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I know I made some edits months ago, but I can't remember what username I used. I'm sure I would have entered my email address when I created the username. Is there a way to retrieve my username, given my email address? I can't find anything about that in the FAQ, except to create a new username, which I'd rather not do. I'd just as soon be the same username everywhere on wikipedia.
I looked at the edit history of pages I think I might have edited, but I can't find any usernames that look like one I would have created.
71.146.132.81 (talk) 04:53, 18 June 2009 (UTC)forgetful user[reply]
Did you remove the email sent to you when you created the username? ZooFari 05:12, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Good question. I guess I thought I'd remember it. Stupid of me. Apparently that email is long gone. Thanks.71.146.146.92 (talk) 06:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)forgetful user[reply]
If you have an idea what the username may start with then you can try Special:ListUsers. If you click on a linked username and then click "User contributions" in the toolbox to the left then you can see edits by that user, but not edits to pages that were later deleted. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:41, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I tried that. Also ran through many usernames without the "User contributions" limitation. Too bad there is no way to specify your email and have your username automatically mailed. Oh, well. Thanks for the quick and courteous replies, everyone.71.146.146.92 (talk)forgetful user —Preceding undated comment added 19:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Is there any way to display all edits made at an IP address? Even if logged in? An admin or steward might be able to help. Arlen22 (talk) 22:54, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
A CheckUsercould do it, but probably would not as it would violate the CheckUser policy. Algebraist 22:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, everyone, but even that wouldn't help, since I don't have a fixed IP address. It just seems like a design omission that someone can't ask for the username for a given email address to be emailed to that address.71.146.137.208 (talk) 20:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)forgetful user[reply]
How do you make a page that's about a school without messing it up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikeyluver62 (talk • contribs) 08:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is school specific advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines. Note there must be a published reliable source for the content. You cannot add your personal knowledge or opinion of the school. Below is advice about creating new articles in general:
Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.
Just save that image to your computer and open in Inkscape or another SVG editor. Changing kits should take three minutes at most (Object - Fill and Stroke), while the text should take a bit longer because you have to convert it to a path (Path - Object to Path). Xenon54 (talk) 10:13, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I want to add a statement to the Chain (length) article, and I want to cite my source for it. The source is in this RAIB report (or rather the PDF of the report I downloaded from that page). I've had a look at WP:CIT but I can't work out how I would need to cite it as it doesn't match any of the types of source listed there, and it doesn't have an identifiable author or authors. Thryduulf (talk) 09:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Since you are citing a PDF located on a website, i would use the cite web template. Below is an example i already filled in for you; It might need some tweaking or additional information, but it is a start:
I am a new Wikipedia user and have posted an article and would like to add a photo.
I read that to do this users have to have been registered for four days and have ten 'credits' (what are credits?)
However, I also read that it is possible for new users to add photos via Wikipedia commons. I did this, the photo appeared, but has since disappeared. Clicking on the link said that I am unauthorised.
Not 'credits', it's 'edits'. You already have more than that. However you account is only 1 day old so you'll have to wait three more days to become autoconfirmed (which enables you to upload files and move pages in Wikipedia). But as you said, you can upload images to commons without having to got through this. If the image you uploaded to commons has disappeared, it may have been deleted for some reason (if it seemed to be a copyright violation or it lacks copyright info etc). Chamaltalk 11:16, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As I said, it has been deleted as a copyright violation. Check your talk page at Commons. The message has a few links, read them to get some details about the licencing we have to follow when uploading files. Same goes here at Wikipedia too. Chamaltalk 11:21, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We cannot offer any kind of medical advice here. Also, this page is for questions about editing Wikipedia. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:18, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
why?? i have seen somany tablets side effects u have mentioned in your website...
regarding same i am asking to u... when i am searching side effect of masturbation
they should reflect on the your website....waiting for your reply <redacted> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.7.19 (talk) 12:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
For the records sake, there is a known case of Heart failure. There is at least one known case where a "Practicer" got a heart attack due to the intensity of the physical activity - though man might argue that the masturbation itself did not directly relate to this issue as the man in question was known to have a weak heart, which might have broken at other physical activities as well. As fir normal effects? I can guarantee you there are millions of people testing this every day, 365 a year, and so far we still did not find reason to outlaw it. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 15:01, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In this parody video, Adolf Hitler appears to suggest that Wikipedia editing is a side effect of masturbation, or perhaps symptomatic. If any statement deserves a Medical disclaimer, that was probably it. And while probably not a side effect of masturbation per se, one side effect of talking about masturbation appears to be losing one's job as Surgeon General of the United States. Thus one might argue that a second-order side effect of masturbation is the hysteria that frank discussion of it reliably produces among humans. Bonobos don't seem to have this hang-up. --Teratornis (talk) 16:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You might find what you are looking for in the article Exploration. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. Algebraist 12:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Prosopography (just kidding with this one, unless your fifth-grader is a Child prodigy, but maybe the history teacher would get a kick out of hearing a student even mention this word)
hi how do you create a wikepeedia page for someone or something important —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianwazere (talk • contribs) 12:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's Wikipedia. People disagree on what is "important". An article subject should satisfy Wikipedia:Notability.
Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.
I've created a few tables of statistics - one example is here: Jamelle Elliott#UConn Stats. It looks fine in Firefox, but I just happened to look at it in IE (work requirement) and it looks terrible - for those who can't see the problem, the text in the header line is in a column, so the header spans seven lines. Any suggestions on fixing it (besides the obvious - don't use IE)? --SPhilbrickT 13:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed - you added a "Width=" property on the table row in question. Firefox and Chrome seem to ignore that parameter, but IE tried its best to keep that particular row at 54 pixels - or at least it did so for the content. Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 13:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much, I'll make the fixes on the other pages. --SPhilbrickT 14:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I purchased the Southwestern collection yesterday? It seemed extremely high but I was told that regularly it would be $1200 to $1400. I paid $480. Did I get a great deal or did I get ripped off?? It seems at B and Noble I do not pay alot for these types of books. What is the advantage of having these over other eduational ones? (Julkat0305 (talk) 15:12, 18 June 2009 (UTC))[reply]
I can't believe the word "donuts" isn't incuded in the section on America under "breakfast". We must include donuts! Donuts are so much a part of the "worker's breakfast" in America, among other things. I feel they must be included. I add them, with a mere two words, to a sentence talking about common on-the-go breakfasts, and I am told my edit was UNCONSTRUCTIVE! Immediately! Who read my edit so immediately? Who decides this? And how is my addition of donuts to the listing of American breakfast preferences "unconstructive"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.123.32.89 (talk) 15:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is no need to single out one particular food item, especially with very a very point-of-view and unreferenced statement as "the ever-popular donut!" -- kainaw™ 15:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I believe they are just templates. As happens often, the easiest to use template doesn't necessarily match the exact case in which it is used. -- kainaw™ 15:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Correct this was/is a template generated using Huggle. The rollbacks were made due to the fact that the user seemed to not be following the general format/style guidelines of Wikipedia. The first 'warning' has links to several good resources in learning what is and is not an acceptable edit. e0steven(☎Talk|✍Contrib) 16:01, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am trying to move a page from the sandbox to an article, but I keeping getting this error.
I found others with similar problems, but could not find there solutions.
MediaWiki internal error.
Original exception: exception 'AFPUserVisibleException' with message '<abusefilter-exception-regexfailure>' in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.5/extensions/AbuseFilter/AbuseFilter.parser.php:1591
Stack trace:
I guess this is about User:AndreatSS/sandbox. Hmm. All 3 reports are about moving user subpages to mainspace, and subpages are disabled in mainspace. I wonder whether this is relevant. What is the new title and does the error occur when you click the "Move page" button after writing the new title? Can you move to another user subpage? PrimeHunter (talk) 17:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I was recently blocked as a sockpuppet of a banned user named YourLord. The investigation against me was hackneyed and rushed and I have reason to believe, rigged. I complained about the obvious stupidity of my persecution on my talk-page, only to have it protected so that I couldn’t edit it. I complained to the editor who protected my page but he ignored me so I took the case to an admin named Jehochman who also ignored me, meaning that I’ve had to take the case to you. I don’t know how else to get unblocked. All the people I have spoken to seem to be in on the same conspiracy. The key instigator in my plight is none other than unpopular user User:IllaZilla.
IllaZilla is an impertinent waif who hasn’t been on Wikipedia for especially long but struts about like he owns the place. He uses his voluminous knowledge of policies to game the system (something which he accuses others of doing) and bully other users into backing down or agreeing with his impossibly narrow view of what is acceptable on Wikipedia. He became obsessed with User:Jupiter Optimus Maximus after coming into conflict with him on Talk:Tin Man (TV miniseries). User:JOM had, as observed by many other users, made numerous positive contributions until encountering User:IllaZilla who then began to shamelessly stalk Jupiter by means of his contributions, of which he reverted most, if not all, often with very little explanation. He assumed ownership over many of the articles Jupiter edited, see in particular Azkadellia, Lord Voldemort and Megalomania, much to the annoyance of others. He rigidly controlled Jupiter’s movements like an especially domineering parent. Naturally Jupiter’s ire was evidently risen and he confronted User:IllaZilla on numerous occasions but was accused of personal attacks and trolling. IllaZilla had a habit of canvassing other users such as User:Collectonian, User:Sesshomaru and User:Arcayne to assist in his antagonising of Jupiter. Ultimately Jupiter was exposed as a sockpuppet of blocked user User:YourLord and IllaZilla gleefully bated Jupiter on his talkpage after his blockage. I advise you to look at the history of JOM’s talkpage, it’s quite shocking. I caught IllaZilla’s attention when adding a List of fictional Emos to the Emo article. This evidently aggravated the extremely temperamental IllaZilla because he then immediately accused me of being a sockpuppet of Jupiter/YouLord and canvassed various other editors, including Sesshomaru, Collectonian and User:Magidin, all of whom had been in disagreement with Jupiter in the past and opened an investigation against me. I scarcely had time to defend myself before I was blocked, on account of a slight similarity in usernames and WP:DUCK, a completely nonsensical policy which I doubt you’ve even heard of. In any case, Sesshomaru and Collectonian (two extreme deletionists) had obviously made up their minds as to my identity as you’ll see by looking at their talkpages. One of the crutches of IllaZilla’s argument was that I had created an article entitled List of fictional narcissists which thanks to IllaZilla has since been deleted. Jupiter, like many users had an interest in psychoanalysing fictional characters, something which IllaZilla frequently accused him of doing when on occasion he obviously wasn’t. IllaZilla has accused other, apparently unrelated users of being sockpuppets of Jupiter and of psychoanalysing fictional characters when they don’t seem to have been doing anything of the sort. See List of characters in Tin Man to observe what I’m talking about. With regards to the List of fictional narcissists article, the list was actually not created by me but by an unregistered user on the Narcissism page. I observed that it was getting quite lengthy and so gave the List an article of it’s own. Numerous characters on the list were personal favourites of Jupiter and this was one of IllaZilla’s reasons for blocking me when in actuality they were already on the list when I copied it into its own article. Therefore it seems far more likely that the unregistered user on the Narcissism article is in fact a sockpuppet of Jupiter, given the fact that given their edit summary, they share his disdain for policies, a trait which I myself do not share. On an unrelated note I feel that policies have their uses but on account of my Inclusionist philosophy I believe that they are taken far too seriously.
With regards IllaZilla, by observing his contributions you’ll see that he also has ownership issues with regards to the Alien and Predator articles and to a lesser extent, with articles related to Punk Rock. See in particular the aforementioned Emo. IllaZilla’s condescending and sarcastic attitude and tone are also causes for concern in my opinion. It is my opinion that the information I have given you be filed away for future reference should some poor fool ever think to nominate IllaZilla for adminship. I also think it would be prudent to perhaps file an AN/I on IllaZilla because his behaviour has attracted criticism from other users such as User:Learner001. See his page for other complaints about his conduct with others. User:Arcayne has also expressed a view that many of IllaZilla’s deletions are quite unreasonable (see Villain) and I really think it’s high time he was put in his place. Ministers, in the immortal words of Hamlet 'do not let this canker in our nature come to further evil.'
Back to the issue at hand, it is my belief that I should be unblocked or at least allowed to edit my talk-page. Thank you ever so much for your time.
Aaaaaaand . . . blocked for using an IP to evade a block. For future reference, please use our dispute resolution processes to address grievances instead of posting long messages accusing other users of wrongdoing. TNXMan 18:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On the table of contents at the top of this page, how does it use the "#" to link to a section on the page whenthose sections aren't sorrunded by "==" or "<h2>" or anything? Erwin Springer [talk] 19:02, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In the case of 'general reference', the span has an id different from the link, but the link still works, because the section title is in fact wrapped in an h2. Algebraist 19:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
File talk:BB61 USS Iowa BB61 broadside USN.jpg has question on the talk page that was already asked on the article class page. Additionally, the image originated from the commons. Given this I feel the image post in unnecessary, and as an admin, its within my power to delete the talk page, but I was wondering if I first needed to nominate the page for deletion, or if this fell under routine housekeeping. Can someone please advise? TomStar81 (Talk) 19:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It would be routine housekeeping to me. Just be to sure, you could note the reason for the deletion in the edit summary. TNXMan 20:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I will do that. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:18, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I added some information to a couple of articles on 19th century baseball players explaining some of the major differences in the game from the 20th century game that mitigate somewhat the statistics complied by those players. The next day they were gone. Did I do something wrong, or violate a rule? e.g. Ed Delahanty
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.17.114 (talk • contribs) 19:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Usually when material gets yanked from an article like this it is for one of four reasons:
The material was uncited/cited to an unreliable source,
The material is covered somewhere else and was considered redundant in the article,
Previous consensus was reach not to include such information,
The information was regarded as test edit and/or vandalism, and was reverted as a result
If you think the information should be in the article and would like more info on why it was removed leave a message either on the article talk page or with the user who removed the info. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:52, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you look at the history, you might see a reason listed. If you don't know how to do that, tell us the name of the article and we'll show you.--SPhilbrickT 20:01, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The person who reverted your first edit said as an edit summary, "rv; agreed, but this looks like a slightly out of context essay, and a violation of WP:OR". —teb728tc 06:24, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
democratic is a form of govt. Democrats should call themselves, the Democrat Party, not the Democratic Party. Am I correct here?[edit]
Have you tried the Humanities section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. SpitfireTally-ho! 19:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Democracy is the form of government and those that support it are referred to as democrats and described as democratic. Democratic is the adjective. TNXMan 19:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How do you use the Special:E-mail Feature?76.223.79.208 (talk) 19:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC).[reply]
You need an account. From there, its a preference matter. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:53, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Where do I find the "guidance" for Wikipedia participation as indicated in your email today?[edit]
<email removed to prevent spam> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.232.34 (talk) 22:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What are you talking about? What email? Algebraist 22:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Not sure what e-mail you are referring to (wikipedia doesn't send spam invites), but in terms of how to participate in Wikipedia, the welcome page is probably a good start. -Optigan13 (talk) 22:54, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just one thing I've been wondering for quite a while (and just when EN WP's begun dual licensing): Are the Creative Commons licenses, Attribution (BY) and Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA), (mutually) compatible with each other? --Slgrandson (How's myegg-throwing coleslaw?) 23:09, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No, they are not. Algebraist 23:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What do you mean by "compatible"? --Teratornis (talk) 16:58, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Images with both licenses may appear in the same work together (they do all over Wikipedia and Commons), so in that sense they are "compatible". However, the licenses have different provisions as you can see by reading the article you linked, and these different provisions might interfere with something you might want to do. Therefore, depending on what you want to do, the two licenses might not be "compatible" enough. Your question is vague because the word "compatible" has no definite meaning until you specify what you want to do. The Compatibilitydisambiguation page lists a few of the possible meanings of the word. --Teratornis (talk) 17:04, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. Im kinda new to Wikipedia. My school has blocked Wiki from our school and now our state. So I was wondering on how to put up an article cause I'd like to put up a few of my work.
Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.
You might find what you are looking for in the article Exploration. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. Algebraist 12:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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