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August 26

editing your page for apartments

hi, i am trying to edit a web page posted on your list of apartments "Alder Ridge Apartments" and I need some help as to where and what i do to edit, as it needs to be updated asap —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.138.190 (talk • contribs)

Just click the "edit this page" at the top of the page. See Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Wikipedia:Tutorial for more information. --Silver Edge 00:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

This is the help desk for the encyclopedia Wikipedia and we don't appear to have any information about Alder Ridge Apartments. If you saw it at another website, for example http://daviswiki.org/Alder_Ridge_Apartments, then the advice here doesn't apply. PrimeHunter 02:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Can someone aaprove or re-edit this article about me which I wrote. My play GODOT ARRIVES is an entry, but I'm not!

Daniel Curzon is the author of Something You Do in the Dark, the first gay protest novel (G.P. Putnam, 1971). It is the story of a gay man's attempt to avenge his entrapment by a Detroit vice squad police officer by murdering him. The book shows a shift away from the self-hating homosexual who is considered to be so horrible by society than anything done to him is justified, to a newer, angrier attitude of justifiable rage at society and its cruelties to gays. Daniel Curzon has also written other novels, including The Misadventures of Tim McPick (original title: Queer Comedy), From Violent Men,

Among the Carnivores, The World Can Break Your Heart, Curzon in Love, 

The Bubble Reputation, or Shakespeare Lives!, and What a Tangled Web. Non-fiction books include The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette and Dropping Names: The Delicious Memoirs of Daniel Curzon.

In the theater, Curzon won the 1999 National New Play Contest for Godot Arrives, and has won many other play contests, such as the Great Platte River Play Contest. His play My Unknown Son was produced off-Broadway at the Circle Rep Lab in 1987 and at the Kaufmann Theatre in 1988, as well as in Los Angeles in 1997. Seven volumes of his Collected Plays have been published by BookSurge (an offshoot of Amazon.com Baker's Plays published his one-act A Fool's Audition. Daniel Curzon is the pen name of Daniel R. Brown, Ph.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielcurzon (talk • contribs) 01:13, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

You don't need help to create a new article. You can do it yourself by going to the article name and creating the page. Please do ensure that you meet our inclusion guideline for people, WP:BIO. Thanks!--Chaser - T 01:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Chaser's comment is valid. However, some people might prefer that a more knowledgeable Wikipedian create the article. Also, since WP:COI suggests that it is improper to create an article about oneself, it is more appropriate to have someone else do it. I have created the Daniel Curzon article. --Richard 06:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiAdvertisments

Referring to this part of a message on my talk page: "...how can I get WikiAdvertisments?" I'm really not sure. Does anyone know what they are? I've searched, and haven't found anything... the whole Advertisments thing surprised me, because Wikipedia is against advertising. Hm. Puzzled. Thanks in advance for any answers you may have... CattleGirl ^talk 01:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I think you are thinking of Template:Wikipedia ads, used to advertise on-wiki projects and efforts, not to make money or advertise a company (those are the ads we are against) Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 01:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, right. Thanks :) CattleGirl ^talk 01:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by GoogleandYahoo (talk • contribs) 15:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

BABYDOLL GOWN

i'M NEW TO THIS SITE AND i WAS WONDERING IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO PURCHASE ANY OF THE LINGERIE YOU HAVE POSTED. THERE IS A VERY LOVELY BABYDOLL GOWN THAT I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE, IF I CAN'T PURCHASE IT THEN IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND OUT WHERE IT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO OFFER. THANKS AGAIN.

BINKS827 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Binks827 (talk • contribs) 02:15, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for asking Binks.

Wikipedia tends to be an encyclopedia and not so much a place to sell things or help people find particular items for sale. Sethie 02:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Right. We describe many things and have images of some of them but we don't sell them. If you refer to the images at Babydoll then clicking them shows that the images were made by the editors who uploaded them. If you are really interested then I suppose you could try following the editor links and ask on their discussion page if they know the brand and where it might be for sale. PrimeHunter 02:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is intended for reference, not so much for advertisement. If you do not mind, may I suggest that your question be capitalized only where it is a must. Typing a question in Caps Lock constitutes yelling. Thanks for your co-operation. --Mayfare 03:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Cryptographic Hash String

Hello. When I make my hash string for my user page, how do I know whether other Wikipedians have the same secret message as I? Thanks in advance. --Mayfare 02:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:User committed identity suggests to make use of your committed identity to someone and prove you are the same person who originally controlled the account, give a trusted user the exact secret string you originally entered into the box. -- Jreferee 06:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

How many Wikis' are ther beyond the list of sister projects and is there an overall main home page???

Questions in the subbject/headline.

tofuta —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.182.65.189 (talk) 03:08, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia has the nine sister projects listed on the Main Page, all in multiple languages. The foundation-level coordination of these wikis is discussed on the meta-wiki. There are hundreds of wikis not sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation; see WP:ALTOUT for examples. Shalom ^Hello 03:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

http://wikiindex.org lists many wikis but I'm sure nobody lists all existing wikis. Anybody can create a wiki without registering it anywhere. PrimeHunter 03:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Further to Shalom, the full list of Wikimedia projects in all languages is listed at meta:Complete list of Wikimedia projects. --h2g2bob (talk) 04:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

What's the "Portion used" mean

Questions in the "Non-free / fair use media rationale" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sum 2101 (talk • contribs) 03:34, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

The portion used is how much of the original file you used. If you cropped the image, or if you are using a small portion of an audio file, then mention it there. --h2g2bob (talk) 04:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Good day

I consider Wikipedia as a major reference in all my researches and seminars,for that I am interested in joining in with you to contribute what ever I could do to enhance the knowledge of the content of your encyclopedia. I am from the middle east particularly from Iraq so whatever you want where I could do somthing please don't hesitate for that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salwansam (talk • contribs) 05:32, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Welcome! It is great to have you on board. You might be interested in contacting the editors at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iraq for some ideas on where you can contribute. There also is Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 06:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

If being from Iraq implies that you speak Arabic, you might also see the Arabic Wikipedia. You might, for example, translate articles between the (much larger) English Wikipedia and the Arabic Wikipedia, and add Interlanguage links. For more on translation, see the "Translation:" heading in the Editor's index just below this anchor point:

• WP:EITW#Tra

--Teratornis 15:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are considering to edit Arabic Wikipedia, you may consider creating an account for Arabic Wikipedia. Your English Wikipedia account cannot change anything in Arabic Wikipedia and vice versa. Happy editing! --Mayfare 16:08, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Reliable Sources

Hello, I would like to edit a financial statistic of a company in a Wikipedia article. The current figure provided in the Wikipedia article is inaccurate according to the company's website. The current figure provided in the article, however, has a third-party source or reference. Would it be advisable to refrain from editing the figure in the article because it lacks the objectivity of a third-party source? Nevertheless, I do believe that the company has the correct figure. Prof. bongsferd —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 05:47, August 26, 2007 (UTC).

It may depend on the actual financial statistic you plan to modify. If you post the article name and give an indication as to what stats may be off, I can give you a better answer to your question. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 06:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Chicks

formation & development of three germinal layers in chick embryos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.7.85.145 (talk) 07:38, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Do you have a question? Astronaut 10:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Forgotten password, no e-mail set

Hello,

I've managed to forget the password for a bot account I own, User:Taxobot. As I didn't specify an e-mail address, I can't reset it that way.

I've put in a request for usurpation, which seems to be the only option available to me - is there a quicker way to have it reset, as I'm quite keen to get cracking today, whilst I've got the time!

Thanks,

Verisimilus T 08:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

"12 Links to open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors."

This term in unquantified and causing us trouble on the Eve Online article. Since there are no numbers associated with the rule I suggested we use the most popular site as measured by search engine top site returns, 2 years of continuous operation and most number of edits/contributors/editors of all available Wikis on the subject. For example Wookieepedia dominates as the leading Wiki of the Star Wars fan sites and is directly linked to the Star Wars article. Obviously not every subject which has a fan base will reach the heights of that Wiki. If a subject will only attract several thousands to it's fan's Wiki's does that mean a dedicated site should then be denied a direct link to it's main subject's article on Wikipedia?

Also, I am being accused of having COI when I am just an article contributer on eve-wiki.net not the owner or maintainer nor do I have any financial ties while some of the opposing editors do have financial ties to other paid websites related to Eve Online. I went back through the history of Star Wars article to find the user User:Cbarbry who linked the Wookieepedia wiki at Wikia First linking and he is the father of the site yet that link is maintained so a precedent has been set. Another precedent is that http://eve-wiki.net/ has been externally linked on several articles for many months without incident.

This all would go away with some quantifiable numbers to the "substantial" in item 12 of W:EL. If explicit numbers can not be derived then implicit numbers relating the site in question to all possible competing sites as a benchmark on whether to allow external linkage. If a site is the top search engine choice than that is a benchmark and so is self reported usage statistics. Leaving this unquantified allows the spectre of politics spinning what external wiki's links in articles instead of hard cold performance.
In my opinion this revert war is more about protecting clickthroughs and hidden financial agendas than adhering to Wikipedia W:EL.

See further discussion at Eve Online External Links Discussion Alatari 23:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

For the benefit of anyone trying to decode the above question, the W:EL link is incorrect; the questioner appears to refer to item 12 in WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided. --Teratornis 15:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

As to the actual issue, here are some of my random thoughts, which may or may not help you, and by no means represent any sort of authority:

• Wikipedia does not operate on the basis of "precedents." See: WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Similar links in similar articles, by themselves, do not argue for or against the link in question. (A possible exception to this rule would be featured articles, which have been judged by the Wikipedia community to be of the highest quality. You could, arguably, use a featured article as a basis for comparison, because in general, featured articles will be highly compliant with policies and guidelines. But it is better to argue on the basis of the policies and guidelines directly, rather than by analogy with other articles.)

Thankyou, I will look for feature article tags on any of the other MMORPG articles. And what do you know I found a featured article on Halo 2 with an external link to a Wiki at Wikia although I don't understand the importance listing the hosting company. Alatari 19:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• My personal opinion is that Wikipedia does not do nearly enough to promote topic-specific wikis. As evidence, I point to the many articles getting deleted each day from Wikipedia, some fraction of which would be suitable for other wikis. Wikipedia is by far the most-visited and best-known wiki, with the result that Wikipedia attracts many users who try their first wiki edits here. Many of these new wiki users do not seem to know that Wikipedia has very specific requirements for articles, and that other wikis with different requirements exist. To complete the perfect storm of ergonomic failure, it seems that by some quirk of human psychology, the first thing many new users want to do is to create new articles, without realizing how difficult it can be to get a new article here to "stick."
  • Therefore, if I made the rules here, I would include links to topic-specific wikis everywhere I could, the idea being to encourage new wiki users who want to create articles to create them on the wikis most likely to want them. Consider the sheer waste of human effort represented by the several thousand articles Wikipedia deletes per day. Of course, no matter how obvious you make things, there will always be some new users who will get things wrong on the first try, but raising awareness of other wikis can only (in my opinion) help Wikipedia defend its quality standards more efficiently. However, obviously I do not make the rules here (I merely enjoy poking fun at them). The people who do make the rules don't seem to see a problem with suckering thousands of new users into wasting thousands of hours creating new articles, only to have dozens of admins waste even more time deleting them (although a number of people do seem to recognize the problem when someone points it out).

This is the case for 48 of the 148 MMORPG articles on Wikipedia. It appears to be a growing practice for Gaming companies to maintain an Official Wiki as an aid to their helpdesk. If no official site exists (about 40 articles) then a private Wiki is linked externally. (See my data collected on the Talk:EVE Online area) Alatari 19:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I absolutely, wholeheartedly and without reservation agree with your thought on external wiki's being a time saving device. Alatari 19:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• On editing disputes in general: my personal feeling is, why bother? In the time you might spend fighting other people on Wikipedia to make one controversial improvement, you could be making dozens of uncontroversial improvements to other articles. Wikipedia is full of articles that need help, with nobody waiting to fight the helpers. Furthermore, the subject you are talking about is a game. Games are not important. Games are merely entertainments. If a game seems to you like a life or death issue, you may be experiencing game addiction. We live in a world with many real problems, big exciting problems, problems we might actually be able to put some dents in with wiki technology. There is a war going on in Iraq. The world is going to run out of petroleum. Billions of dollars being spent on petroleum are being diverted to support terrorism. Humans may be wrecking the climate. Entire economies need to be redesigned to take advantage of Moore's law. Might wiki technology finally represent a critical mass of information technologies necessary to make telecommuting a more viable option for reducing petroleum waste, by moving information through wires, instead of by dragging millions of office-worker brains back and forth each day inside millions of tons of metal? It's interesting that gamers appear to be farther ahead of the vast majority of corporations in terms of wikifying their workflow.

--Teratornis 16:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

This has been a valuable learning experience for me. As for the game addiction... well who knows but it seems that Wiki is just as alluring and could lead to Wikiaddiction. Alatari 19:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Everett Sherman Hatcher(1988 - 1947)

Can I write about this man who was a vet of Phil-Am war and was a prisoner of war 1941 - 1947 ?Joscher 10:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)joscher (Joshua Hatcher)

(I'm assuming the Date of Birth (1988) is wrong.) Prior to creating an article, it is a good idea to review Wikipedia's copyright policy before adding material. If you wish to include material you read somewhere else, you'll want to summarize, paraphrase, condense, etc., and then feel free to submit it to the article. (See the following: Reliable sources, Cite your sources, Manual of style, Layout guide, First article, Article development and How to edit for assistance.) If after doing all of that, have sufficient reliable sources, properly referenced, and feel you could write the article, by all means, be bold and do so! If you don't feel confident in your writing skills (or you're unsure how to do it) then you could submit the proposal to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for approval, making sure you include relevant, reliable references. Hope that helped! ^Ariel♥Gold 10:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

And of course be sure that he meets our standards of notability. --Orange Mike 15:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

editing the text of an entry

I'm trying to edit the entry on Michael Reeves (whom I knew), but when I click on [Edit] I get only codings and not the text of the article. How do I make changes then? Thanks. Ingrid Cranfield 10:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Click "edit this page" at the top of the page you want to edit. I assume you clicked the edit button at the "External links" section, which would only allow you to edit the External links section. --Silver Edge 10:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

In addition to the help above, I would direct you to fully read the conflict of interest policy. You should not edit articles about your family, friends, company, or other things with which you would have trouble remaining neutral. If you have information that would be helpful, feel free to post it on the article's talk page, citing your reliable sources and allow an impartial editor to add the material. As for what you see when you click on "edit", you should see an edit box, and inside that box will be the article's content (including what may be unfamiliar to you, the "Wiki script" bits). If you are not seeing the edit box, go into your "my preferences" and click on the "editing" tab, and see if checking (or unchecking) some of the options helps. It also may have to do with your browser's security settings, such as enabling java scripts, etc.

However, I'd again advise against editing articles on people you knew, and encourage you to instead utilize the article's talk page, allowing the community to assist you. Hope that helps! ^Ariel♥Gold 10:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Moving pages

Is it possible, and if so how, do I move the page I've created from the English Wikipedia to the Portuguese Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hélio Cunha (talk • contribs) 12:04, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

No. You would have to translate the English article to Portuguese and then create a new article at the Portuguese Wikipedia. --Boricuaeddie 13:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

need help

our daughter had to have emergency liver transplant surgery and she is the mother of a 3 year old and 7 month old children, both son in law and our daughter are now financially strapped and in need of help...tried raising money with no avail, please help us help them, my e mail address is: <e-mail removed>

my daughter's name is <name removed>, her husband is <name removed>, the two little ones are <name removed> and <name removed>, and my name is <name removed>. Please help us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.94.2.215 (talk) 13:09, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. We here at the Help Desk can't help you; this is for questions about Wikipedia. --Boricuaeddie 13:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikitable text font color

Something is overrideing the color parameter at Barry_Bonds#Career_statistics in the Team column. Actually, the problem is that I want the link color to be the color that I have for the color parameter. How do I do that? It is showing in the default blue.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 13:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not a full CSS programmer so I am not sure. You can, however, do an ugly solution by simply putting | style="background:black;"|[[Pittsburgh Pirates|<span style="color: #EAC117;">PIT</span>]] as an example cell. The reason why I think this is ugly is because there should be some way of accessing the anchor tag in a table cell from the table cell's style parameter. The color parameter currently being used will, however, apply to plain text (not in a hyperlink). x42bn6 Talk Mess 13:58, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

An example: [1] x42bn6 Talk Mess 14:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

email confirmation

I cannot seem to be able to confirm my email address using the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmation/<hash redacted> I get sent to all sites but except user confimation.

                                  Thank you  Jackq i69 13:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, I just confirmed your email by accident because you revealed the hash (don't do that next time - I was too hasty to remove it before hitting enter - and hashes can be brute-forced and abused). The URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Confirmemail/<your hash> rather than Special:Confirmation. x42bn6 Talk Mess 16:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

data mining wikipedia globally.

Hello! If I extract basic data from Wikipedia, for example, the genus and species of animals, or the team colors of different sports teams; do I attribute Wikipedia via GNU because it is a derivative work? Or can I claim the organization of the material as new and *not* a derivative under a new copyright?

Specifically, if I were to extract that type of basic information from Wikipedia 'en masse' - that is, all genus and species data and the familiar name of the corresponding organism) would I be legally bound to GNU?

Or for how about if I were to pair Afrikaans words with Dutch words (via langlinks) and produce a dictionary; or extract etymological information for a large sample of words, but organize it differently?

If you reuse the text, you have to abide by the GFDL. Now, the data itself has been (hopefully) gathered from independent sources. What you could do is follow the citations to that source, read it there, and write your own article, independent of the Wikipedia one, based on that data. It has to be an original work, though: no copy & pasting, no plagiarism. Use your own words based on the cited data and provide proper attribution of your own.

Feels like school papers all over again, doesn't it? ;) -- Kesh 21:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, however I'm still confused: I'm not talking about copying sentences here, I'm talking about copying words from Wikipedia (say, half the titles of all 1 million+ articles) and organizing such titles in a specific way. Would this truly be a derivative work? Deepstratagem 01:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

In that instance, you'll have to consult a lawyer. I can't offer legal advice on the intricacies of the GDFL. -- Kesh 14:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Linking to articles from categories

I don't know where to find the howto of this.
By default, categories link to categories.
The question comes up in a merjer proposal on category:organic compounds.
What I've written works, but it's not very neat, so maybe someone just has to fix up a template. User:Brewhaha 15:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

The whole procedure is available at WP:CFD. It's a lot like WP:AFD. There is a little more to do than just a template and discussion, however, as the first link shows. x42bn6 Talk Mess 16:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Whig Society

Hi,

I keep writing an article on the British Whig Society. It keeps getting deleted but I know the party exists as I am president of it's County branch. I have been trying to get other people to add stuff to it but it's being deleted.

The party is a real organisation so I cannot understand why it's not able to stay on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stiofan1979 (talk • contribs) 16:29, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Just because it is real, it does not follow the organization deserves a Wikipedia article. Please see our policies on notability and verifiability. -- 68.156.149.62 16:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you are a member of an organization, please read our conflict of interest policy before creating an article about it.--Max Talk (+) 20:04, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Wii

Is there any way to see latest articles added to particular category? In this case Category:Wii games and Category:Wii-only games. Thanks in advance. -- Dvorsky 16:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

No. I recommend that you check the category every now and again for new articles. Also, look for articles organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games. Shalom ^Hello 16:39, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Not directly in the interface, but if you know a bit of programming, you might be able to conjure something up. The Wikipedia database retains timestamps for when something was last added to a category. By using for instance the query.php interface, you can look up these kinds of things, but you do need to know how to parse it. --Pekaje 17:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

You can watch categories for new article additions via User:Ais523/catwatch.js, or you if you need to monitor the articles themselves, click on Special:Recentchangeslinked in the Toolbox while viewing a category. Adrian M. H. 19:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Creating account

I have tried several times to create account in order to use Wikipedia. No luck. Why is this so difficult? Impossible?

Mvangraaf@aol.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.67.63.86 (talk) 18:17, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

People isn't going to be able to help you unless you state exactly what problem you are having with it. What's difficult about it? You select "Sign in / create account" at the top right of any Wikipedia's page, select "[2]", fill in the capatcha and choose a Username and password, which is pretty much the same as most websites on the internet that requires registration. KTC 18:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Another option is to go to Wikipedia:Request an account and follow the options there. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 19:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't the email address be removed?Vchimpanzee 21:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

possible deletion of my topic and article

I had an article under dog tax or dog license collecting. my name is Diane Bandy. I cannot find it anywhere and think possible a jealous competitor had it deleted. Can you help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diane Bandy (talk • contribs) 19:49, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

More than likely, it did not meet the criteria for articles, and was speedily deleted. Please see Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?, including the general criteria under which articles may get deleted. Articles need to assert the notability of the subject. Please see our subject-specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content. Also be aware that if you are closely associated with the subject, (or are writing about yourself) the conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating or editing the article. If you still think your article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. If you would prefer to get input prior to creating the article, to avoid the possibility that it may be deleted, feel free to post your suggestions at the articles for creation page. Hope that helps! ^Ariel♥Gold 19:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

There is an article in your talk page that seems to be about what you are talking about. If that is the text you are referring to, and if it was in mainspace, then it would most likely have been deleted because it is advertising under WP:SPAM Hope this helps. Woodym555 20:00, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Dog license collecting was deleted by User:NawlinWiki in April under the reason (original essay). You could ask them for specific reasons if you like at User talk:NawlinWiki. Woodym555 20:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

How do i delete it?

how do i delete it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.140.47 (talk) 20:28, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Could we possibly have a title of what you want deleted? Do you want the whole article deleted or just a particular part? Woodym555 20:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Also i don't know what there is that you would want to delete because IPs can't create pages. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 23:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

blaylock transport @movng labor services

how do i advertse small company an not go broke heres a thanks from blaylock transport . hi we are a family company - we do it all from loading or unloading any size truck ltl/ pods-or storages an much more from household to offices. also on site moves plus full service packing-dishes computers an hivalue items plus we are a transport service but are not lic for household. only home deliverys dock to dock we also pickup form any store like ikea home depot maceys an much more. like air freight . thankyou for your time please call at removed

small profile please help/////

Wikipedia is not an advertising service. -- Kesh 22:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

One dab page for multiple words?

Hello, is it possible to have one dab page for multiple words?

I came accross Nett which refers to a place in Micronesia, but Nett is also an alternative spelling of Net (as in the opposite of Gross) - can the existing Nett be renamed to something unambiguous, and this be added to the existing dab page at Net, despite the different spelling? Don't suppose this is something that would come up that often :-)

Cheers, Davidprior 23:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think we need to rename Nett, but I did add a "as an alternate spelling" header to the db page at Net. You can see it all the way at the bottom. Thanks! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 03:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

help

'how do I find what a word means?' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.97.19 (talk) 23:46, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

If you are asking how you find the meaning of a word, The Reference Desk would be more suited to that kind of question. The Help Desk is for questions about Wikipedia. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 23:52, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Or see Wiktionary, one of our sister projects. It's like Wikipedia, except it's a dictionary and thesaurus instead of an encyclopedia. Raven4x4x 00:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)