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June 13

Adding content

i updated the movie credits of two actors who appeared in a movie i made. the changes appeared - they took - now they're gone. did i not do something when i added the content that i should've? OR could someone have removed my changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.58.204.173 (talk) 00:07, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Someone must have reverted your edit. Maybe you failed to add a verifiable source. I can't help you much more as you haven't included a link to the page and must have a dynamic IP so I can't see your recent contributions. I would also like to suggest that you create an account, for this reason and more that I am including on a template on your talk page. Ryan Vesey (talk) 00:25, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since this was for a movie you made, maybe someone detected your conflict of interest and reverted your edits as spam. —teb728 t c 02:04, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bible Verses

Hello, I was wondering if it is appropriate to cite bible verses as sources in religion-related articles. For example: [1]. 184.36.9.96 (talk) 01:33, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please consider asking this question at the reliable sources noticeboard. They specialize in answering questions about specific sources and will be able to evaluate the reliability of these verses as sources. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 01:46, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In the specific instance you are referring to, the citation is necessary because it quotes the bible verse. Ryan Vesey (talk) 02:00, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Facepalm Thanks Ryan. I should have looked at this more closely. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 02:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template markup

Resolved

– It works now. Thanks John and Fuhghettaboutit. --Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 10:48, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a template that should be transcluded or substituted into a talkpage. I want to achieve that I can place something like {{Template:Nameoftemplate|Example}} on a talk page and produce something like

This is template text Example.

Note that the term "Example" should display as a wikilink. How can I do this? Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 02:23, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I understand but I thought maybe you were looking for something like {{Tltts3}} which allows you to display a template with all its paramters and the template linked (as well as a tool tip). For example, {{tltts3|sdd2|hover over text|par=Article|par2=CSD tag used|par3=reason it isn't a valid speedy}} results in {{subst:sdd2|hover over text}}. There are many variations on these templates which you can explore at Category:Internal link templates (all of these templates start at "tl" which stands for template link).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Try This is template text [[{{{1}}}]]. "1" with three pairs of curly brackets refers to the first unnamed parameter, and then the usual square brackets turn it into a wikilink. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:07, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template coding help

Resolved

– – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 13:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a noticeboard or a place where I can ask someone to write template code for a sandbox template? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:33, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You might ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Alternatively you can give us information about what the template you exactly want to have and we might help you. Regards.--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{Share–a–Power}^{[citation needed]} 10:51, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much! I don't think there is a current need (anymore), but I've been wondering this question for a long time anyway. For future reference, I'll look at the suggested Village pump : ) – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 13:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weird page

When I attempt to move the page Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Just wanted to try it out, nothing malicious intended ;) ), I get a weird message about Image naming policies like this. Is there a problem somewhere? Lynch 7 09:16, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is that on English Wikipedia? I am surprised you have access to the move command at all on that page, for the protection log shows it has indefinite move=sysop protection. —teb728 t c 10:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's here. The "move" command is hidden from the user interface, as you'd expect, but if you try it anyway by using the equivalent URL, you get an incorrect error message. I'm not sure that it's worth fixing though. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thought so. I use a gadget (sorry, I don't know its name), so I get the move option all right. I guess if its hidden from view, it shouldn't be worth fixing. Thanks guys. Lynch 7 14:43, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

log in dates

if i go to my web site and do not want people to see me signed on how do i block the sighn in date.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.164.9.82 (talk) 13:12, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 3.5 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. TN X Man 13:22, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Password help

I forgot my password. And I swear, I really have looked high and low, and I just cannot for the life of me find the link that will cause Wikipedia to send a temporary new one to my e-mail inbox. The link is supposed to be on the login page, but it isn't there. Can anyone advise me? Thanks in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.74.161 (talk) 14:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's a button on the login page. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading a Copyrighted Image w/ Permission

I have an image I would like to upload that is copyrighted, but I have permission from the author to use it. Can I upload it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpencerCaton (talk • contribs) 15:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:COPYREQ#How to ask for permission, Wikipedia:Example requests for permission and WP:COPYREQ#When permission is confirmed. If you follow these steps, it should make everything clear. If you have any questions, please feel free to come back here again. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 16:32, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I recently discovered

that there is a counter that tracks articles that editors have started. I am not particularly interested in stats, but I checked me out ("Vanity, vanity, thy name is carptrash?") and I am somewhere in the top half million or so. I just noticed that an article that I started, Adolph Alexander Weinman, was in fact begun by me while I was not signed in. A look at the history shows (opinion) that pretty clearly. So my question is, how do I get credit for starting that article? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:21, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You could post a note on the talk page, perhaps? See Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit; this kind of history fix was discontinued in 2005. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, John. I think that I will just learn to live with it. As I have with most of my other youthful indiscretions. Carptrash (talk) 21:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

transcluding userbox formula

Hi, I'm wanting to know what I have to do to my raw userbox formula {{

This user lives in the USA

to transclude it. I don't know how anyone else knows how to do this because I can't find a step by step explanation anywhere. Cheers, Tjpob (talk) 15:45, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, simply create a sub page in your user space like User:Tjpob/Lives In USA or some other name, then paste your code into it. To use your userbox on your page, use {{User:Tjpob/Lives In USA}} that should work. I hope that answers your question. Quasi human | Talk 16:19, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My own wiki entry

Hi I have a small profile here at Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gledhill It cites an article it claims I wrote about Peter Mullen. I wrote a blog as recorded but I believe the blog is no longer visible to view. At least I cannot find it. The external link to the source cites an article from the Evening Standard that I did not write. No article as cited ever appeared in The Times . Meanwhile, nearly 25 years of work for The Times, two years for the Daily Mail and two years for the Birmingham Post is ignored. As are five books and countless other articles, interviews and features for publications such as the Church of England Newspaper. This Wiki entry is terribly unrepresentative of my life's work a religion corr of The Times and its focus is fetishistic in way I consider misogynist and sexist. I wonder if there is any way at all of doing anything about this? My entry in Who's Who is much better. (Am I posting this in the right place? Apologies if not.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruthgledhill (talk • contribs) 16:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please read this guideline before editing the article again - also the following section entitled Problems in an article about you. You are most welcome to suggest new content by posting on the talk page, Talk:Ruth Gledhill, ideally giving independent sources so that readers can check the information for themselves.

That blog post about Peter Mullen does exist - I found an archived copy - but I agree with you that it does not belong in an encyclopedia entry about your life and work. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:17, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Norele

Norele, pronounced No"rel*e\, n., an internet search meaning no related content and no relevancy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.244.123 (talk) 16:55, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 16:59, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are suggesting a new topic for an article, first read WP:NEOLOGISM and WP:NOTDICTIONARY. --Teratornis (talk) 18:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

freemasons

I wish to add my name in the list of freemasons, please advise.Prem malik (talk) 18:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are notable and someone writes an article about you, then you can be added to the list. – ukexpat (talk) 18:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are not notable enough for a Wikipedia article, you can make a user page and add one of the freemason userboxes to it. See Category:International organization user templates, for example User:UBX/Freemason. Also see Category:WikiProject Freemasonry members. --Teratornis (talk) 18:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Geoffrey Chaucer

Hello, I'm translating some of this article into the spanish version and when I was seeking for some references found that there is a book for sale that includes wikipedia content. I don't know if that is legal or correct because the book, even cheap, have to be bought. Please check this links, one of google books and other of a store.

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english. --Mechusriva (talk) 19:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia content can be sold, so long as attribution is given. I can literally take the text of Wikipedia articles, print them in a book, and sell that book, and so long as the terms of Wikipedia's reuse license is followed, there are no problems at all. I have not looked at these books in particular, but it is quite possible to sell Wikipedia content. --Jayron32 19:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Alphascript. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 02:11, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Buses

Can somebody please sort out WP:WikiProject Buses, please? I can't get the box to go at the right hand side and the content to go on the rest of the page (the left). Rcsprinter (talk) 19:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(Partial answer)

I think it is a mistake for Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses/right panel to use the {{Float}} template. That template arranges for page elements to ignore each other, possibly overlapping if there isn't room. If you go to Template:Float/doc and then make the browser window very narrow, you should be able to make the word "weapons" disappear behind the second Japanese flag.

If you want the page to have a full-width heading, some stuff on the left, and some stuff on the right, you could try borrowing some of the clever stuff from Portal:Buses, or perhaps some ordinary table markup might fix it. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

incorrect information

An article about Jewelers Row in Philadelphia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewelers'_Row,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania, incorrectly has my father's business as starting in 1851: "The Row is home to the country's oldest continuously operating diamond shop, wholesaler I. Gansky and Co., which dates to 1851." My father, Irving Gansky was born in 1912, came to the United States in 1923. He became an apprentis in the late 20s, and did not open his own jewelry business until the 1940s. Who can remove that sentence from the article? Paula Gansky — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.59.78.124 (talk) 21:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can remove incorrect info. It's best if you could source any change to a reliable source CTJF83 21:30, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Associated Acts

Could someone please create a Page about editing the associated acts section of bands / artist articles on Wikipedia

The whole idea of 'Associated acts' is a bit cloudy what exactly constitutes an associated act and how can this association be shown / cited to be true. I ask as I have seen a few artist pages where Lady GaGa has been added as an Associated act and there doesn't seem to be any apparent artist link or reason for doing so. Likewise this is the case for other artists too the section is a bit vague.

I tried searching for a how to or guide page about this but didn't find one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.49.106 (talk) 21:46, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does Template:Infobox_musical_artist#associated_acts help? I see people overusing it too much to be honest. doomgaze (talk) 21:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that helps thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.49.106 (talk) 21:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help inserting table into template (coding assistance please)

Disregard

– Moving discussion to my talk page for now. : ) – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 03:33, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, first off, I honestly have no clue where to post this question. Someone above kindly pointed me to Village pump (technical), but that place just doesn't seem right. So I'm posting my question in full detail here. On the very top left of this sandbox, User:Keraunoscopia/sandstorm, is a notice of deprecation. It needs to be inserted into Template:Infobox_album/sandbox, specifically in the header11 or data12 fields (I have no clue). Here's why: album reviews are not supposed to be listed in the infobox. If they are, this notice needs to appear directly beneath the "Professional reviews" bar. Please make any necessary changes to the overall width of the table so that it fits within the infobox. Infoboxes, I believe, use ems for widths, and my example simply uses pixels, which probably won't correlate very well. If this is posted in the wrong area, do let me know. Otherwise, thanks so much for any help I can get with this! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 21:58, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Justin Bieber

There is a spelling error on Justin Bieber's page. It is under full protection. The error occured on the last comment on the talk page and at the bottom of the 2010-present section. It is incorrectly spelled "Beiber" instead of "Bieber". I hope you can fix it. 166.249.132.182 (talk) 23:55, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done I have corrected the spelling error. Alpha Quadrant ^talk 23:59, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]