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December 6

Collapsible templates

The template concerned is a season list one (Template:All Saints season 10 episode list). I have included it in the infobox for the episodes of All Saints but it is quite a long list and so, for reasons of neatness, I would like to make it collapse. I have tried adding "state=collapsed" to the template when i am including it in the infobox but it does nothing. Could you please tell me how to make it collapse? Thanks.Davido321 (talk) 00:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Davido321, could you provide a link to which article you added the template and also tell us where in the article you added it? Thanks, --Kudret abi^Talk 00:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yeah sure, sorry, I should have included it: Against the Wall - Part 1

As far as I can see, the code generating the title "Season 10 episodes" is part of Template:Infobox_Television_episode so the collapsible code probably needs to go into that template. Perhaps the episode list could be a table nested inside the infobox table, and it could be made to appear collapsed or expanded based on a parameter for the template? --Kudret abi^Talk —Preceding comment was added at 01:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Error on "Barry Sanders" page

Please see the discussion of Barry Sanders (football player) under "1997 Season" someone has altered this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.91.7.194 (talk) 00:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am not sure what the question is, but it looks like you are trying to find out the changes made to the article Barry Sanders. For this you can click on the "history" tab on top of the page and view who made what changes. --Kudret abi^Talk 01:14, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The section was vandalized by User:12.125.2.166 and has since been corrected by User:70.109.4.126. Algebraist 01:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page was vandalized and reverted--English836 (talk) 03:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo and Text placement

I recently added a photo to an article, now text is squeezed between this image and an infobox, Ashford, New South Wales I would like to improve the appearance of the article, spacing works but I am sure there is a better way could someone direct me to an editing hints page, thanks --Matt (talk) 01:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You could change the image placement to put it on the right (below the info box) like this: [[Image:Ashford.JPG|thumb|right|The Main street of Ashford NSW]] or you could put it in the info box like this:

{{Infobox Australian Place | type = town

| name = Ashford

| state = nsw

| image = Ashford.JPG

| caption = The Main street of Ashford NSW

| lga = [[Inverell Shire Council|Inverell Shire]]

...

Astronaut (talk) 01:42, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hope this is the correct spot for asking a question

I cannot make any edits under my account name at all, due to some sort of blacklist for a URL I know nothing about. Can anybody help?Kitchawan (talk) 01:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not clear what you are asking. You don't seem to be blocked at the moment. What is the error message that you are getting when you try to edit a page? Are you trying to edit without logging in, perhaps using an open proxy? (c.f. WP:PROXY). --Kudret abi^Talk 02:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You made an edit to post your question here and have made two article edits later so I guess you don't need help now. If you have a problem editing a specific page then please which it is. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Based on what you said, it seems you got hit by one of our spam filters. To help prevent the addition of disruptive spam links, certain external links are blacklisted, meaning nobody can save a page that contains the offending URL. As you've seen, however, this creates some problems when a page has a spam URL on it before the URL is blacklisted. When you get the error message, it *should* tell you which URL is causing the problem - all you have to do is go back to the editing window, find that URL, and delete it. Once all blacklisted links are removed from the page, you should be able to save your edits. WP:BLACKLIST can provide you with more information. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 02:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

random article options

I think this has been asked, but: I specialize in geography. When I click random article, is there a way for me to filter only geography things coming through? I'd prefer not to have to click 10 times just to get to an article with relevant stuff I could do. S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ^{(Talk to Me)} 03:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think there is (and I'm sure someone will be along promptly to correct me if I'm wrong). Even though it's one more step than if you could filter random in the desired manner, you can always click on random articles yourself in Category:Geography and its subcategories; maybe set the category as your homepage.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fuhghett is correct. The only guarantee you get with Special:Random is that you'll get an article and not a user or policy page. The only way you can change the results is by adding "/Namespace" to the end - for example, Special:Random/User will generate a random user page. I tried it with a subject and I got a disambiguation page that was completely unrelated. Sorry. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 03:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This question has come up before on the Help desk; try searching for previous discussions: Search Help desk for: random article from category. I remember trying to answer this question before, and not doing a very good job. This time I looked at the Editor's index, and I see an interesting entry under WP:EIW#Random:

Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article - example of how to generate a random page from a specified set of articles

I looked at the wikitext to see how the author generates random articles from a set. The method would be straightforward to adapt to another set of articles, but the template contains a hard-coded list of articles from which to select one randomly. Generating the list of articles would be somewhat tedious. I guess you would use Special:Export to generate a big list of page names from several categories; copy the list of page names to an external editor (i.e., just copy the titles, you don't need to actually export the page content to XML); sort the list of page names, remove duplicates, delete things that are not articles (such as things that start with namespace prefixes); do a big column edit to format the list of article titles the way the Middle-earth/Random-article page does; adjust the constant in the random number equation to account for the number of articles you have. Sounds like a bit of a chore, but completely straightforward. You could make it a subpage of Portal:Geography by analogy to the Portal:Middle-earth arrangement. --Teratornis (talk) 04:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Except that I don't especially like the hyphen in the subpage title: "Random-article". I would just call it "Random article". I might try making a page like this for Portal:Cycling because it looks like such a cool feature. --Teratornis (talk) 04:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Limit on number of times you can call a template?

I think I have exceeded the limit for the number of times I can call a template on this page:

List of museums in the United States

I know that this is not a problem with markup because of this:

Minnesota looks fine in this version (from history):

Version 1

But in the very next version when I added a large quantity of calls of Template:Museum to a completely different section, look what happened to Minnesota:

Version 2

Minnesota was not changed from Version 1 to version 2, only more calls to Template:Museum were made before it.

Can anyone help me figure out exactly what is going on? Is this a bug or is this an intentional feature? What can I do about this? It was working out very well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 03:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Template limits. And see Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2007 November 14#Article has been wrecked - List of twin towns and sister cities for a former discussion. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where?

Where is the authors name on wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.227.208.72 (talk) 03:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Click "history" at top of a page to see the usually many contributors to that page. But maybe Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia and the "Cite this article" link in the toolbox to the left of an article is what you want. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Most people contribute under false names. You are allowed to use your real name. They can track you down by tracing the computer you are using so this is why you should avoid writing anything that you would be ashamed to see if your name was listed as the author. Congolese (talk) 07:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

free down load - Reg.

Dear Sir,

I want to down load wikipedia encylopedia. Any version is available for free down load?. Pl. inform me the details. How to down load and install.

Thanking you,

gsre 07 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.88.6.240 (talk) 05:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You'll want to take a look at Wikipedia:Database download. Good luck! GlassCobra 05:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of notes: 1) Everything on Wikipedia is free. That's the whole point of the encyclopedia! 2) Wikipedia is really, really big; before downloading, make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive. I've heard some of the larger database downloads are over 100GB. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 05:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you only want to read Wikipedia articles, as opposed to downloading a functioning local mirror of Wikipedia for research, see Tome Raider. If you really want to do some sort of research project on the structure of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia. --Teratornis (talk) 17:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Megaglobe -International Search Engine

I am very surprised not to be able to find information about Megaglobe, the new international search engine.

There are a ton of press releases about them, millions of visitors a month but no article on Wikipedia.

Actually Megaglobe is also in the top 100 search engines, so you might want to update your Wiki because there are a lot of discrepencies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.138.131 (talk) 05:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anything from news outlets (press releases are released by the company itself)? Visitors don't mean anything if there are no third party references. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 07:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Megaglobe was deleted 14 November with deletion summary:‎ (CSD A7 (Web): Article about a web site that does not assert significance). PrimeHunter (talk) 21:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

weights

what is the relationship between pounds and kilograms,as in, how many kilograms equals how many pounds or viceversa? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.113.74 (talk) 08:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms, and 1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pounds. Also see Pound and Kilogram. Also for future reference, these kinds of questions should normally go to WP:Reference Desk. --Kudret abi^Talk 08:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can also use Google Calculator's wonderfully undocumented unit conversion feature, for example: 1 pound in kilograms =. Actually Google documents this somewhere, at least sketchily, but there aren't many clues on the largely blank Google search form that a sophisticated calculator is hiding right there. --Teratornis (talk) 17:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

pounds

what are pounds? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.220.113.74 (talk) 08:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See my answer above. --Kudret abi^Talk 08:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

my article

I'd like to know if my article is ok now or is it still up for deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gatamanga (talk • contribs) 08:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you are talking about Monique_Dupree. For people, the article needs to clearly establish notability criteria given under WP:BIO; otherwise it may be taken to WP:AFD and eventually deleted. --Kudret abi^Talk 09:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to report changes by vandals

This page has changed "Old Testament" to "Old Testacle"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Nehemiah

Does anyone at Wikipedia care? Is there an easy way to report vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.118.190.129 (talk) 09:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted the edit and warned the vandal. And yes, we have clear guidelines for dealing with vandalism, please see WP:VANDAL. --Kudret abi^Talk 09:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion because it was considered advertising

I want to add a page about Intellect publishing. It has been deleted as it said I was advertising the company. How have the company Future Publishing added a page very similar to the one I tried to create and it still exists?? Melaniesharrison (talk) 10:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Melanie, this is the wrong place to ask that question - go to Wikipedia:Deletion review if you want to dispute the deletion. For the record I've tagged Future Publishing as possible advertising and needing wikification. TrulyBlue (talk) 10:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is absolutely the right place to ask that question. Deletion review is an option, yes; it is not a good place to ask questions, nor does it have a forum to do so. It's an all or nothing process. Melanie, please see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. In short, the nature of Wikipedia means that you cannot make a convincing argument based on what other articles do or do not exist; because there is nothing stopping anyone from creating any article. Plenty of articles exist that probably should not. Equally, because articles must wait for someone who is interested in the subject to notice they are missing before they are created, a lot of articles do not exist that probably should. So just pointing out that an article on a similar subject exists does not prove that the article in question should also exist; it is quite possible that the other article should also be deleted but nobody has noticed it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See also Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?, Wikipedia:Business' FAQ, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Spam, Wikipedia:External links. You add a lot of links to Intellect and appear to only be here to promote them. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do I change a title of a page?

I need to change the title of a page as the company name has now changed. How do I go about this? Also, if I change the name will the links to it still work? —Preceding unsigned comment added by NatalieABC (talk • contribs) 12:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can click on the "move" tab at the top of the page. Type in a new page name and the reasons for moving the page. NF24^{(radio me!)} 12:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moving a page automatically creates a redirect from the old name to the new name, so links will still work. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 15:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ensuring an article appears when a search term is used

Hello,

I am trying to ensure that the following page appears when a reader types in the search term 'PAPI'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAPI:_Personality_and_Preference_Inventory

At present, a long list of alternatives appear but not this actual page.

Could you advise please.

Nick Parfitt

Nparfitt (talk) 13:14, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just add a link to it to the diambiguation page PAPI. Algebraist 14:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved it to Personality and Preference Inventory (Wikipedia doesn't use both acronym and full name in titles) and added it to PAPI. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article submission about an Organisation

Dear Sir / Madam,

I need help regarding submission of my Organisation details. Please get in touch with me as soon as possible at <email removed>.

Thanks & Regards, Harsh Gupta —Preceding unsigned comment added by Advanide (talk • contribs) 14:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The pages at Help:Starting a new page and Wikipedia:Your first article should have most of the information you need. Before you begin, please carefully read through our policies and guidelines on notability, citing reliable sources for verification, neutrality, and formatting and article layout, where many new users commonly make mistakes. You may also want to consider checking out what Wikipedia is not, the deletion policy and criteria for speedy deletion so you know specifically what to avoid when writing your article. I hope this helps.

Since you appear to be writing about your own company, I'd recommend against writing the article yourself. You would have a conflict of interest which may make the article appear as spam, whether that is your intention or not. If you go to Requested articles, experienced editors will research your company and determine if it's notable enough for an article. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 14:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect Information: Stephen J. Friedman

In this entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Friedman

Friedman is listed as the dean of the law school. You'll see, though, that in the law school's entry, Michelle S. Simon is listed as dean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_University_School_of_Law

Friedman is no longer the dean of the Pace Law School. Can you remove that? Here is an article where Simon is named Dean: http://www.law.pace.edu/News/2007/MSimonInterimDean.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Talopes (talk • contribs) 14:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

I was going to suggest you make the change yourself, but you appear already to have done so. Algebraist 14:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question about prod on a particular item

Re Cottesloe band night - I marked this as prod yesterday (Dec 5) on the basis that, although I'm sure it's locally interesting, it doesn't appear to be notable enough for WP. On checking today, I find that the author of the article has removed the prod with no indication why. I've remarked it as prod, but rather than getting into a revert war, I'd appreciate an experienced editor to cast an eye over this and see if I'm being reasonable/unreasonable. The article MAY actually be a CSD, but I was being (I thought) considerate in marking it as prod to allow discussion. Thanks. CultureDrone (talk) 14:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'If this template is removed, it should not be replaced'. Remember that WP:PROD is only for uncontested deletions. Removing the template presumably indicates contesting of the prod, so the correct next step is to take this to AFD. Algebraist 14:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done - so much to learn ! :-) Thanks. CultureDrone (talk) 15:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, the Algebraist is right, but it would make things a lot easier if people removing prods actually provided a reason. It's mentioned in the template! Then again, perhaps it's just another manifestation of people not reading instructions. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I don't like prods much. They don't leave a 'paper' trail like AFDs do and, to me, they look like an underhand way to delete an article. The entire process depends on the opinion of just two people, the prodder and the deleting admin. If at all possible, I prefer AFD. People use prod templates too much on articles that are clearly going to be controversial. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IF I donate to Wikipedia

does it solely go to this wikipedia or does it go to all the other stuff [like wiktionary]? Gentleness · Talk 19:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you donate, you are donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia covers a lot of great projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, etc. (full list at www.wikimedia.org) tiZom_(2¢) 19:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

past tense or present

Which tense should be used, past or present. For example, the Boeing 737 is an airplane. the 737-200 is no longer made. The 737-800 is still being made. Should the article read:

The Boeing 737 is an airplane with 2 engines. In 1967, the first 737 flew (not flies). There are many models.
The 737-200 is (or was) a short, stubby plane (or was because it is no longer made?)
The 737-200 has 6 doors (not had because there are still 737-200 aircraft flying today?)
Lufthansa German Airlines ordered some planes (not orders).
The 737-800 is a long, skinny plane that has 8 doors.
Delta Airlines ordered some 737-800 aircraft (not orders).

I think I can figure this out but advice is appreciated. Archtransit (talk) 19:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If it is still in use I think you should use the present tense. The planes, after all, still exist. Gentleness · Talk 19:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Past tense/present tense. And see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Tense. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

privacy

How do I ensure that information pertaining to myself does not appear on wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.253.111.98 (talk) 19:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only information about you that will appear on Wikipedia is your IP address (or username if logged in) and any personal information you yourself say in an edit. Since an IP address technically can reveal some details about your location and internet connection, I'd recommend creating an account under a pseudonym; this will allow you to edit with greater anonymity. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:42, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean preventing that other people add information about your person to a Wikipedia article? If you are considered notable then Wikipedia does not generally allow you to prevent mentions of you, but see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons about the possibility of getting some types of information removed. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Username/password for Hornli Ridge

Hello,

I signed up yesterday and promplty forgot what password I have used.

I have asked for a password reminder and I have recieved one.

I have tried the password as sent by email but it doesn't work so I have created a new account:

Hornli Ridge2

You might want to inviestigate why the password wasn't changed but the email was sent.

You might also want to delete the account Hornli Ridge

So far I am not very impressed. One more go then I'll call it quits and write my stuff on my own web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hornli Ridge2 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Accounts can't be deleted; the MediaWiki software doesn't allow it, and it can't be done for legal reasons under the GFDL. Try again and see if it works, or just contribute under your new username. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Welcome to Wikipedia. Your ability to post here with the account Hornli Ridge2 shows that it is already working. I don't know what happened with the Hornli Ridge password but you could try requesting a new password again. Accounts cannot be deleted, but if you want your currently working account to be called Hornli Ridge without "2" then somebody should be able to rename both accounts. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images without linking to the image page

This may possibly be the wrong place to ask this question, as it is mainly about using the MediaWiki software, rather than actually using Wikipedia itself. However, I couldn't think of a better place to ask it.

Is it possible to include an image in a page without having the link to the image information page being created? A wiki that I frequently visit would benefit from the ability to have images load without the links. It's using MediaWiki 1.10.0, in case that information is important. --Lardarse (talk) 19:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You could try at the MediaWiki support desk. --Jon186 (talk) 20:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And see mw:Help talk:Images#Images linking to something else than the Image page?. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And more importantly mw:Extension:ImageMap Prodego ^talk 20:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References numbered incorrectly at Emily Dickinson

Hello, I hope this is just a small technical problem I can't seem to figure out, but there is something wrong with the ref numbers in the Dickinson article. There are fifty-one references, but the reflist has only fifty listed because #34 is listed twice and each following number is therefore off by one. Could someone take a look and let me know what to do? Thanks! María (habla conmigo) 20:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All you have to do is find the second place where the ref is in the article, and replace that ref with <ref name=""/>. In side the "" just put the name of the ref and it should work fine. ~ Bella Swan 20:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see a problem in Emily Dickinson. Reference 34 is only in the reflist once for me and the last reference has number 51. Try to bypass your cache. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Really? I bypassed and emptied my cache, looked again and there's still only fifty with a duplicate #34. Also, when I clicked the ^ next to the first #34, it disappeared, being replaced by a duplicated #44. When I refresh the page, it goes back to two 34s. Er...? María (habla conmigo) 20:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see Image:Emily Dickinson screenshot.jpg. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMedia Tech needed... Date wrong

All of the timestamps in Wikipedia (can't beleve it took me a year to notice this) are a month behind. It's December, not November. Can we get a tech from WikiMeda to fix this? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vistro (talk • contribs) 21:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have an example to link to? It seems to be working fine for me. --TeaDrinker (talk) 21:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My user page claims it was edited the 6th of November, but I edited it today. Also, if you look at the history for the community portal, the latest edit was November 6th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vistro (talk • contribs) 21:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On your userpage, I see one edit on November 7 and one on December 7 (UTC +11, hence the day difference). Have you got a screenshot or something showing the dates, or is that November one also meant to be December? Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 21:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect your contributions page is an old cached version. Have you tried to bypass your browser cache on the page that has the supposed error? - Mgm|^(talk) 22:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neurosurgery

neuro surgery —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.52.18.58 (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neurosurgery? --TeaDrinker (talk) 21:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If that article doesn't have what you're looking for, you might try asking a more detailed question at the Reference Desk, which specializes in knowledge questions. We're only here to help you use Wikipedia. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

how to add a file to an article

I uploaded a jpg photo of a lava heron to be used in the article on lava herons. Unfortunately, the file seems to have gone into limbo - it is not linked to the article. How do I link it?

I am finding the process of adding photos to your articles so frustrating that I may not do so in future. The difficulty of the process may be putting off many other people as well as me. Please put up clear instructions on how to link the image one uploads to an article.

The article is

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lava_Heron&oldid=166029182

The uploaded jpg is called "Lava heron Ecuador_4008a.jpg" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soler97 (talk • contribs) 22:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Instructions for inserting an image into an article are at WP:IMAGE#Using images. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Click "my contributions" at the top of any page to get Special:Contributions/Soler97 which shows Image:Lava heron Ecuador 4006a.jpg. There is no image called Image:Lava heron Ecuador_4008a.jpg. This edit would have worked if you had used the right file name. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

What's the difference between banned users and blocked users? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bane of Durin (talk • contribs) 23:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Purely quoting from policy pages: A ban is a formal revocation of editing privileges on all or part of Wikipedia. Blocking, by contrast, is the technical mechanism we use to prevent an account or IP address from editing Wikipedia. While blocks are one mechanism used to enforce bans, they are most often used to deal with vandalism and violations of the three-revert rule. Blocks are not the only mechanism used to enforce bans. A ban is a social construct and does not, in itself, disable a user's ability to edit any page. You will get much more in depth information and understanding if you read the policies themselves: Wikipedia:Banning policy; Wikipedia:Blocking policy.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

View without citations in text

Is there any way I can read an article without the distracting citations? Gforce20 (talk) 23:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, use

.reference { display: none }

in your CSS file.--Patrick (talk) 00:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]