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February 25

How do you bring articles that are in another wikipedia language, into the english version

Just want to know if there's a way to do this quickly.

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.102.48 (talk) 00:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know of no way that isn't manual but the heavy lifting is always in the translation. Otherwise, you simply go to the foreign article click edit this page, copy the text, paste here, preview to see what templates and links need to be changed to equivalents, and start translating. Nobody but a human can do the translation. It might be helpful sometimes to use machine translation as a starting point and then do the proper job of actual translation—it'll save you some time as certain words it will get right and you might wish to keep, but it will still be word salad.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to read WP:TRANSLATE. If it is in spanish, german, or french (even maybe chinese or russian) you could get it done quickly. However, if it is say in Afrikaans it might take much longer. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 01:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If I may piggyback, can you just translate or do you need to re-check the sources?Mzk1 (talk) 01:47, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You need to check the sources.

Different language wikis have very different standards, particularly regarding verifiability and reliable sources. Most are considerably more lax than English Wikipedia.

When translating articles, the 'burdon of evidence' lies with you, so everything needs an appropriate source, according to the standards of this wiki. Smappy (talk) 12:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I assume that doesn't go for translating into Simple English. :-) Mzk1 (talk) 17:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks guys —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.102.48 (talk) 23:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

I made a request for a sockpuppet investigataion Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/96.50.66.231. It does not show up on the main page Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations. Should it show up there or is it hidden? Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 01:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that you have to create an entry in the main page as two left braces, the word SPI, vertical bar, the user ID, and two right braces, as below. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,

Resolved

Bubba73 ^{(You talkin' to me?)}, 02:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Except I'm not sure how to collapse it. Hopefully someone smarter than I can figure that out. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting error

Please help As you can see at Pilot (Modern Family), {{Infobox Modern Family season one episode list}} is not collapsible and does not float like most other TV season templates. Can someone fix this? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at the code of, for example, {{Infobox Simpsons season episode list}} and compare it to the Modern Family box to see if you're missing some code. I think the problem might lie with the fact that the box is defined as an infobox, but not being a template wizard I don't know for sure. Xenon54 / talk / 02:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks It's fixed, but not collapsible, which I think is the preferred method. I'm no template whiz either, obviously... —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After taking another look at it, I have made it collapsible. Let me know if this was not what was wanted. Intelligentsium 23:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting error 2

Resolved

– Fixed --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 04:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please assist For some reason, Melora_Hardin#Filmography has a table with an extra column. I only see one instance of "colspan" and that's not doing it. Can someone fix this? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed it; there was an extra cell which should not have been there. Intelligentsium 03:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:41, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can I ask someone to write two fairly simple templates?

The Wikipedians at WP:LAW look forward to the day when every concept in US Federal law will have twelve sub-articles corresponding to the twelve federal jurisdictions, and every concept in US State law has fifty sub-articles corresponding to the fifty states. Those twelve or fifty wikilinks will be presented in a style that isexemplified at Judicial_review#Judicial_review_in_specific_countries and Senate#National_senates_in_the_world).

The problem is, these articles are being created very slowly. It would go faster if the "parent" articles contained red wikilinks to make it clear to visitors that we are trying to systematically prepare a "sub" article for each jurisdiction. So I am trying to create these red Wikilinks. However, I don't see why I should be doing this manually for each of HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of articles.

Therefore, I would like two templates that create sections like this automatically (a "state jurisdictions" template and a "federal jurisdictions" template). In the case of a state law article, I envision it working as follows:

I go to a state law article, say Res_ipsa_loquitur.
I type the proper wiki-text -- something like {{state jurisdictions}} -- immediately before the ==References== section.
When you hit "save", {{state jurisdictions}} gets auto-replaced with text, in the following fashion:

First, the template checks to see what the title of the article is.
Then, it lays down a header, ==TITLE in U.S. state jurisdictions==
Then it lays down fifty bullets, in three-column configuration: *[[TITLE (Alabama)|Alabama]] *[[TITLE (Alaska)|Alaska]] *[[TITLE (Arizona)|Arizona]] ...
Finally, it lays down some invisible text tag like the following:

The "federal jurisdictions" template would lay down the header as, ==TITLE in the U.S. Federal circuits==, and it would auto-produce bullets for the twelve jurisdictions at United_States_courts_of_appeals#Circuit_population.

Is there a place where I could request the fashioning of such templates? :)

Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 05:17, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I mocked up the first for the federal jurisdictions: {{U.S. federal jurisdictions}} Feel free to move it to another name, and any tweaks can be suggested. I put it in columns, which would certainly be appropriate for the state template. Not sure if it's necessary (or looks good) in this one.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay here's the second: {{U.S. state jurisdictions}}.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 06:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are incredible. Thank you so much. Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 17:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

entry doesn't appear to have worked properly

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Dr_Alexander_Abercrombie

this is a page i created but it doesn't seem to have worked. It is not registering as existing when I try to make it an internal link from other wiki entries. Security1234 (talk) 10:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It works for me. Internal links can be made like this [[Dr Alexander Abercrombie]] and the result you get is Dr Alexander Abercrombie. You probably wrote the name of the article in the link incorrectly. For example if you add a dot after "Dr" ([[Dr. Alexander Abercrombie]]), the link doesn't work anymore--Tired time (talk) 11:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note that in accordance with Wikipedia's naming conventions, the article has been moved to Alexander Abercrombie. – ukexpat (talk) 18:12, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Line rental charge

BT reference: <redacted>

My telephone number is <redacted> My name is Dr Yadiki Jayakumar.

Yesterday evening I had a phone call from one of your staff (<redacted>) from Derby demanding me to pay the line rental as it is over due. He also said I have not responded to two letters from BT (one in January and one is February) which I have never received. I explained that I am not a BT customer any more a since May/June 2009 as now I am a customer of SKY and therefore paying a line rental to sky. However he insisted that i pay the line rental or risk of getting the line disconnected last night. Therefore I paid the line rental (£11=56) through my credit card which has now been processed. I think this is a mistake by BT and therefore would like that amount reimbursed as soon as possible. Please respond to my e-mail address:<redacted>) as soon as possible please and oblige.Also I need an explanation for this mistake by BT.

Thank you

Yours sincerely

Dr Yadiki Jayakumar —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.56 (talk) 11:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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I have contact the oversight team asking that they remove the phone number (and the email address will go as well, I assume). -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 14:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If the BT you're after is British Telecom, their website is http://www.bt.com/. We are not connected to BT. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 15:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name change proposal

Hi, I have proposed name change for 2 articles, from Jambavantha to Jambavan and from Chiranjivin to Chiranjivi. Please read my message there and do needful. These are non-conventional Sanskrit or Indian names that only a minority spells in such manner, they shouldn't be represented incorrectly to the mass.-- Dhaval^Talk 13:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It would probably be useful to bring it up at WP:WikiProject Hinduism. —Akrabbim^talk 13:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Would think so if there were anything to do with the content of the article, this is simply the naming, so have already raised to India Portal, but not sure how long will it get attention there. Won't mind putting the same message on WP:WikiProject Hinduism as well.-- Dhaval^Talk 14:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How can I become an "autoconfirmed" or "confirmed" user?

I need to add a logo to my company page, and cannot do so because I am not a (auto)confirmed user. How can I change this? I've looked at the section on Wikipedia, but I'm still unsure of the parameters.

Thanks C —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clazzari (talk • contribs) 14:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:AUTOCONFIRM. Four more edits should do it. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But if you are tempted to do more to your company page than just add a logo, please read WP:COI first. --ColinFine (talk) 18:44, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hi wikipedia

i need help making a article.Can anyone help me please thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisakar (talk • contribs) 14:37, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you try the Wikipedia:Article wizard and when you've finished, ask for it to be looked at a WP:FEED. Alternatively, you can request an article be created on a subject at Wikipedia:Requested articles.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Logged In But Still Blocked

Resolved

– Discussing with user through email. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 22:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I've created a wiki account and would like to contribute to an article's discussion section but am getting blocked...am I missing something? Thanks, JPC, Canada —Preceding unsigned comment added by The8welsh (talk • contribs) 14:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To which article are you trying to contribute? TN X Man 15:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

delete an account

how can i delete my account completely from Wikipedia?DRDAN1 (talk) 15:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the fact that Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL, all edits must be kept for attribution purposes, and so your account cannot be deleted. You do, however, have the right to vanish, which you can exercise by (1) requesting your user page (found at Special:Mypage) and subpages be deleted, by adding the {{db-userreq}} template to them; (2) requesting to change your username to something that is unconnected with you (possibly a random collection of letters and numbers); (3) never logging in to your account again. The "right to vanish" does not mean anyone has the right to a fresh start under a new identity. Anyone who wants to continue editing should request a change of username instead so edits can be reattributed. Sssoul (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

South Pass

Is this the Same "South Pass" that is mention on page 22 of Pekka Hamalainen "The Comanche Empire"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.17.125.230 (talk) 16:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but it is unclear what you are asking. TN X Man 16:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like you're asking if the mountain pass in South Pass is the same as a South Pass in a book you have called The Comanche Empire. Without knowing more about what's talked about in that part of the book, we can't know. Your question should instead go to Wikipedia:Reference desk, where general knowledge questions are asked. This help desk is for asking questions about using Wikipedia. --Mysdaao ^talk 17:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Siggy Prob

Hey guys, this just started happening to me. How come my signature appears but then a few minutes later Wiki adds a thing that says the post is unsigned? The rules are to use the four squiggly lines and I use them always but still it says post is not signed. Weird. Bbltype 17:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbltype (talk • contribs)

The robot that tags the post as unsigned looks for links to your user page or user talk page. Your signature is completely unlinked, which is frowned upon. —Akrabbim^talk 17:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh oops. That was a mistake. How do I fix it? Bbltype 17:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbltype (talk • contribs)

Instead of

<span style="color:#cc0000;font:bold 10pt Verdana;text-shadow:#cc9999 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;">Bbltype</span>

do something like this

<span style="color:#cc0000;font:bold 10pt Verdana;text-shadow:#cc9999 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;">[[User:Bbltype|Bbltype]] ([[User talk:Bbltype|talk]])</span>

--Redrose64 (talk) 17:44, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64 thx for the help. Just when you typed that was also when I was trying a few things lol. The one I'm doing now is

[[User:Bbltype|<span style="color:#cc0000;font:bold 10pt Verdana;text-shadow:#cc9999 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;">Bbltype</span>]]

so hopefully that takes. The other ones looked kinda ugly to me :) ... Bbltype 17:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It does work, but only links to your user page. It's conventional to provide a link to your talk page as well. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit an existing page I didn't create!

The school that I work for set up a wikipedia page. I want to be an administrator so I can make changes to the page. I want to be able to add a picture of our school from a man who donates his photography to the school. Can I put the picture up and give him a byline and how do I add pictures to our site page? I am logged in under my name but I do not have a page nor do I want one...however...do I have to log in at a different place to be able to make changes to the Saint Joseph Academy Cleveland Wikipedia page that already exists? Please advise! Jennreeder (talk) 18:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to be an administrator to edit the page. On Wikipedia, anyone can edit almost any page. Just click "edit this page" at the top of the article you want to edit. For more information, please read Wikipedia:How to edit a page. You can also edit anonymously without an account, but there are benefits to using your account. You can log into your account from any computer with Internet access and then edit almost any page on Wikipedia.

Your school probably didn't create the article St. Joseph Academy (Cleveland, Ohio). Articles can be created by any user with an account, and as I said, anyone can edit existing articles.

You will be able to upload images when your account is autoconfirmed, which happens automatically when your account is at least four full days old and has made at least ten edits. Once an image is uploaded, you can add it to the page. --Mysdaao ^talk 18:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that you appear to have a conflict of interest so you need to be very careful when making edits to the article. For other than minor corrections, it would be better for you to use the article's talk page to make suggestions about the article. Please also note our image use policy - the owner of the copyright of these images will have to release them under a license acceptable to Wikipedia and should do so following the process set out at WP:IOWN. In fact it would be better for them to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Commons images can be used in Wikipedia articles. Image issues can be complicated so please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. – ukexpat (talk) 18:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How wikipedia articles works?

Hi!!

Just I would like to know about the publicited number of articles noted at the start wikipedia's webpage. For example it says there are 3.200.000 articles in English, 565.000 in spanish. This mean that supposely only 565.000 articles of the 3.200.000 are translated to spanish??? English is the main language where the other languages articles -after being translated- complement that article??? This is cumulative?? Or If I'd want to know everthing about any topic I should have to make a search on every language available??? How this work?? Can I think that any info I need will be complete while I search it in English otherwise some other info would be missing?

Thanks

Viva Wikipedia!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.27.28.89 (talk) 18:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, List of Wikipedias, Help:Interlanguage links, and WP:EIW#Translate. --Teratornis (talk) 18:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Each language has its own Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has the greatest number of articles. Other languages do not have quite as many, as each Wikipedia depends on volunteers to write and maintain articles. Where an English article has a counterpart article in another language's Wikipedia, there is an interwiki link listed on the far left side of the page. TN X Man 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) There is no direct correspondence between the various language Wikipedias. There may be some articles in Spanish having no counterpart in English, for example. All the Wikipedias are independent volunteer collaborative projects, so they contain whatever their user communities have thought important enough to write about so far. All the Wikipedias are unfinished, so you should not regard a Wikipedia article as the final word on any topic. Rather, view Wikipedia as an introduction for your further research. The quality of articles varies as well. The best we call featured articles; the least-developed articles we call stubs. --Teratornis (talk) 18:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In most cases you would probably not need to search every language Wikipedia for a topic. The Wikipedias follow a Pareto distribution of size: a few are large, and many are still small. As a rule of thumb, you can usually find most of the relevant information on a topic by searching the English Wikipedia and the Wikipedia(s) corresponding to the native language(s) of the region for the topic (if the topic associates with a geographic region). For example, if you are searching for a musical group which is primarily active in Russia, and not known elsewhere, you would search the Russian Wikipedia and you could ignore the Telugu Wikipedia and so on. The unrelated small Wikipedias are very unlikely to have more information to add to a topic unfamiliar to most speakers of those languages. As another example, if you want to know about a topic in a Spanish-speaking country, you would of course search the Spanish Wikipedia in addition to the English Wikipedia. You can also follow the Interlanguage links from an article you find, but these links are only present if Wikipedia editors have put them there. Not all articles have a complete list of interlanguage links yet, and you can add them where you find them missing. --Teratornis (talk) 18:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Page Visibility

I recently created a page. To my understanding, when you save the page it is supposed to go live and be visible on Google, MSN, and other search engines. However, when I tried searching for my page, it does not appear. What can I do to successfully publish my page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry Levin (talk • contribs) 18:22, 25 February 2010

I answered this question in response to your {{helpme}} request at User talk:Larry Levin#Help request. I will copy my answer here for others to see:

You created a user page at User:Larry Levin, not an article. From reading your user page, I don't think it should be made into an article. Wikipedia is an encylopedia for notable topics that have received significant coverage in independent sources. It is not a place to post information about yourself like you did. Please read Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, particularly the section Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, social networking, or memorial site. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --Mysdaao ^talk 18:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have tagged the userpage for speedy deletion as spam as it does nothing but promote the user and his activities. – ukexpat (talk) 18:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pages up for speedy without any indication?

Several talk pages are currently included in CAT:CSD, even though they don't display any indication that they're in that category. Look at Talk:West Orange, New Jersey for example: the only templates on the article are two wikiproject tags. I suspect that this has something to do with a recent process that involved the subst-ing of comments subpages onto the talk page — all of these talk pages are within the New Jersey wikiproject, and they all appear to have had edits such as this, so I'm wondering if perhaps the subst had the effect of adding the speedy category to them without making the category appear in the page coding. I've set my preferences to show hidden categories, but I still can't see Category:Candidates for speedy deletion on any of these pages when I'm looking at their current versions. Any ideas how I can remove the category from these pages? They definitely shouldn't be deleted. Nyttend (talk) 18:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's a caching issue. You can make null edits to those pages if you want to get them out of the category (as I've done with Talk:West Orange, New Jersey). — Bility (talk) 19:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alt field to be added

Please assist {{Infobox concert tour}} needs to have the Alt field added to it per WP:ALT. I don't know how to do this. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Since the image is presently a fully-specified image, ie

| image = [[Image:placeholder.png|100px]]

then it's not possible to add an |alt= parameter to the infobox; they have to be inserted manually into each image ie

| image = [[Image:placeholder.png|100px|alt=alt text]]

--Redrose64 (talk) 18:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It might be necessary to rewrite the relevant section of the infobox along the lines of {{infobox album}}. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:01, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done I've come up with a solution which works, you can now specify the image either as previous, which does not allow alt text, ie:

|image=[[Image:RogerWatersInTheFleshTour.gif|195px]]

or in my new way ie:

|image_name = RogerWatersInTheFleshTour.gif

|image_size = 195

|alt = Alt Text

--Redrose64 (talk) 20:47, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image size

Resolved

I am having trouble resizing the main image at Evan Turner to the full width of the infobox. Template:Infobox NCAA Athlete says nothing about a size parameter.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can use the image_size parameter as I've done on the Evan Turner page. If you don't set it, it defaults to 200px. I'll add it to the doc page. — Bility (talk) 19:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The template documentation should explain that.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:36, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the field to the examples in the documentation. Please note that the size should be a bare integer (eg. |image_size=200); the |image_size=200px form might not work correctly because the infobox code adds on a "px" itself. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help with portal / wide images

Resolved

– Beloved Freak 20:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know how to get scroll bars on wide images when used in a portal? I am trying to add a "selected panorama" to Portal:Tanzania, and have created Portal:Tanzania/Selected panorama, where all the images fit fine. When I look at the portal front page however, when the wider images are displayed (nos. 4, 5 & 6), no scroll bars appear and the page stretches out to fit the whole width of the picture, including all of the other boxes on the page. The code I am using for this section is:

<div style="float:right; width:100%"> {{Random portal component | max = 6 | seed = 7 | header = ''Selected panorama'' | subpage = Selected panorama }} </div>

As far as I can (which may not mean much) this is the same as, for example, Portal:Brazil and Portal:Norway, which have wide images but don't have the same problem. I'm aware of Template:Wide image, but I don't think that's relevant here. Can anyone help? --Beloved Freak 19:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello your doing it all right..the scroll bar will only appear if the image is to big..So say you put 500 in |size=500 as bar may appear..now browsers also may see pages differently..as i only see 1 scroll bar out of this two--> Portal:Brazil and Portal:Norway ...hope this helps..Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Some of the images are too big for the page though - it depends on which is loaded by the page at any time. For example, File:Dar es Salaam City Skyline.jpg / Portal:Tanzania/Selected_panorama/6 is 1500px so it stretches the page way out. Any idea? --Beloved Freak 20:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok i see a bar..you are saying you see it go out side the box?? so you have to scroll with your browser bar instead of a Wikibar??..Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! Does that mean it's a browser problem? Because I can see the bar fine on those other portals I mentioned, and at Portal:Tanzania/Selected panorama, so.... I don't know! How frustrating. Thanks for trying! --Beloved Freak 20:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May be fixed, seems to work for me. — Bility (talk) 20:19, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spoke too soon - thanks Bility, whatever you did seems to have worked! Thanks very much. --Beloved Freak 20:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sock puppet?

Resolved

– Allegation unfounded - it was a username change --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 21:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am somewhat concerned that The Thing That Should Not Be (talk · contribs) is a sock puppet of Until It Sleeps (talk · contribs). Can someone check this out? Immunize (talk) 20:21, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello this should be asked here-->Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations...Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, don't bother with SPI; it isn't a sockpuppet, but a WP:RENAME. All is well. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Background information with picture

We are creating a Wikipedia page for a company and how/where do we complete the background information box with profile picture that is normally on the top right side of the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.9.55 (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That box is called an infobox. See WP:INFOBOX for more info and how-to instructions. However, please review our notability guidelines for companies and keep our conflict of interest guideline in mind before creating the page. Thanks, Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 21:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For companies, the appropriate ibox template is {{Infobox company}}. See the template page for documentation. – ukexpat (talk) 22:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image problem

Licensing and use Apparently File:Mos.jpg used to be a picture of a mosque. Someone uploaded a new version portraying Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith. These need to be two separate images (note that it is being used on an article about an Islamic school and other-language Wikipedias.) Also, there is a license tag, but I'm not sure for which image. Does someone want to do me the favor of sorting out which image has which tag and upload the Scott Mosier picture to a more intelligible name? I would do it myself, but I'm honestly just too ignorant about and intimidated by image licensing issues. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted to the old version and informed the uploader to upload to a unique filename on his talk page. In the future, you can revert to previous versions by clicking "revert" in the table next to the version you want to go back to. — Bility (talk) 22:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How to request votes on topics concerning all Wikipedia articles

Specifically, I want to request and put to a vote that all lowercase -> uppercase redirects be deleted.

For example, if I type "george w. bush" into the search field and click Go, my address bar will say ".../wiki/George_w._bush" and the article will be titled "George W. Bush", but with a subtitle saying "(Redirected from George w. bush)", because there is a redirect from "George w. bush" to "George W. Bush". However, if I type "rick perry" and click Go, I will be taken directly to Rick Perry because the article Rick perry does not exist.

MediaWiki automatically makes this change, and does so more neatly and seamlessly than we do manually by adding such a redundant redirect. There must be thousands of such redirects, mostly for major subjects with proper nouns, which are not only unnecessary but actually negatively impact, if only in a small way, the Wikipedia experience. Furthermore, they would have to be manually updated should the proper noun article be moved, adding an extra layer of unnecessary annoyance.

If this were a matter of a single redirect I could make motion on the talk page there, but this potentially affects thousands of articles, and should be somewhere central. Where should I do this? —INTRIGUEBLUE (talk|contribs) 22:41, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest you go to the Village pump. Specifically, I suggest you should go to the village pump for proposals, but make sure your proposal is not on the Perennial proposals list first. Xenon54 / talk / 22:48, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for the reply. —INTRIGUEBLUE (talk|contribs) 04:04, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Upload video clip

I'd like to explain a math concept by showing a video recording. Is there a way of uploading video content to the wikipedia site and tagging words in the text description with the URL for the video? Or, would I have to upload the video to YouTube.com and tagging the word (or phrase) with the URL on youtube?

Words in blue are linked to other pages on wikipedia site. When a user clicks on a blue word, he is directed to another page where the original word (or phrase) is explained in more detail. But what if I want to explain the word (phrase) with a video recording instead of with text? How should I tag a word, which has already been tagged, (i.e., is in already in blue, with a hyperlink), so that the reader can see the video instead of reading more text? Can i send users to youtube from your site so that they can see a video recording? or will your community reject (cancel) such links that send users to other websites.

Please reply soon.

thank you. Jaffer 23:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)23:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)calcuscribe (talk)

For uploading video files, see Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files#Video. I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind when you refer to "tagging words in the text description". Normally, what the video shows would be explained in the caption for the video (see the examples in the section I linked in the preceding sentence) and/or in the nearby text of the article in which it appears. If you want to link to a video on an external site, you can add the link in the "External links" section of the article—assuming that it meets the guidelines at WP:EL—titling the link with a suitable descriptive phrase. Deor (talk) 03:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ok, thanks. calcuscribe (talk) 04:59, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

children

i would like to know why no matter what charity what country that children are in, that it is never the parents who are dying of starvation or being abused or being made to work in dreadful conditions i find it really hard to understand why no one ever deals with this problem they always ask for money but to me they never seem to actually do anymore to help these poor kids. dont unicef and other childrens charities think that talking to and advising parents on contraception(as they seem to me to just keep producing more when 1 dies of starvation) and that they feed their kids first instead of themselves there would be less starving children in the world after all these children are supposed to be the future of the world instead of constantly asking for money maybe they should try educating them about these things —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.50.97 (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from typing in all caps (known informally as "shouting"). This is considered impolite and attention-seeking behaviour, and is thus discouraged. I have taken the liberty of refactoring your post to be more readable, through the addition of an {{lc:}}. To your original question: poor conditions for children in the developing world is a serious problem and there are many ways you can help. However, this is the Wikipedia Help Desk, where we provide assistance to users of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a not-for-profit organization devoted to creating a free online encyclopaedia, and is not affiliated with any of the topics which it covers. This is not the appropriate avenue via which to express your concerns about the world's problems. Intelligentsium 23:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In response to the original question, adults in the third and fourth world are also starving to death, being abused, and being made to work in sweatshops. We simply don't hear as much about them because "Somebody think of the children!" gets more sympathy donations. And many NGOs are doing amazing work to improve living conditions in impoverished nations all over the world. There are simply too many people in dire poverty to be easily helped with token donations by people in the first world. —INTRIGUEBLUE (talk|contribs) 00:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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