Wikiwest999
To Whom It May Concern, The wikipedia article involved in this request is Arlington High School (LaGrange, New York) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Also there is a facebook article involved in this request with the following link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-High-School-LaGrange-New-York/184771638225707 Hello my name is Al and I have a long complicated question involving wikipedia and it's connection to facebook. A lot of the beginning of this question has a lot to do with facebook and is going to require me to tell a story so bear with me. So my curiosity began when facebook changed their profile layout in mid-2010, when the facebook-user's interests and "likes" such as movies and tv shows were automatically linked to a different facebook page. For example if someone "liked" the hobby of "Cooking" a small picture showing the act of cooking would be mounted on their facebook profile in their "interests" section and when clicking on it you'd be directed to a different facebook page showing the description of cooking. What I found interesting was that on this "Cooking" facebook page there was a tab on the left hand side that said "Wikipedia" indicating that all of the information presented on the "Cooking" facebook page was actually extracted from wikipedia. I thought this was really cool. In addition to "interests" and "movies" having there own pictures mounted on one's profile, there are also pictures of the person's college or high school mounted on a person's profile in their education section. I went to Duke University, so there is a picture of the Duke emblem mounted in my profile in the education section of my profile. When I click on this emblem I am directed to a new facebook page, much like the cooking one, where information on the college from wikipedia is displayed. However, my high school (which is named Arlington High School located in Lagrange, New York) did not have a little picture representing it on my facebook profile, instead it was just a silhouette of a person wearing a graduation cap, which I guess is the default picture for schools that have no facebook page, or not a lot of information has been posted on that particular school online. When clicking on this silhouette picture though, I am directed to a different Arlington High School-one that is located in Arlington, Texas. So at this point in time, I was motivated to create a facebook page for my own high school, upload my high school's emblem to it's facebook page, and somehow link my high school's wikipedia page to the facebook page (my high school does in fact have a wikipedia page, it is titled "Arlington High School (Lagrange, New York)"). So I went ahead and tried to do some of that; if you go to facebook and you search "Arlington High School (Lagrange, New York)" you will find my facebook page with the correct description of my high school and the correct emblem as its profile picture (it is currently "liked"by only 14 people). My main question is: am I taking the right approach to doing this? My ultimate goal is to have the emblem of my high school appear mounted on the education section of my facebook profile, and when clicking on it, to be directed to a facebook page displaying the information, extracted from wikipedia, of the correct Arlington High School I attended (in Lagrange, New York). What are the steps that I would need to take do this? Was going ahead and creating a facebook page for my high school a good first step? Will the wikipedia page for my high school somehow get automatically linked to the facebook page when a certain amount of people "like" it? Do you know who I should ask to get this process rolling? So far I have sent a million messages to facebook and they haven't responded. I'm hoping some wikipedia users can give me some help. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Al Wikiwest999 (talk) 01:49, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
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Wikiwest999, good luck, and have fun. ----Demiurge1000 (talk) 02:12, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Someone did something!
editWoo hoo! Someone uploaded a picture of my high school' emblem to its wikipedia page: Arlington High School (LaGrange, New York) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) which is awesome! Yesterday there was no emblem uploaded and now there definitely is! I originally wanted to do this, but I had to wait for my user status to go up. Whoever did it, thank you so much! Does anyone know what the next step is to have my school's wikipedia page exported to facebook? Should I delete the page that I made: (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-High-School-LaGrange-New-York/184771638225707) in order for a new one to be created? Or is there a way to put a "Wikipedia" tab on the facebook page to link the already existing facebook and wikipedia pages? Even if I was successful in doing that, would "Arlington High School (Lagrange, NY)" be able to show up on the options of high schools when choosing a high school in the education section of the facebook profile? If you would like to help and don't know what I am talking about please read my last post. As always any and all help is greatly appreciated. Such a great first step! Thanks again wiki world, Al Wikiwest999 (talk) 23:44, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Article name change request-from Lagrange to Lagrangeville
editHey Wiki world, So this is another post about the following page Arlington High School (LaGrange, New York) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) I attended to this high school, and if you go to its website: http://www.arlingtonschools.org/highschool/ (or to google maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=36&gs_id=2s&xhr=t&q=arlington+high+school+lagrangeville+ny&pq=arlington+high+school&safe=off&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1279&bih=596&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl) you will see that this high school is clearly located in the city of Lagrangeville, New York, not Lagrange, New York. The title of this article is clearly wrong and needs to be changed to from Lagrange to Lagrangeville; is there anyone out there that can help me do this? I've tried doing it myself but I could not figure it out. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Al Wikiwest999 (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- I believe that once you make one more edit (for example, by replying to this saying "ok"), then you should be able to move the page using the instructions found at Wikipedia:Moving a page. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:50, 27 September 2011 (UTC)