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December 16

Wrong picture in the Adelaide Anne Procter Article

Someone has put the the image of anal penetration as the the portrait of Adelaide Anne Procter. I thought you should know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.237.54 (talk) 00:22, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Appears to be fixed now. Funny thing is that I can't tell when it was vandalized. Dismas|^(talk) 01:09, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was revision deleted. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Media Corp International message

Hi there,

I recently set up our company Wiki page but I just got a message from MadmanBot re our content. The message said that the same text can be found on our LinekdIn company page. That is correct. But, we are the same company as that LinekdIn page. Can we not use the same text?

Thanks in advance,

Marketing Director, Media Corp International — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mediacorpinternational (talk • contribs) 00:35, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you use the same text? No, because regardless of copyright issues (the reason the bot posted the message), Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a platform for posting puffery. If your company meets the relevant notability guidelines, as demonstrated by coverage in third party reliable sources, it is possible that a properly-worded and neutral encyclopaedic article on your organisation might be merited - but see also our policy on conflict of interest. Though it will of course be 'our' article, not 'yours', and open to anyone to edit. And note that per the Wikipedia:Username policy we do not permit user names which represent, or purport to represent, organisations or groups of people - only individuals are permitted to register accounts. If you wish to contribute encyclopaedic content to Wikipedia, you will have to register under another name. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:55, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

counties for buffalo new york

trying to find out the county for someone born in buffalo new York back in the 1962.need bith certificate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkyboo627 (talk • contribs) 04:21, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Pinkyboo627: Try Google. The Wikipedia Help Desk is for receiving help with editing Wikipedia articles. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:53, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How to Import Footnotes from MS Word?

I would like to copy/paste some text I typed in Word that has footnotes. Is there any way to have an automatic conversion to ref tags? Right now I would have to go back an manually copy/paste all my footnotes into the text. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcoat513 (talk • contribs) 08:33, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How long is the article and how many footnotes (and how did you do your footnotes in MS?)

in a normal starting length article, creating the draft in your sandbox and cutting and pasting even a dozen references would not be that difficult (note that you do not have to use the citation tool/template- if your footnotes have all the appropriate info, the info can just be placed in between the ref tags.) -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:59, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will be importing a couple hundred footnotes over several articles. The footnotes are all standard MSWord footnotes. I just figured that someone must have created a macro or something that would automatically convert footnotes to ref tags, italics to markup, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.172.221.248 (talk) 16:34, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If there is an automated tool, I don't know of it. There is more than one way to do footnotes in MSWord, by the way. However, you might look at list-directed references. Those might be a bit easier to convert, since the main citation details stay in a separate list. DES ^(talk) 16:40, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Zotero (the standalone version) can be integrated into Word. It can also output bibliographies in the format of cite templates. (It can also output in many other styles, but it is plain text, no italics, boldface, etc., so if you wanted to use it in Wikipedia you would have to add that by hand). However, the Word integration requires the Java runtime, and I'm not willing to install that for security reasons. Thus, I have not experimented with this capability. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Change of title

Hi,

I want to change the name of a page title. The page for University for Information Science and Technology "St. Paul the Apostle" needs to be changed to University of Information Science and Technology "St. Paul the Apostle". I tried to changed it but did not succeeded. Can you tell me how to do it?

Thanks in advanced, Misko — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mihajlovmisko (talk • contribs) 08:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the page (changing "for" to "of"), it does still seem like an odd page title though, with the quotation marks, but I see that is what the website uses. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 08:52, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see that its logo also uses the name "Ohrid University". I wonder what people normally call it. For article titles, the ordinarily used name is preferred to the full formal name, e.g. "United States" rather than "United States of America". Maproom (talk) 09:36, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How to recreate my article, which was deleted?

My article about company was deleted inspite of that it doesn't contain any ads, spam and etc. It contains only facts about the company. I found that it's very unfairly, because the article was here duuring 1 year or more and now I can't make a new one because I didn't save any copy to reserve the text. What should I do?

Thanks a lot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julia.tretyakova (talk • contribs) 10:14, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on your talk page. - Purplewowies (talk) 10:40, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I assume that the question refers to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/EXNESS, deleted as unambiguous advertising or promotion? The draft was discussed nearly a year ago: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2012 December 28#Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/EXNESS, and then subsequently at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2013 July 24#Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/EXNESS and again at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2013 August 1#Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/EXNESS. As the wording of the previous text was obviously not acceptable, anyone writing a new draft should start from square one and base it on information on the company published in independent reliable sources (if there is any such information, & if not there should be no article). It would be unwise for you to try to write it, as editors with a conflict of interest are usually unable to retain a neutral point of view. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:10, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Political

Why does your political page show bias to Labor, Liberal & Conservative when the United Kingdom Independence Party is now poling higher than the liberals ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.220.184 (talk) 11:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To which page are you referring? Presumably not Politics, which is where Political redirects? - David Biddulph (talk) 11:28, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially Politics_in_the_United_Kingdom#Political_parties which accords prominence to parties based on the (not obviously silly) distinction between parties that have returned MPs and those that have not. Alternatively Next United Kingdom general election, where the relegation of UKIP to fourth place is more subtle, but again, not wholly objectionable given the historical parallels. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 12:05, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Search Engine

The page I created does not appear on Wikipedia Search Engine...Why Page name: Cenk Aydin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kemaleer (talk • contribs) 13:03, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article has only recently been created, & the search engine index can take up to 24 hours to update, see Help:Searching#Delay in updating the search index. I see that the article Cenk Aydin does not have any properly formatted references to support specific statements in the article, so please read WP:Referencing for beginners. - David Biddulph (talk)13:10, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much DavidDavid Biddulph (talk) . I tried to Apply your recommendations. Would you please check if aı did it right? Thanks a lot. Still nothing on The search engine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kemaleer (talk)

It's often more than a day. The search index currently appears to be about 48 hours old and Cenk Aydin is only 27 hours. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:37, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

John Buchan Ross

Could someone please review the above article. Many thanks. Gomach (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2013 (UTC) I have introduced a link to the article in the last few minutes. Thanks. Gomach (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article count history

Is there a way to tell how many articles existed on WP on November 1, 2001?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: I don't know if this'll help, but stats.wikimedia.org gives 14k as the official article count for the month of November 2001, while WP:Size of Wikipedia - 2001 archived data gives 16000+ articles for November 6, 2001. benzband (talk) 16:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The first one is clearly only English WP. I will go with that.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:19, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

changing the main content at the top of the page Richard Serra

I have submitted the correction regarding the year of Richard Serra's birth - which is, correctly, 1938 - and that change appears in the box (with an image) on the right side of his Wiki page. However, the content at the very top has remained unchanged, as below:

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

How can this please be changed?

16:33, 16 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geminiatjoniweyl (talk • contribs)

Do you have a reference to a published reliable source for the change? - David Biddulph (talk) 16:39, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please, I wrote a new article

And I'm not a native speaker of English, besides I'd like if anyone can check the copyright status of the picture in the article. Please can anyone read the article and check the picture? Only anyone who wants, the article is Titanic survivor Alfred Nourney. Thanks! Japanesehelper (talk) 20:20, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any picture published in 1912 is now out of copyright in the US and most if not all other countries, so the picture is fine in that regard. The article could use a rewrite and some additional sources, but I see no problem with it as a start. DES ^(talk) 20:34, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Asymmetrical warfare / definition

The article provides a sample definition as follows:

The term is frequently used to describe what is also called "guerrilla warfare", "insurgency", "terrorism", "counterinsurgency", and "counterterrorism", essentially violent conflict between a formal military and an informal, less equipped and supported, undermanned but resilient opponent.

In the context of recent history, the above definition is most clearly exemplified by the lethal effectiveness of a relatively untrained/uneducated warrior who defeated a much more sophisticated and expensive/warrior array by use of a relatively inexpensive and simple weapon. Such was the case of the Mujahadeen fighters in Afghanistan who were able to destroy a sophisticated, powerful and expensive Soviet helicopter by the use of a relatively inexpensive Stinger missile which could be aimed by even an illiterate soldier so long as [s]he possessed good eyesight and reflexes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.79.34.50 (talk) 20:39, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for getting help in how to edit Wikipedia. If you have a suggestion for how to improve our article on Asymmetric warfare it would be best made at Talk:Asymmetric warfare. If you have some problem in editing, it is not clear to me from the above post. DES ^(talk) 20:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Footnotes

Hi,

How do I delete footnotes in my reflist? thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrishaHoffman (talk • contribs) 21:31, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you have been using ref tags, as it seems may be the case, simply delete the <ref> tag, the matching </ref> tag, and everything in between, and the footnote will be gone. If you indicate the article or page you are working on, and what you are trying to do, someone could give more specific help. DES ^(talk) 22:40, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alaska has a law school

I would like to update wiki re the Alaska Law School,In God We Trust the first and only law school in the history of the state. Our official web site will be up this week although other well meaning persons have put up "place holder" websites while the transition is taking place. Since there are so many great and dynamic individuals working on this, I would like to tell you about the school and its people. Our CFO, William Noe, is a senior member of the Harvard Investment Group of New York City. His father invented the seat belt, etc. Please contact me by phone at <number redacted> at your convenience re how to proceed. Thanks, Daun DeVore, Founder — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.43.161.233 (talk) 21:36, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Phone number removed, we don't call people with instructions, we leave responses on this page as it says at the top. DES ^(talk) 22:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The requirements for an article are that third party, reliably published sources have considered the subject worthy of covering in a significant manner.

As someone closely related to the subject you should not create or directly edit it.

You may suggest that it be created at ~~WP:AR~~, WP:RA and include any third party coverage. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:44, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RA, not WP:AR? - David Biddulph (talk) 12:29, 17 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) As the founder of the school you have a clear and large Conflict of interest about the school. You should not write about it here yourself, nor should any of your employees. In a case like this, it is likely that someone else will write about the school fairly soon. If not, you could place a suggestion at requested articles. DES ^(talk) 22:45, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]