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Tone – Gossip! Need Help!

Can someone help here Talk:Paoli_Dam#Nude_scene_in_Chatrak_section.21? --Tito Dutta ✉ 04:17, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I think someone has already helped with the problem you have because I went to the page you redirected me too and saw that it was already revised. CPGirlAJ (talk) 19:16, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

What is wrong with an article about a book series?

Why would you delete my article? It is not advertising at all. I am very disappointed. I have made donations to Wikipedia in the past. I will never make that mistake again, you delete a factual article for no reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baolan27 (talk • contribs) 04:42, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

It's possible it sounded like advertising in its tone, even if that wasn't your goal. Maybe you should try to submit it through WP:articles for creation or make it on a user subpage if you want to recreate it? - Purplewowies (talk) 04:54, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Are we talking about Poets Corner Group? If so, then the subject may possibly be notable but the article itself has multiple serious problems. It is indeed written in advertising language, not the neutral, factual language required for an encyclopaedia article (for example, the first line is "Poets Corner is not only an idea, but a dream" and continues in a similar style). It contains the line "Our motto remains: 'With a will, to conquer by the quill'", which makes it abundantly clear that the person writing the article is a part of the organization so there may be questions of neutrality and conflict of interest. It contains a list of the organisation's non-notable staff (unnecessary) but no clear, factual description of what the organisation is and what it actually does (necessary). And of the five references you gave to support the article - none of them inline, just bare URLs - one is a sales listing, one is a blog, one is the organisation's own website and one doesn't work, leaving only the article in The Hindu as a single genuine independent source to show the organisation's notability, and one such source is not enough. The criticisms of the article as it stands are perfectly justified and it needs a lot of work to avoid deletion. Karenjc 08:49, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Mahua Roy Chowdhury

Mahua Roy Chowdhury - Though she was a renowned actress of her times but I got disappointed to see that Wikipedia does not have any article on this talented Bengali actress. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.91.201.56 (talk) 07:51, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

The problem is that you have not written the article yet. See Your first article. Roger (talk) 13:08, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Changing copyright status of uploaded image

Hi there,

I just uploaded an image but by mistake put the wrong copyright status in. I would now like to change the status. How can I do this?

In the FAQ on uploading images it says "after uploading, you can still click the edit button and make changes to the summary and the license, if you have made a mistake." But when I do this, I only see the code which generates the copyright status I would like to modify. What I need to do is go back to the upload form where you answer questions about the copyright status of the image. Is this possible?

Thanks very much. JenCawe (talk) 10:18, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

No, that's not possible, you have to edit the image information page. Are you referring to File:ATLAS Collaboration Map 2010.png? If so, what is the correct license?--ukexpat (talk) 13:14, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Economy of Wikipedia

May I know your yearly Income/Profit/Turn-over... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shawnksp (talk • contribs) 10:30, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is one of several projects run by the non-profit charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation with the same staff and servers. See wikimedia:Financial reports. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

(ec)Wikipedia itself is only one of a number of related projects run by the WikiMedia Foundation. The Foundation's latest reports are available here: wikimedia: Annual Report and wikimedia:Financial reports. These reports are in English, summaries may be available in other languages. Roger (talk) 10:52, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Miscellenious question

Are these two sentences meaning the same thing?:

(1) Doing the right things and

(2) Doing things right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.215.62.206 (talk) 10:55, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

They are different.

Have you tried the Language section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:15, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

in the news

Please somebody add the death of Vilasrao Deshmukh at IN THE NEWS box on main page. He had a huge personality and whole nation is sad on this bad event. BiologyArtist (talk) 12:11, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

It can be suggested at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates but I doubt it will be supported. I think he was relatively unknown internationally. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:29, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

It has now been suggested at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Vilasrao Deshmukh. As expected, it hasn't gained support so far. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:34, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Need help to removed red-links.

I have a specific question regarding an article that I'm translated in my userspace: User:Mentoz86/List of Norway international footballers (1 – 24 caps). As this is copy pasted from no:wiki, the entire "national team career"-row have red-links that is not used on en:wiki, and I want to get rid of them without removing the text. Anyone got any tips or tricks on how to do this, without doing it manually? Mentoz86 (talk) 12:39, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Copy into a text editor and replace [[ with and empty string and the same for ]] and then copy and paste it back into your draft. RJFJR (talk) 13:21, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Redlinks are useful things - they cause people to write articles. The best way to get rid of them is to turn them blue by writing articles about them. To start just a few lines briefly detailing who the person is/was and what they are notable for is sufficient. Roger (talk) 13:25, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I'll keep the redlinks on the footballers, but I'm not going to write articles like these:Category:England national football team results about the Norwegian team, so I want to get rid of those links. Will try RJFJR's suggestion later, but I don't think it'll work because the red-links have piped text, and it's only the pipe-text that I want to keep, not the name of the articles in Norwegian. :S Mentoz86 (talk) 13:57, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I use a text editor designed for programmers that has a macro function that might be able to handle that but it would be tricky and need to be watched. Doing it manually may not be as bad as it sounds once you get into the flow of making the repeated changes. (Sorry, I didn't realize they were piped.) RJFJR (talk) 14:07, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I've now done it manually by replacing with a space, for the 20 different article names, and replaced 1 with 1 for all digits. Could be done easier, and now the problem is that there are too many spaces in between. But thanks for the help. Mentoz86 (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Linking from a Wikipedia page to my business website

I created a link from my business website to the county website for my city. Can I add a link from the county website back to my site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.65.216.178 (talk) 13:25, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Simple answer is no. Long answer is no because of Wikipedia:External links. I'm sorry, but I don't see how adding this link would be be appropriate for Wikipedia's mission and policies. RJFJR (talk) 14:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia may not be used for promotion. --ColinFine (talk) 22:50, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

File deletion

Hello,

I uploaded an image file that was to be used in an article about the motion picture production company I work for. The article was marked for speedy deletion, and I am now revoking any Creative Commons licensing. I would like to know how to delete the file, or would like to have it deleted. If this is not possible, I will claim copyright violation and begin legal procedings to have the image removed. The file in question is located here: File:Malfunction films.png

Sincerely yours,

David A. Barak— Preceding unsigned comment added by Creativehumanoid (talk • contribs) 14:54, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

You do not need to begin legal proceedings to have an image deleted. Since you have requested it, I've added {{db-author}} to the image description page. Are you and User:Dbarak the same person? He (his account) is the one who uploaded the image, not you. - Purplewowies (talk) 15:15, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

We will almost certainly be accommodating, but you are going about this the wrong way. For example, licensing as Creative Commons is irrevocable, so you shouldn't be stating that you are revoking the license, you have no standing to revoke the license. You should be politely asking if an exception can be made, in light of the fact that the intended purpose of the image is no longer in existence. I think that is a reasonable request, and support the deletion of the image. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:25, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted the image. I am sorry you found your experience here unpleasant. The usual way to request this kind of deletion is to add the tag {{db-author}} to the top of the page. Rmhermen (talk) 16:23, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

II Field Force Viet Nam Hq Co

Need a personal roster of people who served in Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968 all assinged to Hq Co and worked in G2 Air section — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.30.151.131 (talk) 16:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 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. Cresix (talk) 16:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Nothing about this question implies the person is astray. It's just a general knowledge question which belongs at the reference desk.

Have you tried the Miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:09, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Article edit count?

Hello Wikipedia Community:

This summer I'm doing a bit of research on Wikipedia entries in the field of Science and Technology Studies. A central question I'm asking is the extent to which this field, as it is now on Wikipedia, includes, features, and references the contributions made by women, feminist theorists, and feminist theory. To answer this, I'm gathering data on existing pages using mixed methods. One piece of information I'm interested in finding out is how many times a given article has been edited, by whom, and what types of edits have been made over time. I've found the "history" tool useful, but not all that easy to use for my purposes. For instance, while it is common to have a list of how many edits any given *editor* has made, I find it is not easy to see how many times an *article* has been edited. I've been downloading the edit history and manually calculating this, but I thought it would be worth asking around to see there might be an easier way to collect this data, and any related data regarding type and kinds of edits.

Thanks in advance for any insight on this.

Best regards, "Shameran81" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shameran81 (talk • contribs) 21:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

There is a tool for that http://en.wikichecker.com/article/?a=Hell's_Kitchen_(U.S.) , contains that information and quite a bit more. Please let us know if that doesn't contain everything you need. Naraht (talk) 21:12, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

If your field of study includes computer science you might be interested in the downloads of our database. The reason I say might is because the dumps are very big and you would need to figure out how to process the data extract useful information. RJFJR (talk) 01:21, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

RE: Naraht Thank you. That is a nice tool to have at hand. The information is very much summarized, however. RE: RJFJR Thank you. I can probably sort out how to process/extract data. I imagine the dumps are big. Are downloads of a particular article available or does the whole database dump have to be downloaded? Shameran81 (talk) 20:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Language addition

i want to say that plz add URDU language in languages as it is a representing language of more than 200 million people of Pakistan n round about 500 million people can easily understand it......plz add it in wikipedia..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.103.194.57 (talk) 22:49, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Are you looking for the Urdu Wikipedia? It currently has about 18 000 articles. --ColinFine (talk) 22:54, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

(e/c) Hello. The Urdu Wikipedia exists, has 18,890 articles as of now, and may be viewed here. I was wondering if you could tell us what prompted you to make this post. I ask because for some reason this particular request regarding the Urdu Wikipedia, as opposed to others, has come up a disproportionate number of times. Thanks.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:58, 14 August 2012 (UTC)