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June 18[edit]

looking for some help[edit]

I have a profit sharing coupon from united profit sharing corp. posssable from maby in the 30sor40sand have a number 606488B , IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN FIND OUT ABOUT THIS,BY TGHE WAY IT HAN A NAME ON IT miss princine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.241.242.182 (talk) 02:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 4 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:39, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Signing other's comment[edit]

Is it possible to add sign in the name of others? Is there any template for that? Thank you Supdiop ^talk 04:07, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is Template:Unsigned what you are after? AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:09, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Thank you Supdiop ^talk 04:15, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Supdiop, I find {{unsigned2}} particularly helpful when working from page history. I generally use an edit summary of 'Attrib edit" when placing it. DES ^(talk) 11:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And another useful one is {{Xsign}}. --David Biddulph (talk) 12:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete Articles[edit]

There seems to be no two way discussion about articles. Please CANCEL the draft article on office acoustical design and Noise Ordinances by me. See JMHamo notes In fact there is not even a SEND command for this note, — Preceding unsigned comment added by BobChan2 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't clear what you mean about there being no two-way discussion. It appears that you created three articles in Draft space. One of them was a rework of an existing article, and that should not be done using Draft space but by editing the existing article, with discussion on the article talk page. One of the other two articles, Draft: Noise Ordinances, has been deleted as an abandoned draft as per your request. Draft: Office Acoustical Design still exists. What is your complaint about two-way discussion? Robert McClenon (talk) 05:27, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At Draft: Office Acoustical Design, BobChan2 has written "NOTE: WILL FINISH ARTICLE WHEN DRAFT ACCEPTED", and a reviewer has responded "Why on earth would we accept your draft when it's not ready?". There has been no further discussion. In view of this impasse, deleting the draft looks like the best solution. Maproom (talk) 08:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a comprehensive scientific article on aerodynamic whistles in draft similar to the article I had published in Scientific American. and submitted it. It was rejected in favor of a short article with a similar name. So all the work appeared to be for nothing. So a wrote a draft on office office design similar to the book on the subject I wrote, but I omitted the details to make sure that I did no waste my time writing a complete article only to have it rejected. The unknown reviewer rejected it because of incompleteness. I posted a response somewhere in your system, but not to the reviewer nor did I get a response (or perhaps not go to the correct page to get the response). The same with JMHamo. It would be nice if the system allowed direct response to these people instead to to a talk page. For example, right now I have no idea to whom this note is being sent. Finally, Wikipedia is great. I use it all the time, send contributions periodically, and will continue to contribute to it in areas that I am knowledgeable. I wrote this note prior to logging in and would lose all this if I did. Is there a method to avoid this? BobChan2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.17.18.3 (talk) 15:02, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You say "right now I have no idea to whom this note is being sent." The note you wrote there was posted to a general Help desk, where any volunteer can see it and help people by answering their questions about how to use Wikipedia. You also seem somewhat confused about talk pages. Each article (including draft articles) has a talk page; and each user has a talk page. If you want to send a message to a specific user, put it on their talk page, which you can find by clicking on their name and then clicking on talk. If you want to talk about a specific article or draft, post to that article's talk page. If you want to make sure a user sees a message on an article talk page, put {{ping|THEIR USERNAME}} before the message and they will be alerted to it; like this @BobChan2:. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 15:15, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As you can tell from the rejection note at the top of Draft:Office Acoustical Design, the editor who rejected it was MatthewVanitas. The recommended way of communicating with another editor is by writing on his talk page: in MatthewVanitas's case, this one.

"This note is being sent" to anyone who happens to read this page, the Wikipedia Help Desk. Some people, including me, read it regularly, in the hope of being able to give help to those who ask for it.

"I wrote this note prior to logging in and would lose all this if I did. Is there a method to avoid this?" Yes. Log in first. Another benefit of logging in before posting is that it will allow you, and anyone else, to find what you have posted. Maproom (talk) 15:24, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

language[edit]

how change wiki english to wiki tamil? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.178.109.142 (talk) 05:40, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can find the Tamil Wikipedia at ta:. Information on translating articles from English to another language can be found at WP:Translate us. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:48, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Wanda Morganstern[edit]

This page is not published but it appears on facebook as "Draft: Wanda Morganstern" https://www.facebook.com/pages/DraftWanda-Morganstern/1444699285813823?fref=ts

How does "Draft:" get removed?

Here's a link to the Emmy Award winning project https://vimeo.com/11560729

and IMDb profile http://imdb.com/name/nm5235590/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Locgirl (talk • contribs) 14:01, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First, the link that you are listing is to Facebook, not Wikipedia, and Facebook allows users to post almost anything, while Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has articles of encyclopedic notability. What is shown on Facebook may be an old draft of an article. However, see WP:Articles for deletion/Wanda Morganstern. It appears that the draft article may have been submitted previously, and that review comments indicating that it needed improvement may have been ignored. You refer to an Emmy-award-winning project. An Emmy does establish notability for the person who received it; however, an incidental association with an award-winning project does not establish notability for someone whose association was marginal. (I don't know what the association was between Morganstern and the project.) In any case, it appears that it was then moved (promoted) into article space, and deleted as the result of a deletion discussion in April 2015. If you want to try again to get an article accepted into article space, you can go to Requests for Undeletion and ask to have the deleted article moved into user space so that you can improve it. However, as it was, it appears that it fell far short of meeting Wikipedia standards. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:29, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is Draft:Wanda Morganstern which has been around since June 2014. My guess is that the Facebook page, incomplete though it is, was scraped from there.--ukexpat (talk) 12:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Signature link broken[edit]

I have a problem with the signature on my profile. It is broken and there is no link to my page. Can someone help me? Aetheling1125 17:23, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I am not sure but you should try unchecking 'treat the above as wiki mark up' which is in the preferences. Supdiop ^talk 18:11, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RE: CORRECTION TO HERITAGE SOCIETY NAME IN ERROR![edit]

I was searching for a listing of heritage societies related to genealogy and found an outstanding summarized list on your website. However, as I read the list of names, I found an error that needs correction.

You have "The Colonial Dames of America" when the correct title is "National Society of Colonial Dames of XVII Century". Membership is for anyone with ancestors born, married or died before 1700 in a colony which allows modern descendants from early settlers who migrated to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Connecticut, Virginia colonies to submit their ancestry with documented proof and complete lineage.

Jean Colonial Dames of XVII Century <redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:307A:1F70:1523:FF3:C9D4:5E2E (talk) 23:35, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The offical site linked there confirms the name curently in the article. Could it be that "Colonial Dames of XVII Century" is a different, but similar, group? Or do you ahve an reliable sources to indicate that you have the corect name for the gorup? DES ^(talk) 02:55, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

They are two different organizations: The Colonial Dames of America and The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (note no "of"s). → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 12:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Schism! --ukexpat (talk) 12:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]