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[edit] Newest Articles

Hello all, I was wondering, are there any criteria for posting something on the Did you know part of the main page, and if there are, how does one go about doing it? Thank you so much, Neranei 00:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Yup, if you make a new article (or significantly expand an existing one), you can submit a fact from it at Did you know?, where it will be considered and if accepted, eventually make it onto the main page. --YFB ¿ 00:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uploading an Image

I am inexperienced with copyright tags and image uploads and so forth. so what information would I need, and how would I use that info, to upload the third picture on ths page (http://www.starcraft2.com/wallpapers.xml)? The Clawed One 00:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You can't. Pictures on Wikipedia (in most cases) have to be released under a free licence. The contents of that page is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment (see the small text at the bottom of the page) and all rights are reserved, meaning it's not suitable for use on Wikipedia. Most images found on the internet can't be uploaded here. --YFB ¿ 00:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

So, even though it's allowed to be downloaded as a wallpaper, it cannot be uploaded here? The Clawed One 00:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Correct. In the case of wallpapers, the copyright holder generally releases the image for personal, private use but does not permit commercial use or the creation of derivative images, both of which are requirements for images on Wikipedia. --YFB ¿ 00:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Thank you. The Clawed One 00:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) --YFB ¿ 00:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Printing problem

List of military aircraft of the United_States

The above site seem to have a problem printing beyond page 7. Is there a universal problem or is it just my system?

Thanks,

Gary Wolfe

Might just be your system. Be sure to use the special printable version to remove unneeded text (e.g. navigation bar). E ^talk 02:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Column and related templates

Hi. I currently edit on the wiki WoWWiki.com, and I was wondering about how to make Template:Columns-start, Template:Column, and Template:Columns-end work there. I have the templates copied to a set of my user sandboxes there, but when I try to apply them, they do not work. The sandboxes are located at here, here, and here, respectively. I also set up a sample list here that shows the issue. Feel free to leave your message here. If this is a little too specific for the help desk, send me where I need to go. :) --Izno 01:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

These templates are only very new and are still under development. You must copy all syntax from the edit page. E ^talk 02:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The last edits made to each were in October. Not only that, but peaking through Whatlinkshere shows that the template is done. Are you sure? ;P --Izno 02:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Oops, it is. Wrong template I looked at there :P Yes, just copy all syntax from the template edit page to that one and it should work. E ^talk 02:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Except... it didn't work, as explained. Which made me sad. --Izno 03:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] adding info

how do you add information to it?

To what? The Wikipedia? If you have information that you would like to add to a certain article, simply go to that article and click the link at the top that says "edit this page", and then add the info. Maybe you'd like to have a look at our help pages. Dismas|^(talk) 02:46, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citing republished material

lol how thrilling. When you are citing something that's been republished (as in the EA Poe society of Baltimore republishing a journal article from here: Jeffrey A. Savoye, “Two Biographical Digressions: Poe's Wandering Trunk and Dr. Carter's Mysterious Sword Cane,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2004, 5:15-42), and you've only clapped eyes on the republication, how are you supposed to make that clear in your citation? (you can see how we're doing it so far at Death of Edgar Allan Poe). I've read WP:CITE and it's a bit unclear on this. Thanks. -Malkinann 03:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hi i have a 10doller bill that haz a star at the end of it what dose that mean

tis sn is removed what dose this mean if u can tell me hears my ph number phone number removed pleas tell me—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.129.248 (talk • contribs) 03:42, June 3, 2007

... I think Lolcats have learned how to use Wikipedia. *ahem* This page is for questions about Wikipedia itself. For other questions, use the Reference desk. -- Kesh 04:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Silver Labrador Retrievers

The information regarding Silver Labradors (under the main heading of Labrador Retrievers) is predominantly unsubstantiated opinions of blatantly biased non-silver lab breeders and owners, who post their personal anti-Silver Lab nonsense from anti-silver lab sites on the internet. Not only is the section referring to Silver Labs grossly biased, it contains considerable falsehoods and intentional disinformation, If those contributing editors can not substantiate and document: 1) "the original silver lab kennel had Weimers", 2) gene mapping was NOT done on silver labs in the 80s, and 3) Silver Labs are a "scam" (and all like accusations and slurs made throughout this category), then Wikipedia should insist these inflammatory and fraudulent accusations be withdrawn. In short, contributors on this site should be pressed by Wikipedia to either PROVE IT; or REMOVE IT.

By no stretch of the imagination is this site either correct or objective on the topic of Silver Labrador Retrievers. More importantly, when editing is done to this site to correct the incorrect allegations and accusations made by the anti-silver factions, this site editor (Sarrandúin ) removes the corrections in accordance with her own bias regarding Silver Labs (see site history as well as her remarks).

Because this site editor is incapable of editing for objectivity instead of her bias -- or even allowing both sides of the controversy on the site -- I request another editor be assigned to this site. If this editor is so delusional she believes she is being objective on the topic of silver labs, then the topic of what information is posted under the heading of Silver Labs should be settled by Wikipedia's Arbitration Board.

Dean Crist Crist Culo Kennels (email address removed)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.71.126 (talk • contribs) 04:16, June 3, 2007

I assume you are referring to Labrador Retriever#'Silver', 'blue', 'grey', and 'charcoal'? If you'll note the numbers in that section, they lead to specific articles which you can read to verify the statements. If you feel that these are not sufficient, discuss it on the Talk page until a consensus is reached, or request a commentary on the article.:If you have a problem with User:Sarranduin, please discuss it on that user's Talk page or use the dispute resolution process. This page is not for venting your frustrations with a particular editor. Further, there is no such thing as a "site editor." All users are editors on Wikipedia.

Finally, please read WP:NPA. Using terms like "delusional" is frowned upon. -- Kesh 05:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the article's talk page is the best play to go. I don't know which side you are on, but some of the links are problematic, and I had to remove the one statement and its dead link. The other links may have to be changed. I started a thread on the talk page, please join us there, line up your specific arguments on the context of the article only (not the editor) and your references and help fix the article to make it accurately reflect breed standards and general descriptions of the dog. KP Botany 05:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lee Majors tv commercial

I have a bet that Lee Majors is currently appearing in a commercial for Coors Light Beer as a father offering advise to his son. Can anyone verify that my observation is correct? 76.209.55.83 05:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but Wikipedia is not the place to ask that. You will just have to see for yourself.--Jupiter12 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Try a Google Search perhaps? E ^talk 05:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Lee Majors#Recent activities says he continues to appear in commercials. You may have a chance to win your bet. Try: Google:"Lee Majors" "Coors Light" commercial. That turns up a References page on Bionic Wiki which shows promise but does not quite deliver. It says Coors ran a "Six Million Dollar Can" commercial but does not say that Lee Majors appeared in it. --Teratornis 16:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The commercial is apparently called "Protection" and can be seen at http://www.coorslight.com. I don't know Lee Majors and cannot say whether it's him. The commercial is discussed at [1] without naming actors. PrimeHunter 20:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inactive Project Page

If there's a project page I'm interested in helping with, but it seems that no one is really running it, is it OK to just step in and organize going-ons for the project page?

If you need to see it, I'm talking about [[2]] Thanks! Miles Blues 05:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Why not leave a note on the project's talk page and see if they need a leader. E ^talk 05:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] searching

I want to search universities city vises —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.18.170.58 (talk)

Go to this page, select your country from the list and there you have a list of universities in your country. E ^talk 05:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

How do i view all availible templates for user pages. not only can i speak english, i can speak Japanese and i want to find a template for Japanese speaking like the english one. Efansay 06:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Babel for the language-based userboxes. E ^talk 06:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

To learn about the other userboxes, see User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Use and scroll down to the Userboxes entry. --Teratornis 14:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Time Zones user box

How do i add a Time Zone user box? Efansay 07:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You might choose one of the boxes listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Time. Peacent 07:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox placement

Now that I've got a second userbox, here, how can I place them so that they're one underneath the other at the right of the page, not side-by-side? AndyJones 07:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. I hope you don't mind me editing your page. Peacent 07:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Good one, thank you. AndyJones 08:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit section 0

Is there some user-made plugin or something that would make a [edit] button for section 0? At least on talk pages. Because as it is, every time I want to edit section 0, I have to click on some other section and then manually change URL to say section=0. Shinhan 07:29, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, there is. Just copy the script into your monobook. Peacent 07:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, thats exactly what I was looking for. And now I also know where to look for more scripts :) Shinhan 10:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Of course, you could just click 'edit this page' at the top. D aniel (‽) 16:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Imperial names and Wikipedia style

Hi!

I would like to know, which expression Wikipedia preferes when discussing matters pertaining to the pre-communist era of Russia. Should we use, when writing about the emperors, its Russian name:Tsar and tsarist or Emperor and imperial? --Tellervo 08:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The people who decide such things often band together into WikiProjects. Browsing from there leads to: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Europe#Russia which lists the promising WikiProject Russian History (it looks like a high percentage of members claim to hold PhD's in the subject). You might inquire on its talk page. --Teratornis 16:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minimizing userboxes

I just wanna know how to minimize the userboxes. like if you have a lot and you want to save space. i'm asking because i have this problem of too many userboxes. Efansay 09:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Make a user subpage for them all, e.g. User:Efansay/Userboxes. E ^talk 09:14, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

That is one possibility, E, but I think they mean minimize like as in the Table of Contents; the show and hide function. A good template for this is the {{hidden}} template. Wikipedia:Userboxes has a few ways you can also use the same function. Good luck with it ;) –Se bi ~ 09:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Another way is to put them into a scrolling box can be found on Duggie647's user page. You can copy the code from his page (I'm sure he won't mind, I have a pretty good idea where he got it from ;) ), and paste it onto your page. –Se bi ~ 09:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UserBox

Can someone please help by moving my user boxes to the center of the right box please it looks messy. Also could you look at my sandbox page and integrate the boxes to my main page. Separate boxes to the different subcatagories. PleaseWiki.user 10:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I've just fixed it. Hope that helps. E ^talk 11:00, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I've saw it up one but i didn't think that would help. If you could put my things into boxes like Jimmy Wales userpage that would be a big big help. ThanksWiki.user 11:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Your template in your sandbox looks good so far, try and improve that. E ^talk 11:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I can't get the code right though. Everytime i try to do something it gets messed. I was hoping someone with a bit more experience would be able to help me??Wiki.user 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Article on F. S. C. Northrop

Dear Sir or Madam:

The article "F. S. C. Northrop," which I wrote, in headed with the sentence, "This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject." I have reviewed the article and could find nothing amiss. Perhaps you should remove the above mentioned sentence.

Thanks,

Dr. Fred Seddon author of Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop 216.151.119.126 10:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

It has been removed as I went over the article too, looks pretty good and well documented. E ^talk 11:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the removal, however, the article currently does not cite any references. I've added a tag, please see Wikipedia:Citing sources and consider adding references for the article. If the books mentioned on this page are the sources, please specify them. Peacent 12:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The expert tag was added in Februar 2006.[3] PrimeHunter 12:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changing the colour of your text.

I've only noticed just now that some people have their names and text coloured. Can someone tell me how to do this please. Efansay 10:59, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You might find useful instructions on how to format text, including changing fonts, colours, etc here. Peacent 11:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

If you refer to signatures then see Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature. PrimeHunter 12:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah yeah, if that's the case, see also Wikipedia:How to fix your signature :) Peacent 12:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Site Suggestions

I have a suggestion you may wish to consider for Wikipedia and that is to allow users to rate entries for usefullness. I have just found out some really usefull information about smartmedia cards and it may be nice for the person who took the time to upload it if I rate them 5/5 stars for example.

Perhaps a league table could be developled which would encourage more and more users to upload usefull documents for the kudos of seeing their name high in the rankings? In a similar way to deciding whether to buy from a seller on ebay you could then use the users ranking as a means to gauge how much faith to put in the credibility of their entries.

Anyway, this is one of my top 10 internet sites, Keep up the goodwork.

Regards Forbury Lion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Forbury Lion (talk • contribs)

Hi there, it's me again, um well that is a good idea because then admins or users can see overall which articles need attention. Ranking an article overall is a good idea but making it so that there are league tables over complicates things and ranking users is i believe unfair and people could fake opinions to get higher in the league.Wiki.user 11:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Many people have usually contributed to good articles. Once an article is created, anybody can edit it (except rare cases where it is protected after a lot of vandalism). Some of the best articles are rated as Wikipedia:Featured articles or Wikipedia:Good articles. An editor can show appreciation of another editor (not just for good article writing) with Wikipedia:Barnstars. PrimeHunter 12:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:9/11 Memorial (Arizona)

It appears that it is considered a supage of Talk:9 due to the slash. If you look at the page you'll see what I mean. If there's a way to fix it, then please do so. 70.59.227.206 12:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea. Gotta go ask this question somewhere... Peacent 15:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Question asked at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions. Peacent 16:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Searching for a missing or deleted article--"list of Disney Characters"

Hello. I have no idea how to go about doing this. I have tried to follow the process to figure out what happened to this "article," but find it terribly confusing.

What I am looking for was an alphabetical listing of Disney characters. I found it very helpful & used it almost daily. I think it may have been deleted, and I have no clue why. If it has, is it possible to have it restored?

Thank you!

It got deleted :Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of Disney characters. If you get an account, I could undelete and move it to your userspace. Viridae ^Talk 13:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I created an account. Just let me know what to do next! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clgoody (talk • contribs)

Userfied per request. Peacent 15:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. What does "userfied per request" mean? I still cannot find the list. Is it me being a noob, or does it take some time to "move it to (your) userspace?"--Clgoody 17:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I did find the list. Thank you. Last question...what does this mean: "when you're done, please tag the subpage for speedy deletion using {Userreq}."--Clgoody 17:23, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Replied on user talk. Peacent 17:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] citing a wikipedia source

How do I cite a wikipedia article in APA style?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.59.48 (talk • contribs)

Well, sources have to be referenced in wiki-markup, see this page on how to cite sources here. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 13:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

To cite a Wikipedia article in another work, click on "Cite this article" in the toolbox to the left when you view the article. It includes a citation in APA style. PrimeHunter 14:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rediting a page before it appers on search

I understand that it takes a while to appear on search - index takes 30 hours or something. I just created a page on SDV - shut down valves but cant seem to relocate it anyway to add more meat to it and create links and simply just do more work on it. How do i do locate a page i just created if i dont want to wait for more than a day before working on it again.

Thanking you in adcvance —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunav (talk • contribs)

Check your contributions (the 'my contributions' link at the top of the page) to find out the page's name. You can add a redirect to help out the search engine before it's indexed, if you like (see the linked page for details). --ais523 14:20, 3 June 2007 (U T C)

I added a See also section to Shut down valve (SDV) per WP:LAYOUT with some links to related existing articles. Some of these should become inline links from jargon terms in the article. While searching for other related articles, I found a (initially) red link to Emergency shutdown valve on the ESV disambiguation page. I'm fairly certain Emergency shutdown valve is a synonym for Shut down valve (SDV), so I made the former a redirect to the latter. (A search: Google:emergency shutdown valve also finds the acronym ESDV.) Note to Gunav: when we add new articles to Wikipedia, we do not merely add new facts, but we also Build the web. That means you should search for articles relating to the topic you are writing about, and link to them from your article. Searching first is also necessary to insure your contribution is not redundant with an existing article or section. --Teratornis 16:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Locating a UK Army officer

I am attempting to locate a British army officer and cannot find the location for such information on Wikipedia. Can you advise where the information can be found?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.155.6.79 (talk • contribs)

Herbert Lepp, <(E-Mail removed for security purposes)> 3 June 2007

Please remember to add ~~~~ at the end of your comments to produce your username/IP and the date and time automatically. As for your help request.... the article may not exist, try typing the persons name into the search bar and if it does not exist then it has not yet been wrote, you could create the article but make sure it meets the biograhpies of living persons and WP:BIO, you may wish to see Help:Starting a new page. Hope that helps! --The Sunshine Man 15:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews help desk

I have found Wikinews' reference desk (now renamed "global networking") but I'm not well aware where the help desk of that project is. Could you please help?
Where should I ask?
MaxDZ8 talk 15:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

n:WN:WC? It's the Water Cooler. x42bn6 Talk Mess 15:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Uh... I spent some time navigating the help pages, main page talk and such but I didn't figure out it was this one.
Thank you very much.
MaxDZ8 talk 04:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do I report an insulting member?

"They weren't the same people stupid. You know what you are just being stupid."

Called stupid twice in one sentence.

When I try to reason with him...

"I don't care anymore. I'm not letting you win.."

All this, is in;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Angry_Sun#DesGhidorah

It almost embarasses me to be arguing over such a trivial issue, but I will not stand to be insulted like this.83.100.253.141 16:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I reccommend first informing the editor of what he or she has done, and requesting the remain civil, and do not make any personal attacks. After that, if they continue, perhaps informing an admin would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 16:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

My personal take is to be more concerned with the facts than with irrelevant commentary about the participants in a discussion. Someone may think I am stupid, or I may in fact be stupid, but those possibilities have no bearing on the validity of any arguments I may advance. All arguments can be judged on their logical merits, regardless of who they come from. See Critical thinking, Ad hominem, Appeal to emotion, and Reductio ad Hitlerum. If you understand the rhetorical tricks your opponent is employing in an attempt to fluster you and distract from the real issue under discussion, you can learn to avoid being bothered by your opponent's tricks. Your opponent wants you to stop thinking about whatever point you were trying to make, and waste your time getting excited about being insulted, which is futile in any case because simply as a practical matter it is very difficult to dictate your notion of allowable speech habits to everyone else in the world (see Free speech; Libel; Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy). And yes, it should embarrass you to fall victim to such a playground trick, but only momentarily as it is so simple to learn to see through such tricks and get control of your emotions to keep them working productively for you. --Teratornis 16:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] huuuuuuuuu♦

What do you do here?

Here on wikipedia, we are trying to write and give away a free encyclopædia. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia, Project:About, Wikimedia Foundation, Jimmy Wales, and The Hive by Marshall Poe. --Teratornis 03:08, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image contributions

How do I view a user's edits that revert or change images? basically I want to see all the edits by this vandal: UmagaOwnsAll!. I've reverted his changes to articles, but I can't seem to find a way to list all his edits to images such as this one:[4] (see history). I revert them as I find them, but is there any where that lists all of these image edits in one place? --Krsont 17:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Go to Special:Log and enter the user's username in the username field to see all non-edit actions that user has taken, such as image uploads. --ais523 17:10, 3 June 2007 (U T C)

This asserts that the vandal has made no image edits, however. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:12, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Which he clearly has, see the history of that example I gave (there are many others I have found too)... --Krsont 17:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

ah ok, found it [5]. Good to know for future editing :) --Krsont 17:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creating a new infobox for Malaysian schools

I would like to create a new kind of infobox for Malaysian schools. I want to make something similar to Template:Infobox country, which looks like this: 120px And I want the syntax to look like this: 120px Does anyone know how to create a new template page like this? Thanks! --Edmundkh 17:11, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

There is always {{High School Infobox}}. ~ ΜΛGиυs ΛΠιмυМ ≈ √∞ 17:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

But I prefer my own design! That template you mentioned is not suitable for Malaysian schools. If you're not Malaysian, then you may not understand why I designed another type. --Edmundkh 17:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Creating a complicated infobox like those illustrated by your images would be rather difficult. I suggest you ask for further help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes. Peacent 17:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I was going to suggest you inquire at WikiProject Malaysia, but that WikiProject does not seem to exist yet. Perhaps you could start one (see: WP:PROJGUIDE). Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia#Southeast_Asia lists a WikiProject Southeast Asia which appears to have a section for Malaysia. You might ask on its talk page if anyone can help you. If you can't find anyone to help, then you will have to study template design, at least enough so you can figure out how to edit an existing similar template into the template you need. See: Help:Template, Help:Infobox, and User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Tem. Other advice:

A scan of a hand-written prototype to illustrate your template layout is difficult for others to read. You should instead type the layout you want, perhaps on your user page. Just type the text the way you want it to appear, within a <pre>...</pre> tag. See: Wikipedia:How to edit a page#No or limited formatting - showing exactly what is being typed. Also type your prototype template call that way. Then others can easily see what you want.
List of Wikipedias lists a Malay Wikipedia; you might find a suitable school template you can copy and adapt from that. Or if not, you should also develop your Malaysian school template there, where I am sure you will find other Malaysians who understand your design.

--Teratornis 17:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charlie Card

How do I obtain a Charlie Card?

If you mean CharlieCard you could start by reading that article. --Teratornis 18:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting Adoption

How do I find A list of Adopters? So I might request them to Adopt Me--Goldiesmoon 18:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Here is a complete list of adopters. Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 19:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] searching for a particular articles form papers

How can i search for specific paper articles?

Can you clarify what you mean? --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 19:42, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikisource ? ? ? ?

Go to www.wikisource.org, and search the name of the paper you want. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr<;/font> 22:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Appropriate image copyright tag?

I would like to add an image of a show-quality pomeranian dog on the Pomeranian page. I was given permission (by the breeder/exhibitor), as long as "nobody else can use it on their site". Hmmm......not sure which copyright tag to use. I do not want to release it to the domain for public use. If it is impossible to post a picture on Wikipedia, with the intention that it cannot be distributed, what is the correct tag stating that the author and a specific detail of the picture must be included. Since she is a breeder, she simply does not want anybody else placing the picture on their own site, claiming that it is their dog. Help, anyone? Thanks! Tingalex 20:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

To do what you want to do upload the picture and add the following {{Non-free fair use in}} and {{withpermission}}. You must also add a detailed Wikipedia:Fair use rationale. If you have plans to replace the image on Pomeranian (dog), with a fair use image, don't. Wikipedia prefers free images. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Famous people with the surname Smith

Shouldn't this list be part of Smith (surname) or Smith? How many people searching for someone named "Smith" are going to search using "Famous people with the surname Smith"? Other common surname disambiguation pages are listed on their own page, such as Johnson. There's also Famous people with the surname Smyth which seems an odd title for a disambiguation page. 172.213.18.82 20:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

You have a point. However, if a person searches Smith, they will be led to a page, where if they scroll to the bottom of it, they will find a link Famous people with the surname Smith. So even though someone will probably not search "Famous people with the surname Smith", they can find it easy enough. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to make my own article

How do I make my own Wikipedia Article?

Start by typing an article name in the search box and go on from there. E ^talk 20:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Before creating an article remeber to read Wikipedia:Your first article, Help:Starting a new page, and also reading Wikipedia:Notability would be a good idea. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 21:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do you change your username?

How do you change your usernmae?

Visit Wikipedia:Changing Username and follow the instructions there. GDonato (talk) 21:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

If the username you want has been taken, go to Wikipedia:Usurpations. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 21:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link to a Wikipedia Article Policy, about religion in Intro

Hi, I remember reading something on a Wikipedia Policy page about how articles shouldn't contain religion or ethnicity in the intro (first section of a page) for an article about a person. I think the reasoning was that if someone is both American and Christian they don't want the article to begin with "So and so is a Christian American..." or something similar to that.

I was wondering if anyone knows where that page is located and could please give me a link. I tried searching multiple times but was unsuccessful.

Thanks!

The guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Opening paragraph speaks about ethnicity. Religion is not mentioned, but it seems to me that religion is irrelevant to mention anywhere in most cases (exceptions include people in religious positions and people who are well-known for speaking publicly about their religion). PrimeHunter 21:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Television Articles

I was trying to get a television article to GA status, but was not able to because of the requierment of a minimal use of fair-use images. However, how could I get images that are free content with a television article? --PostScript (info/talk/contribs) 21:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Images of what? User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Ima lists some links about sources of public domain images. --Teratornis 23:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] untitled

When the title of an article is spelled incorrectly, how do I edit that title?

To rename the title of an article, simply click the "move" button to move the article to the correct spelling. Note that accounts need to be at least 4 days old before you can move articles. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 22:07, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

It also might be a good idea to read WP:MOVE. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Donation refunds.

How can I get my donation back? I am not getting the kind of service that I expect, in fact, I was even blocked!

This is ridiculous. I plan to re-donate the money into Romney's campaign, who should I talk to?

Thank you.

contact the foundation itself - nobody here can help you. --Fredrick day 22:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The contact info is:

Postal address

   Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
   200 2nd Ave. South #358
   St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313
   USA
   Phone: +1-727-231-0101
   Email: info@wikimedia.org
   Fax: +1-727-258-0207

GDonato (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Making a new page

how do I create a new page on wikipedia for everyone to search?

Refer to Wikipedia:Help Desk#How to make my own article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδι τ оr 22:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is Wikipedia broken?

Why does "my contributions" not list my contributions. It's at least 30 minutes or more out of date. Seconds or 5 minutes, ok. But 30-45 minutes? Did they forget to pay the electric bill?

It's also mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#User contributions not appearing which says "Due to severe database lag, contributions older than 6480 seconds may not appear on this list", and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Contribution history which earlier said "Resolved. just wait it out" but that was removed, and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Database lagging? where User:Splash has an interesting theory about the Gnashing Mouth . PrimeHunter 00:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] delete

Can someone delete this account?

I will have it if you dont want it can I have it?

No. Accounts cannot be deleted, because that would mean they run the risk of being recreated and someone else taking credit for your work. That would violate the GFDL. You do however have the m:Right to vanish. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rational

Can someone (preferably not the one who put them them up) explain to me the justification for each template on this page? It is sourced and written out-of-universe. The Clawed One 00:41, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well. You could ask the one who put them them up on his talk page or you could leave a note on the article's talk page. That would probably be your best bet. Cheers! ---CWY2190^T^C 02:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I did ask him, but I personally don't trust him to give me all the facts, and as of now, he hasn't. The Clawed One 03:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia broken

Why don't user's usernames link to their userpages anymore? A.Z. 00:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

They usually do and I haven't noticed a change. Can you be more specific about where they don't? PrimeHunter 02:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Try using User:Username instead of just Username. — Supuhstar * §

[edit] login problems

I created a user name (susiesosad) yesterday and included my e-mail address during registration. I received the confirmation e-mail and clicked on the link to confirm my address. I've never been able to login with my user name susiesosad. I even tried clicking on "e-mail new password," but get the error "Login error: Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "Susiesosad". Again, I DID register my e-mail address when I created this user name, and I DID confirm my e-mail by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail from wikipedia. I'd try again with a new user name, but I'm quite partial to this one. Any help is appreciated. thanks!--69.109.237.154 00:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Special:Listusers shows Susiesosad so the account exists. Usernames are case-sensitive, but not in the first letter, so you should be able to log in either as "susiesosad" or "Susiesosad". It sounds like you did everything the way you are supposed to do. I don't know how to solve your problem, but I do know how to look in the Editor's Index. For more information, see the entries under: User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia#Log such as: Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems. Hopefully, Susiesosad can soon be so happy. --Teratornis 14:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding a YouTube link to an article

I recently linked a YouTube-hosted video in the Parrot harness article (diff). I'm aware that there have been various issues with YT videos on Wikipedia, so could someone take a look at the article and give me their opinion on whether linking it here is appropriate or not? The vid demonstrates the subject of the article in a manner that text and still images could not, so I feel that it is useful in this context. --Kurt Shaped Box 01:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

The relevant guideline is Wikipedia:External links. Off the top of my head, the main problem with linking to YouTube is that most of their videos don't conform to the copyright standards of Wikimedia (read: they are blatant violations of copyright). That's not a problem here, so I think it's okay. Yechiel Man 15:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No welcome?

Hey, I've had this account for a few days now and have yet to get a welcome message! I've made a good amount of edits, now what the hell is this bullshit?--Rastabilly 01:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Afaik, welcome messages are posted at will by some editors who notice that a new editor hasn't been welcomed yet. It's not an automatic process. I'm sure there are editors who've been here for a long time but who've not had a welcome message yet because nobody has noticed. (Btw, you are certainly welcome here but your attitude isn't.) -- JackofOz 01:52, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm a little surprised that Rastabilly would expect a welcome so soon; as I recall, I was somewhat surprised when I received mine (about two weeks after I created my account). The Welcoming committee needs more volunteers. Perhaps Rastabilly could apply some of that personal warmth to this vital task. Personally, I'm not offended in the least by a little rough language; and Wikipedia itself is often cruel to new users (for example by deleting their new articles). The Darwinian world of wiki editing is not the place for hypersensitive types. --Teratornis 16:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] external links

Where might i be able to sugjest an external link for some contries and my externel link is [6] --Sivad4991 02:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Not quite sure what you mean with "suggesting an external link". However, the CIA World Factbook is Public domain so if you find something you want to put in an article, go ahead and add it. ---CWY2190^T^C 02:27, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page creation, deletion

I am trying to make a page for a recording artist by the name of Michael Steel. He sold over 300,000 albums and had a top 10 album in Europe, I was surprised he does not have a page here. So I would like to start by creating one. How do I do this, as the page I already created was deleted. Thank you, Chris

Try Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Yechiel Man 15:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see also Wikipedia:Why was my article deleted? Peacent 15:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How do I open an account here?

What process do I must go through and do you pay as much as you tube as far a $ $ $ $ are concerned?

thanks, User:THEBEASTWARLOCK|THEBEASTWARLOCKSLAYER —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.113.199.109 (talk • contribs).

There should be a "sign in/create account" link in the top right corner. You can see why create an account? for some more details on the particular benefits involved. If you're still having trouble, this link will take you directly to the registration page. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

All you have to do is follow this link (or click on "Sign in / create account" on the upper left corner of your screen, then click "Create one" in the Login box. Sorry, but we are a lowly non-profit organiztion, we can't afford to pay our contibutors (we can barely afford to maintain our servers). Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 02:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't have to pay? Whats the catch?

What content sites, other than the Something Awful forums, require paid accounts anymore? Of course you don't have to pay. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

If you had to pay to open an account, no one would be here to edit. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Will my phone bill be charged per minute or something like that? I am sick of being being wripped off. I joined newfriends.com and they took $67.95 from my checking account and the pictures were all false. They people were not anything like that, they were just regular people. That won't happen while it? I see it doesnt ask for a CC but will my phone bill be charged or something like that? I dont wont that to hapopen, thanks.

Why would your phone bill be charged? ---CWY2190^T^C 03:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

My jack is in the wall. Okay I tried to do it but now it says I have cookies! ! ! ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! What does this mean and how does you know? Should I be worried, I guess they expect that people will have cookies in there homes.

See HTTP cookie ---CWY2190^T^C 04:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

There's no catch. Wikipedia uses the cookies so you can stay logged in, which is important when you make an edit. That way it automatically has your username attached to it and you won't lose your logged in status while you're surfing the site, but only when you actually choose to log out. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you pay as much as youtube, meaning nothing. Youtube does not charge for accounts, and neither does Wikipedia. Corvus cornix 02:20, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is it possible to change your IP address?

If so how. I have a friend whose IP address is banned from a certain website.

63.113.199.109 02:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

That's outside the scope of this page, I'm afraid -- you could ask at the reference desk, but I'm not sure that they'll be any more interested helping your friend evade a ban than we would. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure its not your IP your trying to change? [7] ---CWY2190^T^C 02:53, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunilly this IP address is used by all the inmates. 63.113.199.109 03:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Then your best bet would be to make an account. ---CWY2190^T^C 03:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

How is that possible? How can this be done?

Scroll all the way up the page and click on the link at the top right of the page that says "Create log in" or something like that. Dismas|^(talk) 03:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I done that but it says sign in and as you know I dont have no account. Its loopy.

Did you read the page? Click on "Sign in/create account". The next page asks for a username and password. Right above those fields it says "Don't have an account? Create one". The words "Create one" are in blue. Click that. Words which are in blue on this site are links. If you follow the link that says "Create one" it will give you the necessary fields to fill out and allow you to create an account. Dismas|^(talk) 04:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)