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November 30

Compromised account

I cannot log in and the email settings have changed so resets don't seem to be coming to me. However my user page still has a link to my website. Can i recover my login or Can I have the user page deleted. I am concerned that this password has been compromised. It is one I use in a number of places (not all) but open to harvesting/brute force entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.175.137.175 (talk) 01:25, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Depends on whether you have an e-mail address attached to your account. If you have an e-mail, you can recover it by going to the login window and clicking the relevant link. When you recover your password, change it as quickly as possible in case someone did get a hold of it. If you don't, I don't know of any way that you can recover your password, but maybe someone else does. If you wish to have your userpage deleted, tag it with {{db-u1}} and explain in the edit summary who you are. Hope this helps. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 04:44, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Oddball image-orientation question

In Panaca, Nevada, the second image displays rotated and compressed. The file, File:PanacaMercantileByPhilKonstantin.jpg, looks normal. I tried moving it and renaming to File (vs. Image) -- no joy. Help? TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 03:14, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Look at the file metadata extended details and you will see Orientation = Rotated 90° CCW. Edit the JPG EXIF metadata and reupload it. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 03:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Can you (or anyone) point me to directions on how to do that? TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 04:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

 Fixed ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 18:34, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

funds through donation or advertisement

Hi Jimmy,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I am a regular user of wiki and feel that you guys have changed the world in the way we access information. I have been donating to wiki in the past and I am happy to continue doing so. But was wondering what impact it will have if you guys can have a panel somewhere on the page for advertisemnet so that you can get sufficient funding you want to maintain/improve wiki? Before doing so you can also go for a voting/questionnaire for us users who can reply to this proposal & tell if they dont mind having an advertisement panel on the page. Since you guys are not for profit, any extra income can go to charity maybe. I know it a lot easier said than done but just wanted to share my thoughts with you.

Regards,

Ejaz Hussain ACT Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.97.245.84 (talk) 04:07, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia has not need to change its funding model, because it makes all of the money it needs for operating and capital expenses through the pledge drive, which you donated to. --Jayron32 05:56, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Advertisements. --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:51, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Claudia Lennear

Hello,

I recently wrote a revised bio for my friend, the great Soul singer Claudia Lennear. It seemed to go in, but when I re-checked it the original truncated article written by someone else was there, not my revisions which WERE AUTHORIZED by Ms. Lennear. Now, I thought if I edited something, it would remain. But why are my revisions gone?

You can directly contact Ms. Lennear herself and I'll be glad to provide her e-mail address. But again, I've had no problem before. Now, even after I SIGN ON to wikipedia, an authorized revision still doesn't see the light of day - and you faq sheet is too confusing to figure out an answer even if I could find it there.

Please allow my changes to stay on Ms. Lennear's wikipedia page.

Thank You,

05:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Alan Rockman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanroc (talk • contribs)

Please read the following two pages to understand why you are having this experience.

Wikipedia:Conflict of interest

Wikipedia:Ownership of articles

Your "authorization" carries no weight at Wikipedia. This is not a webhosting service, and the material you submit to Wikipedia belongs to Wikipedia and is released under Wikipedia's terms of use, which is explained every time to type something in an edit box. You agreed to this when you edited that article. --Jayron32 05:26, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

To put that a little differently, the Claudia Lennear article is not her article; it is Wikipedia's article about her. And your connection with her means that you have a conflict of interest and that you have (if anything) less rather than more right to control the contents of the article. —teb728 t c 05:39, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

If you have something you would like to add to the article, post your suggestion on the article’s discussion page, Talk:Claudia Lennear, together with a citation to a reliable published source that verifies the content to be added. If you would like to delete something, post your request on the discussion page together with an explanation of why the sources in the article do not justify the content to be deleted. —teb728 t c 06:25, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

One more thing, you say that you find the FAQ confusing: maybe you are reading the wrong FAQ. Read Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects: Many of the items there are directly applicable to your situation. —teb728 t c 08:46, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Adding Urdu text to articles/pages

Dear Sirs Good morning. I would please like to add Urdu text to some of the pages/articles Im editing (such as Urdu versions of names etc) and dont know how to do this properly. Could you please guide me how to do this? Thank you. Khani100 (talk) 06:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Khani100

You may list the articles on my talk page and I will add the Urdu script for you. Khuda hafiz, Anupam^Talk 06:08, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Help with certain article words and more

Ex. lightning article has diverse types of lighting generation mechanisms like, rocket lightning staccato lightning and more. Some have actual articles and some just redirect to lightning but still is a different generation of lightning. Why doesn't rocket lighting and other related generations have no article. Is it not special or full of information enough or editors just did not make it a article yet. What qualifies as a article is it being approved by a specialist in that particular field. Why is staccato lighting high lighted but has no article, and rocket lighting is not high lighted. I usually copy and paste these words like rocket lightning to my raw watch list, but is there a way i can keep on copying more than one time and than paste it all at once on raw list instead of it getting only copied by the last high lighted copied text. Am I aloud to copy word for word of wikipedias articles and put in on any web page like wiki's.Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 06:14, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Anybody can start an article so provided you have access to good sources about those topics you are welcome to start writing articles about them. See WP:My first article for guidance on how to get started. Someone with more knowlege of WP's licencing conditions will have to advise you on the correct way to copy WP articles to other websites. Roger (talk) 08:07, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

WP:My first article has links to many other things for you to read. Among the more relevant ones are WP:Notability, WP:Verifiability, WP:Reliable sources, and WP:Referencing for beginners. If you are going to start writing articles you will need to be more careful with your spelling, grammar, and punctuation. - David Biddulph (talk) 08:25, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

How about the copy and paste saving and copying more than one time at once to raw list to make it faster than copying one time and than going back and doing it again. Is there a way to make 2 separate raw list or do I have to create second account. I was just curious to see about article importance stats not really ready to create article at fast paste thanks to facebook making me lazy on grammar.Shawn Worthington Laser Plasma (talk) 23:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

You appear to have used the words "lightning" and "lighting" indiscriminately. I wonder if this has caused some confusion. Maproom (talk) 21:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Odd "unpatrolled" notice on watchlist

I haven't edited for a while prior to tonight, so maybe I missed something, but while reverting vandalism this evening, every time I have incidentally created a new user talk page (to warn a user), my watchlist is showing a red exclamation mark next to the new page symbol for the edit. Mousing over it displays "This edit has not yet been patrolled." New side effect that I'm not aware of or a bug? Calabe1992 06:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

According to the discussion here, this is a new feature intended to be helpful. I'm not convinced! Just ignore it. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, that explains it, thanks. I think I'm already convinced otherwise! :) Calabe1992 15:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Apprise Software logo

Hi,

I need to change our company logo to new one on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprise_Software. It is absolutely impossible to spend all day reading through your blocks of text in order to do so. Can anyone help me?

Thnaks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petrossino (talk • contribs) 09:58, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Apprise Software (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Yes, I can help with that. Should I take a screen grab of the top left corner of the company home page, or can you give me the URL of a file containing the image? I can't find the file name in the HTML of the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:58, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

It's a background image. Not very usefull though. — Edokter (talk) — 13:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I also had a look in two PDF's on the site - brochure in [1] ("Apprise® Overview") and the latest 'news release' in [2] ("Apprise Software Expands Into Seoul, Korea"). Both have those have the "old" logo (with the swirl around the letter A). So I'm not sure which one we could update it with.  Chzz  ►  15:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Article got deleted as {{db-spam}}. DMacks (talk) 02:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Application of zinc sulfate as ors

Dear Wikipedia, Please add the information about application of zinc sulfate as oral rehydration in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.178.25.162 (talk) 13:56, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

If you think an article can be improved, you are encouraged to be bold and edit it yourself. But please provide citations from reliable sources for any information you add. Alternatively, if you are not confident about editing the article, please ask on the article's talk page, and another editor may take up your suggestion --ColinFine (talk) 18:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Contribution problems

i do not know why but over the years I have had problems contributing with my credit cards. Wiki is the only place that this happens? Any ideas why this happens? — Preceding unsigned comment added by INFOSECFORCE (talk • contribs) 14:22, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Please email problemsdonating@wikimedia.org and describe the problem you are having. Someone will respond to your email to help you. --Jayron32 14:23, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

removing my links

Hello, I have a page for Mazhar Khaleghi in Facebook. I search his works everyday and I put valuable information on it. why exactly do you think it is inappropriate for wikipedia to have a link to this page? I have 16000 fans on this page and they are very interested and active on it. the other links that I saw, some of them don't work anymore. some useless. please consider that we do care about this article and we are not trying to advertise anything or do any business. We can put this article's link in info section of Facebook page so that people will reach correct information on this subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psayyadi (talk • contribs) 15:32, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

See item #10 at WP:ELNO. – ukexpat (talk) 15:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

need to change link

Hi, I need to change hyperlink given on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneSavings_Bank

Under "References" first link ^ "krbs.com: About Us". takes to page which is not correct. correct page is http://www.krbs.com/about-us/

kindly let me know how to do this. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhikop (talk • contribs) 18:16, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I've fixed it for you.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 18:28, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Updated category sort order

I updated the category sort order for Walter McCormick and when I go to those categories, he is still showing up under "W" and not "M". I can see it logged in but if you are not logged in, it cannot be seen. How long does it take for those changes to occur? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdishler (talk • contribs) 19:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

That's because the article did not contain the {{Persondata}} template. I added it now.--♫GoP♫_T^C_N 21:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

No, it was missing {{DEFAULTSORT}}, which I have now added. – ukexpat (talk) 21:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

adding an article about my dad

hi i hope you can help - i am trying to get my father barrie wentzell on to wikipedia - he is a rock photographer. i am just checking the procedure as i am not sure if i am a conflict or whether i am able to add the article myself. if not, can you tell me the correct procedure please?

saskia wentzell

Mrsbolton (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC).

Yes, you should read WP:FIRST before you create an article. Make sure he meets WP:GNG and that the text does not contain any copyright violations. Make sure there is no conflict of interest and nothing unencyclopedic. WP:WIZARD is also very helpful. Regards.--♫GoP♫_T^C_N 21:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I created a new section in an existing article, but it does not seem to be showing up.

my username here is Rainroom. I am fairly new here. For the SWTOR article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTOR , I wrote a new section at the end, called "Marketing" covering relevant aspects that I did not see mentioned anywhere in the article.

The two paragraphs I wrote have proper references, and as far as I know are properly formatted and free of grammatical and punctuation errors.

In implementing this new section, I made a total of three edits and page saves. The article's "view history" tab shows that the correct and most updated version (i.e. the one I wanted to put into the article) is the most most current, meaning it has not be reverted or edited over. My problem is this:

When I am logged in, the new section I wrote displays properly as part of article. When I am not, it isn't there and the article is back to the version it was before I made ANY edits, which conflicts with the history tab. I tested this on three different computers, and two different IP addresses, so I know its not just my computer.

Is there something I did not do correctly, or is there a software bug or am I simply missing something here? Any clarification/help is greatly appreciated. Rainroom (talk) 21:45, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I have purged the page to give the Wikipedia servers a kick. That usually fixes it; if it doesn't then post again here. I don't know why the servers get out of synch sometimes. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:57, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

The section is in the article but it is written like an advertisement, it should be removed or completely rewritten. Roger (talk) 22:28, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I have removed it. – ukexpat (talk) 00:06, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Cat picture

I am in the process of writing a book and one of the topics is an experience I had with my cat. My cat looked exactly like one of the pictures on the Wikipedia section on cats. I am wondering if I can use that picture in my book. I cannot seem to find the persons name that entered the cat picture there. I would give credit to Wikipedia or who ever needs it in the credits section of my book. Is there any body out there that can help with this issue to let me know if that would be possible. i don't want to infringe on anyones work or copyright without permission. thanks in advance. 98.176.241.134 (talk) 22:17, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

If you click on the image in the article, it will take you to the image's page. That page will tell you what license the image is released under as well as who uploaded it. Dismas|^(talk) 22:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Donation Payment Mode

ATTN: MR. BRANDON HARRIS

Dear Wikipedia,

I am indian belonging to a lower economic class. I wold like to contribute my mite to the good job done by Wikipedia and many other voluntary free software developer groups. But people like me are ignorant of the great blessing called Credit Card or Pay Pal facilities. Could not voluntary groups like you enable people like me to contribute our mite to the very vital job you are carrying on, by arranging to accept payments through cash (INR), checks or debit cards.

Best Wishes,

jehan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.135.21 (talk) 23:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

(I doubt if Brandon Harris reads this page) Thank you for your keenness to contribute. Do any of the links at the side of Foundation:fundraising help? --ColinFine (talk) 00:10, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Image gallery question

I'd like to set up a gallery of free to use images for the television series Home and Away. However, I'm not sure which title would be an appropriate location for this gallery. Other shows use them - Wikipedia:WikiProject EastEnders/Free-use images - Wikipedia:WikiProject Hollyoaks/Free-use images - but this particular one does not have it's own specific Wikiproject. I think WP:SOAPS is the closest to it, but I was thinking a title with Home and Away in it would be more suitable.RaintheOne ^BAM 23:26, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

So my question is, where should I create it?RaintheOne ^BAM 01:27, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Why not just create Wikipedia:WikiProject Home and Away? If there is need of a gallery, there must be interest in a project. -- kainaw™ 01:36, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:WikiProject and properly make a proposal. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 02:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)