problem you have is that you don't (or at least it appears you don't) hold the copyright to this material—Amazon.com does. I suspect that they allow users to submit write ups on things and that there is an associated legal notice on the submission screen under which users agree that by submitting the material, the copyright is given to Amazon.com. In any event, you would need either to have the amazon page in question have a notice at the bottom changing the license from "© 1996-2008, Amazon.com, Inc." to a GFDL release notice, or send an email/post from an official amazon.com email address or letterhead showing something like that you are an owner/director of that Fortune 500 company and release it. It's not impossible you are one of the top people at Amazon.com with authority to do this, but I think it unlikely. In the absence of such action, this material cannot be used.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:19, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Just for clarification, i am not saying I own Amazon.com. What I am saying is that the spot on Amazon.com being referenced is the "about the seller" section that i wrote about the company I work for in our seller account. I could remove tht section from amazon, or alter it. Should I do that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmay22 (talk • contribs) 12:38, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I have sent the email.--Dmay22 (talk) 13:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Could somebody who speaks German translate the caption in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frerichs_hemozoin_drawings.jpg from German into English
Thank you Tim Vickers (talk) 15:41, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can someone delete the history on my Sandbox? Page is currently blank. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 15:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC))
The Montreal page on the English Wikipedia is full of asian characters, large symbols, and a message about "spreading my reign" and "I own this website now"." I'd really recommend looking into it.
-Alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.249.140 (talk) 17:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I've started a discussion on what appears to be a well intentioned, but ineffective page at Wikipedia talk:Requests for feedback#Is this page still active? (Suggesting tag historical). Even the response to that is tame, so I'd appreciate some additional comments on the best way to proceed. -Optigan13 (talk) 08:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Hopefully I'm posting this at the right place. My concern is with someone finding my offline identity through pages I have edited, before creating an account at wikipedia. On these pages' history, my IP address appears, associated with the edit.
I have created an account today, and would like to know if I can have this account listed as the user responsible for those past edits, rather than my real IP address. My apologies if this has been answered before; this is a time-sensitive issue which I feel needs to be addressed for my "offline" safety. Thanks in advance Pokeysmotter (talk) 14:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC) pokeysmotter
During newpage patrol, I ran across the article on the Dental Technologists Association Council. It seems to me to be far too much detail on the members for something that should in my opinion be a tiny page saying who they are and what they do, but I don't really know what to tag it as. Any opinions? --Slashme (talk) 15:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks guys, I'll continue to observe this to see how it pans out. --Slashme (talk) 08:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Well, I see the "council" page is now redirected to the "association" page, which has a list of the council members, which I think is just fine. By the way, you guys have some WP:TEETH ;-> --Slashme (talk) 16:40, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Please see contributions from User:58.8.44.217 and User:58.8.34.65. they all promote the url nationmultimedia.com. is there some way to prevent a url from being posted on wikipedia
Cheers
Chirag
15:59, 25 July 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChiragPatnaik (talk • contribs)
I need some help in sorting tables for the article: Amateur radio frequency bands in India. The columns "Frequency" and "Wavelength" do not sort properly. If I do a sort on the frequency, the column contents sort on the value of the first digit. If I sort on wavelength, the sorting cannot recognize the difference between metres and centimetres. Are there any solutions? Thanks! =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:23, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
(reposted here as language section reply was try village pump) Is the use of Foreign Language References acceptable as several articles are getting into revert battles with a poster who has put up a string of references in Russian to justify additions to the article edits. As 95% + of the English Language Wikipedia will not Read rusian the validity of such refs is questionable. see here for Articles; History_of_steam_road_vehicles Pipeline_transport History_of_the_automobile and associated talk pages, posted by user Special:Contributions/79.176.154.152 Related article also have posts by a user now blocked. (The main Question is about the use of references that are in other languages in an en language site )- BulldozerD11 (talk) 16:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm a pet sitter and have been petsitting two greyhounds now for over six [6] months and have never had a problem with these dogs eating for me. Recently they refused to eat and it was suspect that the food might be a problem. Knowing dogs as I do it seemed they might miss their owner and decided not to eat as a child might not eat as a protest. If anyone has a greyhound and reads and has had similiar behaviors please would you respond - because unless these dogs start eating while their owner is away I'll be out of a job. Thank you for any knowledge/feedback you may have on anxiety seperation and how it affects these gentle dogs. Thank you in advance. Jean —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeanfurs (talk • contribs) 01:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. -Optigan13 (talk) 04:51, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd like some internal links to be added to the text in the Special:Statistics page. Namely, I would like:
" This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, we have 14,025,995 pages. "
to be replaced with:
" This number excludes redirects, discussion pages, image description pages, user profile pages, templates, help pages, portals, articles without links to other articles, and pages for Wikipedia administration. Including these, we have 14,025,995 pages. "
- except keep the code behind the number, of course. If anyone could do that (and/or explain how it can be done, so that I know for future reference), then that would be very much appreciated. It Is Me Here (talk) 20:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Ever had a discussion with people who acted as if wiki-consensus could overrule the law? Well if you've reached wit's end with that, here's a reality check you're welcome to deploy. Best wishes, DurovaCharge! 20:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't know how to change the copyright status of this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kotkapuramap.jpg I'm pretty sure it's safe as I got it from the government website http://faridkot.nic.in/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Profitoftruth85 (talk • contribs) 02:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
An editor suggests here that an article be split into two articles. He claims that the article is unencyclopedic, and should be split into articles that don't pass judegement. The article is about a debate and is framed as such. I'm afraid splitting the article would just lead to duplicate content in several articles. I am wondering what your opinions are on the subject? SharkD (talk) 01:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Policy question - are someone's recent images (eg, photo or website image) "out of copyright" because the thing that was photographed was created by someone who died over 100 years ago?
Example 1: File:SaintNinian.jpg - copied from this external web page - yes, the original creator is long-dead, but this is a copy of someone's photograph, not a copy of the original, and that photograph belongs to the creator of the photograph, and we can't use it without permission. Right?
Example 2: File:Y Gogledd.jpg - copied from this external web page - yes, the book is over 100 years old, but this isn't a copy from the book; this is a copy of someone's photograph of the book, and that photograph belongs to the creator of the photograph, and we can't use it without permission. Right?
There are a number of similar examples. Thanks in advance. Regards, Notuncurious (talk) 21:44, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
So I'm trying to make an AFD for the above page, List of Brazilian football transfers 2008 , but I think it's too big for my browser tosave the form with the AFD template, it's 280K. Can anyone see if they can get it moving? Aaronw (talk) 23:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I recently replaced File:Edible_toxicity_icon.png with File:Edible_toxicity_icon.svg in Template:Mycomorphbox, but I then saw that it is still the PNG which shows up on Russula caerulea which uses the ((Mycomorphbox)) template. I am somewhat puzzled as to why this should be and would like some help with fully integrating the SVG in the aforementioned template. It Is Me Here (talk) 08:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
File:(({howEdible))}_toxicity_icon.png
. – Leo Laursen – ✍ ⌘ 09:19, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
To whom it may concern:
I am a new register from china.I am not so farmiliar with this website.So I always think It's impossible for me to delete some data as a common user .So I do a atempt .I was astonished that I deleted some data in celine dion.not much.But it still missed something.please help.could you restore it once again.thank you so much.I will take a look at the user tutorial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Luyan1985 (talk • contribs) 05:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
User:Jiuguang Wang contribs is a student in robotics at Georgia Tech. He is originally from Beijing. He came here, according to his bio, in 2000 at age 12. I think that makes him 19 now. He posted a robotics template in the discussion page of an article I started in May of 2007. I made the mistake of clicking on the link in the template and then answering his questions, discussing my work and then providing him with links to my articles on the Wikia without learning more about him. He said that he disagreed with my Wikia articles and without warning posted a nomination for deletion on my Wikipedia article page instead of a reference tag or a not notable tag, or any other tag that might have given me time to deal with the problem. All of the sudden, wham there was the deletion tag. No warning. Next thing I know in the deletion discussion where I was trying to defend myself and the article in great haste, he accused me of a personal attack when in reality he was attacking me through the nomination for deletion. Next, - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs joined the deletion discussion but strangely in the role of "good cop." I recall seeing his user signature on User:Jiuguang Wang contribs's talk page. Other users joined the deletion discussion and next thing I know a couple of days later the article was deleted. This morning I finally had some time for a recap and to do a little research.
First thing. User:Jiuguang Wang contribs is posting his robotics template to a lot of discussion pages. Someone needs to check this out and see what Wang is up to. I'm sure he will have a good excuse.
((WikiProject Robotics|nested=no|class=C|importance=mid))
Second thing. I asked Henrik I Christensen, Director, Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech if he knew why User:Jiuguang Wang contribs would be back stabbing me, claiming my article was a hoax and Henrik replied:
"I am sorry that you have been attacked for an article in Wikipedia. I do not have any students named Jiuguang Wang, so this is really not a matter that I can address. - Henrik"
Third thing. I thought, "How strange?", when User:Jiuguang Wang contribs is editing the Wikipedia article about Henrik I. Christensen. Anybody have any idea what is going on?
Julie Dancer (talk) 14:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
That would be true if you fail to consider that no one so much as posted a suggestion on the discussion page, much less Heaven forbid edited the article themselves. Even a reference tag or a not notable tag would have given her some help or some warning. The only real issue was that the reference she gave was not fully opened and expanded or wikified, which any user could have done. The claim of original research is what was absurd and the deletion amounted to nothing more than an entomologist finding a new bug he had personally never seen and stepping on it for that reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.2.22 (talk) 10:52, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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For heavens sake, grow up and stop bleating about your deleted article and leave Jiuguang Wang alone. If the article was not OR, it can be recreated. Articles are deleted because there is community consensus to delete, not merely because Wang thought deletion was the right action. Sometimes articles are deleted when they could be saved; or are deleted in error. WP:DELREV is then your friend, or else recreation of a fixed article. HARRASSING AN INDIVIDUAL USER IS NOT EVER ACCEPTABLE. Whingng that "no one so much as posted a suggestion on the discussion page, much less Heaven forbid edited the article themselves" is a) not a reason why the article cannot be recreated and b) wallowing in self-pity. Really. Shit happens. Get over it. Move on. Above all, stop taking it out on another user. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I came across The First Fifty-One while doing newpage patrol. I am uncomfortable with its name (not descriptive enough) and its content (but I'm not quite sure why). I tagged it as needing wikification, but I'm not really sure what's wrong with it. What should I have done? --Slashme (talk) 13:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice, guys! I'm still amused that there are fifty-two in the first fifty-one. I never noticed that. Interestingly, this book also refers to 51 voyageurs. Maybe this should simply be moved to "List of Cadillac's first voyageurs"? I'll propose the move on that page. --Slashme (talk) 09:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear all. I'm asking for advice on a potential dispute, that I do not believe requires intervention yet, but on which I would like advice.
Basically, I've sometimes been frustrated in my contributions to Wikipedia, and what's happened today is probably the clearest example of the kind of problems I have. Note, at this stage I do not consider this a real dispute and am not asking for resolution. What I am asking for is guidance as to whether I am handling this situation properly.
The general problem I've had is reverts to my contributions, when I believe that those contributions are valid for the topic. My current example is in editing the page Open water swimming. This term refers, in my knowledge, to both competitive and non-competitive swimming in outdoor locations (lakes, rivers, sea). I noticed that the previous page on Open Water Swimming was solely (apart from a very general first sentence) about competitive open water swimming. So I edited the page slightly. I added a picture of a person (oh, alright then, it's me) swimming in a river, and added links down to the bottom of the page to the (UK) River and Lake Swimming Association, and the Outdoor Swimming Society (also UK). Both of these are established organisations and I believe relevant to the topic. Yes, I am a member of the former, but only link to the organisation when I believe the link is highly relevant to the topic.
However, as often happens, my edits were reverted. The reason given for reversion was that the new topic was not relevant to the article. I have reverted those changes. And accidentally added a second picture as when I saw there was no picture the next morning, I assumed that I hadn't put one up. I didn't notice the undo until later.
OK, that's the background. Now, this is not yet a dispute. But whenever I've been in this situation in the past, there's been a short "edit war" and I've given up. I do have too much going on in my life to waste it on little arguments.
What I have done this time is this:
1. Undone the changes. (And, by accident, added another picture).
2. Edited the talk page for the topic, raising the issue of scope.
3. Posted a calm and I hope friendly description of my side of the dispute. User_talk:Deiz
4. Raised this issue on several swimming related forums, asking people to contribute to the discussion on the talk page.
I imagine that unless the dispute automatically disappears (which in my past experience only happened once), then I will need to gather evidence that the term "Open water swimming" covers recreational swimming as well as competitive, and potentially
What I ask people to do is:
1. Tell me whether I have followed correct procedures so far, mention anything I've done that I shouldn't have done. Things I should have done differently, etc.
2. Advise on potential future actions that can be taken if the dispute does not resolve.
3. In particular, I would like advice on situations where a term has a linked article is particularly narrow in scope. I would assume that it's not the case that whoever writes the article first gets first dibs on the definition, and can enforce that, suppressing other definitions of the word or phrase.
Ross-c (talk) 09:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
OK, we have a straightforward edit war here. The article has been reverted again. The links to the River and Lake Swimming Association and the Outdoor Swimming Society have been removed again. The pictures of me swimming, one in the River Cam, and the other in Windermere, have been removed with the, I believe, frankly ridiculous claim that they don't show swimming !!!!. There is a comment "No authorative sources". What on earth is going on here. How am I supposed to produce an "authorative source" of a picture of someone swimming? What would this source be? Ross-c (talk) 13:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Can someone offer me advice on:
It's time for me to take a break, I've been proceeding as best I can. Your advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, ZuluPapa5 Zulu Papa 5 (talk) 04:51, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I have recently been on Special:Newpages a lot, partly to add speedy delete templates where necessary, and partly do look for potential WP:DYK candidates. However, I always turn bot and patrolled edits off and have 500 results per page. On top of that, I like to browse Special:Newpages starting at page 2 or 3 so as to try to avoid speedily deleting pages that have just appeared and which might consequently still be under construction. However, when I copy the URL of such a page - for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&offset=20080801212507&limit=500&hidepatrolled=1&hidebots=1 - and paste it again after a while, I can see that it sticks to the same range of results rather than a particular page of results on Special:Newpages; i.e. the range of articles it shows is static and not dynamic, unlike the main Special:Newpages page itself.
My question, then, is this: is it possible to have a URL which takes you straight to page 2, say, or page 3 of Special:Newpages with the filters which I have indicated above applied, and which consequently shows the current second or third page of Special:Newpages and automatically updates itself? If so, please post that URL here!
Thanks in advance.
It Is Me Here (talk) 13:01, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I have been using Wikipedia for 2 years as a reader but signed up in order to police it. I am looking for some tips/ easy ways to police it rather than keep checking the recent changes page. Check my contributions page to know how sincere I am about this! Andvd (talk) 10:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)Anandvd
Another user and I had a small altercation about the notability of this person. Could someone please check the sources to see if the guidelines are satisfied, and post findings on the talk page? Thanks a bunch. .seVer!Ty^- (talk) 20:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)