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February 19[edit]

Adding a section to an article[edit]

How do I add a section to an article? Arthritix 16:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just create a new section header - for example == New Section == and then add content underneath it. It's hard to explain - my best suggestion is to look at a good article and mimic its form. —Keakealani·?·!·@ 00:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. Arthritix 16:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

squidward vandal and pisschrist vandal[edit]

Was thare or is thare a real squidward and or pisschrist vandal like shown on this website[1] or are thay making it up?--Crocadog 00:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed there was - follow their links, one of theme ws deleted, though there was something there. ST47Talk 00:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

double categorization[edit]

bsd. i was checking the categorization of a few shipping companies, and saw that a few are listed under both "transport" and "(transport>)shipping" categories. i searched a little around the policies an found that being listed in two subcats is ok. is it true also for listing the article in both parent and subcat, specifically in the above mentioned case, when the affiliation of the subcat is obvious? thanks Ben Stone 01:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Only if the subject is more often related to the parent cat. See here. Xiner (talk, email) 01:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. thanks Ben Stone 01:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

clearing wikipedia search browser[edit]

How do I clear the Wikipedia Search Browser and its history? 24.46.230.179 01:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)John D[reply]

Err...do you mean clearing the little automatic fill-in in the search box? That's a browser thing, rather than something to do with Wikipedia. What browser are you using? I only know how to clear it in Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox, where you can select 'preferences' and then 'clear saved form data' in one of the privacy settings. But it depends on your browser. —Keakealani·?·!·@ 02:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

use Ctrl+H then delete the history you don't want by right clicking. Works with most web browsers. --K.Z ^Talk ^• ^Vandal ^• ^Contrib

This question has been asked 4 times in a week now, so it's fast becoming an FAQ, although technically speaking it's to do with the browser you're using, not Wikipedia. I'll just copy the original answers here:

This is nothing to do with Wikipedia; however, some browsers will have this as a feature. I think it's called 'AutoComplete' in Internet Explorer, so there might be some way to clear it in the menus somewhere (I don't have access to the relevant menus on this computer, though, so I can't check). --ais523 15:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you can delete individual items by highlighting them with the cursor and pressing the Delete key, or alternatively:

In Internet Explorer, click Tools -> Internet Options..., click the Content tab, click AutoComplete and there are options there.
In Firefox, to disable the feature go to Tools -> Options..., in the Privacy section, click the Saved Forms tab and uncheck "Save information I enter in forms and the Search Bar" and click OK and then click Tools -> Clear Private Data... and make sure Saved Form Information has a tick and then click Clear Private Data Now. It's up to you to determine what other data you want to clear. I think that's everything I can tell you, but it's more a question for the Reference desk. --WikiSlasher 12:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I hope that helps! --ais523 09:44, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Well it's good to know my instructions are helping so many people :) --WikiSlasher 07:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated Entity Extraction - Where to post?[edit]

I'm wondering where I could post information for Wikipedia users / maintainers on two subjects. Guidance on where it would be appropriate to discuss these would be appreciated.

1) We have deployed a web service (URLs removed) that may be of use to Wikipedia maintainers. The SWS web service provides semantic extraction of people, places, companies and organizations from unstructured text. This may be of use to Wikipedia in automatically generating intra-site links, etc.

2) We've created a Firefox extension on top of that web service that, we believe, enhances the Wikipedia browsing/surfing process. It automatically processes the text of the page you are reading and does the extractions mentioned above. You can then hover over auto-generated links to launch searches in Wikipedia and other sources.

We think these tools are great - but have two very different audiences. Where would be a good place to tell people about them? Obviously not in an article - but a discussion group, etc?

Thanks for any input. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttague (talk • contribs)

You may wish to email info-en-o@wikimedia.org, which can advise you on ways to avoid conflict-of-interest and advertising issues on Wikipedia. Xiner (talk, email) 04:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the first item, the Wikimedia Foundation generally does not use commercial software, partly for philosophical reasons, and partly because of its small budget.

If the Firefox extension is free, you might post a note at Wikipedia:Community Portal about it. If it is not free, then unfortunately there really isn't any place to make a pitch to editors about paying for it (there are no discussion groups or forums, per se, here; it's not a social networking site). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Internet explorer 7 / wikipedia problems[edit]

I am not sure if this is the right place to address this problem, sorry. If there is a more appropriate place I hope someone moves this there instead of just deleting it.

In the new Internet Explorer 7 there is a feature where you can add Search Providers. That means you can search on a page you have added without first going to that page, but instead use a search field that you always have when you use the Internet, no matter what page you are on. Wikipedia is one of the standard search providers. However it doesn’t work if you search for any topic with more than one word.

Also: If you try to manually add Wikipedia as a search provider via the “create your own” method (I wondered if doing that would fix the problem) it does not work because you have to write TEST in capitals, and Wikipedia changes the URL so that it is not in capitals. (That sentence is probably hard to understand, but if anybody tries it they will see what I mean.)

I tried finding some way to complain on the Internet Explorer homepage but couldn’t. Perhaps some wikipedians either know how to contact the Internet Explorer people and can make them fix this, or can fix it themselves from Wikipedia’s end.

I just tried it, and didn't have the problem you're describing. Make sure you are not putting quotation marks around your search terms. Dave6 ^talk 08:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to try this URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=TEST. --ais523 09:34, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

I am the one who wrote the original problem. That url works, thanks. But I was not using quotation marks so I suspect this is a problem for some other users, though no longer for me.

Unable to Edit - text code does not appear or is missing[edit]

Hi,

I am writing to ask about text which appears within an entry, but does not seem to correspond to the code in the edit section, and is therefore difficult to challenge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.145.64 (talk • contribs)

It was most likely a case of vandalism. Please see WP:REVERT for how others must've reverted it before you could. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 04:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

incorrect info[edit]

Dear Wikipedia, you have an article on your website about the Lancaster Rattlers and one of items is incorrect. You have our manager listed as Gus Iguraran and he is no longer with our organization. Our coach is Steve Mackenzie and our Director of Operations is Toni Brunner. I hope you are able to correct this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.200.197 (talk • contribs)

Yes. This is Wikipedia. That means that you should have corrected it. Just click "edit this page" and make the corrections as necessary. --Kainaw ^(talk) 07:07, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To Kainaw: Note that the WMF now has a policy of referring people from external organisations to the Help Desk when they complain about factual information: see Wikipedia talk:Help desk#New Wikimedia policy - referring organizations complaining about factual problems to the Help Desk. In such cases (and this might be one of them), it makes more sense to fix the problem for the person requesting help, after checking that it isn't an attempt to skew the neutrality of the article (and this clearly isn't), then just to tell them to {{sofixit}}. (This change is, as it happens, perfectly safe to make even if there is a conflict of interest involved, in this case, and I see that 76.166.200.297 has made the change now.) --ais523 09:40, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Date of Thrisur Pooram in the year 1958[edit]

Will appreciate informing the date of Thrisur Pooram in the year 1958.

Regards,

Ravi M.R.

Open G tuning[edit]

Open G tuning: where can i find the chords charts for chords in G when tuned to open G?

then chords for other popular keys played in open G tuned guitar?

(email removed to protect you from spam)

You might find what you are looking for in the article about Open G tuning. If you cannot find the answer there, click here to post your question at that article's talk page. If that doesn't solve your problem, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They'll be glad to answer questions about anything in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. --ais523 09:47, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Religious and ethnic slurs on Wikipedia[edit]

I came on an article which has included a religious and ethnic slur. What is Wikipedia doing to stop such offensive material being passed off as the truth? As things stand, I see Wikipedia as providing a platform and credibility to racists, religious bigots etc? Until some kind of quality control is introduced, it would be better for Wikipedia to close down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.60.234.246 (talk • contribs) Viridae ^Talk 12:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Because wikipedia is free an open to edit some peopel use that as an opportunity to vandalise. On the other hand, because we are not censored, we do have article that some people may find offensive. But rest assured we try and maintain the encyclopedia so that everything is referenced properly to reliable sources. Viridae ^Talk 12:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you meant to say we're not censored. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks. Viridae ^Talk 13:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What article has the problem? It may violate one or more of Wikipedia's policies. Wikipedia's quality control system consists of editors such as you and me. If an article violates one or more of Wikipedia's policies, getting it fixed is generally straightforward. Also check the history and talk page for the article in question, to see if the material you find offensive is already disputed, or may be simple vandalism. --Teratornis 01:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

power saving[edit]

please let me know whether tube light choke consume how many watts electricity

It looks like you have a question for the Reference Desk. The Help Desk is here to help people learn how to use Wikipedia, not for information. Hersfold ^(talk|work) 14:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

if and pipe-characters[edit]

In general, one can use if to do something similar to what if-else does in programming-languages. However I have a small problem: The "then" text (ie the text I wish displayed if the expression is a non-zerolength string) contains pipe-characters (specifically: it is a row to be added to a table, in wikitext-format.

This causes trouble offcourse, since the parser uses pipes to separate then-text from else-text. Any advice ? --Eivind Kjørstad 12:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had a similar problem when I tried to put an image caption in a collapsible box. At the time there wasn't a solution to the problem. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In many cases, you can use {{!}} as a substitute for | or {{!-}} as a substitute for |-; they do the same thing in tables, but avoid using the | character. (Don't use them unless necessary, though, because they're less intuitive than the | and |- versions.) --ais523 12:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  - I thougth that those created a th-cell as opposed to a td-cell ? (which is the same in most user-agents, modulu default alignment being centered, which can be compensated...) Migth be worth a try. Or I can use xhtml-tables offcourse. --Eivind Kjørstad 13:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - ! creates a th-cell, {{!}} (with the braces) creates a td-cell. --ais523 13:04, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

petty users[edit]

What can be done about petty users who blow up out of all proportions minor gramatical edits into full blown personal atacks, ridicule the users prior edits and try to instigate edits wars over the subject?--Lucy-marie 13:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1) Follow the WP:MOS when it comes to regional varieties of grammar and spelling in English. 2) Warn people about how civility is required. 3) Report them to the administrator's or community noticeboard if such actions persist. - Mgm|^(talk) 13:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read WP:EQ; follow its guidelines and ask others to do the same. Also be aware that there are many other wikis. Sometimes when Wikipedia editors irresolvably disagree, one or both factions may be happier editing on some other wiki(s) with editorial policies and institutional biases more to their liking. See for example Wikinfo. Wikipedia is merely the world's largest and most visible wiki, by no means the only one. It's one thing to battle over a specific wiki as a matter of informed choice, but I suspect in many cases the combatants are not yet aware of other wikis where they could concentrate on enjoying themselves. In real life, most people gravitate toward other people who reinforce their various biases: religious, political, lifestyle, etc. A special kind of learned mental discipline is necessary to function in an environment like Wikipedia, where we encounter more diversity of opinion than any real-world community could probably tolerate (given that the real world has no "off" switch). Most people do not naturally maintain anything resembling a neutral point of view in everyday life, as the rampant sectarian violence around the world indicates. After all, NPOV requires an exceedingly unpopular trait: humility, as in honestly admitting to oneself that one is not omniscient, and therefore anything one cannot yet disprove might turn out to be true. (I cannot disprove the existence of leprechauns, therefore I should resist the urge to laugh at the possibility; I can, however, feel dismay toward people people who form strong beliefs without even realizing a need to start with conclusive evidence to support their beliefs.) It's easier to set up diverse wikis for diverse people than to homogenize everyone's manner of thinking. --Teratornis 20:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commons accounts and Unified login[edit]

I recently created a Commons account (on the 1st January 2007), and I have plans to upload some pictures I took recently. I was told I should create an account with the same name as my en-Wikipedia account, but when I tried, was told that the name was already taken. I eventually created commons:User:Carcharoth (Commons). I have three questions: (1) Was there another way to do this and successfully create an account with the same name? (2) Will these accounts be merged when single-log-in arrives (I've read the SUL pages and I don't really understand what they are saying)? (3) Should I just upload the pictures and not worry about having the separate accounts, or should I wait and unify the accounts first? Carcharoth 14:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

According to the current plans for SUL (m:SUL), if you have two accounts with different names but the same email address (make sure you set the same address on each account, if you haven't already!), you can merge them manually during the migration (you can log in to each account and link them together then). If you have more edits than commons:User:Carcharoth (which seems likely, as that user has 22 edits at the moment), you will be able to usurp their Commons account then, and they will be able to, and have to, choose a different username. For the time being, feel free to use your Commons account with a slightly different name to your :w:en account; you may find it useful to link the accounts together in people's minds by writing 'my :w:en account is w:en:User:Carcharoth' or the like on your Commons userpage. I think that answers questions 2 and 3; as for question 1, the answer is no, because someone else took and used that name first on Commons (your :w:en account is older than the commons:Carcharoth account, as it happens, but the Wikimedia wikis are independent at the moment as far as username priority goes.) Hope that helps! --ais523 15:16, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Thanks. I have already set the same e-mail address. What happens if there is an account with the same name on another language Wikipedia, run by a different person, that has thousands of edits, and tries to usurp the Commons username? I surveyed the top 12 Wikipedias (by number of articles) and a few other languages where Tolkien is popular, and I found one example of someone chosing the same name: Utilisateur:Carcharoth (they have less than 200 edits; the account was created in June last year and has been editing in recent months). What happens in cases like this? How would I edit the French Wikipedia under SUL and how would they edit the English Wikipedia under SUL? Carcharoth 15:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As you have more edits, you would become fr:Utilisateur:Carcharoth, and they would have to pick a different name (which they would then use on both fr and en). The exact details of what would happen in this situation haven't been worked out yet, I don't think. --ais523 16:28, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

The single-user login conflict search says there are accounts with that name only on commons, en, and fr. --cesarb 01:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images from other language Wikipedias[edit]

Is it possible to use images from another language Wikipedia in the English Language Wikipedia? One Example: fr:Image:La Poste 2006.jpg--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 15:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. You can use images from Wikimedia Commons or from this Wikipedia itself on this Wikipedia, but not ones from foreign languages. To some extent, this is a copyright issue. The image you've linked to is not a free use image, but a fair use image; this means that to use it here, you would have to download it from :w:fr (the French Wikipedia) and upload it here, on :w:en; you would also have to show that it met the fair use criteria here, because copyright rules are slightly different between the different language Wikipedias. (In particular, you would need to use it in an article here, because the English Wikipedia fair use criteria require that the image is used in an article, and that a fair use rationale is provided with respect to that article.) If you find a free use image in another language Wikipedia that you want to use here, why not upload it to Commons, or ask its uploader to? (Commons only accepts free use images, as its images have to comply with the copyright rules of all the different language Wikipedias at once). Hope that helps! --ais523 15:21, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Thank You! That answers my question.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 15:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about #ifeq[edit]

I'm working on a conditional template for the first time (mostly copy/pasting together other peoples work as I learn). I'm trying to insert an #ifeq condition into a table to define the cell colour, and somewhere it seems to be blowing up. If I manually put either of the colours in there, everything seems to work, but when I make it a condition it blows up. You can see my work at User:Maelwys\afc top for the template, and User:Maelwys\afc test for a page using it both ways (with and without the proper variable, so see the two results). If you could take a few minutes to look at it, I'd really appreciate it. I'm probably just making a simple mistake, but can't find enough documentation on the #ifeq condition or how it interacts with other formatting to figure it out myself. Thanks for any help/advice you can offer! --Maelwys 15:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The problem seems to be that the | in the #ifeq (or any other template) is interpreted as a table-cell separator. See below, for instance (1x is a template that just returns its first argument):

style="background-color:#FF0000"

style="background-color:

FF0000;" | style="background-color:{{1x|#FF0000}}"

You seem to have discovered a bug in the software. You might want to report this at mediazilla:, the MediaWiki bug tracker. For the time being, you might want to see if it can be done a different way. I hope that helps! --ais523 16:26, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Ais523:Yes, that is a bug, but {{!}} exists as a workaround.--Werdan7^{T @} 16:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you're thinking of the bug with generating table markup from templates (i.e. table markup is interpreted as template markup); this is a bug where template markup is interpreted as table markup. --ais523 16:51, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

Maelwys: Changing

style="background-color: {{#ifeq:{{{1}}}|accept|#A0FFA0|#F2DFCE}};"

to

{{#ifeq:{{{1}}}|accept|style="background-color:#A0FFA0"|style="background-color:#F2DFCE"}}

makes it work.--Werdan7^{T @} 16:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it doesn't quite. That makes it not display the incorrect thing, but it still seems to be completely ignoring the ifeq and background-color tags. With the change you inserted above, the initial (compressed) view always shows as blue. But according to the criteria of the ifeq tag, it should be either green (if true) or red (if false), and never blue. So I guess maybe this is indeed just a software bug? --Maelwys 19:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Offline[edit]

Hi there,

I am interested in having an offline version of Wikipedia. I am aware, that this is an online collaborative product, but due to circumstances I would like to have an offline version. We are running a charity program in Africa, where internet connection is not possible (only by expensive satellite), but wiki could provide a massive source of free information to local learning programs.

Please let me know if this offline version is a possibility, what are the restrictions, whom do we need to contact.

Kind Regards, Roland Bartl

Wikipedia produces database dumps which contain all the information in Wikipedia, so you might want to start from there. They aren't in a particularly useful format for offline use without further processing, however. As for restrictions, Wikipedia is licenced under the GFDL; you can read the full legal details at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation Licence. --ais523 17:16, 19 February 2007 (U T C)

See also Wikipedia:Forking FAQ, Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download. --Teratornis 19:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DELETE an uploaded image[edit]

How do I delete an uploaded image? I uploaded it but it was the wrong image. Please tell me how to delete it?

Tag with {{db-author}} and an admin should come along and delete it. Hope that helps. Trebor 17:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to add an archive to what is displayed by the {{Archives}} template[edit]

I archived the talk page of an article, to find that the template used is {{Archives}}. The archive I created isn't listed in the generated Archives box. Rather than default to using {{Archive box}}, which is the only one I know how to use, can someone tell me how to get the new archive listed in the archive box generated by the "Archives" template? Thanks! Joie de Vivre 17:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Click edit at the top right of the box itself, and add the archive there. Trebor 17:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Trebor! Joie de Vivre 17:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"fonting" all my name[edit]

How do I get all of my name to be the light blue that the last characters of my name are without putting fonts in every link. Because lately thats what I've been having to do.

'''[[User:Darkest Hour|Dark]][[User talk:Darkest Hour|est]] [[Special:Contributions/Darkest_Hour|Ho]]<span class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 100%;">[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Darkest+Hour&site=en.wikipedia.org ur]</span>'''

Is what I have now.

'''<font color="blue">[[User:Darkest Hour|Dark]][[User talk:Darkest Hour|est]]</font> [[Special:Contributions/Darkest_Hour|Ho]]<span class="plainlinks" style="font-size: 100%;">[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Darkest+Hour&site=en.wikipedia.org ur]</span>'''

See? Try this it does not work. please help before I have no linking name. --User:Darkest Hour/name 17:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

There's one thing that you must do first. You have the text {{User:Darkest Hour/name}} in your raw sig, right? Please change that to {{subst:User:Darkest Hour/name}}. Thanks! As for font colors, you can't do that to the whole link, you have to do it to the piped display text. For example, [[O RLY?|Hello]] will display as Hello, but [[O RLY?|Hello]] will display as Hello. Finally, you could also use red, which displays as red. CSS is better than the font tag, but I use the font tag in my signature for brevity. Gracenotes ^T § 18:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Funny. It automatically makes it a subst in my pref. Any way I made my user name an external link and it works just the same. Thanks,--Darkest Hour 18:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

subject[edit]

How do I shot web?

Can you be more specific as to what your asking.Cheers — WilsBadKarma ^(Talk) 18:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To shot web, choose Spidey and put your middle finger in your palm and your wrist back. It's a 4chan thing. ;) -Wo o ty Woot? contribs 20:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the title of an article.[edit]

Is it possible to chang the title of an article once the page has been created?

I created a page a whil ago but need to alter its title with a extended version of the album name. i hope this makes sence. thank you.

See Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page. ColourBurst 18:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you i've sorted it.

Citing Question[edit]

I have tonnes of information that would be of use to wikipedia, but it is in a magazine, and I have been unable to find anywhere on the internet that has the same information, so how would i cite this?? Mattyatty 18:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can use the template {{Citation}} to cite a magizine. You can also check out Wikipedia:Citation templates for a full list of template that can be used to cite references.Cheers — WilsBadKarma ^(Talk) 18:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help Mattyatty 18:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To be absolutely clear to other readers, it is not necessary for things to be on the internet for them to be references on Wikipedia. Skittle 19:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

citation[edit]

How do I cite a page from wikipedia?

See WP:CITE. --Darkest Hour 18:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The phrasing of the question is slightly unclear, so I'll add that if you want to cite Wikipedia itself, click on "cite this article" in the toolbox at the left of the screen. Trebor 18:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Top & bottom[edit]

How do I get an arrow, when clicked on, to take me to the bottom or top of a page?

<div style="float:right; position:absolute; z-index:100; right:5px; top:5px;">
{| style="background:transparent"
| <imagemap>Image:1uparrow.png|16x16px|Top
rect 0 0 50 50 [[top]]
desc none</imagemap>
|}</div>

<div style="float:right; position:absolute; z-index:100; right:5px; top:500px;">
{| style="background:transparent"
| <imagemap>Image:1downarrow.png|16x16px|Bottom
rect 0 0 50 50 [[bottom]]
desc none</imagemap>
|}</div>

--Darkest Hour 18:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You want anchors, I think. See here for a working example. No luck trying to incorporate that with your code above, though—sorry. Looks like the page will "reload" when clicking on your image arrows, probably due to them being part of an imagemap. —Xhantar^Talk 23:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding new pages[edit]

While patrolling recent changes, I have noticed that many of the authors of new articles are the actual subject of the article - is this enough criteria for speedy deletion, especially if they are not very notable? Some examples include Walter A. Perez and Patrick R. Westerkamp - just check the page history. Thank you for your assistance! --Nevhood 18:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, being written by the author is not a criteria for speedy deletion. However, criterion A7 ([[Wp:csd#Articles|here) is for articles on "unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content...that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject" - some might fall under that. Trebor 19:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Remind them of WP:COI, WP:N, and WP:V. WP:AFD is a good place to list suspect pages about which you're not sure. Xiner (talk, email) 01:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

creating sub articles[edit]

how do you do it?

Nosredna 19:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean like how History of Wikipedia is kind of like a sub article of Wikipedia? --WikiSlasher 07:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What do I do if I fand an entry where someone was goofing around?[edit]

What do I do if I fand an entry where someone was goofing around?

If you find a vandalized article, the proper thing to do is to edit that article to remove the vandailsm, going into the history (by clicking the History tab at the top) if necessary. As to creating sub articles, do you mean subpages or subsections? Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 21:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Help Needed on Photo Upload Policy[edit]

I have a great photo for the Archie Green article I started, and the photographer is willing to grant a GNU Free Documetation License -- but the suggested text for the license refers to having a digitized version available on a web site, and this is a film photograph which he has digitized, but not placed anywhere on the internet. Can we simply substitute language to this effect in his permission statement? Also, I need to be clear on the practical steps to get the image from its upload point to the author infobox I'm developing in my sandbox. Expert assistance please! Dwalls 20:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since I haven't gotten an answer yet, perhaps I wasn't clear. I'm referring to the following text suggested for permission:

I own the copyright to the image mentioned in your email letter and found at http://www.<URL OF SOURCE> I grant permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, no Back-Cover Texts, and subject to disclaimers found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL

Can we substitute some language for: http://www.<URL OF SOURCE> in the first sentence that would refer to film photo? Am I being clear? Dwalls 21:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dwalls - there is a completely separate page for questions like yours - Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. And here are some pages that might provide some answers:

I hope this helps. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikitext question[edit]

Greetings. Just a quick question that I can't seem to find a good anwer to. What would be the equivelant of this, in wikitext:

<a href="http://www.google.ca">[[Image:google.jpg|Google]]</a> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.141.105.181 (talk • contribs).

None, as far as I know. Images on Wikipedia, if clickable (due to thumbnail resizing), link to themselves as enlarged versions. x42bn6 Talk 21:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a way, but why do you want this? [[Image:]] pages are needed for copyright information, so they should be easily accessible.--Werdan7^{T @} 21:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, maybe I should have been more clear. This is for my own wiki, not Wikipedia. I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how, Werdan7.

There are two ways. First, on Wikipedia, the {{click}} template has always been used. It involves a somewhat ugly CSS hack, but definitely works. Then there's the move versatile imagemap extension. You can see it working at {{NYC imagemap}} (currently in-progress), although because it's an extension, you need root access to put it in a folder called "ImageMap" in the the extensions folder. See mw:Extension:ImageMap. Gracenotes ^T § 01:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello[edit]

Are there templates for warning IP addresses for vandalism? --Nevhood 21:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The {{uw-}} templates can be used for IP addresses and registered users. For example, {{uw-vandalism1}}. x42bn6 Talk 21:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can find all the templates for this purpose here: WP:UTM Hersfold ^(talk|work) 22:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can I make my own "wiki" page?[edit]

I've seen other people make wiki pages of their own. How exactly can you do that?

-A curious person.

To create a userpage, you have to register (use the link at the top right). Once you've registered and logged in, you'll see a small person and your username in red text at the top right. Click it, and you can create a page. ST47Talk 21:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Wiki pages of their own" might also mean "their own wikis" (as opposed to their own user pages on a given wiki). For a useful review of some options for starting one's own wiki, see b:Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki, although be aware that this is considerably more advanced than merely editing a user page on an existing wiki. Since most people have some sort of persistent information to share with some group of people, perhaps in the relatively near future wiki editing will become as common as e-mail editing is today. It wasn't long ago that I was one of the few people I knew in real life who used e-mail; wikis today are at a similarly early stage of possible mass adoption. Wikis fill a large gap between e-mail and instant messaging programs (convenient and targeted for disposable information, but not so good for information that has persistent value, which people need to reference at random times in the future) and formal documents (usually too expensive for small audiences, but very good for reference when professionally made) that hasn't been well served by other tools. --Teratornis 02:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalisim[edit]

look i added another nickname to the john o shea pae and it was deleted and i was told it was vandalisim how do i make this stop —The preceding unsigned comment was added by -the-muffin-man- (talk • contribs).

A quick glance at a Google search for your nickname that you added gives us a whopping 1 hit. Since it could also be in bad faith, I suggest you find a source that states this seriously before adding it. Either way, I have never heard of <Xiner: what you wrote>. x42bn6 Talk 23:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]