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November 5[edit]

No title[edit]

When was this published and by who was it published. What year did this start.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.178.55.52 (talk • contribs) .

If you are referring to the history of Wikipedia, please see Wikipedia#History.--Fuhghettaboutit 00:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are probably looking for our page onhow to cite wikipedia. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography help[edit]

How do you figure out who edited the page you are looking at on Wikipedia? I need to know for a Bibliography for a project. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.84.212.180 (talk • contribs) -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 02:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia is probably what you're looking for. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 02:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming a page[edit]

Deleting A Page[edit]

How do I delete a page that I created?

How do I rename a page? e.g. how do I rename

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_love_cream_pies

to

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_love_cheese_cakes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Miamidot (talk • contribs) .

You would move it. Details are at Help:Moving a page -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 03:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

... still in need of an answer...[edit]

I'm still in need for an answer to my question about redirects... (Since I don't know how to remove a redirect, I don't want to install one until I'm sure that it's still possible afterwards to see the history of the site...) Thanks in advance!! --Ibn Battuta 04:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is the question about setting up a redirect? Please remove all other text and write #REDIRECT [[Albatross (disambiguation)]] on Albatros (ship) -- Lost^(talk) 04:33, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I answered above, as well. --Wolf530 (talk) 04:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your patient explanations!! My hopefully final question: I've just read in the thread above this one that there's a possibility to move an article including its history to a new place. Does that also work if the new article has already been created? (It seems easier to have the history right there at the new article rather than use links for that; I just didn't know that this possibility exists...) --Ibn Battuta 05:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to move to a page which already has a history, please request it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Admins have the ability to merge histories -- Lost^(talk) 05:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How to delete page (article)?[edit]

Hi,

I want to delete an article at below URL or change name of the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TecExperts_-_Feel_the_Power

How do i do that?

Pls..

Thanks

There is no need to put the helpme tag at the helpdesk. The above article that you link to does not exist. Please check the link. -- Lost^(talk) 08:05, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image uploading problem[edit]

I cannot upload a JPEG file. The site says this after uploading: "." is not an accepted image file format.

Thank you.

Mordecai 12 08:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Mordecai[reply]

Thats because you are trying to save the name without an extension. Please ensure that the source filename as well as the destination filename ends with jpg -- Lost^(talk) 08:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

about the debutante???[edit]

wat is the best message could i say to the debutante??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.131.179.148 (talk • contribs)

Can you give some more context please? What kind of debutante? Are you talking about people joining wikipedia? -- Lost^(talk) 11:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See Debutante Lost. Try asking the question at the Reference Desk if it's not about Wikipedia. Seeya, --WikiSlasher 11:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Er.. thanks but I was trying to reply to anon :) -- Lost^(talk) 12:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

howtocontrolourmind[edit]

I want to know how to keepour concentration on our aim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.63.101.52 (talk • contribs)

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's what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. -- Lost^(talk) 12:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problem statement[edit]

(1) Write a program to merge two arrays

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's the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. -- Nataly a 15:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Although that sounds remarkably like a homework question, for which the Reference Desk people will come down on you like a ton of bricks. (Not to mention there's no context of, for example, what programming language you're using, what knowledge you're assumed to have, and so forth.) So, first try and answer the question yourself, and then post your question to the Computing RD with reference to which part you get stuck at. Confusing Manifestation 01:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

St. Joseph[edit]

When was St. Joseph Canonized and why was he canonized?

Well there are a couple of saints named Joseph (as you can see here: Saint Joseph (disambiguation). The most widely known is most likely Saint Joseph aka "Joseph of Nazareth" the legal father of Jesus. I'm no theologian, but I imagine he was canonized simply for that reason. The article says that he was declared the "patron" of the Catholic Church on Dec 8th, 1870 by Pope Pius IX. Cheers Dina 16:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in the future you should try and bring questions like this to the Wikipedia:Reference desk. This help desk is mostly for questions about how to use Wikipedia. Dina 16:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone generate a list of all SVG content on Wikipedia?[edit]

Using the search function on wikipedia.org i get that there's a lot of SVG content on Wikipedia. Trying out just a few i find errors quickly. Therefore it would be very helpful if you could provide one big list of all URLs of SVG content on Wikipedia, to help in validating. http://openclipart.org/wiki/SVG_Testing#Open_Clip_Art_Library_SVG_Tools is to check a list of SVG content for errors. It would be good for Wikipedia to use this as well (open content is more valuable when it perfectly conforms to open standards that works in as many places as possible). Maybe someone with database access can do a simple query?

The system is quite useful, but has plenty of ideas and room for help and improvement.

Put the search string "site:en.wikipedia.org filetype:svg" into Google. It should return what you're looking for. —Mitaphane _talk 19:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

commons:Category:SVG and its subcats. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:13, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need help with a deleted page.[edit]

Hello,

In advance I would like to thank you for any help you may be able to provide. I know that there is a huge section that I can navigate and find an answer to just about any question that I might have. How ever I am not sure if this is a matter of deletion due to a specific violation.

The article I am looking for is the article on Keichu-Do, a Martial Art. It was on your site for some time, over 6 months. I discovered it when I was compiling a list of sites that had mention of Keichu or that were Keichu sites. At about the same time I came across another site that claims to be a Martial Arts watch dog. It would seem that they have taken a personal cause against Keichu and I remember reading a post some where on that site that mentions that they know someone/ or one of them is someone who is of a positions on Wikipedia that could delete articles. I sincerely hope this is not the case, but the other day after taking an absence of a few months away from the MA "watch dog" site I returned and found someone attempting to rub the fact that the Keichu article had been deleted in our faces (something along the lines of 'and what do you think/or feel about the fact that your article in Wikipedia has been deleted...').

I listed my email when I signed up so if at all possible could I have a copy of the article sent to me. If it is not to much of an inconvenience could you please let me know exactly what is wrong with the article so that I/ or another member of Keichu can remedy the errors.

Thank you for your help and time,

The article was deleted under the WP:PROD process, which allows for the deletion of articles if no-one objects within five days, on the proviso that the article may be immediately undeleted if anyone requests. I've restored it. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 18:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your help Mr. Blanning! For future reference how can I become aware of a WP:PROD deletion process?

Click on WP:PROD and read the page :) --Wolf530 (talk) 18:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's good practice to put articles you care about on your watchlist. To nominate something for PROD, an editor has to put a tag on the article, and when they should do they should use an edit summary such as 'proposed for deletion' or 'prod' ('prod' is more likely tbh, obscure as it is). This will show up in your watchlist. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 20:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Smarter, Atomic Diff[edit]

I'm looking for a feature that tells me where a contribution specifically came from. Like if I hover over a word or look at a line-by-line analysis of any given revision, I can tell which revision/author each came from.

Not sure if Wikipedia alone has this feature. If it doesn't, I'm also looking for outside help/plug-ins/anything that would give me this feature. Anyone who has seen the "cvs ann" command for diffing files knows exactly what I'm talking about.

I can answer my question (forgot to sign). This feature does not exist (I googled for it). I hope one day that it does.--Htmlism 21:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it exists, but there was a discussion about it on the Wikitech mailing list (relevant index).--Commander Keane 01:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Page views[edit]

The page [1] shows the most popular pages, but is there anything to find out the number of hits of any of the 6,825,798 in Wikipedia? I've always been interested to know the popularity of the pages we edit. CoolGuy 18:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hits, no. You might be interested in Special:Mostlinked, and Special:Mostrevisions, however.

Link to wikipedia entry in other language[edit]

I am a wikepedian on both the English and French versions. Is it possible to create a link to an article in Wikipedia in another language, à la link to article in French Wikipedia in an article in the English Wikipedia?

Check out Wikipedia:Interwiki_links. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 20:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox[edit]

Someone inserted a line saying Vicente Fox is gay and likes to have sex w/ young children. I tried to edit the page to delete the statement but who ever did it made it in a way that it can't be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.11.127 (talk • contribs)

I don't really know what you're talking about. The line isn't in the article at the moment. Trebor 22:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC) Oh, are you talking about this [2]? In which case it's not in the current article - it was vandalism which was reverted. Trebor 22:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article was vandalised on October 3rd here and fixed half an hour later here. If you're still seeing the "is gay" stuff bypass your cache. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]