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May 12

My profile page

Where is my profile page? Please tell me what URL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aviva Butt (talk • contribs) 00:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I see you have now created your user page at User:Aviva Butt with url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aviva_Butt. I guess this is what you call your profile page. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

How to rename an uploaded file to its correct name

Hi,

I uploaded a file to wikimedia commons and Wikipedia. I thought it were 2 Buckeye Butterflies. Now I have its correct ID - its Owl Butterflies.

How to change the name?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Buckeye_Butterfly_in_Artis_Zoo.jpg

Aseem —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aforaseem (talk • contribs) 06:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Simply upload it again under the correct name. Goodraise 10:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Or see commons:Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file? PrimeHunter (talk) 10:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

problems hitting internal links

hi sometimes when i hit an internal connection, rather then go to page itself, I get a windows dialog box askong me to save a file. problem exists in both hebrew and english wikipedia i use ie8/vista home answer by email to <blanked> would be most appreciated Rzg (talk) 15:49, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

It sounds like you have a box checked in your preferences that shouldn't be. Go to the "My preferences" tab at the top of the page, then click on the "Editing" tab. Make sure that "Use external editor by default" and "Use external diff by default" are unchecked. Let us know if that fixes it. TNXMan 15:55, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I am not editing. Just browsing through wikipedia and hitting an internal link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rzg (talk • contribs) 09:05, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

nope. no help!!!Rzg (talk) 04:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I get this sometimes— I think it is a connection issue. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.134.102.16 (talk)

nope.not a connection issue  !!!Rzg (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:43, 14 May 2009 (UTC).

Deleting a Page

Hi, Just wondering, how do you delete a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.168.52 (talk) 09:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Only administrators can actually delete pages. Non-administrators have to get an administrator to do it for them. How to do that is described in Wikipedia's deletion policy. Goodraise 10:10, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

(e/c) :Only administrators can delete pages. We have three processes for asking an admin to delete a page: speedy deletion, for very uncontroversial cases; PROD, for articles not eligible for speedy but where it is expected that deletion will be uncontested, and Articles for Deletion, a method whereby all interested parties can discuss the suggested deletion for five days before a decision is made. You can find more information about each method and when to use them at WP:DELETE. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:11, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

How to create a whole new innovative existing new subject?

Resolved

 – User:Vientsolutions blocked as a WP:SPAMNAME. ukexpat (talk) 14:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello..

I have a query. I want the profile of first Marketing Process Outsourcing to be accomplished. Can you please provide me thy way to add new content. As the last content I added, the wiki says it is a spam.. please help me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vientsolutions (talk • contribs) 11:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Please read the business FAQ. If you have any further questions, please ask again. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  14:02, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Searching by Language

I am bilingual in both English and Polish and I was wondering if there is a way to search wikipedia pages to see which pages exist in Polish but not in English, and vice versa. 79.184.48.210 (talk) 12:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I assume you want to find such articles to translate them. If so, you might want to start reading at Wikipedia:Translation. Goodraise 12:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

The Polish Wikipedia has 603,007 articles, whereas the English has over 2.8 million, which means that only about 1 out of every 5 English Wikipedia article can possibly have a Polish equivalent. Such a search for all articles without an equivalent in another language would probably not be very useful for English because of these numbers. Finding what has a Polish article that isn't in English might be. I know of no such search ability. However, a large number of articles both here and there are not really good translation candidates because they are unsourced, short stubs.

One way to target good translation targets into Polish is to visit featured articles and good articles as well as the candidate pages (featured article candidates and good article nominations) and see which do not have a Polish Equivalent by checking the interlanguage links on the left hand side of the page for "Polski". Such articles are likely to be well developed and sourced and thus make good additions. For the other direction, you could try visiting the Polish equivalent pages, pl:Wikipedia:Artykuły na medal, pl:Wikipedia:Dobre Artykuły, pl:Wikipedia:Propozycje do Artykułów na medal and pl:Wikipedia:Propozycje do Dobrych Artykułów and see which do not have English equivalents. Of course it's far more likely in the pl → en direction that a large proportion already have English equivalents. You could also look for underdeveloped articles here that are featured in Polish by visiting Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages (Polish). Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject

How do you join a WikiProject? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Baileyf07 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I believe each WikiProject has a list of active members - simply add yourself to the list. You can also drop a note on their talk page introducing yourself. TNXMan 13:37, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Dario Minieri

Hi there,

I work for PokerStars and Dario Minieri is one of our sponsored players:

http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/dario-minieri/

and

http://www.dariominieri.com/

The image used has Dario wearing a competitor's logo. We'd like to have the picture changed to a more up-to-date image, and we can supply this.

Please let me know asap what we can do with this, and also feel free to link to his offical site as above.

thanks, Chris Marais —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christianmarais (talk • contribs) 14:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry but you won't get much support for changing an image for promotional purposes. I will add his website to the article. – ukexpat (talk) 14:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done - I added the website and also fixed the edit link bunching. – ukexpat (talk) 15:25, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Deleted page, can't understand instructions for having it undeleted

Hi

The page Digital Standards Organisation has been deleted for no fathomable reason. I would like to discuss this decision as the reason given Prod:N made no sense (based on a Google search for the subject and the times we live in). Tried (with very limited time) to understand the instructions on the deleted item page re. starting a deleted page debate but couldn't understand. One too many links maybe.

Please help. Chris Putt1ck (talk) 14:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I've had a word with the deleting admin, and he's agreed to userfy the page for you, so you can improve it before putting it back on show. You can find it at User talk:Putt1ck/Digital Standards Organisation. A few things stand out, however. Firstly, the name is clearly spelt with a Z, and therefore the article should be also. Secondly, it feels different to most other contributions, and therefore would have stood out. To help with that, see Your First Article. I'm sure others will have their own thoughts. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 15:19, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Take a look at WP:CORP which explains notability criteria for companies and other organisations. Note also that the article has been undeleted to your user space at User talk:Putt1ck/Digital Standards Organisation so you can work on it there and get into in shape for the mainspace. – ukexpat (talk) 15:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Note also that there is a page Digital Standards Organization (this is how they spell their name, according to their home page), which currently redirects to Open standard#Digital Standards Organization definition. Gandalf61 (talk) 15:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

change password of my account

how can i change my account password? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fighterfalcon (talk • contribs) 15:05, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

See Special:ChangePassword. – ukexpat (talk) 15:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Changing the listing title.

I am listed in Wikipedia under a nickname. I would prefer to use my real name as the main title and list the nickname as an A.K.A. I am able to edit the content but can not figure out how to edit the title. Please help. Notreallytrue67 (talk) 17:07, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

It's hard to help without knowing which article you are referring to... – ukexpat (talk) 17:10, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Sir Arthur Payson perchance? – ukexpat (talk) 17:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

You can't edit titles, but you can rename an article by moving it to a new title (see Help:Moving a page). But, as Ukexpat mentioned, we'd have to know the article name to give you more information. hmwithτ 19:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Question about Editing Titles

Hello how are you? I'm new here and above where the title of the article is at the top where it says, "Jalil patel" and then Underlined, I wanted to capatalize the P in Patel because I'm a stickler for details LoL. Is there a way to do that? (Oh, and sorry about adding my email address, I thought this was just a help-line where I had to add my email to get a response from the staff! Sorry!)

XLMasters (talk) 17:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)XL Masters

You would need to move the page to the correct title. However, your account must be autoconfirmed (made at least ten edits and been active for four days) before you will be able to do that. TNXMan 17:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I have moved the page for you to Jalil Patel. TNXMan 17:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

And I cleaned it up a little. – ukexpat (talk) 17:50, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

For future reference, if you cannot do a move on your own, you can use WP:Requested moves. hmwithτ 19:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Borderless section — maybe pages - while using the Modern skin

I am using the Modern skin (selected from My Preferences), the problem is some of the page is borderless (starting from the last language section, at the very left of your screen) Try to compare between this two pages — Sunderland AFC and Nicol David using the Modern skin and you will understand. You can see the difference right ? I've tried to fix this on Sunderland AFC. But I can't. I didn't know what went wrong, i think it has something to do with the coding, perhaps. My question is, can it be fixed ? Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 18:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Are you using Mozilla Firefox 3? If so, this is a known problem . It occurs for me, as well (I use Wikipedia's default skin). I'm not sure if people have found any work around yet. hmwithτ 19:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

No, I use IE. I really don't like the page to look like that. I really need someone who can fix this. LOL Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 19:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello, is there someone who can help? Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !} 21:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

is it possible to get an EXTERNAL website to cause wikification to redirect to wikipedia?

I was hoping to put my law school casebook's table of contents into a wikipedia article, but I was informed that this is a copyright violation. Conceding the point, I am looking for an alternate way to wikify the table of contents (because it contains, literally, hundreds of names of major cases, and because a wikified table of contents would make law school INFINITELY LESS PAINFUL.) What I'd like to do is post this content to my personal webpage, and take the responsibility for the copyright infringement solely into my own hands.
Here's my question: suppose I have a fully-formatted wikipedia article. Is it possible to find an EXTERNAL website that will
1. recognize the wikification (e.g., so that [[dog]] will link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog)
2. color non-existent articles in red, so that readers will know which articles to populate with info?
Thanks very much. Agradman (talk) 20:22, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

In short: no. We cannot link to known copyright violations. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Fear not, I don't plan to link to it from Wikipedia. I will rely on word-of-mouth to circulate the URL. The point is to link INTO Wikipedia. Agradman (talk) 20:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is possible. You just need to program it to replace [[some text]] with a real link. You can prefetch the page when it loads. If you get the "this page does not exist" page, color the link red. It isn't difficult to do - but impossible if you don't know how to program. -- kainaw™ 20:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

<grin> so, I don't know how to program. Follow up question:

• Can anyone identify pre-existing software that will do this? (Honestly, when you think about the large market for copyright infringement, you'd think that someone would have come up with the "shadow wikipedia" by now whose sole purpose is to host wikified tables of contents like this.)Agradman (talk) 20:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Host your own wiki? See MediaWiki. --AndrewHowse (talk) 20:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) You could set up your own Wiki site using the MediaWiki software. Again, this will probably require some programming knowledge, but possibly not much. I'm not entirely clear on what would go into setting up something like that. TNXMan 20:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

See b:Starting and Running a Wiki Website, but before you reinvent the wheel, check out the wikis under wikiindex:Category:Law. You might find something useful, or not, in my userspace essay: User:Teratornis/Tips for teachers. --Teratornis (talk) 20:56, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Also see WP:EIW for another example of how to organize a large number of links. --Teratornis (talk) 20:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Try typing your page content, formatted in wikitext, into Special:ExpandTemplates. When you click OK, the HTML will be rendered for you under the preview section. You could then go to view source and find that rendered HTML to copy and paste back to your website. Also include the line <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?207xx" type="text/css" media="screen" /> in your site so that the links are coloured properly. Tra (Talk) 22:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

tomalley.

can anyone tell me: what would be the tomalley % weight in a live lobster, i.e a 1 lb live lobster would have.....oz of tomaley? or it is estimated that a 454 gram live lobster would contain xxxxxx grams of tomalley?

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about 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. Or maybe tomalley may have the answer. I hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 21:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

layman's terms?

im 16 and constantly use wikipedia to look up things for history class. people who edit articles and write them--Use retard english! i cant look up islamic fundamentalism or arab israeli conflict without being overwhelmed with terminology i dont understand. thanks---scz.

You could try the Simple English Wikipedia which uses less complicated words. Tra (Talk) 22:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

And when the Simple English Wikipedia fails you, you can still fallback to the traditional method, looking the words up in a dictionary, like Wiktionary. Goodraise 22:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

When a Wikipedia article uses a jargon term that few readers will understand, the article should link at least the first instance of the term to an article that explains it. See Wikipedia:Build the web. When people first write articles on Wikipedia, they sometimes neglect to put in all these necessary defining links - because they themselves do not need them. Someone who knows a subject well already knows what the related jargon means, and may not think of the reader such as you who does not know the jargon. Fortunately, Wikipedia is editable by anyone, so the readers may defend their own interests (nobody knows your needs as well as you know them). When you see a term in a Wikipedia article that you don't understand, you can improve it. Look up the term by using the search box, look it up on Wiktionary, or use Google (try the define: search modifier). If you cannot find the definition or a suitable article to link the term to, ask for clarification on the article's talk page, and/or insert a {{Clarify me}} template immediately after the term. Wikipedia needs your help to become less confusing to millions of people like yourself. With a little practice, you can learn to look up the articles that jargon terms should link to, and add the missing links. You can see this is the normal evolution of an article by scrolling back to earlier revisions in its history. Often the early drafts of an article have few links, and later readers filled them in. --Teratornis (talk) 17:06, 13 May 2009 (UTC)