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October 3

Citing Wikipedia

Do I have to cite wikipedia if I use it for information. If so, is the name of the site "Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia?" Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.103.0.1 (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at WP:CW. – ukexpat (talk) 00:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cats Singapore.

Why do so many cats in Singapore have unusual short malformed tails? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.49.72 (talk) 01:16, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried the Miscellaneous section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you refer to the Japanese Bobtail. I found this article in two steps:

I pasted part of your question into {{Google}}: cats in Singapore have unusual short malformed tails
That found a link which mentioned "bobbed tail" so I searched Wikipedia with Google for: cat bobbed tail, and the top result was Japanese Bobtail, a cat breed common in Japan and Southeast Asia.

My cursory search did not reveal for sure that the cats in Singapore are Japanese Bobtails, but the breed fits the description and lives in the general area. The next step would be to read more about that breed and see if it is common in Singapore. For example, you could probably call any pet shop or veterinarian in Singapore and ask them, or search for cat fancier associations in Singapore. Or just read this page. --Teratornis (talk) 17:43, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Postcard's License

Aquitania (talk)If I want to upload postcards, what license will be?Aquitania (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 02:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC).[reply]

See my reply to your similar question here. The answer has not changed. —teb728 t c 07:58, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leighrayment.com

I just found another instance of [:http://www.leighrayment.com/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page] on Eardley-Wilmot Baronets (see history) although google and wiki don't list it. There are numerous others that need changing, because he is now at www.leighrayment.com, e.g. Williams Baronets and Baron Coleraine. How do I find them all? Kittybrewster ☎ 12:23, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try this Special:Linksearch. You can plug other urls with a wildcard before them such as *.leighrayment.com--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New question - wealth

do you know the links between wealth and value creations —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.230.34.24 (talk) 16:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Desk. Your question appears to be a homework question. I apologize if this is a mis-evaluation, but it is our policy here to not do people's homework for them, but to merely aid them in doing it themselves. Letting someone else do your homework does not help you learn how to solve such problems. Please attempt to solve the problem yourself first. If you need help with a specific part of your homework, feel free to tell us where you are stuck and ask for help. If you need help grasping the concept of a problem, by all means let us know. Thank you! TN‑X-Man 16:25, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Start by reading the Wealth article. If you want to surprise your teacher, you could work in some of Richard Heinberg's articulation of Ecological energetics from The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Heinberg focuses more on energy as an input for wealth creation. Other authors such as Raymond Kurzweil focus more on information. One can characterize the many various inputs for wealth creation in terms of energy, material, and information. For example, labor provides highly sophisticated forms of information processing, and small amounts of energy from muscles. Humans provide only negligible amounts of material directly (such as human hair for wigs, and donor organs); most material that humans convert into useful products comes from natural resources; some of these are finite, and others are renewable. Computers are an attempt to automate the information processing formerly done by human brains, but at the moment computers can only replace human labor in a tiny subset of tasks, and are mostly useful now to augment human intelligence by handling the highly repetitive grunt work, freeing humans to focus more on the sloppy, noisy, unstructured, and ill-posed problems which humans can sometimes solve by mental processes that no one fully understands yet. When someone fully understands the underlying mental processes, they will program them into computers. For more about that, see:

Kennedy, Noah (1989). The Industrialization of Intelligence: Mind and Machine in the Modern Age. Unwin Hyman. ISBN 9780044403456.

--Teratornis (talk) 18:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox?

Resolved

– Tnxman307 was kind enough to answer my question Anonymous101 (talk) 19:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the appropriate infobox for Constitution of Cyprus? Anonymous101 (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{Infobox document}} is the box on the page for the US Constitution. I think it would be the best one to use. Cheers! TN‑X-Man 19:30, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That is exactly the type of infobox I was looking for, I just couldn't find it. Anonymous101 (talk) 19:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Single and double spacing

Hi. Is it just me, or is it that when you edit an article the text seem to randomly switch between single and double spacing, and the changes seem to register on the main text as well? Thanks. ~A H 1^(TCU) 22:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to say it's just you, as I've no idea what you're talking about. Could you possibly provide a screenshot? Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 00:08, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is because some editors prefer to double space, and some prefer to single space after a full stop. See here. — neuro^(talk) 10:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]