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December 31

Confidentiality Please - Wingfield Castle

Hello, my name is (Redacted) and my Father is (Redacted)

When you type into Google the surname '(Redacted)', a Wikipedia page comes up titled 'Wingfield Castle' and reveals my family name and information. I am currently in my last year of University and am applying for jobs. Recently, at a job interview, the interviewer pointed this webpage out to me and how easily available it was to find and warned me for future job interviews. I do not want my potential employer to know my personal information so easily, especially of where I live (and there's a photo!) as do not want any prejudice against me. Please could you take our name,(Redacted) off the webpage so it no longer comes up in the Google search? You can still write that a barrister bought it and his family still live there today, but I would be grateful if I never have to have this problem again. It is a very difficult time to get a job!

If you wanted to update your page on Wingfield Castle then you should add in that Baron Ash owned the Castle before and he was an incredibly interesting man. If you wanted more information on him I would be happy to supply it as my Godfather was friends with him, and my Father has a great knowledge of him.

I would appreciate it if you would get back to me about this matter, and please email me on the below address. This is important to me.

Many thanks and kind regards; Happy New Year! (Redacted)

(Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.254.245 (talk) 00:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Please do not post your email here. I have removed the information from Wingfield Castle as it was more like trivia and does not seem to be terribly important to the article in the first place. I have also removed your name here as this page is visible to Google as well. If you wish to completely expunge any records of your name being mentioned, you can also file a request at Wikipedia:Requests for oversight or directly send an email to oversight-en-wp@wikipedia.org to formally suppress any mentions of your name for privacy reasons.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 00:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I sympathise with your concern that your confidentiality was compromised, but I am rather bemused that you have sought to redress this by plastering your name, your father's name, and your email address in an entry titled "Wingfield Castle" on a page that can be seen by anybody in the world! Obsidian Soul has kindly removed them for you, but I can't work out why you did it in the first place! --ColinFine (talk) 20:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Flash drive

I got my first flash drive ... and promptly screwed up. The second time I copied some files to it, I yanked it out without selecting eject. All of the files and folders are gone (no permanent loss). My question is, have I damaged the drive, or can I go ahead and transfer the files again? Clarityfiend (talk) 02:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

You'll want to ask this question at WP:RDC rather than here. --Jayron32 02:08, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Oops. Thought I had! Clarityfiend (talk) 02:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Can someone upload this picture for me and show me how to?

http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/kyle-orton-chiefs-waiver-wire-pickups.jpg

I want to update the Kyle Orton page.

The website is: http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2011/12/fantasy-football-week-16-waiver-wire-pickups-and-advice/

Thanks!

--Piazzajordan2 (Talk.) 02:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

It appears that it would be a copyright violation to do that. See WP:Copyrights. Also see WP:UPI. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:38, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Can you find a picture that is not copyrighted? I want a picture of Kyle Orton with the Kansas City Chiefs, so I can change it on his page.

--Piazzajordan2 (Talk.) 03:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Sure. Just take your camera with you the next time you go to see the Chiefs play in person. When you are there, take a picture with your camera of Orton warming up or something like that. You can then upload that picture. --Jayron32 03:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

URGENT: Book content has disappeared!

I am in the process of completing a Wikipedia Book compilation, a draft of which I was going to publish to PDF in the next few hours for a course I am teaching, but when I just entered Wikipedia and opened the Book Creator and it asked me if I wanted to continue with my book, which it showed as having 217 pages (articles), and I clicked OK, it opened showing EMPTY CONTENT. NO pages or chapters or anything else except the title and subtitle are visible. I tried opening Book Creator again, and again it showed my existing book with 217 pages, but again, once opened, it showed empty content. Where is the book I have been working to compile for the past several days??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.thomas.gardner (talk • contribs) 02:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Dr.thomas.gardner shows a book at User:Dr.thomas.gardner/Books/Science Fiction Science. Is that it? It should have a link saying "Open in Book Creator". PrimeHunter (talk) 02:57, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

To PrimeHunter: Thanks for your reply. This isn't exactly it. I'm trying to recreate it from records of Wikipedia pages I've visited since the last save. However, I'm running into a new problem: When I try to create the PDF, it hits an error at about 80% completion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.thomas.gardner (talk • contribs) 06:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

PDF creation also failed for me around 80% into User:Dr.thomas.gardner/Books/Science Fiction Science. Sometimes this is caused by incompatible code in one of the pages. You could try to experiment to see if the problem is limited to one page and then omit it, but I admit this can be time consuming if the error message doesn't give a page name and you have more than 200 pages. And I don't promise it can be fixed by removing an article. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again. One more question: Is it possible to create and save multiple books? I ask because I can split the current book into individual volumes, if Wikipedia will let me save them under different file names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr.thomas.gardner (talk • contribs) 16:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, you can create and save multiple books. At Special:Book you can save under a new name in the "Save and share your book" box. If you want to see your existing books and open one of them then click "User:Dr.thomas.gardner/Books/" in the box. See more about books at Help:Books. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

The statements made below are untruthful. They have been made, most likely, by Mr. Taiani's ex-wife, Elizabeth, who has tried nothing less than to ruin his reputation and career. Her father, William Abramsky, was the owner of Crossroads Wine and Spirits. Mr. Taiani resigned his position from that merchant due to conflict with his spouse/marriage and her family.

Micheal Taiani

The false statements below were made, most probably, by Mr. Taiani's ex-wife, Elizabeth H. Abramsky, who has tried nothing less than to ruin this man's reputation and career. Crossroads Wines and Spirits was owned and operated by her father, William ("Willie") Abramsky. Mr. Taiani resigned his sales position in 2001 after six years of diligent, professional service. For unknown reasons, the business closed in April, 2011 [1]. Question: How, in December 2011, could there have been a "Crossroads Management Team" in existence to make such defaming statements when the retail shop closed its doors permanently eight months prior?

This clearly explains why this author was unable to complete a Wikipedia article page about this dedicated wine professional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Winesbytheglass/Ty_the_wine_guy

The article about Micheal Taiani "Ty the wine guy. He was fired from crossroads wines for is lack of knowledge of the products. He does and did NOT have a celebrity following only complaints. Nothing he stated in is article holds ANY TRUTH! You need to research a persons backround before you print articles about them. Crossroads Management Team — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.18.141.138 (talk) 02:52, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid I cannot find any article under that name. Could you please indicate the exact title of the article which has the problems? --Jayron32 02:57, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

We are online and don't print, and I cannot find mention of this person here, so I'm unsure whether you refer to a Wikipedia article. This is a help desk for Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:17, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Winesbytheglass/Ty the wine guy looks like the page that's being reported. fredgandt 03:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Ah. That's a draft article and not currently part of the article space. I don't know that its a problem, given that it isn't currently an article. --Jayron32 03:29, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Further investigation shows what looks like sock-puppetry and prior warnings about vanity. Too tired to do more. See diff (the edits between) and the contributors to User:Winesbytheglass/Ty the wine guy. fredgandt 03:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that. I read that to mean that multiple people were working on the draft. There are no rules against that. --Jayron32 03:35, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

You saw the prior accusations of socks? All the contributors have done nothing else but that draft. They use the same crayon. fredgandt

I was not aware that I was bound to jump to the same unsubstantiated conclusions that other people have. --Jayron32 04:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Neither was I. fredgandt 04:56, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

To the OP (original poster). We take notability and verifiability very seriously here, but we are but a few volunteers trying to look after an expanding 4million(ish) articles. The page that seems to be causing the offence (as you see it) is in a User-space, and so is very unlikely to be stumbled upon by any editor. If it found its way out into the Article-space, it would be rigorously challenged, allowing that only the good bits survived (if any). fredgandt 03:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

So, what I don't understand about this is: Since when is the article in user space? The original post suggests that it was in article space, and it indeed is far more likely for such articles to be created in article space. So, has it been userfied, or did the SPU create it in user space to begin with? — Sebastian 02:40, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

To the OP (original poster): How did you find this article? Did you google for the name? — Sebastian 02:42, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

GeoHack, adding coordinates to an article

This article, to be specific.

Here's a link to it on google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=33.34236,43.86137&spn=0.02377,0.049739&sll=33.34236,43.86137&sspn=0.02377,0.049739&vpsrc=0&t=h&z=15

Here's an Example of a very similar similar article that has the coordinates in the upper right corner of article.

Someone point me in the right direction for how to go about doing that? Earthpig (talk) 03:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Your example Camp Fallujah (a redirect to MEK Compound) adds coordinates via a parameter in {{Infobox military structure}}. Clicking the Edit tab at MEK Compound shows that it uses the parameter coordinates = {{Coord|33|18|54.95|N|43|52|59.41|E|type:airport|display=inline,title}}. Your target article Dreamland (Fallujah, Iraq) does not have an infobox but you should be able to use {{coord}} anyway. See the link for documentation. Omit coordinates = before it when it's not used in an infobox with a coordinates parameter. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:10, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Sweet, done, thanks. Earthpig (talk) 03:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. I see you copied "type:airport" from the other article but I'm not sure it's appropriate in either article based on the current article content. See Template:Coord#type:T. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:38, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

stack overflow at line 2946/computer registry error

I googled the above and recd. notice on your site of a detail related to the above subject matter. How do I repair a stack overflow error on line 2946? I am Paul Klearman, e-mail: <email address removed>, thank you. The computer system is running very slow and the "hour glass" stays on way too long. The registry programs that I have used to date have had no positive effect... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.72.12.42 (talk) 04:18, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I have removed your email address because publishing it on a public website is a phenomenally bad idea. As far as answering your question goes, you would have better luck getting an answer at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. --Jayron32 04:23, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

(ec)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.:RudolfRed (talk) 04:26, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Keyboard shortcut for inserting signature

Resolved

Is there a keyboard shortcut for inserting the 4 signature tildes or a script that adds a short cut (preferably with a key combination of choice)? Searched the help desk archives but couldn't find a topic on it. --lTopGunl (ping) 05:06, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

importScript("User:Fred_Gandt/hotSign.js");

Works in Chrome. fredgandt 05:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Ooops sry, Alt+Ctrl+S to add ~~~~. fredgandt 05:57, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

That key combination doesn't work in Firefox or Opera on a Mac. - Purplewowies (talk) 06:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

You need to import the script written by Fred to your monobook.js or vector.js (whichever skin you use) by adding the code snippet above. Goodvac (talk) 07:03, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry. Works in Google Chrome on Windows XP. And should work with most skins. I knew TopGun would know what to do with it, so forgot to mention what Goodvac just has. It was somewhat thrown together, but I'm sure some whizz-kid will swing by and drop some jQuery marvel on its toes, so no worries.I do find it amusing that 2 lines of jQuery is considered more efficient, even though it calls 50 lines of jQuery-library-JavaScript-functions in another script! I'll stick with JS thanks! fredgandt 07:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Well... oops. I TOTALLY missed the part about importing the script. That's embarassing... - Purplewowies (talk) 07:45, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Certainly there is a key combination. Just hold down the Shift key and push the tidle key 4 times. :-) —{|Retro00064|☎talk|✍contribs|} 07:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC).

Mine is not to reason, why? Mine is just to do, 'cause it's fun! And actually, accidental 3's and 5's can be avoided this way. Shame I'm too bloody minded to make it more universal. Sorry Mac users and anyone not using a proper browser. fredgandt 07:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

• I'm using FF and Linux, looks like there's nothing in for me except building my triceps with repetitive clicks or Retro00064's suggestion... something for firefox by any chance? --lTopGunl (ping) 15:01, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok. I'll give it a go in a while. I was extremely tired/wired yesterday. fredgandt 20:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok. --lTopGunl (talk) 01:22, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Well either I am totally missing something or it should work in any browser that can read JavaScript now. In fact, I think it should have worked in any browser before. I've changed the hotkey to Ctrl+\ (easier). The obvious ctrl+s or alt+s already have assignments. Shift+s makes a big "S" and combinations of keys get more complex than typing 4 tildes. So, it should work with any skin, on any browser, on any OS (with a Ctrl key). Let me know if I'm wrong. fredgandt 01:46, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh god! The humanity!! I just tried testing the script with IE. I am never going back there. I mean NEVER! I cannot abide incompatible soft or hardware. Chrome works. I'll stick to writing things that work and let Chrome interpret my efforts. fredgandt 02:14, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Great... working good. Thanks alot! Who uses IE... lTopGunl (talk) 02:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Masochists? I'm glad it works for you. Let me know if fubars occur. fredgandt 02:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Umm, me? (Most of the time anyway...) Say what you want about IE; I've had physical pain inflicted on me by Google products more than once myself... - Purplewowies (talk) 04:31, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry Purplewowies, I can't deal with IE, but anyone is free to modify my code or supply other code that does work cross browser. I'm sure I could sleep on a bed of nails; I just really don't want to. fredgandt 04:39, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Eh, I'm fine with the ⇧ Shift+~+~+~+~ method, myself. I just felt the need to say that I used IE. :) - Purplewowies (talk) 06:03, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

what are the struck through items in a users contributions?

I was searching through an IP's contributions looking for unreverted vandalism, when I noticed that some of the items were struck through. what are they? [2] the edits here to the article gun are an example. thanks and a happy new year. Staticd (talk) 07:42, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

They will be edits (and edit summaries etc) that have been removed because the content was considered inappropriate for Wikipedia. It could have been abusive or libellous, or maybe contained personally identifying details. Whatever it was, an administrator considered it best to delete it from sight. fredgandt 07:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

The policies and guidelines for this feature are explained on Wikipedia:Revision deletion. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:50, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!. very helpful.Staticd (talk) 08:34, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I checked the specific example on the article Gun, and can confirm that it was quite rightly redacted under criterion 2 of revision deletion. Sometimes you will also see the username/IP removed from edit histories and logs, for reasons that are also described at the link Zzyzx11 gives above. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 07:22, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

worse than romania

Sometime in history some dick in Romania decided to outlaw contraception, resulting in a lot of children being born to an impoverished nation, who then became homeless. These dirty pathetic little rodents scurried around the streets and subways begging in desperation for everyone elses money because they never seemed to have any of their own. In 2011, it became apparent that Jimmy Wales is a romanian child. In late 2011 he came to the realization that no one gave a shit about his whinging on beside terrifyingly creepy pictures, so he got a bunch of other people to also whinge on with him. Further realizing no shat to care, he animated his massive whinge banners, further irritating everyone.

Look Jimmy, if it's a not for profit organization, fine. If you don't like advertising because Wikipedia is a special place, great. However, your huge banners of begging are precisely you advertising your sad story to try and profit from me and anyone else who will turn an ear to your dirty romanian face. Whining and irritating people won't make any of them want to give you money, don't you realize that?

Here's a link for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

It probably should have instead been given this term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_fallacy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.87.91 (talk)

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" - Thumper.  fredgandt 08:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Let me get this straight... you're whinging about whinging in whinge banners? Here, let me patch you through. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 18:22, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Tell your story

After I donated to Wikipedia there were two options, tell your story, and tell the world - I clicked the facebook link then couldn't get back to the "tell your story" link about how Wikipedia has affected my life. Where can I find that link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ursa major prime (talk • contribs) 08:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps not the slickest answer you'll get but; you'll find all pages you have recently visited in your browser history. In Google Chrome you can access the history by pressing Ctrl+H. I'm not sure about other browsers, but Firefox and Safari probably use the same shortcut. fredgandt 09:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

The links are at wmf:Thank You/en. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:51, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

When editing an article with a trademarked brand?

I am wondering if I need to insert a TM. after the iPhone name when editing the review of the iPhone 4s, as it is a Trademark of Apple INC.? Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UrsulaKayVos (talk • contribs) 12:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trademarks should provide all the answers you need. I'm certainly no expert, so just offering the link is better than any guess I can make. good luck, and happy editing! fredgandt 12:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

As fred pointed out, that page has the answer: "Do not use the ™ and ® symbols". — Edokter (talk) — 14:04, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Login loop

Hi, I responded to an email from you this morning asking for additional donations. After donating (again) I decided to log in and check my status. It would not accept my login info because the password was incorrect. That doesn't make sense, I've used that same password forever. Anyway, when I asked to have the password info emailed to me, it said no email account was attached to my login ID. I can't re-register because I have an account, and I can't get a password hint because I don't have a email address as part of my account (I did, that's how you emailed me this morning), so now I'm stuck in a loop. I don't want to give up my ID because I've used that since the internet first started (that's why it only has 8 characters). Any help you can provide would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.206.106.207 (talk) 15:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Donors can give an email address which is not registered in their account if they even have an account. wmf:Donor policy/en says among other things that it can be used for "Informing donors about upcoming fundraising and other activities of Wikimedia". Donations are made at the domain http://wikimediafoundation.org but you cannot log in there with a normal account. Is the login failing here at http://en.wikipedia.org? What is the username? PrimeHunter (talk) 17:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm experiencing the same issue as the OP, however minus the donations. It's been probably years since I was logged in, but my user page hasn't been clipped. I have no email address associated with my account, or so I'm told when attempting to reset my password. Perfect case of look here before you ask a new one, I should say. 50.36.94.242 (talk) 22:24, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

See Help:Login#How to log in for general help. We can check a few things if we get a username, but we cannot recover a password or give a new password if the account has no email address. Accounts cannot be deleted and passwords never expire. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:06, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Retrieve article from 12/30/3011 on Ghana

I am trying to retrieve an article from Ghana that apperared on 12/30/2011. How do I do that? Frederick A. Johnson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.214.6.122 (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Is this the version you want? The previous version link gives another veresion for that date. —teb728 t c 19:01, 31 December 2011 (UTC) You can get those by clicking on the "View history" tab at the top of the article. —teb728 t c 19:03, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Are you referring to a non-Wikipedia article published in Ghana? You can try posting a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. And please provide all the relevant details of the article - title, author, date, name of publication, etc. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 19:10, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

It is an articel on a tribe in ghana but unfortunately i cant remember the name but was in the left column on the top of the english wikipedia on 12/30/2011. Frederick A, Johnson P.S. Sorry dont have more information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.214.6.122 (talk) 21:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

The left column top item is "Today's featured article". I looked at the archive of them at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2011 and do not see any that sound like that topic. The item under that is "Did you know...". I looked at its archive at Wikipedia:Recent_additions#Did_you_know... and see several things related to Ghana and/or various tribal peoples. Go to that page and use your browser's "search" function to look for, for example, "ghana", to see if any of them look familiar. DMacks (talk) 22:02, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

How to Delete the Clown Face in Wiki Pages....

For the last couple months there has been some idiot's face appearing at the begining of every wikipedia page. It's driving me nuts.

How do I delete this clown's face from appearing ??

Can I use some sort of app to get rid of this idiot ???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.248.157 (talk) 18:58, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

If you create an account and login, you can set a preference to hide the banner. —teb728 t c 19:06, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

If you use Firefox or Chrome, install the addon Adblock Plus (Firefox, Chrome), and block this url: meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerLoader*. This will block all Wikimedia banners. Goodvac (talk) 19:16, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

See also this webpage for more ideas and alternatives: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6347 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.248.157 (talk) 19:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Banners are down

You should not be seeing Jimmy anymore. Some thank you banners from Sue for a few days, and then it's done. -Philippe (talk) 09:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Donations 3

I understand that wikipedia is free and you are accepting donations. Why should I donate when I can view another encyclopedia for FREE. Besides, is the owner pocketing any of the donations. If he is then the site is not FREE. Too many scams out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.19.165.98 (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

You can view Wikipedia for free. Or you can copy it, repost it, make money off it, use it in artwork. Unlike any other encyclopedia. We, the writers (and photographers, mapmakers, codewriters, etc.) are all the owners and we let you use our creation quite freely. Rmhermen (talk) 19:54, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Donating is voluntary and not required to read or edit Wikipedia. Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales but he is not the owner today. Wikipedia is run by the American non-profit charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation which has a board and operates under American law. See also Wikimedia Foundation#Finances and wmf:Financial reports. I suppose any charitable organization has a risk of donations ending in the wrong place but I see no reason to special concern about Wikipedia. I'm a volunteer editor in another country and have no inside knowledge of or direct contact to the Wikimedia Foundation. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:57, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Contact us/Donations, which explains how funds are used. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:12, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

For the record, Jimmy Wales accepts no salary from the Wikimedia Foundation, and never has. -Philippe (talk) 09:21, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

templates/wiki syntax stuff

ok im lost, any1 pls help me out in this? the problem is that on Category:User pas-N, there r infinite subcats of the same, and on Template:User pas-N there is a template-looking thing i copied there from the other levels, but it -idk what it is- is not a template i can't edit it, and so cant modify that "N" do not point to pas-generic but the newly created pas-N. what it is and where can i edit it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaa3-other (talk • contribs)

I fixed the subcat issue with a null edit of Category:User pas-N. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

thanks :) anyone else on the mysterious template?--Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 09:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

{{languages}} does not have a parameter to change where "N" links. You would have to add a new parameter to {{languages}} or avoid using it. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:17, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

oh thanks :) --Aaa3-other | Talk | Contribs 08:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Content about the now defunct company Kozmo

I have worked for Kozmo and I have never heard of Robert McNamara and he is listed as one of the co-founders of the company. Please double check your sources, as his name should not have appeared in any documents related to this company and should be removed from this article. Thenantuckets (talk) 22:55, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. It was vandalism and I have removed it.[3] PrimeHunter (talk) 23:14, 31 December 2011 (UTC)