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October 14

How are links "blacklisted"?

Hi, in one of the wiki articles, I tried to use references from this site - http://cpjc.wordpress.com/about/ , and everytime I did so, a bot removed it. Could you please tell me what exactly it is violating? I have gone through the guidelines but could not figure out why. Thanks a lot.

Vinter-light (talk) 02:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for more info. →Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 03:55, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

If a bot is removing it, it isn't on the spam blacklist, it's on a site which has been identified to the bot as generally not containing useful information. If the site were on the blacklist, you wouldn't be able to save the page, period. 99.166.95.142 (talk) 15:59, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

transplanatation of tamarind tree

Sucess ratio of Survival of Tamarind tree when transplant Transplantation method of Tamarind tree —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greennilesh (talk • contribs) 07:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

• You might find what you are looking for in the article Tamarind. 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. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 08:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Using macrons

How do I put a macron over a vowel when editing text (both for caps and lower case)?

Shosai (talk) 08:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

How are you doing your editing? In Firefox, when I open for edit I get a pull-down list below the edit window with a number of symbols against it - it probaly says 'Insert'. Select 'Latin' and the symbols will change to a load of letters with various accents and other marks. With the edit cursor positioned in the right place in the edit window, simply click on the letter you want and it will be inserted, like this: āēŌȲ. Jan1naD - (talk) 08:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) There are three ways to do this:

1. When editing a page, if you look below the edit summary box, there is a box showing characters which you can click on to insert, such as ĀāĒē (you may need to click on the drop-down list to choose Latin). It looks like this:
2. There are methods of inputting macrons detailed at Help:Macrons if you are using Mac OS X or Windows XP.
3. You might find what you are looking for at Help:Special characters.

Hope this helps, if not just leave another message here. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 09:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Problem with the main page of Wikipedia in Occitan

Hello, we have a problem with the main/title of the wikipedia in occitan : [1], you can see, there is a problem with the box on the left which is under the normal level, someone can help us ? Regards ? Mertyl (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC).

I'm not sure where is the correct place to discuss this. I see that on the Occitan Wikipedia you are an admin - I'm guessing that there's no equivalent to the Help Desk over there?

I had a look at the page linked to, but I couldn't see the problem - could you perhaps give a bit more detail? Which box are you talking about? -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 13:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

This might be a question for the Village Pump Technical page. 99.166.95.142 (talk) 16:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

is there trinity college and university in malaga spain that offers Phd degree is psychology

Is there any trinity college and university in malaga spain that offers Phd degree is psychology? if yes, what is its web address? We need to validate a degree, we also have its reference reference number. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.83.161.4 (talk) 12:38, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our roughly three million articles, and thought that we were directly 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 a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the left hand 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. TNXMan 13:17, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

You might find what you are looking for in the article List of universities in Spain. 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. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 13:59, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

BBC iPlayer

I created an article about a British television series, Life (BBC TV series). The series is currently airing and a user has started adding external links to the BBC iPlayer service for the episodes that have aired to date. I think content on the iPlayer site is only available in the UK, so is this acceptable on Wikipedia? Moreover, iPlayer content is only available for a limited time.Baguala (talk) 12:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

As you say, the content can only be seen in the UK. Also, content on BBC's iPlayer is onlt available for 1 week, so it's hardly worth it being there. I've actually removed them, and left a message for the IP that placed them there. -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 13:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

On another point, the four episode summaries were word-for-word identical to the summaries on the BBC website. I've removed all four sections, giving the urls in my edit summaries. (This wasn't your doing, Baguala, as the summaries were added after your last edit). Bencherlite^Talk 13:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for clearing that up Bencherlite & Phantomsteve - I hadn't realised those edits were plagiarised. I created the subsections with the episode titles but I shall be writing my own episode summaries.Baguala (talk) 15:41, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Email

Hi i am receiving Emails suggesting that i am inheritating millions....just so your site is aware they are using wikipedia as a source in the email itself....my email is [redacted] and i will send a copy of it as well. Thanks

ARTHUR WANG LIAN ASSOCIATES 9TH FLOOR,KOMPLEK MUTIARA, JLN IPOH BATU 3 1/2, 51200 KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA. TEL: 011 60178701635 or +60178701635

I am ARTHUR WANG LIAN,an attorney at law, A deceased client of mine that shares the same last name as yours died as the result of a heart-related condition on March 12th 2005. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia. And in the record there is no known successor to this deposit of the deceased who died without a will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake.

My late Client has a deposit of Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars (17.5 Million dollars) left behind.

I can be reached on [redacted] for more information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.221.89.225 (talk) 15:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I have removed your email address (and that of the spammer) from your message, to stop you getting more spam messages (this is a very visible page). I don't think that there's anything people on Wikipedia can do if someone wants to include a link to a Wikipedia article in a message such as this. Thank you for mentioning it, though. Bencherlite^Talk 15:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Hiding a page from search engines

Hi, I have a question about "hiding" a page from search engines. Specifically, I'd like to make it so that my user page doesn't show up as the #1 hit in Google when I search for it. (I realize this doesn't occur with my username, but it does with some friends who were a little more selective with their names). Is there a {{nosearch}} thing I can just put at the top of the page? Lime in the Coconut 18:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Indeed there is: {{noindex}}. Rd232 ^talk 18:22, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I can never remember the name of a template when I need it! Lime in the Coconut 18:58, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Thumbnail not showing

The thumbnail for File:Tim_Berners-Lee.jpg isn't showing in articles, e.g. in Tim Berners-Lee, I've tried purging the image and the article but it didn't make a difference. Could someone take a look and see what is wrong? Thanks Smartse (talk) 19:23, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Interstingly, it appears correctly in a template, such as {{Infobox UK place}}. It also appears (larger) if all the options (thumb, etc) are omitted. But no, I can't get it to work as you want. Sorry. Jan1naD - (talk) 19:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

The link generated into the web page here also works. Could it be a CSS thing - any gurus out there? Jan1naD - (talk) 19:51, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

When I went to the page, the image wasn't showing (although going to the file directly, it was). When I went to edit the 'Career' section, did nothing, but did a preview, it worked there. When I then looked at the article, it showed again, and seems OK now. Perhaps it was just a brief server glitch? -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 19:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Seems so, works fine now anyway! Thanks for trying anyway :) Smartse (talk) 19:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

American Wikipedia?

I know this sounds compltely stupid and weird and i am 99.9% sure the answer is english wikipedia so incldues anything english. But i have been getting a few people in talk pages of things suggesting to me this is americna wikipedia and it only americna stuff that coutns and uk sources are inrevelent. If this is true i will gradally accept what there sayign but my knowledge has always been it a english wikipeida hosted in america mostly governed by american laws but follow english stuff regardles swher eint he world it is. If it americna wikipedia should we not be deleting ever uk asscaioted article and soruce from all articles?--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 21:45, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

This is actually a Wikipedia for the whole world, which is written in English (as distinct from a Wikipedia for only English-speaking countries), so it's certainly not an American Wikipedia as far as content goes. Can you point out where people have been saying that UK sources are, by virtue of their country of origin, irrelevant? Steve Smith (talk) 21:55, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

(ec) No, that's total rubbish! All English language sources, provided they are reliable and verifiable, are perfectly fine. I can only assume that the editors of which you speak were American editors with some kind of complex. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 21:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

In fact, even foreign language sources are acceptable in many situations, though English sources are generally preferred on the English Wikipedia. Intelligentsium^review 22:37, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

[2] this is one example ther eis another the user just says it s regional site to uk so is invalid in basic terms they will only accept the american site. There is another case but that a different things. I have no problems with them being american editors and want to keep american shows americised but when you are disregard uk sources because they want it to be america only it annoys me as we are both right and i rather jsut solution ot the problem and not get told it american way only.--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 22:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

The person you had that discussion with is Australian. You've pretty clearly misinterpreted what was said. The reason the American website was stated to be preferred was because "the program is produced (mainly) in the US and the US site is regularly referred to in the episode so that's the site we should be using for consistency." I have no idea how you got from there to that he was "suggesting to me this is americna wikipedia and it only americna stuff that coutns and uk sources are inrevelent."--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:14, 15 October 2009 (UTC)