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December 16

more help is sought with new articles - feel free to edit them as you please

• William_Z._Hassid
• Paul_D._Foote

Wikipedia logging me out

I have tried different methods to keep Wikipedia from logging me out on chrome as every time it does it crashes the browser. Is there anyway to keep Wikipedia from logging me out a couple of times a day?Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:00, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Are you clicking the stay logged in for 30 days box? - Purplewowies (talk) 04:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Did you see the reply to your question at #When I am logged out on google chrome? —teb728 t c 05:59, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes thanks I saw your response. The clicking stay logged in does not keep me logged in for 30 days.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:24, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

You may be focusing on the wrong issues. Are you having the same problems logging out of other sites? I found several posts by other Chrome users who are also having issues with crashing on logoff (not just on Wikipedia). It seems to be related to Chrome's built-in Flash plugin conflicting with a manually installed Flash plugin. Here's a page detailing how to disable the built-in one. You might also simply try downloading the latest version of Chrome as it seems to have fixed the issue(?).-- Obsidi♠n Soul 20:08, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

asp.net

on button clicked there are two process i want to give first preference to particular process than how i do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.7.47 (talk) 04:36, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Computing reference desk. They specialize in answering computer questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. —teb728 t c 05:55, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

External links

I was recently editing a page, and put a link to facebook (this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Styn) my whole edit was taken down by the bot. I undid it and took out the fb link, as that was the only thing listed. Is the rest of it fine? I was looking over the page of another favorite author, and saw that they had a link to a facebook fan page. Is linking to that okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pizzamancer (talk • contribs) 04:59, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Most but not all facebook links are inappropriate. See the guideline at WP:FACEBOOK. —teb728 t c 05:47, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The rest of the edit looks fine, adding an infobox and some referenced information. I have removed the second external link, though; the Wikipedia content guideline on External links is stricter than many editors realise. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:42, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Picture

Hi..i was just experimenting with this pic [1] on Wikipedia. Now that i have, could it please be removed straight away? I am aware it isn't suitable and violates copyright etc. etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luckygambi (talk • contribs) 05:45, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

You could tag it {{db-author}}. —teb728 t c 05:50, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Deleted.  An optimist on the run! 07:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

What is Wikipedia

hi am lalitha what is meant by wikipedia. what type of information we get by using this. and by the by wht kind of questions should we ask. please inform me about this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.248.164.209 (talk) 09:13, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia built by volunteers over the internet. In order to read more, please see Wikipedia:Introduction. This page (the help desk) is for all kinds of questions regarding using, editing and reading Wikipedia. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. 217.91.113.188 (talk) 10:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

See also the Wikipedia article on itself. —teb728 t c 10:46, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Inserting Umlaut and Accent symbols

How do I insert the German Umlaut symbol or the French Accent above letters when editing English text? Lankyrider (talk) 11:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

When editing, click on "Special characters" which is just above the edit window. You can select accented characters from there. Alternatively, you can configure your computer to allow you to type them directly. For example, on my Windows 7 PC I can press ALT-CTRL-e to get é and, with the 'language bar' enabled and Japanese installed, I can switch to hiragana and type だいじょうぶ. The input methods will depend upon your specific computer software.  Chzz  ►  11:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I get €. But I have my keyboard set to US International. Typing accents is then automated, e.g. type an accent sign, then the letter will produce the right character. For example, typing ' then e gives é, and typing " then o gives ö. — Edokter (talk) — 12:11, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

(e/c) You can access numerous characters like this by going to the drop down menu below the save page button when you are in edit mode. See the Latin menu especially. We also have article on many characters (e.g., É, Ě, Ë) and you could bookmark the category they are in, Category:Specific letter-diacritic combinations which contains many. Maybe better, try Category:Writing system templates which contains for example {{Latin alphabet}} and {{Diacritical marks}}. These can also be placed by looking up their HTML codes. See this site.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The method I use is to learn the ALT codes. To use these, you hold down the ALT button, type the number with the numeric keyboard and then release the ALT button, and the desired letter appears. ALT+0252 gives ü, ALT + 0223 gives ß, ALT + 0246 gives ö, etc. Mjroots (talk) 19:49, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

If you have Windows, you can also go the Character Map program. Click the square that displays the character that you want to type, and then hit the "select" button. Next, click the "copy" button, and this will put the character into your clipboard; selecting the "Paste" command or typing "V" while holding down the Control key will paste it into your page. As well, if you want to do like Mjroots and I do with the ALT+ method, go to Character Map and select a character; if it can be typed this way, the program will have a message saying something like "Keystroke: Alt+____", where the + sign is followed by the numbers you need to type while holding down Alt. In Windows 7, that message appears in the bottom right corner of the window. Nyttend (talk) 02:24, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine partial undeletion request

The reference list has been missing after two revisions after 12.35 GMT 16/12/2011. Can the page with previous reference list be restored? Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobechara (talk • contribs) 13:28, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I figured out that you don't mean the article Moonshine, you mean the article Moonshine by country.

The problem was, you'd inserted a <ref> with no corresponding </ref> at the end of it.

References should be placed directly after facts, within the main body-text. The system automatically lists them as numbered references. For example,

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

See WP:REFB for help with that.

I have undone your two edits, so Moonshine by country looks OK again now. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  13:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

email

How do i email an article i like — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leebeeb (talk • contribs) 13:37, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Send the other person an e-mail with the URL of the article you like. As a matter of policy, Wikipedia doesn't have any Facebooky features for social-media-style "sharing" of articles. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

See User:TheDJ/Sharebox for an optional feature for registered users. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Sharebox is a script that reorders your toolbox. It adds new buttons that make it easier to mail, print or share an article on Facebook or another linksharing service. You must have an account to add Sharebox to the sidebar. See User:TheDJ/Sharebox for more information. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 18:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

moving a page

I am trying to move the page Savasana to Shavasana but I can't quite figure out either A) how to do it or B) how to request that it be moved by someone smarter than me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dturner (talk • contribs) 15:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The redirect from Shavasana to Savasana would need to be deleted before the page could be moved. - Purplewowies (talk) 16:06, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Please make a request at WP:Requested moves. – ukexpat (talk) 16:46, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Edited page, changes do not appear.

I edited a page that was two years out of date, but even though I saved the changes, the page is still the same.

The page in question is a society within a university and changes regularly, how can I update the page?

Ruthnicginnea (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Chuallacht,_UCC

That is the page I am referring to.

Ruthnicginnea (talk) 16:07, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Simple... A quick look at the edit history here shows that the XLinkBot robot reverted your edits because it detected that you added a link to a Facebook profile. Try your changes again, without the Facebook profile this time. :-) Happy editing! —Duncan^{What I Do} / _{What I Say} 16:11, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

User?

Why does the page I have created say user on it before my company name? Duvalay (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Because you created your advertisement in a user page rather than as an article. Your user page has now been tagged for speedy deletion as spam and your user name blocked as a breach of the user name policy. You may find that Wikicompany is a more appropriate outlet for what you want to do. – ukexpat (talk) 16:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Question

Do editors get some kind of a rating based on the number of contributions, articles created, etc ? Standard2211 (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Nothing official, Wikipedia:Service awards has some "awards" you can display on your user oage if you wish. Яehevkor ✉ 16:31, 16 December 2011 (UTC) (Veteran Editor II)

what about the unofficial rating :-) What is mine Standard2211 (talk) 16:49, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

There is no official rating. There are only the service awards, which are not official. -- kainaw™ 16:53, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, 4 days and 10 edits makes you autoconfirmed, but that's the closest thing we have to an official "rating" based on contribution statistics. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:24, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

There are also userboxen which can display your total contributions, new pages, account age, etc. Check Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Stats and tools. Rmhermen (talk) 18:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Labelling minors as drug addicts in Wikipedia Page

Hi Wikipedia Help Desk,

Reference: Vikram Varma profile page. (Advocate in Goa, India)

Problem: User Reptozoid logged on to Wikipedia for the first time (Reptozoid has not created / edited anything in Wikipedia before) and created a very biased, libellous page for Advocate Vikram Varma who lives in Goa, India. You can see the very first page he created and contrast it with current page to see his biases.

Today (Dec 16, 2011), Reptozoid logged on to Vikram Varma page and left the following comment

" Fiona MacKeown and her children were recognized as regular drug users during the period of Scarlett's death and was reproached child neglect by the authorities.[4] MacKeown sold TV rights of the aftermath of Scarlett Keeling to Channel 4 U.K. for a sum of 15000 pounds.[5] "

- Who has a right to call any children drug users on a public Wikipedia page? All these children are still minors

- Also, why should any specific clients of any lawyer be discussed on any Wikipedia page?

Please also check if Reptozoid is using a Proxy Server to leave such negative comments

Please could someone fix this asap as calling children drug addicts is not only libellous, it is very immoral

Thanks --GurgaonUser (talk) 17:51, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

You should discuss article contents on the article talk pages. Removing reliably cited information with no explanation is discouraged. (I would suggest that much of the material belongs in a possible article about the murder and not the the article about the lawyer, though.) Rmhermen (talk) 18:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

dick litlefield baseball pitcher

i knew mr. little field if that is suposed to be his photo it is not him — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.217.172.144 (talk) 18:45, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Can you tell us what article you are talking about, because the Dick Littlefield does not have a picture in it. GB fan 18:49, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Maybe the IP user is seeing the fundraising banner? That seems to have caused some confusion with article subjects. – ukexpat (talk) 18:54, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

How does the review process work? How can one ask reviewers to review the newly created page?

How does the review process work? How can i ask reviewers to review the newly created page?

Please provide a step-by-step instruction

Thanks in advance.

ie; this page should be reviewed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohana — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haminiwiki (talk • contribs) 19:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

It is normally come to quite soon in a backlog, but I've done it for you. Rcsprinter (chatter) 19:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I have tagged it for speedy deletion as it contains no assertion of importance or significance. – ukexpat (talk) 19:26, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Chhundo

Hey, I've created this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhundo. Can someone review it for me please? The page to get reviews says service is not available. Noopur28 (talk) 09:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Receive email when article in watchlist is edited or vandalized

Hello to the Wikipedia: Help desk; I've been creating articles which may be susceptible to vandalism, prompting my curiosity regarding the following:

Is there a feature or an external source which will send me an email when one of the articles in my watchlist is edited?

Such a feature would allow me to more effectively monitor for vandalism.

Thank you for your time,

User:Mikepabell

Mike P. Abell 19:46, 16 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikepabell (talk • contribs)

Do you intend to disclose your conflict of interest? – ukexpat (talk) 20:27, 16 December 2011 (UTC).

Having now read most of the articles that you have created, this all looks like one big spamfest to me. Other eyes on these articles would be appreciated. – ukexpat (talk) 20:37, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Conflict of interest, you say? [2] Brammers (talk/c) 12:35, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

There is a feature that will email you each time someone leaves you a notice on your user talk page that one of your articles or files is up for deletion. To activate this feature check "E-mail me when my user talk page is changed" on your Special:Preferences page. —teb728 t c 23:54, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Created a new article in the userspace

Hi there, I've just created a new draft in the userspace, I'd be very grateful to get some feedback from the Wikipedia Help desk before I put any more work into! Apparently the "Request for Feedback" feature is currently inactive?

Do I need to post a link or can other users see the draft?

Much obliged.

D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davescanlon (talk • contribs) 21:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Draft is User:Davescanlon/List of Placenames in The Meaning of Liff. – ukexpat (talk) 21:37, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I haven't read the book, so perhaps I'm missing something, but why should this be an article? Conceptually, one could grab any one of millions of books, and make a list of all locations, or dates. I don't see much value. It is not uncommon to make a list of characters, but that seems quite different.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:46, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the feedback SPhilbrick. The book is just a list of placenames, each with a humorous "definition". There are no characters (or plot), so to my mind the placenames themselves are of note in as much as the book itself is of note. Interestingly, the Wikipedia entries for some of the placenames I've already entered (e.g. Abercrave) include the Liff definition. Perhaps a Wikipedia Category might be a better fit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davescanlon (talk • contribs) 19:54, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

I suggest you don't create a category, as I can't imagine anyone wanting to use this book's entries as their guide for navigating the encyclopedia. Also I don't think that the "definitions" should be added to the placename articles unless, for a particular case, you can find a reliable source that has remarked on it.

I think that a more worthwhile effort would be to improve the book article, The Meaning of Liff, since there's very little there to show that the book is notable - the guideline is at Wikipedia:Notability (books). -- John of Reading (talk) 08:36, 21 December 2011 (UTC)