Wikipedia:New contributors' help page/Archive/2010/September

Michael Da Silva

Michael Joseph Da Silva (born 19 March, 1984) is a British sports journalist, who writes for ESPNsoccernet, BBC Sport and Eurosport, specialising in football.

Michael Da Silva was educated at Thomas More School, Wimbledon College and the University of Kent. He studied journalism at the Press Association training centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjdasilva (talk • contribs) 21:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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How to add cast to tv episodes ?

I've looked through many pages on Wiki but can't figure out specifically how to add names of guest stars (not main cast, but those who appear in only one or a few episodes) in a tv series. I'm not looking to write an article-just to add to existing ones. Would I include those in the series' episode list (for a given season, and within the particular episode) ? How do I format (is that the right term ? I'm not good at computer-ese) such an inclusion, if such a line (listing guest cast) isn't already there ? For instance, I'd like to add names of guest stars who appear in each episode of Law & Order, Cold Case, and Numb3rs. MazesInVt (talk) 08:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)MazesInVt

If an episode doesn't have its own article (see Wikipedia:Television episodes before creating such articles) then guest stars will usually be too detailed to add elsewhere. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Help required new post / disambiguation

Hi there I have a new article up on my space, i have requested feedback on it else where but what i require is some guidance on how to publish this without first making 10 edits (i don't feel i can currently make 10 worthwhile edits), can i therfore request assistance from an admin to publishing this if it is deemed fit for purpose (I have tried to be very thorough with the references, he has written many more plays but i couldn't reference them) Also, there is currently another person with the same name, how do i request a disambiguation, i realise there is a page on this, but i'm afraid I did not know where to put the request on the page.

many thanks in advance JR --Joshrogan (talk) 13:18, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I have made a couple of improvements to the draft and left some comments here. Once it's been cleaned up a bit more, I'll be happy to move it into article space for you. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 13:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

As an aside, you had already made more than 10 edits when you posted here; the edits you made to your draft article are all counted. See your contrubtions -- John of Reading (talk) 20:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Uploading a media (audio) file

Having huge problems uploading an .ogg file to the Cecile O'Rahilly page (I studied with her in the 70s).

Here's the link. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_O%27Rahilly>

Actually I get no error message, just a lot of verbiage about how to upload an audio file. VERY challenging and, I guess, meant to discourage beginners with WIKIPEDIA.

I myself made the audio file in Prof. O'Rahilly's Dublin office back in June 1977. I don't think copyright is an issue.

Can you help?

-R.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjmcormier (talk • contribs) 19:44, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

No it is not "meant to discourage beginners with WIKIPEDIA", it is intended to ensure that copyrighted material is dealt with appropriately. If you made the recording then there should be no problem, but please upload it to Commons so that it is available to all Wikimedia projects.  – ukexpat (talk) 20:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

samantha rebillet

I want to add Samantha Rebillet to the database, but keep being threatened deletion. How can I appeal? The page is purely informational, and far from promotional. 95 per cent of her achievements have not been cited.

It reads -

Samantha Rebillet (born 8 January, 1972) is an Australian film director, writer and actress. She graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1996.

1. Career 1.1 Actress She began screen acting in Heatwave in 1982. She went on to appear in Cosi (1996) and several television shows, namely Murder Call (1997), Water Rats (1997) and All Saints (1998). 1.2 Director Her documentary Butterfly Man (2004) won the Silver Cub Award at the prestigious International Film Festival in Amsterdam, among many other prizes.

2. Personal life Samantha was born in Paris, France and attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst. She is married to Ilan Kidron, lead singer of the popular dance band The Potbelleez. Together they have two children, Remi Rebillet (born 1993) and Gabe Kidron (born 2002).

22:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)22:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Samantha rebillet (talk) 22:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Samantha rebillet. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) --Orange Mike | Talk 22:41, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

History of Kerala village, district Amareli of Gujarat, India.

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Kerala, presently known as Kami - Kerala is situated in between Chalala and Savar Kundla towns on SH 36. The village is one of the victims of urbanization. It used to be a vibrant place during 60s and 70s. As per census records the population of Kerala in 1971 was around 3000 which had shown decreasing trend during the decades of 80s, 90s and 00s. Following is the population figures for the village between 1981 and 2001. 1981 = 2000 (approx) 1991 = 1500 (") 2001 = 500 (") Kerala is typical Indian village with agrarian economy. Majority of the working population had started migration to the larger urban centers like Surat and Ahmadabad in search of jobs owing to drought situation during 80s and 90s in Amareli district. The migrates can be found at great, diamond trading, Amareli district diaspora located in Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad and Varachha and Katargam area of Surat. The history of the village roots 200 years back. When Mr. Ratanji Joshi, chief Priest and Jyotishi of Nagvadar village (Presently in Upleta taluka, Rajkot district)was migrating from erstwhile Gondal State to Gohilwad (Bhavanagar State)with his Ahir hosts (Vaghmashis). They were carrying a "Shiv Ling" along with them. On the 8th day of walk from Nagvadar, the took a halt in a jungle like place surrouded by lots of trees of "Kerdo" (in Gujarati)in Gaekwad state (Now Amreli district). Mr Ratanji and the head of Ahirs simultaneously dreamt that the Lord shiva (whose shiv linga they were carrying with them)had desire to be located on this place. Considering the dream, Mr. Ratanji had taken decision to establish a village. The village has given the name of Kerala owing to surrounding of trees of "Kerado" His inheritors are still living in the village. Mr. Chandrakant Joshi (on of his great grand son) is headmaster in the primary school who is carrying other legacy of being head master of Kerala school of since last three generation. Feed:

Hiren Joshi —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hirencjoshi1 (talk • contribs) 09:30, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

It appears that you are trying to write an article. This is not the place to do so. Standard advice about article creation follows:

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Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines with which all articles should comply. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

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External links

http://www.myspace.com/neonsarcastic
http://www.twitter.com/neonsarcastic
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001237774360&ref=search

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If you're trying to create a new article, try reading WP:Your first article first, and then taking it to WP:Articles for creation. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 17:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

CUALA - LADIES GAELIC

<draft article removed as copyvio> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eugene egan (talk • contribs) 21:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I've removed the user's copyright-violating article draft above. An article about the same topic has already been deleted recently as a copyvio. Deor (talk) 00:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Article I wrote apparently disappeared...

Hi All,

I'm not a new new user, I've edited Wikipedia before, but I've just bothered to set up an account for the first time. Shortly after I did so, I created a page about the organisation the NHS Alliance (and remembered to save it). Now it seems to have disappeared. Is it because I've not been registered for long enough to create a new page, or does anyone have other suggestions? Should I just start again? (The NHS Alliance is a large body which has been established for 20 years - I'm sure it's an appropriate thing to put on Wikipedia).

Thanks! Ishtar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ishtar1949 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

The only contributions made by your account are listed on this page. Did you possibly hit "show preview" at the bottom of the page instead of "save page"? TNXMan 16:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

As a new user you are required to answer a CAPTCHA when adding external links. Maybe you failed to do so after hitting Save page. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

It is possible your page might have been deleted through speedy deletion or proposed deletion. Where was the article located? NHS? NHS Alliance? --- cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄_{(background check)} 01:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Your contribution history doesn't show any new articles created, even deleted ones. I'm not sure where it went... but I think it's gone. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 01:13, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

As administrators, TNXMan and I can see that the account Ishtar1949 has no edits to deleted pages. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:12, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

The user rights log doesn't seem to show that this user is autoconfirmed yet, so I'd guess that her theory is correct, and the article didn't save because she isn't yet able to create new articles. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 01:15, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

New user accounts can create articles right away without being autoconfirmed. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Ishtar1949Thanks everyone, I guess that solves it - back to the drawing board... —Preceding undated comment added 10:46, 3 September 2010 (UTC).

Neon Sarcastic

Resolved

 – I actually happen to have a draft of this article in my userspace now; collaborating with the creator. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 23:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Draft article

Neon Sarcastic are a 5 piece pop/punk band from the midlands, Leicester. The band have played a variety of shows from selling out local venues in Leicester to larger such as Leicester square London and the Asylum (where the band reached the semi finals of surface act unsigned). In 2010 the band played the showcase stage at Glastonbudget festival and main stage at Glastonblaby festival with higher profile gigs such as Strawberry Fields festival 2010 where the band headlined the 'Straweberry Jam' stage where they played along side acts such as Example and the Holloways. Having released an album entitled Time to smile having large radio coverage including Leicester Sound and are currently working on their new single release.

change user name

I need to know how to change my user name. I put in one that I don't want to use.a_squiggy 23:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by A squiggy (talk • contribs)

You can make a request at WP:Change username; see WP:U#Changing your username for more information. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 23:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Accra Hearts of Oak achievements.

Just to correct something here. Accra Hearts of Oak football club in Ghana West Africa has become champions of the Ghana league 20 times but 21 times as you stated in their achievements profile. They did not win the 2009/2010 league, so please correct your mistake, thanks very much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.24.100.170 (talk) 06:55, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a source to support that claim? From ghana-pedia.org, a total of twenty one titles, which contradicts your statement. Protector of Wiki (talk) 07:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

That source says they won their 21st title in 2008/09 but later says "Hearts Of Oak SC have won nineteen domestic titles, including the inaugural season of the post-independence Division One in 1956, with their most recent title coming in the 2006/07 league season". However, their rivals Asante Kotoko F.C. won in 2007/08 so the numbers don't add up. Ghana Premier League#Performance by club currently says they have 20 titles but they are listed 21 times in Ghana Premier League#Winners with the 20th in 2006/07. Asante Kotoko also has conflicting statements about 20 or 21. I wonder whether this confusion is caused by rival fans of the two clubs. I haven't found any numbers at official sites. Unofficial sites conflict. Does the original poster have an opinion about which of the 21 current entries at Ghana Premier League#Winners is false, if any? PrimeHunter (talk) 23:21, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I highly doubt that the original poster will even return. It was just a correction that s/he expected to be done without dispute. If you read what the IP wrote, s/he questioned the purported victory in the 2009/2010 league. Protector of Wiki (talk) 23:26, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I read what the IP wrote and searched for a Wikipedia claim that they won in 2009/10 but didn't find it. Their 21 current entries at Ghana Premier League#Winners end with 2008/09 and there are many sources confirming that, for example [1]. The season notation varies between one and two years and they are listed for both 2004/05 and 2005. Perhaps that is wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Help with getting my Q-bism word articled;

I would like to make an entry in Wikipedia for a term related to a concept of artwork and form that I have created

Thank you,

Quique Matos —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaq enterprizes (talk • contribs) 23:33, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I see that the article you had written about this topic was deleted. Please read the following to ensure that your article meets the criteria:

A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

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To give a much simpler answer, you can't. Wikipedia doesn't publish content that you just made up. You may wish to start a blog instead. Someguy1221 (talk) 23:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

WP:NEOLOGISM and WP:MADEUP explain why your entry wasn't suitable for Wikipedia. Karenjc 17:37, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

publishing a new article

I have already created an article in the user space and have reviewed and edited it couple of times and is now ready to go live - how do I do it? Thanks Spunky6 (talk) 17:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spunky6 (talk • contribs) 17:41, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

The answer is that you move the article to its new name. However, assuming you mean User:Spunky6/Digital Scroll Compressor Technology, it is far from ready to go live. I have not looked at it in detail, but the immediate problems I see are:

• It needs a lede that gives some context: the article as it stands does not indicate either what field of technology this device is in, nor what its purpose is, but launches straight into how it works. It also needs to be written for the general reader, not for an expert in the (unidentified) field, so for example abbreviations like "COP" and "EER" must be explained (or if they are terms in general use, there may well be articles, or sections of articles, dealing with them, in which case these should be linked).
• There are NO internal wikilinks.
• It is not in any categories
• While there are references, they are not cited inline, so no individual statements are referenced. Please see WP:Citing sources.
• Non-encyclopaedic language: phrases like "the beauty of this technology" are not appropriate: see WP:PEACOCK.
• The relentlessly approving headings ("Advantages", "Reliability" etc) make this read like a promotional piece, even though it is not obviously pushing one product. (I have a suspicion that it is actually pushing one product, since "Copeland scroll" occurs only once and is not referenced or explained. I may be wrong, though). WP may not be used for promotional purposes. See WP:SPAM.

Sorry, but you need to fix these - which may require a complete rewrite - or the article will likely be deleted. --ColinFine (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Czech draughts

I recently wrote an article on Czech draughts. Would anyone mind adding relevant links, etc.? --Nmatavka (talk) 04:38, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

You might want to ask at the talk page of WikiProject Board and table games -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 15:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Harmonizer Page

I would like to create a page for harmonizers that redirects to the Pitch shift page. Harmonizers are a type of sound effects unit, specifically a type of pitch shifter. Harmonizers are discussed in pages about music all the time, and it would be nice if these articles could link to a detailed discussion of what they are. Here is an example of an article that mentions a harmonizer.

Unforntunately, a page called Harmonizer already exists. This "Harmonizer" is "the fourth studio album by Norwegian futurepop band Apoptygma Berzerk." I assure you, the album is named after the device for which no wikipedia page exisits.

So, could we retitle the existing Harmonizer page Harmonizer (album) and create a new page called Harmonizer that redirects to Pitch shift? I would, but I don't know how.--Atlantictire (talk) 07:32, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

I added a {{About}} disambiguation notice to the top of Harmonizer - would that do the trick? — QuantumEleven 08:29, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!--Atlantictire (talk) 17:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

How to create different sorts of processes in Linux ? for example, CPU-intensive processes or memory processes.

1)How to create different sorts of processes in Linux ? for example, CPU-intensive processes or memory processes?

2)A task or a process is bound a cpu core.what is the difference?

looking forward for your reply,thank you~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kewenpan (talk • contribs) 13:43, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Have you tried the Computing section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. TNXMan 14:27, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Tae Kwon Do

i have boy is now 9 year old his joint in tea kwando and he competed already in many event he wearing blue belt now, he recieved 3 silver and 2 gold in his last competition my question is the promotion to the next belt are need to pay,what is the rule to promote to next belt? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.89.90.38 (talk) 14:12, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

You might find what you are looking for in the article about Tae Kwon Do. If you cannot find the answer there, you can try asking your question at Wikipedia's Reference Desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about any question in the universe (except about how to use Wikipedia, which is what this help desk is for). I hope this helps. TNXMan 14:27, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Franco McVilderhelm

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Franco McVilderhelm (July 6, 1923 - October 14, 2001) was a french art professor at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris,France from 1952-1994. When McVilderhelm started teaching, most of the faculty disliked him due to his strange philosophical teachings and liberal views of society. They also looked down upon him for adding his own teaching to the curriculum because up until the late 70's curriculum was no subject to change or tampering. Even though his style of teaching was odd and different, students seemed to prefer him over other professors. This made it difficult for the board to let McVilderhelm go. Photography was McVilderhelm's specialty but he also tried to help his students learn about life. He would assign projects to the students that involved them to use their knowledge of photography to portray different situations in life. Many of McVilderhelms students have won awards for their work or were given a chance to have their work sponsor products like Choc Full O' Nuts and Planned Parenthood. He retired from teaching in 1994 and wrote several books on the meaning of life and how he thought it should be lived. His first novel, A Eté Equitable (In English "Do Justice"), was published in 1996. Pieds Sur Terre, de la Tête dans les Nuages: 1RE Partie (In English "Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds: Part 1") was his second novel and was published in 2000. Franco McVilderhelm died before he could finish part two. Some famous quotes from Professor McVilderhelm are the following (Translated from French): "..A saint is just a sinner in disguise." "..To forgive is to allow those who have done you wrong to walk all over you with a smile on their face and a fork in their hand." "If I wanted a bird in my hand I'd open up a parrot shop.." "Lying is only wrong when the person you have lied to finds out." "[You] don't need friends in your life, you need people to tell you how much you are in need of friends.." "..For all you know I'm just another hypocrite trying to live life as though I'm a God."

—Preceding unsigned comment added by McVilderhelmFr (talk • contribs) 21:22, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

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Help with portals

Is there a tutorial to markup language used in portals? VictorianMutant (talk) 22:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

moving article from "user page" to "main page" ie the encyclopedia

Reading through the instructions it is not clear how to move a newly created article which is on a "user page" to the "main pages" of Wikipedia. I would have thought that when the "move" window appears, options would have been given .. like for example "do you want to move this article to the main pages?". Not very user friendly and requires much reading for such occasional use. Please guide me though these steps. Thanks Chrisoliver (talk) 09:54, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

On the move page, you simply need to enter the new location (name) of the article. It is likely something like User:Chrisoliver/x, which you may want to move to x. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 10:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Did you reach Special:MovePage/User:Chrisoliver? Then simply write the wanted titled in the "To new title" field, for example François Lanzi, and click "Move page". If you don't have "User:" or another namespace in front of the title then it's automatically in the mainspace encyclopedia. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

More assistance at WP:SYMUD. – ukexpat (talk) 17:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I have Requested for feed back of my article, how to publish it next

Hello,

I have Requested for feed back of my article, what next and how to publish it? Below is my article link, please help me out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vijaymgdg/Pdt.Rajguru_Guruswami_Kalikeri —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vijaymgdg (talk • contribs) 06:13, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Please take a look at WP:SYMUD. At the moment the draft is completely unreferenced and if moved to mainspace will be proposed for deletion as an unreferenced biography of a living person. It also needs a lot of work on layout and formatting - take a look at WP:MOSBIO and other biographical articles for assistance. – ukexpat (talk) 17:46, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Also, some or all of it appears to be a copyright violation of http://www.rgkalikeri.com/, so I have tagged it for deletion accordingly. – ukexpat (talk) 17:49, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Title

How do you edit the page title? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edwinkiama (talk • contribs) 16:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

There is no way to edit the page title directly (once the article has been created). You would need to move the page to a new title once your account is autoconfirmed (been active for four days and made at least ten edits). TNXMan 17:30, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Fred "Sonic" Smith

I made an edit to the article, above-referenced, but it did not format as I wanted it to. I wanted the reference to show just once, and have links to click for each other time it is used. Can you please format it better? Also, what do I do about the fact that their names are the same? I mean I know that you usually don't use a person's first name when you write in an encyclopedia, but this is about a guy named Smith, married to a woman named Smith, so I used their first names. Is that the normal way to do this? Also, The stuff I added the reference for--the other sentences were already in the text and I didn't change thise =but the reference is not for those other sentences Can I mark this to show this?--108.27.104.14 (talk) 21:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

I cleaned it up a little in this edit. – ukexpat (talk) 01:18, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Sportspeople who have died during their careers

I would like to see Ron Rector added to the list of sportspeople that died during their career. He was a running back for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League who died in a motorcycle accident on June 30, 1968. The accident occurred on June 29th during the off season between the 1967 and 1968 NFL seasons. He died the following day on June 30th. Rector was a member of the Falcons in 1967 and saw significant playing time at the end of the season and was supposed to get an opportunity to win the starting halfback job for the 1968 season when he was killed on his motorcycle in Ohio. It is important to me that he be included on this list of football players because he was a local resident of the Akron, Ohio community. He played his high school football at Coventry High School in Akron, played his college ball at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and played pro football with the Washington Redskins and the Atlanta Falcons after being originally drafted by the Green Bay Packers. For verification of these facts I can list three references. The references are as follows: (1) The Pro Football Encyclopedia, (2) Total Football, (3) The Akron Beacon Journal obituaries from July 1, 1968. Any help that you can provide me with to accomplish this task would be greatly appreciated and if I need to do anything further to assist, I would be happy to. Thank you.

Michael A. Papp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.107.52 (talk) 01:46, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

So be bold and edit List of sportspeople who died during their careers to add him! – ukexpat (talk) 02:22, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

And if you have some additional references, please add them to Ron Rector. – ukexpat (talk) 02:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Sportspeople who have died during their careers

I have added Don Fleming who was a defensive halfback for the Cleveland Browns to the above mentioned list. Fleming played his college football at Florida University and was drafted in the NFL by the Chicago Cardinals on round 28 in the 1959 draft. Cleveland obtained his rights and he played for the Browns in 1960, 1961 and 1962. On June 4, 1963 he was electrocuted while working construction in Florida during the off-season. As references I used (1) Pro Football Encyclopedia, (2) Total Football, (3) 1964 Cleveland Browns Media Guide.

Michael A. Papp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.107.52 (talk) 03:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Nice work - I edited your additions to provide links as used in the rest of that list. Can you provide full details for the references for Fleming and Rector so that they can be added to their respective articles. We need the kind of info used in the {{Cite book}} template. And please consider creating an account - the benefits are listed here. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 13:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Could we jump to linux entry in RAM on TIDM368 platform?

Hi,

on TIDM368 platform, we do the following: 3) Run the following command to load Linux Kernel and File system to RAM: tftpboot 0x80700000 uImage_ipnc_dm36x_IMX036_xxx tftpboot 0x82000000 cramfsImage_ipnc_dm36x_IMX036_xxx

then could we jump to program entry in RAM via >go 0x80700000 ?

I do not want to burn into NAND FLASH everytime.

2010-09-08

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yingcai.tan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yingcai.tan (talk • contribs) 08:43, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

This page is for help in editing Wikipedia only. You should ask your question at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing Rojomoke (talk) 09:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Flexibilia Nervosa

Flexibilia Nervosa is a disease which affects the joints and ligiments of those affected. The disease is extremely rare and conducted research has proven that the presence of the disease froma young age can create difficulty in movement. The disease than affects the body's nervous system, affecting sight, hearing and they may also lose the ability to talk. The early symptoms of the disease include extended flexion of the ankle joints (eg when toes are pointed may touch ground), may have stunted growth, small waist line as well as small feet and hands. It may also cause effects such as "knock'knee's". However, an hormone produced in the presence of the disease is noted to cause larger amounts of brain activity.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Radfordh (talk • contribs)

It sounds like you are trying to write an article. Wikipedia does not currently have an article on Flexibilia Nervosa. I have left some standard article writing advice for you below.

A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines with which all articles should comply. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Your first article. You might also look at Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. An Article Wizard is also available to walk you through creating an article. TNXMan 11:43, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I have searched Google, Google Books and Google Scholar looking for any information about this condition, without success. If you do intend to write an article on it, please read follow Tnxman's links to our verifiability and notability policies first, and also familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:No original research. Karenjc 16:10, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Computer Jagat

not the place for a draft article
"Ricardo Laguna" Professional BMX Dirt Jumper —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ricardobmx (talk • contribs) 23:04, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Tynia Thomassie (children's book author, educator, 1959-present).

notice of deletion

i have been adding info to a page in question of deletion but would like to know how to get the notices removed from the page if the criteria is properly met. the specific page i am referring to is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Wolfe thanks Emahnxray (talk) 21:14, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

An Articles for Deletion discussion usually runs for about seven days, during which time various editors will have a look at the article and its sources; the AFD notice must not be removed until that is finished. Unfortunately something went wrong with the posting of the AFD notice at Todd Wolfe and no discussion has taken place yet. I've added it to today's list, so the discussion will end on or around the 16th September. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:42, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

My article has been tagged

Hello, I am new to Wikipedia article writing. I wrote an article that received the following warning:

"This article may not meet the general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (September 2010)"

I am puzzled because I thought I had fixed this already. I provided 24 reference links, as well as many in-Wikipedia links. The sources are reliable, and furthermore I deliberately chose links that are still active, so that these links can be easily checked by anyone who is interested.

Can anyone tell me why this is still happening? Rizmagnusson (talk) 04:39, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

The tag is not automated. The tag was added manually, and so needs to be removed manually. If you feel that you have addressed all of the issues in the tag, you may in good faith remove the tag yourself. You could also look in the "history" of the page in question, find who added the tag, and ask them to see if you have addressed their concerns. If you have, then either they or you can remove the tag. --Jayron32 04:48, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

The references are still pretty weak, and the tone is way off, full of peacock words. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:17, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Cannot find project subpage

I created a subpage so that I could edit extensively before I moved the file. Now I can't find the project. Is there a place in my User account that links to all of my active projects? Thanks.AngieRecord (talk) 18:42, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, there is. Your page is listed here (it may help to compare with mine). However, the edit you just made is the only edit you have made to Wikipedia. Did you possibly click "show preview" instead of "save page"? TNXMan 18:52, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely possible. I will start again. Thank you.AngieRecord (talk) 18:57, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

The International Travel Writers Alliance

The International Travel Writers Alliance is the world's largest association of professional travel writers, editors, broadcasters and photographers...

Remainder of draft article

The Alliance also works closely with a wide range of travel and tourism industry representatives and agencies with travel related clients. Registering with the Alliance Travel journalists, editors, travel industry partners and agencies with travel related clients can join the International Travel Writers Alliance by registering through its website : www.itwalliance.com. There is no cost for registering and those who do will have their profile added to the relevant profiles section. Members, editors, partners and agencies then receive information from the Alliance for as long as they find this of value and will be able to contribute items for publication. The role of the Alliance The Alliance gets key information in a no frills format - from its partners and their agencies - to its members via : · the bi-monthly bulletin, and · its website, which is an information resource for all registered members, partners and agencies. The Alliance also sends bullet point information on Twitter and posts and responds to discussions on the Alliance's LinkedIn site. The Alliance makes no charge for these services. Social networking Members of the International Travel Writers Alliance are constantly criss-crossing the globe to write, edit, broadcast or create images for travel and tourism features. To keep everyone in touch the Alliance's LinkedIn site enables : · travel journalists to post information on commissions sought, destinations visited or assignments being planned · editors to pick up on potential features, and · representatives of travel destinations and their agencies to highlight story ideas and opportunities. Other services from the Alliance In addition, the Alliance works with individual partners and agencies on a range of services and initiatives including : · producing Alliance alerts and Destination dossiers which provide · staging networking events, media briefings, awards ceremonies and travel writers conferences and seminars · arranging and managing of group and individual press trips · launching and running travel writer awards for particular destinations, and · providing particular support for destinations looking to launch themselves on the travel and tourism map or when going through periods of particular challenge The Alliance also supports those partners looking to establish tourism associations or partnerships in order to coordinate the promotion of a destination to best effect. Where the Alliance works with a particular partner or partners it will agree a fee for the services it provides. AllWays www.allwaystraveller.com AllWays is the consumer travel magazine and online travel service from the Alliance. AllWays enables the Alliance and its individual members, partners and agencies to get travel and tourism information to AllWays travellers (subscribers) worldwide. In this respect, AllWays travellers will receive : · AllWays traveller features in a pdf format, and · access to the AllWays website which contains travel features, mini-guides and a range of offers and incentives. The AllWays package AllWays travelers get access to a range of travel services and initiatives including : · AllWays traveller : a series of travel features produced by members of the International Travel Writers Alliance · AllWays online : online travel features, mini-guides and travel offers and incentives, and · AllWays TV (to be launched in late 2010/early 2011) : video travel features and tips from the Alliance and its partners. The AllWays editors package In addition, the Alliance produces and AllWays editors package, which provides the text and images to those Alliance members and editors who are able to convert these into features for their own publications. The partnership concept Finally, the Alliance works with its partners to ensure each issue of AllWays traveller gets the highest circulation possible. This is where AllWays traveller is unique and the effective exploitation of viral marketing can ensure the feature has a never ending shelf life and gets to many, many thousands of potential visitors to the destination. More information

...For more information on the International Travel Writers Alliance and AllWays contact :

Ashley Gibbins

Chief Executive

The International Travel Writers Alliance

[email removed] —Preceding unsigned comment added by ITWA (talk • contribs) 09:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid there are a number of problems with this article text. The main one is that Wikipedia is not for promotion; Wikipedia articles are not based on text submitted by the organisations themselves, but on what has appeared in reliable sources that are independent of the organisation. Once ITWA has grown sufficiently for it to be written about in newspapers and such like, then someone will write an article about it.

More bad news: Your choice of user name suggests that the account will be used to promote ITWA, and will probably be blocked shortly - see the username policy. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:02, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

How do you recommend a new article to be created?

I don't know how to create a new article myself, but I noticed there is a huge and very famous singing competition called Hua Er Duo Duo or FLower Girls. There's an article for Super Girls, but not one for Flower Girls. It's the same type of thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.156.110.86 (talk) 14:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Since you are editing from an IP, to create a new article you will need to request its creation at WP:Articles for Creation. Ideally though, I would recommend signing up for a username and creating a draft in your userspace, where you can work on it at your leisure and bring it up to article standards. Once you're sure it complies with our policies (you could ask other editors for help checking it), it could then be moved into mainspace. Have a look at WP:YFA for more advice on how to create your first article. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 14:10, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Mathematics

Extended content

Estudio Moderno de analísis multi-dimencionales. In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time? Oh que verdades tan símiles y El desarrollo de funciones en multiples dimesiones con límites de incrementos se considera desconocido para nuestra mente sin embargo en la medida de establecer un conjunto de definiciones importantes nos permite conocer diversos criterios a saber definidos en base ha relaciones interconectadas de funciones de hipermultidimecionalidad presente en la materia luz y su relación con la energía multidimencional creando la sensacion extraordinaria de creer estar en multiples estados energeticos en percepciones definidas como formas de las masa de In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by H.Dave.MM. (talk • contribs) 20:44, 11 September 2010 (UTC) --MATHEMATICS by H.Dave.MM. Space. 20:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC) Estudio Moderno de analísis multi-dimencionales. In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time? Oh que verdades tan símiles y El desarrollo de funciones en multiples dimesiones con límites de incrementos se considera desconocido para nuestra mente sin embargo en la medida de establecer un conjunto de definiciones importantes nos permite conocer diversos criterios a saber definidos en base ha relaciones interconectadas de funciones de hipermultidimecionalidad presente en la materia luz y su relación con la energía multidimencional creando la sensacion extraordinaria de creer estar en multiples estados energeticos en percepciones definidas como formas de las masa de In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time? H.Dave.MM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by H.Dave.MM. (talk • contribs) 20:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC) ₯== Mathematics,wwww == --MATHEMATICS by H.Dave.MM. Space. 20:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC) Estudio Moderno de analísis multi-dimencionales. In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time? Oh que verdades tan símiles y El desarrollo de funciones en multiples dimesiones con límites de incrementos se considera desconocido para nuestra mente sin embargo en la medida de establecer un conjunto de definiciones importantes nos permite conocer diversos criterios a saber definidos en base ha relaciones interconectadas de funciones de hipermultidimecionalidad presente en la materia luz y su relación con la energía multidimencional creando la sensacion extraordinaria de creer estar en multiples estados energeticos en percepciones definidas como formas de las masa de In the study of this development I have written making companies respective global collaboration has required several issues that I have developed as are speed multidimensional boundaries of increments multidimensional space-time, etc ... the sum of increases in energy has a proportional relationship to the indexed product of the mass light and indexed product light speed raised to an exponent in increase, all this makes us think and relationship is with the speed of light or with space-time?

H.Dave.MM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by H.Dave.MM. (talk • contribs) 20:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

• You appear to be trying to create an article (as you have on your user page). However, this appears to be Original Research which is not permitted on Wikipedia. If you have further questions, please feel free to ask them here, but without more information, I cannot be completely sure what help you require -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 22:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

deletions

Hi, I occasionally contribute to wikipedia, I don't have any agenda doing that apart from helping , it-s just that when I can-t find some relevant information on wiki and I find it elswhere I take my time to upload it. Sometimes it requires great effort and time, especialy creating images. I am a graphic professional with international reputation and know well what is a copyright infringement and what is an image that-s OK to use.

I am all for wikipedia maintaining high standards but it is a bit frustrateing that just anybody, logged on or not, can make a decision if something should be deletet and can do so. It is much easier to remove than to create and there should be a way to prevent one person to remove hours of work solelz based on their own agenda.

Is there a way to contest those deletions?

Milan studio (talk) 07:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

It is intentionally as easy to add information to an article as it is to remove it, as they can be equally damaging to the project if done improperly. As for contesting deletions, it depends on whether you're talking about the deletion of a portion of an article, or the deletion of an entire page. The former is dealt with through dispute resolution, and the latter is dealt with by talking to the administrator who deleted the page, followed by deletion review if you are unsatisfied with the outcome. Someguy1221 (talk) 07:35, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Note that if somebody deletes your work, it is not gone for good: if part of an article is deleted it will still be there in the history of the article, so you can retrieve it and (after reaching consensus with others interested in the article) restore it, possibly after further work. If an article is deleted by the process, you can ask an administrator to userfy it, so that you can work on getting it up to WP standards in your user space before re-releasing it. --ColinFine (talk) 12:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? if you refer to deletions of whole pages or files. Only administrators can do that. The deletion log shows who did it. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:32, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Are you concerned about images you have found or created being deleted from the encyclopaedia itself, not just from an individual article? Wikipedia and Commons rely on such contributions, so please don't be discouraged from uploading images. If you're a graphics professional and are prepared to create and donate original images, that's extremely valuable. Images frequently get deleted because the uploader supplied insufficient or unsatisfactory information about their copyright and licensing status. An image uploaded here or at Commons must come with clear information about where it's from, why it complies with copyright policy, and under what licence it is being released. If that information is confusing, wrong, absent or incomplete, the image is likely to be deleted even if it does in fact comply - there is no "benefit of the doubt" for poorly documented images. Even though your experience tells you that an image you have found or created is OK to use, you need to make sure you show clearly and fully why this is so in your upload rationale. Karenjc 14:54, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Incidentally, I assume from your initial question that it is images which you are discussing? If you are the copyright owner, and want to "donate" the image to Wikipedia, read Wikipedia:Copyright_problems#Copyright_owners_who_submitted_their_own_work_to_Wikipedia which explains how you can do that - and also read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials as well! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 21:16, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

procedural help please tia

at the moment i have a problem with one shoulder that makes it difficult to deal well with a keyboard over more than short periods of time, and an eye issue which will require surgery in the winter. till then, i have to conserve vision as well.

i've a great deal of info to add to your article on crystal bowersox and perhaps something on other ohio musicians. i've spent over an hour looking for simple straightforward rather linear directions on how to edit an existing article. however, as best as i can find, that info is so scattered that i've no hope of putting it all together while i have limited use of my eyes.

as i want to do this now, i wonder if someone could provide a simple guide eg,

a do this b do this c do this etc

there's not much i can't figure out - i speak 6 asian languages, despite being from texas, have a phd from berkeley in asian history and have worked everything from the us diplomatic service to selling jewelry at art fairs.

but with my present limitations, i simply have been unable to decode what i need to know to add info to an article.

i'd appreciate a notification on my talk page, please.

thank you very much. Pearlbamboo (talk) 00:50, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. TNXMan 01:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Deleted Again

WHY DO MY PAGES ALWAYS GET DELETED. MOMMY TOLD ME THAT ITS GOOD FOR ME TO PUT MY KNOWLADGE ON THIS SITE AND ITS NOT A HOAX>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THATS A ARROW :D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonocheetos (talk • contribs) 20:14, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! As you can see on your talk page, De728631 left you some helpful links which you should read before creating a new article. I particularly recommend starting out with Starting an article and Your first article. — QuantumEleven 13:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

How to cross reference or use a reference multiple times

In some later paragraphs I needed to insert some references (for instance, ref 1-2) that have been inserted in the early paragraphs. It seems the program doesn't recognize the previous references in the list. Instead, it starts a new entry in the reference list every time although it is already in the list. So I would have multiple entries in the list for one same reference, and the numbering get mess-up. How to fix this problem? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nutriquest (talk • contribs) 15:08, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

You can fix this by using named references. This will allow you reuse the same reference without reusing all of the old code. You can learn more about them on this page. TNXMan 15:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

It would be set up like --> First statement<ref name="national">{{cite web| title=Atlas of the Human Journey-The Genographic Project| publisher=National Geographic Society.| date=1996-2008| url=https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html?era=e003| accessdate=2009-10-06}}</ref> Second statement<ref name="national"/> ...Moxy (talk) 16:02, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

You can name an existing unnamed reference in an article by editing the ref's wikicode. Just find the <ref> tag at the beginning of the appropriate reference, and alter it to read <ref name="insert name here">. (See Moxy's example above, for the ref named "national"). To view and reuse an article's existing named refs quickly, you can enable refTools. Click on "My preferences", then "Gadgets", check the box for refTools and save your settings. In edit mode, your screen will then display the refTools toolbar above the edit window. The "Named refs" button on it provides a drop-down menu of all the named refs in the document, allowing quick repeat citation. NB: named refs are useful, but they don't allow for repeat citation where you wish to cite different page numbers in the same source. One allowable way around this is to have a bibliography section properly listing all your sources, then using short inline citations, with page numbers, that refer to the bibliography. For an example of an article that uses this system, see Jane Austen. Karenjc 16:25, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Whi-Fi

Also refered as white space spectrum —Preceding unsigned comment added by Malbach (talk • contribs) 19:40, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like you are talking about white spaces. Is there a questions with which we can help you? TNXMan 19:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

People

In Genesis 4:8, after Cain killed Abel, Cain was sent away by GOD, ending up in a place called Nod, Genesis 4:16 & 17, there he married a lady and they had a son named Enoch, I think. My question is, if Adam, Eve, Abel and Cain were the first people on earth, than who were the people in Nod? Also who is Lilith and what was she really, woman or creature? Are did Lilith even exist at all?PassionAsia (talk) 04:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello. This page is for asking question about using Wikipedia. Knowledge questions belong at the reference desk. However, the answer to your question is that the bible is a bunch of mixed up fables that cannot withstand this type of analysis.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:08, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

PassionAsia has a history of posting riddles on this page. I told the user not to do it again, but Mikemoral deleted the entire section. Wikipedia is not for games. Protector of Wiki (talk) 05:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

I won't remove the section again, but I'll leave another message for PassionAsia (talk · contribs). —Mikemoral♪♫ 05:18, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Actually it's a perfectly fair question as far as it goes, although of course suited to the RefDesk rather than here. In brief: the origin of the people in Nod, including Cain's wife, arises quite frequently (it came up in the Scopes Trial, for example). Down the years, an awful lot of time has been devoted by believers to developing complicated explanations to overcome this and other similar difficulties, thus avoiding the need to approach the Bible as a bunch of mixed-up fables rather than as literal history, divinely inspired. As a very small example, here and here are examples of this on the Web. As for Lilith, Lilith#Lilith in the Bible provides a reasonable overview. Karenjc 06:22, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

How to make the caption visable in a picture in a Chembox

I put a picture in a Chembox (see the following), how can I make the caption visable? Thanks

New contributors' help page/Archive/2010/September

Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). Infobox references

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nutriquest (talk • contribs) 04:04, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

The Chembox templates don't seem to include a "caption" parameter, so they won't recognise it if you try to add one. See {{chembox}}. The Wikiproject Chemistry talk page seems to be active, so depending on what you want to do with this image, someone there might be able to help you. Karenjc 06:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

my article under construction on Renaissance Institute

This is my first independently created article. I've received a response from some level of Wiki that I don't have enough "in-line references." I'm not sure what that phrase refers to. Does it mean Links or does it mean Notes?

I'd like to ask but ....I can't figure out how to contact the person or entity who left the message. I found 3-4 pages telling me to put 4 tildas in for a signature but this is the first one I have found that I could manage to write something on. First there was the entity's talk page, which sent me back to mine, but on neither one could I figure out how to leave a message.

So could you please reply to my talk page? Thank you.

But now I see there's no Send button for this message. So I save it??

Sigh.

Wapo46 (talk) 08:54, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

(Also replied on user talk page)

Hi Wapo46 - welcome to Wikipedia.

The response you got was from an article reviewer, Bobby122. In Wikipedia parlance, "inline references" are references to the source material you used to write your article, documented either in parentheses or using footnotes referenced at the end of each sentence. You can find a guide to adding these here. I see you found Bobby122's talkpage in the end - only extra tip there is that, when you add a new comment to a talk page you are effectively creating a new section of that talk page, so it's a good idea to add a section heading to help other users navigate the page. (You did that successfully on this board, so I think you are getting the idea.)

The notice about signing articles using tildes came from a bot, not from the person who reviewed your article. As you've possibly figured out now, you can communicate on user talk pages by clicking the "edit" tab right at the very top of the page, then typing into the field that appears. The tab labelled "+" to the immediate right of "edit" allows you to create a new section and supplies a separate field for entering the section heading. Here on Wikipedia, we communicate by editing pages rather than sending messages, hence the terminology "save" rather than "send".

Does this make things clearer? Let me know if you have any more questions. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

My Own Encyclopedia Entry

I've written a book, and I would like to create an entry about myself and my new novel. How does one start a new topic page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffrey Alan Payne (talk • contribs) 19:38, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Carefully. Please read our information on autobiographies and conflict of interest. We generally recommend that you do not write an article about yourself, as it is difficult to remain neutral. You may want to ask someone else to write the article at Requested Articles. TNXMan 19:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

You should also have a look at WP:N which will help you assess whether you, and/or your book, have received sufficient coverage in independent reliable sources to be an appropriate subject for an article at this time. Karenjc 22:25, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

For more specific notability guidelines, WP:AUTHOR and Wikipedia:Notability (books) might be useful as well -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:12, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Chi-X Europe page

Hi,

I am new to this and do not speak the wikipedia language. the amount of information is mind boggling and not easy to digest so perhaps someone can help me.

I have created a page on behalf of a client - Chi-X Europe.

All the information listed there is factually correct and can be referenced through the website of the company.

However, a particular user keeps making changes which are not accurate - such as adding things like - 'this is almost spam because it is not referenced properly'. Unfortunately, his / her understanding of referencing is that of academic journals and not the press / media. all references are linked to their sources, which are reputable news outlets such as Bloomberg. This user also suggests that the entry is an advertisement. However, the entry is not a solicitation of business, it is a factual representation of the company and its services.

On such a neutral site as Wikipedia, this user is damaging my client's entry by posting these comments, particularly as he / she does not strike me as someone who has an understanding of trading platforms in Europe.

In understand that accuracy is required on Wikipedia and we have done everything to ensure the contribution is factual and not an advertisement. Giving people the right to discredit the entry does not serve the Wikipedia purpose.

What can I do to convince this user / editor that he / she is wrong and make him / her stop changing the entry with inaccuracies?

And finally - how do I upload a new logo for this company? I am really not a techie and do not understand the tutorial or what I need to do.

Thank you

Sybille

SCL2010 (talk) 17:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

First of all, please take a look at Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines. You have a clear, almost insurmountable, conflict and are strongly advised not create or edit such an article. Second, please read WP:SPAM and WP:COPYVIO - Wikipedia is not an advertising medium, nor can it accept copyright material. – ukexpat (talk) 17:54, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Moreover, in order to be included, the company needs to have be notable. From the policy on notability:

If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article.

(Emphasis added) The company's website is not an independent source by any means. -- Bk314159 (Talk to me and find out what I've done) 03:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Moving a userspace draft page to the mainspace

I am sorry to ask this question but I am having a difficult time figuring out how to submit a userspace draft to the mainspace. Could someone explain to me how I would submit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Uberphipps/Winster.com to the mainspace? Uberphipps (talk) 03:26, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

At the moment, you are not autoconfirmed, which you need to be in order to move pages. You need one more edit (to any page, including this one) to be autoconfirmed. Then if you read WP:MOVE, that explains how to do it! However, I would strongly suggest that you do not move User:Uberphipps/Winster.com at the moment, as it would have a good chance of being deleted. You need to show that the website meets the notability guidelines (see here for the general notability guidelines and here for the guidelines for websites), and have independent and reliable sources to verify the information. PRweb.com is not counted as a reliable source, as it publishes company's own press releases (which are obviously not independent!), facebook pages are not reliable, as anyone can create them, and the book is not relevant, as it was published in 1996 (8 years before Winster.com was founded), and so does not mention the company/website. If I was to see this as an article, I would expect it to be nominated for deletion as it does not show credibly why the website is significant or important. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 09:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I figured it would need to be reviewed to be fixed before it could be moved to the mainspace. I currently have it up for peer review. Hopefully I get more recommendations on how to fix it, aside from what you have recommended so that it does not get deleted. Thanks. Uberphipps (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:19, 15 September 2010 (UTC).

When does a stub stop being a stub?

I'm wondering at what point the stub remark can be removed from an article? For example, the Oaxaca cheese article says it needs more references however I can't see what in that text that would need referencing. Or the one on Entomatadas where I've added some to the previous text and clarified it a bit. It's still kinda short but I don't think there's much more to say about the topic. Is there a minimum number of lines (words) in order for a stub to be "unstubbed" or how does that work? Another page I was on, Sincronizada claim that the article is an orphan because there are few links to it. It does seem like someone has been doing some linking but the Orphan tag is still there. Is there a minimum number of links required? Thank you. --ElisabethS (talk) 03:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

There are a few issues here, so I'll try to cover them all:

• "Stub": Wikipedia:Stub#Removing_stub_status says Once a stub has been properly expanded and becomes a larger article, any editor may remove its stub template. No administrator action or formal permission is needed. [...] Be bold in removing stub tags that are clearly no longer applicable. - there is no specific length that changes it from being a stub to be a full article! Remove the stub notice: if anyone objects and puts it back, leave them a message on their talk page (or on the talk page of the article) and ask them why they think it is still a stub!
• "More references": On the cheese article, there is only one reference - so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect there to be more available! If there is more than one source of information, it is easier to verify that the information is correct (in theory, the book cited could be mistaken - if it's in two sources, the odds of the information being incorrect is reduced).
• "Orphan": Wikipedia:Orphan#What_is_an_orphan? says An article with fewer than three incoming links which meet the criteria for linking below... - it is the number of incoming links that are important. In that particular case, there are 4 articles which link to it, so the "orphan" tag can just be removed by yourself.

As a rule, if there is a "stub" notice, or an article improvement tag, and you feel that the issue has been addressed, you can remove it - just make sure you use an edit summary to explain why ("Orphan tag removed as there are more than 3 incoming links") as that would mean that people who have the article on the watchlist will see that it is not vandalism! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 09:36, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

This question comes up a lot. Someone really should make a help page or something. eg. Wikipedia:When does a stub stop being a stub?, linked to from WP:Stub. -- œ^™ 19:53, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

The AutoWikiBrowser tool prompts its operator to remove the stub tag(s) whenever an article has more than 500 words - see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Reference_manual#General. I don't know what it counts as a "word", though. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:34, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

citing works by historical figures

Hallo,

Is it permissible to use a book or scientific article published by a historical figure as a source for a fact about that historical figure ?

thanks, Andrew Gerganandass (talk) 08:06, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi there - it depends on the fact. This guide to self-published sources describes the circumstances in which it might be appropriate. If you give us some more details on here we might be able to give a more precise answer. Gonzonoir (talk) 09:59, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

finding your page

When you've saved the page your creating in your account how do you find it so that you can edit it?Gracelilley9 (talk) 18:50, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Clicking on the "My contributions" link at the top of the screen will show all of the edits you've made, unless they've been deleted, so you should be able to find it that way if it's in your userspace. AlexiusHoratius 18:53, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Jimw@t

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The Genge rapper was born James Wathigo, and Jimw@t is brought out from the two names. He was brought up in Kabete and went to Musa Gitau Primary and Chinga High School, Nyeri. After his O levels he took a computer course and later studied graphic design. He started rapping while he was in class 7. While still in high school, he went to Calif Records and recorded his first song “Sema nami sweetie”, while he was in form 4 but did not release it until he completed his O’ levels. On clearing high school, he released it and he was shocked to hear it on Capital FM a few days after its release; later, other stations followed suit. The same year, he was featured by Rhaptaz, (a group comprising of Gabu of P-Unit) in “Paulina” which became a club hit and was used in the Close-up ‘dance-o-mania’ competition. He also did videos for the songs that same year. Later on, he was featured in the song “Adila” by Pararo and Riziki. He was also featured in Juacali’s ”Kwa album yangu” and ”wanakimbia” songs which are in “Juacalisekta”, the mini album. He then went on to pursue a solo career. In the same year, he released a hugely popular song, “UNDER 18” in which he featured Meg C. The song no doubt catapulted him to the top of charts and built a name for him in the music industry. It also scooped an award in the 2006 Chaguo la teenies, “Favourite new artist” and was nominated for several awards in the Kisima awards. Other songs he has worked on are Mpaka che with Pilipili, Tunakatika with Wambo-E, Chakula kinyaji with Jua Cali which was featured in Juacali’s album Ngeli ya Genge and his current single “Sitoi kitu kidogo” which addresse the issue of corruption Kenya and was included in the National Anti-Corruption Steering Campaign in 2008. In 2009, He was involved in a UN peace campaign where he collaborated in a peace song with artists Juacali, Mejja, Nyota Ndogo, Mr Lenny among other top artists in Kenya. He also worked on an anti-corruption song, “Simama” with top Kenya artists. He later released a mellow jam, "Fall in Love". Other singles to be out soon are “Kuzitoka”..,“Kuna vile”, “Nakuimbia”-a collabo with Bongo artist Z-anto, “Bila bob” feat Allahola n many other new tracks featuring lablemates Mejja and Juacali. All these new tracks plus his previous songs will be featured in his album titled, 'Genge nijenge!' Thanks to all his loyal fans for the support and love. Keep on keepin' on, God Bless!

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimwathigo (talk • contribs) 20:46, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It sounds like you are trying to write an article. Please read our information on what makes a musical artist notable enough to warrant an article and our policy on advertising. TNXMan 20:54, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Created an article using thewizard with its final name and now can not rename

Hi,

I created an article called Workwriter but now can no longer move it with this name (either its pointer or its contents - (contens is only for admins, right)). I would like to delete Workwriter, and then move the contents from Workwriter_in_Progress to Workwriter as a final article. Can someone help please?

Thanks for listening and thanks in advance for any help, Peter —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petervee (talk • contribs) 11:12, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do. You created the article User:Petervee/Workwriter in progress, and then you moved (renamed) it to User:Petervee/Workwriter. From the looks of it both versions are identical. What would you like to do now? Move the article into the main article space (i.e. make it into a "regular" article)? — QuantumEleven 12:22, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes I would like to move the article to the main area and be called Wowkrwriter. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petervee (talk • contribs) 08:11, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I would also add that in its current form the draft does not indicate how or why the subject meets Wikipedia's inclusion criteria, see [[WP:N]--Atlantictire (talk) 07:32, 6 September 2010 (UTC)] and WP:GNG. – ukexpat (talk) 15:24, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, the article is notable (important software at its time), sold over 4000 copies (large audience), independently verifiable (see sources, PCW , Byte et al), there is no self-marketing (it is old), there is historical importance (in terms of work processing, dedicated word processors et al). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petervee (talk • contribs) 08:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

What would be useful is a few independent sources putting the software into historical context. Maybe a history of word processing or something like that. Proof of existence and a description, like what you have now, is very helpful, but it doesn't tell readers what makes this particular program interesting enough to write an article about. Does that make sense? --Danger (talk) 14:37, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately much of the material at that time was in Byte magazine and others (PC Tech journal). These are all defunct now and not online. Historically, it was an interesting product. This also goes for Microsoft M-DOS (MIDAS), and entry I wrote in wikipedia, which is included in original MS documentation I still own (as I worked for the exclusive MS European Distributor at that time). In addition, I also own an AES Dedicated word processor which still works (30 years later). All these are part of humanity legacy's in the field of word processors, way before the internet or Word existed and I feel should be preserved. This also goes for tons of original software I own, including most if not all of Digital Research's software in original format. I keep all these for future generations (if you are interested, you can check http://vekinis.com/Computers.html). I repeat these are kept for historical purposes, not money. Cheers —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petervee (talk • contribs) 11:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

It would probably be best to add sources before moving the article; but old issues of Byte etc. are good sources; just give information identifying the issue (date, etc.) and information identifying the article (author, title, page no.). Sources need not be online; Byte references are verifiable in a library. See also Wikipedia:Citing sources. -- Radagast3 (talk) 00:06, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I have found a reference to Britain's biggest magazine at the time, PCWorld. I will look into my archives and get Byte magazine references as well (it was also in Data Communications, a McGraw Hill publication). Hope in the meantime someone can move the Workwriter page to the main encyclopedia with the name Workwriter. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petervee (talk • contribs) 11:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Krishnamutri Paddathi (K.P.)Astrology

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Krishnamurti Paddathi (KP): Proffesor K.S.Krishnamurti : The Pioneer of modern Stellar Astrology: Prof.Krishnamurti was born at Thiruvaiyaru (Lat.10 48N; Long 79 15 E) a short distance Northeastward of the town of Thanjavur in Tamilnadu. Thriuvaiyaru the "Sacred" land of "five rivers (Cauvery, Coleroon or Kollidam, Kudamurutti, Vennar and Vettar) is considered as sacred as Kasi or Varanasi (Banares), if not more. (Kasikku vessam adhikam Thiruvaiyaru). The place is associated with the name of Saint Thyagaraja, a great devotee of Lord Sri Rama and one of the Trimurtis (Trinity) of Carnatic Music, the other two being Sri Syama Sastri and Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar. Prof. Krishnamurti was initiated into spiritual practice by Mahakavi Sri Sundaresa Sarma. Brahmasree Sundaresa Sarma is a divine soul, a great Sanskrit poet and scholar. After finishing his education at St. Joseph's college, Tiruchirapalli, Prof. Krishnamurti entered the service of the Government of Tamilnadu in the Public Health Department at the King Institute, Guindy, Madras ,on 14-7-1927. He studied the Hindu and Western systems of Astrology thoroughly, but was deeply disappointed at the inadequacy and lack of precision of both. He noticed that a planet in its period invoked the results of a house with which it is not connected by occupation, ownership, association or aspect which are the ordinary considerations in prediction. This opened his eyes to the supreme importance of constellations in prediction. He established by his researches that the results of a planet (in its period) are strongly modified by the lord of the constellation in which it is posited according to the occupation, ownership, association and aspects of the latter. Prof. Krishnamurti understood that the difference in the result should be attributed to the exact portion of the constellation occupied by the planet. For determining the zone of the constellation occupied by the tenanting planet the constellation had to be divided in some significant, scientific manner. The idea of dividing the constellation in the mysterious unequal Vimsottari proportion attributed to the venerable Sage Parasara struck him . Prof. Krishnamurti succeeded again in establishing through his researches that the manner (favorable or adverse) in which house result are invoked by a planet is dictated by the lord of the division of the constellation in which the planet is posited (whom he calls the sub-lord) according to the occupation, ownership etc., of the latter(the sublord). The problem of differences (in longevity, financial status, profession etc.,) in the lives of twins born within very short intervals which have a bearing on the house -cusps had also been engaging his attention from the beginning. Prof. Krishnamurti takes the house cusp as the starting point of the house and not as the midpoint as in the Sripathy Padhdhati of Hindu Astrology. He has established through innumerable correct predictions that his method is correct. Like the planets he subjected the house-cusps to the method of constellation and sub. The planet owning either the constellation or the sub on the cusp of a house gives the results of the house provided it is in a constellation and sub sympathetic to the matters of the house.Likewise a planet posited in the constellation of the constellation lord or the sublord of the cusp of a house invoked the results of that house in the manner dictated by the planet's sublord. There are innumerable "yogas" (which do not take into account house connections in any scientific manner) which fix the longevity in various ranges.There is the method of Ashtakavarga based on rough Rasi chart which is used to predict longevity.All these tumble down before the problem of difference in the longevity of twins. The prosperity or prediction of a bhava is generally examined with reference to the sign strength of the bhava lord and bhavakaraka, their benefic or malefic associations and aspects. He understood that something fast moving is to relied upon. And that is the house cusp which is rarely marked or examined by the vociferous protagonists of Astrology. If the cusp is caught in the right sub, a thorough examination of the stellar position and disposition of the sublord would reveal the fate of the bhava correctly. This too Prof. Krishnamurti established through research on innumerable charts. The differences in the longevity, financial status, profession etc., of twins were explained remarkably & accurately by the sublords of the relavant cusps. Prof. Krishnamurti noticed that great gains came to some during "Sade Sathi" honour on Chandrashtma day and so on. He extended his stellar technique to transits as well. The lords of the constellation and sub transited by the transiting planet explain the events accurately in terms of the houses they signify. Prof. Krishnamurti was thus able to supply the missing links in the existing techniques of prediction found a unique technique comprehensive, scientific and minute, a Padhahati known by his name, a system that would apply to the goose and the gander alike. Prof. Krishnamurti 's theory that the planets co-ruling the moment when a matter is taken up for examination with real urge will co-rule the moment of fructification of the matter as well is immensely helpful in pinpointing the time of occurrence of events especially in Horary Astrology. We have seen how unerring predictions can be offered if a chart is erected scientifically for the correct birth time and the house-cusps are caught in the right subs. Reversing the process, the subs of house-cusps can be fixed accurately, if a few events relating to the native or those directly related to him (say, parents) are known. Ruling planets coupled with events constitute an excellent method of rectification of birth time. Those who thirst for the knowledge of the minute secrets of prediction can quench their thirst abundantly if only they approach Krishnamurti Padhdhati with gentlemanly faith. This is an excellent system (Paddhati) of astrological predictions conceived, created by The Great Indian Astrology master, late Prof. K.S. Krishnamurti. KP System is based on finer points of Indian and Western astrology and borrows important concepts from many branches of astrology. Regarded as most accurate system of present time, KP System of astrology is easy to learn and easy to apply. Contrary to classical Hindu astrology, KP system is systematic and very well defined. KP goes beyond stellar and makes use of the sub lord of houses and planets. The basic principle of KP method is that the results are offered by the star lord (constellation) of any planet and whether it is good or bad will materialize or not will be decided by the sub lord. Houses (cuspal) sub lord promises various events during the lifetime of the user. Planetary sub lord decides if it is going to materialize in its dasa period. The Western system is based on aspects, which the planets make among themselves, and aspects they make with the houses. Here are some major differences to Vedic astrology: •KP system gives importance to the Constellations / Stars / Nakshatras divisions of the Zodiac which is obviously the most desired for precision. •Further it divides each Constellation / Star / Nakshatra division into further 9 subdivisions called 'SUBS'. These sub divisions are not equal divisions, but are as per the Vimshottari Dashas Divisions System. •K.P. System uses K.P. Ayanamshas as opposed to Lahiri Ayanamshas mostly used in Vedic System. The difference between two is about 6 minutes (Kala). •This system uses Cusps that is house/ bhav beginnings like Western Systems, as opposed to Vedic System which uses House Centres i.e. Bhav Madhyas. •This system uses Placidus House system. •The planet in its dasha gives results as per its Nakshtra-Swami (Star-Lord) rather than the planet itself. Hence Planet is represents the SOURCE, that Planet's Star-Lord represents the EFFECTS, RESULTS and that Planet's Sub gives idea of the FINAL DIRECTION of that result. •KP highly uses Ruling Planets methodology which says that the planets at the time of desire and fructifications are always same. Bold text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.95.22.75 (talk) 10:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

This isn't the place to propose a new article; try submitting this at articles for creation. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 10:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Want to go live

I'm not an auto-confirmed user, but my article is ready to go live. What's the next step? Or can someone just publish for me from here? GiovanTJ (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello! You can indeed ask for another use to move the article to the main article space for you (see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft for full details). I took a look at your draft article, User:GiovanTJ/Dream Cheeky, and I think it still needs a bit more work before it can "go live". The principal issue I see is notability - I'm not sure the company Dream Cheeky is sufficiently notable for a Wikipedia article. You can read more about notability at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). I hope this helps! Please don't hesitate to contact me at my talk page (or ask here again) if you've got more questions. You can also ask for feedback from other users at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. — QuantumEleven 13:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

GROBOTS

Bold text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.110.46.84 (talk) 13:24, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a question? PrimeHunter (talk) 13:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

If you would like to experiment with editing wikipedia, please use the sandbox, where you can write almost anything you want to get used to editing. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 13:54, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

jasmine

Is jasmine a night shade plant,since it blooms at night? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.16.2 (talk) 04:24, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I suggest you take your question to the Wikipedia reference desk, that's the best place to ask questions not related to using Wikipedia (which is what this page is for). — QuantumEleven 13:35, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Incidentally, I'd guess not. Night Shade refers to the family Solanum, whereas Jasmine is in the Oleaceae family. However, I'd still suggest going to the reference desk to ask, as I'm not an expert (the nearest I would be able to say is "it's a plant"!) -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 11:34, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

citing works by historical figures 2

Hallo again,

I asked "Is it permissible to use a book or scientific article published by a historical figure as a source for a fact about that historical figure ?". The specific case i have in mind is where a biologist states in a paper published in the journal Ibis 'I left Japan in October 1861'. This is the only published evidence for when he left Japan. Another example would be whether statements in "Voyage of the Beagle" can be cited as evidence of Charles Darwin's attitude to slavery in South America.

best, Gerganandass (talk) 11:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

• In those examples, I would accept the first one. With the 2nd one, if no other sources could be found to show the attitude CD had, then it could be acceptable. I'd probably discuss them on the relevant article talk pages, and see what consensus is formed - if no one replies in a week or so, just insert the facts, using those citations -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 11:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) In this specific case, I'd say a formulation like "X reported departing Japan in October 1861" could be reliably sourced to his journal article claim. (The Darwin case would be a report on an individual's views; these can more safely be attributed to their self-published works than can fact claims.) Gonzonoir (talk) 11:33, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Uploading picture

Hallo,how can i upload foto in my article? Please help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kismaayo (talk • contribs) 15:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Will respond on user talk page. --Jayron32 16:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

In case other new users are reading this question, I'll leave some standard advice below as well.

• If you want to add an existing image to an article, add [[File:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text.]] to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information.
• If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article, you must determine the proper license of the image (or whether it is in the public domain). If you know the image is public domain or copyrighted but under a suitable free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (sign up). If you are unsure of the licensing status, see the file upload wizard for more information. Please also read Wikipedia's image use policy. I hope this helps. TNXMan 15:06, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Creating a new article

I have created a new article (my first) entitled "Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO)"

I created this in my own user space, then moved it to the main space.

It seems to be in the right place, the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Patient_Reported_Outcomes_%28ePRO%29

gets to it. But it cannot be located using search.

I did not think from reading the docs that there was any waiting time before a new article went "live".

Comments appreciated

Kognos (talk) 21:28, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

The article is live at Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO), and it shows up in search for me now. There is a short delay between when an article is created and when it is indexed in Wikipedia's search. --Mysdaao ^talk 04:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Updating References

I was wondering if someone can tell me what the appropriate procedure is for updating sources, footnotes, etc. in an article as a result of relocation of journals, articles, sources, publications, etc. on online sources/references (ie websites). Thanks! Sheepunderscore (talk) 02:51, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

You should update the reference if you can, so that any readers can still use them to verify the contents of the article. See WP:LINKROT and WP:DEADREF. Do you have a specific article in mind? -- John of Reading (talk) 05:59, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. The article in question is Wesley College, Melbourne. I have noticed that most of the references which links to the Welsey College website are deadlinks as a result of a new website design. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!Sheepunderscore (talk) 07:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Adding plot summary of a book

I've written a full plot summary of "Woman of the Pharisees" by Mauriac. What would be the easiest way to insert that? There's already a link for the title within the article about Mauriac, but since this is new to me, I'd love any help. I have consulted some other sources, but am still stuck. Thanks, 21:05, 20 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dshaw1963 (talk • contribs)

Modifying my question about Mauriac

Sorry, there isn't a LINK, but only a listing for that book title in the section on his novels and other works Dshaw1963 (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

In order to insert such detail, you would need to start an article about the book itself. You could then convert the mention of the book in the Mauriac article into a link to your new article, as is already the case with Thérèse Desqueyroux, although the latter is not in good shape. To start a new article, you can use the Article wizard and take a look at WP:Your first article. I will also add a few lines of standard article creation advice below. However, before doing so, take a look at the notability criteria at WP:NB. They will help you decide whether this particular work merits a separate article of its own. There's good advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels about how to write articles about fiction works, including a template you can follow at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate. Standard advice follows:

A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines with which all articles should comply. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Your first article. You might also look at Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. An Article Wizard is also available to walk you through creating an article.. Karenjc 13:13, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Demand in business

what are the importanceof demand in business ???

1. introduction
2. objectives
3. analysis
4. meaning
5. definition
6. law of demand
7. determination of demand elasticity

2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.6.218 (talk) 14:02, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

See Demand (economics). That's about as far was we can go because we won't do your homework for you. – ukexpat (talk) 14:08, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Image question

how to protect my image file:university of community health001.jpg from delect—Preceding unsigned comment added by Discovery.07 (talk • contribs)

Every image is required to have a copyright/licensing template to show where it came from and the terms on which it has been uploaded to Wikipedia. You will find the tags discussed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags. If you created the image (ie, you took it yourself and didn't just find it somewhere on the internet), please add an appropriate license (probably {{GFDL-self}} or {{cc-by-3.0}}). – ukexpat (talk) 15:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Heading Underline Goes right across the picture on the right hand side of the page - HELP!

John Bolton (actor) I uploaded the photo, and did some other editing. Once finished, the heading line suddenyl appeared to cross right over the face of the uploaded photo. UGH! how do I fix that?

Thanks, Suzanne USER NAME: suzyam —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suzyam (talk • contribs) 16:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I linked to the title of the article in your question, to make it easier to find. Karenjc 16:30, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I did not see the problem when I looked at the page, but in any event I removed the non-standard <big></big> formatting from the ibox. How does it look to you now? – ukexpat (talk) 16:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

i need help about my father family background at cawayan, malbug masbate

my father namely arestotoles ramos fuentes. he dead that no one of his family cant know it. we are no contact of his family there in masbate. so pls. help me to know my tita's and tito's there and also my grand father and mother. it is great for me to help me out in my problems. thank you veru=y much —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catsup25 (talk • contribs) 08:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 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 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. TNXMan 11:42, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Grandparents Day in Ireland

My question is - Grandparents Day in Ireland falls on the fourth Sunday in September. How can I put this on Wikipedia? best wishes Dermot Kirwan —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirwan (talk • contribs) 20:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

This would probably sit well as a subhead at Grandparents_Day#Grandparents_Day.5Bs.5D_around_the_world. Do you have a citation to support the material? Karenjc 22:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

NUMERICAL ASSIGNMENT: TRAPEZOIDAL RULE

Source code in ‘C’ programme:- //implementation of trapezoidal rule

1. include<stdio.h>
2. include<conio.h>
3. include<math.h>

//#define fun(d) ((4*x)-(3*x*x)) float fun(float d) { return((4*d)-(3*d*d)); } void main() {

 float x,sum,b,a,h,n,i;
 clrscr();
 printf("ENTER THE INITIAL VALUE: ");
 scanf("%f",&a);
 printf("ENTER THE EXTREAM VALUE: ");
 scanf("%f",&b);
 printf("ENTER THE NO OF INTERVAL: ");
 scanf("%f",&n);
 h=(b-a)/n;
 sum=fun(a)+fun(b);
 for(i=1;i<n;i++,x=a+(i*h))

sum=sum+2*fun(x);

 sum=(h/2)*sum;
 printf("\n RESULT= %f",sum);
 getch();

} File:TRAPEZOIDAL RULE FINAL.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaustav Adhikary (talk • contribs) 03:54, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Have you tried the Computing section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. Protector of Wiki (talk) 04:49, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Company profile updating

Hi, I want to ask a question for my business pages. My company as a Wikipedia profile that need to be updated and changed because news about the company profile and products are old and they might create confusion To do that I need to delate some of the informations that are actually on the page. Can I do that?

Thanks in advance

E. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EricaGlz (talk • contribs) 09:33, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for asking. I suggest you start by reading this page. In most cases your best course is to suggest corrections at the article's talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Do you have a source for the information which you need to change, which is both reliable and independent of the company - for example, press coverage (but not press releases from the company)? Which company are you talking about? -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 09:50, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

It might help to realise that Wikipedia is not a directory and does not have profiles: it is an encyclopaedia, and has articles. The difference might seem subtle, but can be profound! --ColinFine (talk) 18:17, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

How do I put my information on Wikipedia

how do I put my information in Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chevalreg (talk • contribs) 18:53, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for wanting to help build this encyclopaedia. Take a look at Wikipedia:Introduction, Wikipedia:Tutorial and Wikipedia:How to edit a page. They will guide you through the basics of starting to contribute. (NB: if by "my information" you mean "information about me", please be careful - Wikipedia is not a social networking site or a listings service. Articles need to follow our rules about notability, verifiability and neutrality. Users do have a user page where they can tell other users a little about themselves and their work here, but this isn't the main purpose of the site.) Don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it. Good luck, and happy editing. Karenjc 21:43, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

confused

im very lost??? i find it hardto follow your words, phrases and instructions. I am a student and love your instructions to be easy to follow. you say that you can see other peoples discussions and write on their mytalk page but i find it hard because it says go to the message board. go there, nothing, says go to the help desk... still nothing i still don't kno it and only just found out i have to be at least 4 days old to save a book. please make it simple. so im asking you can you make wiki simple for teenagers and young adults —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hedgehogs1998 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry if you are finding it confusing: the fact is that Wikipedia is huge and quite complicated (there are a lot of different facilities in it, and a lot of rules and guidelines which need to be there to make our collaboration work). There is introductory material, but it can sometimes be hard to find, and it might not be as clear as it could be. Have you looked at Help:Contents/Getting started and the pages linked from there?

This is the right place to ask (you've found it!) and you've asked in the right way (though we ask that you finish your posting on help and talk pages with four tildes, like ~~~~, which will automatically add your signature and the time and date).

The only specific question you have asked is about autoconfirmation: you're right, that to make it harder for spambots to disrupt Wikipedia, there are some things that you can't do until your account has existed for four days and made ten edits: you have been here for one day and made nine edits, so far, so be patient.

I see that you have been adding information that interests you, for example to hedgehog, but you need to know that there are standards for what information we put in Wikipedia: everything in here is supposed to be taken from published reliable sources such as books or newspapers: things that we know from our own observation are not acceptable: that is part of why somebody has removed your addition to hedgehog (though it would have been kinder if they had explained this in their edit comment). (The other part is that one of the things that Wikipedia is not is a 'how to' guide).

Please don't feel disheartened at your first experiences in Wikipedia: it is a very big place, and just like your school there are rules which can be difficult to learn all at once. If you have specific questions, please ask them here.

Two final points. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a social networking site; and it is called "Wikipedia", not "Wiki": there are thousands of Wikis. --ColinFine (talk) 07:21, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

TEAMtalk media

collapsing infobox
TEAMtalk media Company type Public: (Nasdaq: VMED) Industry Media, Digital Headquarters South Africa, Cape Town and England, Leeds, West Yorkshire Key people Barrie Jarrett - Founder Products www.football365.co.za www.cricket365.com www.golf365.com www.extreme365.com www.planetrugby.com www.planetf1.com Number of employees 65 Website www.teamtalkmedia.co.za

Do you have a question? This is not a page for creating a draft article. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:13, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

q:link What's it mean?

Hi:

This: - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1825, “Work Without Hope"[2][3]

Changed to this: - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1825, “Work Without Hope"q:Samuel Taylor Coleridge#Work Without Hope (1825) q:Hope

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectar_in_a_Sieve

Questions:

1. What is the q:''link'' notation/format mean?

2. Why was the original link format changed to this? / How can I avoid this mistake in the future?

Thanking you in advance,

Sedgefield (talk) 19:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

It is an interwiki link to Wikiquote. I have reformatted it to hide the "q". – ukexpat (talk) 19:51, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

New article query

Hello, how to i get added to your site as far as being listed under my business name or personal name? I am a Chiropractic Physician and want my business to show up. Perhaps im looking in the wrong area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drfallon (talk • contribs) 22:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

I have added a header to your question to distinguish it from other questions on this page. Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia: Article wizard may help. However, you need to look at our conflict of interest and notability rules first. Basically, Wikipedia is not a listings service or business directory. If your company is not notable according to the criteria, with significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources, then it does not warrant an encyclopaedia article about it. Karenjc 22:59, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiCompany may be more appropriate for your business. – ukexpat (talk) 00:53, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

thin-skinned

"Thin-skinned" refers to individuals who are easily upset, rattled, intimidated, offended, and angered by critical or insensitive comments or general negativity around them. The opposite of thin-skinned would be confident, calm, tough-skin, or personally secure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DrD001 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Did you have a question? This page is for help creating articles and suchlike. Definitions are not generally included in Wikipedia - a better location is Wiktionary - where a definition of thin-skinned can be found here -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 08:28, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia pages with same name

I am building a page for Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rc524/Tiempo). This is the first page I've tried to build. I have received some feedback and believe it to be now ready to put as a live page. There are several unrelated pages that have the same or similar names, though. What do I do about this? Rc524 (talk) 13:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

You would have to move it to a disambiguating title, such as Tiempo (programme), and then add a hatnote to Tiempo pointing to Tiempo (programme). – ukexpat (talk) 14:16, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Editing an Infobox

How do I align text correctly to the left within an infobox anyone please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wales63 (talk • contribs) 17:45, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Which text? Are you referring to {{Infobox tennis biography}}? TNXMan 17:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes I need to align the data containing the word WCT Finals correctly to the left as its out —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wales63 (talk • contribs) 17:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

It looks like you are trying to add a line that does not exist in the template. Take a look at all of the parameters in the template. I'm not that familiar with tennis - do any of the ones listed match the WCT line you would like to add? If not, it may be better to add the line that says Othertournaments in order to fill in the WCT result. TNXMan 17:54, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't think {{Infobox tennis biography}} works like that. The |Othertournaments= parameter appears to be just a switch which if set to yes lists the WTA and/or Olympics titles in the box if their relevant parameters are filled in. My guess is that the WCT Finals tournament is not deemed significant enough to be listed in the infobox. If Wales63 wants to discuss this further, the talk page of the Tennis Wikiproject would be the best place. – ukexpat (talk) 18:15, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Title of Wikipedia article

Hi,

I am attempting my first Wikipedia article and want to ensure that the name of this article will not be my Username; however, there seems to be no place to type a heading. I know that for a heading within an article it needs to be written as ==heading==, but to do this at the top of the page will this become to title of the article or not?

Also, I want to be able to draft my article a few times, how do I save my article without it becoming visible to everyone?

Thanks SAIBT NAVITAS (talk) 01:42, 30 September 2010 (UTC)SAIBT NAVITAS

You should create the article in your User space, as, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SAIBT_NAVITAS/MyArticle (note the underscore used for the space in your user name), or User:SAIBT NAVITAS/MyArticle (no underscore needed in this format). The name of the file becomes the article's title. You don't need to add it as a section heading. Once you're happy with the article, and ready for it to "go live", it can be moved into article space. Rojomoke (talk) 02:03, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

The Article Wizard would help you get through these first steps. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:13, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Create a new page

how to Create a new page —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shareheb (talk • contribs) 02:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Your first article, Wikipedia:Starting an article, and Wikipedia:Article wizard. --Jayron32 04:38, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Shane Boyd Rugby League Born 7-7-1972 Dandenong Victoria

Collapsing draft article

Shane Boyd was born in Dandenong Victoria . Moving to Qld in 1978 and settled on the sunshine coast with his parents . Prominent junior footballer with Tugun Juniors . Played 75 games for the Newcastle Knights from 1994 - 1997 . Unlucky to miss the Granbd Final win due to a major knee injury . Moved to England to play with St Helens in the Super League for a total of 125 games being part of premiership sides in 1999,2000 and 2002 . Challenge cup winner 2001 and 2004 . Shane has been invloved in Youth Development since his retirement in 2003 . Shane lost his wife and youngest child in a car accident in November 2009 . The driver of the vehicle with which they collided had a blood alcohol reading of .234

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Woodendick1972 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

You will need to first register an account, which has many benefits, including the ability to create articles. Once you have registered, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:How to write a great article, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. An Article Wizard is available to walk you through creating an article, but you will need to create an account to use it. if you don't wish to do so, you can submit a proposal for an article at Articles for Creation. – ukexpat (talk) 17:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

NB Article now exists at Shane Boyd (rugby league). – ukexpat (talk) 18:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC)