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On this date 1899, John Albert Burr invented one of the first rotary-blade lawn mowers.
This Black inventors Patent number is #624,749.
Reference: Created Equal The Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators By James Michael Brodie Copyright 1993, by Bill Adler Books, Inc. William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York ISBN 0-688-11536-5 https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=00624749 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:1213:C142:BC57:6227:EBA2:D7DE (talk) 02:18, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia, How/where do I change my user name?
User:Darionapoliguitar
Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darionapoliguitar (talk • contribs) 08:40, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
dear Wikipedia HelpDesk,
my mail to You is overdue . personally , i am an adamant digital neanderthal . i work in Film &TV and i am lucky & grateful to have wonderful people in my life who are looking after my digital presence which we keep to a minimum . please believe you me ,they have tried now for a very looong time to reach out , contact you and get the following issue sorted out.it's about my web-profile on Wikipedia , particularly my photo !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Taubman
it's inaccurate , outdated and belongs to the past . plus it is per se a very unfortunate picture , since it was taken randomly , at some night event . it has little to do with who i am today and how i look today . it doesn't really represent me.although this might be also my personal sensitivity , my lovely people failed in their quest via you to have this image changed/amended/updated and i am making now an effort to contact you now directly since it is about Me and my personal right.
i have a photo where i own the rights to and can easily get a confirmation from friend & photographer Benedict Frank.
ideally , i would like this photo to be used for All wikipedia sites/ languages because on the German version , there's again a photo which i can live with , especially as an adamant UNICEF Ambassador but would also prefer to use this Benedict Frank photo .
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Taubman
please kindly help me and let me know how to proceed and how i can get this Benedict Frank photo to you.
thank You dearly ever so much !
heartily truly and with radiant health , Anatole — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toli Taubman (talk • contribs) 13:58, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wikipedia, Considering how social media is being manipulated/used for nefarious purpose, I'm thinking YOU could design a platform where people can socialize without the whole thing devolving into an Orwellian nightmare. You could ask for contributions from users, and avoid advertising, which seems to be used for mind control, etc... I don't know what parameters you'd want to put onto it, but you are smarter than me and could design it so that the community is available for people to use it in a spirit of sharing and discussion. It's just an idea. I think people are ready for an alternative to Facebook/Twitter. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmyKathleenRyan (talk • contribs) 15:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I am trying to correct a page on WIKIPEDIA, most exactly DANIELA NICOLETA SOFRONIE and my edit is not accepted even if it is the correct version of the info presented there! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.86.71.26 (talk) 17:43, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I notice that the gadget/gadget definition appears on almost every project, however one thing puzzles me. Why is this namespace used on every project but no pages have this namespace? See ru:Special:Random/gadget, fr:Special:Random/gadget, and es:Special:Random/gadget. Note that Gadget:Invention, Travel, & Adventure on the English Wikipedia is NOT an actual gadget, it is a redirect as this title should not be used for an article. Gioguch (talk) 17:54, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to publish the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=970501180
Someone was helping me with this page and moved it and now I can not find it to publish it. Thank you for your time. ALLBN (talk) 19:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
I am the founding editor of a scholarly journal covered under the Wikipedia Academic Journals Project. I want to make some purely factual corrections to the article and to add a bit of factual detail (including correcting an inconsistency between the current editor's name in the sidebar of the article and in its stubby text). I founded the journal in 1979 and passed on the editorship in 1995, but I remain on its editorial board. I believe my edits would have value, are purely factual (e.g., adding the names of the first two editors of the journal and the dates of their succession), and would not in any way undermine trust in the integrity of Wikipedia. I hope I can publish edits to the article with disclosure as a connected contributor, but I do not understand how or where I am supposed to make the disclosure. Please advise. THANKS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grdfoge (talk • contribs) 20:34, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Have you noticed russian bots editing middle eastern content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16A2:613A:6859:C9EF:5952:A393:5A4C (talk) 21:56, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
Category | Chinese | Count |
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Temple | 寺廟 | 25 |
Government | 衙署 | 12 |
Fort | 關塞 | 12 |
Residence | 宅第 | 11 |
City wall | 城郭 | 8 |
Industrial | 產業 | 5 |
Tomb | 墓葬 | 5 |
Lighthouse | 燈塔 | 4 |
Train station | 車站 | 3 |
School | 書院 | 3 |
Plaque | 碑碣 | 2 |
Paifang | 牌坊 | 1 |
Church | 教堂 | 1 |
Bridge | 橋樑 | 1 |
Ancestral shrine | 祠堂 | 1 |
Other | 其他 | 12 |
I've recently created List of national monuments of Taiwan, and I'm thinking of color coding the categories, shown collapsed on the right, that I think will bring more contrast. Would this be helpful, or is this unnecessary? Is there some accessibility guideline that I'm not aware of? Any feedback on these colors, or the list article in general, is welcome. ◢ Ganbaruby! (Say hi!) 22:41, 29 September 2020 (UTC)