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Hello CWO! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Wikisigbutton.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Dylan Lake 20:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Protection on translated page

The problem is explained in my contributions on the status of a translation earlier this evening (26 October 2006).

I can't work out whether I should just go ahead and then immediately apply for page protection, or whether one should not in the first place create pages one knows are going to need protection.CWO 22:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

If it's an encyclopedic topic, you should create it. It being protected on the German Wikipedia does not mean it will have to be protected here, but if there is recurrent vandalism, then request protection. Also, the page on the German Wikipedia has been protected since April and there is no evidence of a recurring problem; I don't know the policies there, but it should probably be unprotected. —Centrx→talk • 00:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I just noticed your message on the translation board regarding de:Kärntner Slowenen. My advice: go ahead and write the translation! Sure, there was some conflict on de.wiki, but that's the nature of Wikipedia: people argue back and forth until, slowly but surely, a high-quality article is produced. If - and this is uncertain - those disputes move here, I'm sure people will be ready to do battle to protect the truth. But that alone is certainly not reason enough to exlcude this subject from the encyclopedia. So I urge you, if you have the time and motivation, to write it, and if protection turns out to be needed, that will be imposed by an administrator. Biruitorul 08:21, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Martin Krause

{{helpme}} Having translated the article in de.wiki to make an article in en.wiki, I wrote an invisible comment, which I then decided would be better as visible, i.e. on the article's Talk page. However, when I copied and pasted it, it didn't come out in the usual format (the one this page is in). I'm writing to request some help in transferring it into the usual format, or for someone to do this, though it may be better if someone explains what needs doing, so that I would know how to avoid this problem in the future. After the next two to three hours, I shall not be able to deal with any reply until Monday 7 May. CWO 19:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I assume I did what you meant? Tell me if I am wrong! I am removing the help me tag for now, don't hesitate to put it back if you need further help! -- lucasbfr talk 19:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I got there a tad after the nick of time and noticed that the translater note on the Talk page was in <pre> tag format. This seems to happen automatically if there are extraneous spaces before the first character. I deleted the space before the first word ("Translator") and it fixed itself. Was that what you meant? Nerwen 19:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks indeed to both of you.CWO 19:54, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Menachem Pressler

(1) When I searched for Menachem Pressler, all I got was a list of relevant articles with percentages. However, a search in Google produces the Wikipedia article as one of its results on the first page, and the article can be reached through this. (This is not caused by a typo on my part: having had this problem yesterday, I copied and pasted the name from Wikipedia search to Google this time.) (2) When I tried to create a Wikilink to this article from P.'s name in the section on the Jacobs School of Music in the article Indiana University (Bloomington), the preview of changes showed the link as red, not blue, so I left it. Would somebody please be kind enough to sort this out or give a non-techie who hasn't a clue about templates, tag formats, etc. some simple instructions on how to rectify it?CWO 18:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I kept wondering why so long had elapsed without a reply but, on checking, I found that I had not typed in the "helpme" request correctly, so this appeared without the template. However, I have again checked the position just now (repeating the steps above) and the problems still exist. CWO 18:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Spelling error? Menachem Pressler or Menahem Pressler? :-) Stwalkerster talk 18:47, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Oops! not a spelling error you said, but typing Menachem Pressler (with the c) produces a result to Menahem Pressler (without a c) :-) Stwalkerster talk 18:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks very much. I am appalled to discover that I've been thinking of his name with the wrong spelling for years!CWO 19:04, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Louis Auchincloss

Despite spending about fifteen minutes trying to get the numbering of the Notes correct, I regret I still can't. As explained on the Discussion page and in the Notes, I have added/rectified and amplified the information. The reference shown as [2] in the Notes is in fact the same as [1] in External Links - (the radio interview with Don Swaim), but I can't get this right. If there's somebody out there willing to try to rectify this, or give me (a non-techie) comprehensible instructions on how to rectify it, I'd be very grateful.CWO (talk) 21:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I hope I've fixed it to your satisfaction. The way to create references in Wikipedia articles is explained at great length at WP:REF, but is essentially as follows: in the body of the article, at the point the referenced material is used, insert <ref></ref> tags with details (including links) of the reference between the tags. At the bottom of the page (preferably in a section entitled 'References') add the code <references/>. This will cause everything written bettween <ref></ref> tags anywhere in the article to appear in the references section in numbered order, with clickable footnote links. Post another helpme or ask on my talk page if this explanation's incomprehensible. Algebraist 23:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Ivri Lider

I don't know whether my comment on the Discussion page will automatically come to the attention of an administrator, but I would be grateful if someone could ensure that it would. This concerns extensive, uncited, verbatim copying from Ivri Lider's website.{{helpme}}CWO (talk) 14:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I took the liberty of listing it in a more effective way. You can use the {{copyvio}} tag, which has instructions for how to list the issue on Wikipedia:Copyright problems#New listings. Hoof Hearted (talk) 16:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Pisces and date of birth

:-) I'm not sure how the algorithm works, but I was actually born on February 20, safely within the Pisces margin. It must assume a birth time of midnight UTC and perhaps it messes up counting leap years. Oh well, it's good to know that it's accurate to within ±2 days! Hoof Hearted (talk) 17:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Books of interest

Hello CWO,
Thank you for these books. I had only heard about the second one and never read it but it seems particularly interesting and focus on the human side of the relation between Arabs and Jews, which is often forgotten when these topics are discussed.
See you, Ceedjee (talk) 13:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other wikis

Thanks for your edits, but please don't use other wikis as sources. As anyone can add anything, they are not reliable as sources. DrKiernan (talk) 16:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)