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August 9

"Characters of x" vs. "List of x characters"

I've noticed that the "characters" articles on Wikipedia seem to be titled in two different ways: "characters of x" and "list of x characters". "List of x characters" end up being lists, while "characters of x" articles are just, well, articles. For example, why is list of characters in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow a list, while characters of Kingdom Hearts not a list? They both appear to be lists. Can someone clarify this for me? Xnux the Echidna 03:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vlore article is offensive to the citizens of vlore

hi!

i am a representative of the municipality of Vlore which is an town in Albania. Recently during my visit in USA i was shown the Wikipedia page of vlore. i personally felt offended by Greek the propaganda and i was surprised on how such incorrect information about a town that is clearly more than 3000 years old was allowed on Wikipedia.

Errors that i found in the article: 1- Vlorë or Vlora (Greek: Αυλώνα, Avlona) is the second.... Greek is not the official language of Albania nor it is a second language. as stated in the CIA world fact book. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/al.html) In my opinion there is not a more accurate source then CIA itself. The Greek name of vlore should be removed.

2- in the history section of the page it states"Vlorë is one of the oldest cities of Albania. It was founded by Greeks in the 6th century BC and named Aulōn, one of three such colonies on the coast of Illyria,[1] mentioned for the first time by Ptolemy (Geographia, III, xii, 2)." Ptolemy which is the only source supporting this statement is not a believable source because of his Greek origin. Source to support historical fact should be independent, while Ptolemy is not.

Vlore article is offensive to the citizens of vlore and Albania, and if changes are not made i will contact the media and high government officials and in response there will be a law suit against wikipedia at international court level.Based on international law in protecting Cultural Heritage, history and dignity on any stated country.

We request that the history section text to be replaced with the text founded on the official municipality of vlore website, on exactly this page http://www.bashkiavlore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=79

We request that you hold this page as our permission to use that text.

we request that only our official user Municipalityofvlore has permission to edit vlore page.

Thank you for your understanding. For more contact Municipalityofvlore user. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Municipalityofvlore (talk • contribs) 05:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please, no legal threats, it's a blockable offense. I doubt that the article had done anything to take away your "cultural heritage, history and dignity", but if you do have reliable citations to back up your claims, post them on the article's talk page and discuss it with the other editors. --T B C ♣§♠ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 06:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also inasmuch as you are a representative of the municipality, you may have a Wikipedia:conflict of interest about the page; so you are discouraged from editing it directly. —teb728 t c 07:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, so Ptolemy isn't an independent source because he was Greek, but the promotional website, seemingly operated by the city itself, and suggested by someone who claims ownership over the article, is independent? − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 08:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Municipalityofvlore should read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:Controversial articles. Ptolemy is a reliable source for the opinions of Ptolemy. Ptolemy's claims themselves may be controversial, but we may have reliable sources to document that Ptolemy made such claims. If we have reliable sources to document claims by other people which contradict Ptolemy's claims, then we document all sides of the controversy. User:Municipalityofvlore should understand the key distinction between two types of claims, for example:

The Earth is flat.
The Flat Earth Society states that the Earth is flat.

Lots of people would dispute the first claim, but we have reliable sources to back up the second claim. There really is (or was) a Flat Earth Society and it really did publish literature claiming that the Earth is flat. --Teratornis (talk) 15:23, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any five components of the Mother Board

Any five components of the Mother Board —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.62.106.116 (talk) 07:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might try the Reference desk, where they answer general knowledge questions. Here, we generally handle questions about Wikipedia. Thanks! L'Aquatique[talk] 07:42, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually you might want to search for an article on mother boards yourself. The Reference desk might tell you do your own homework. —teb728 t c 07:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They would also ask that you reframe this as a question. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 08:31, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creating an infobox

Hi, I would like to create an infobox for UK university rankings, similar to that already in place for US universities, however i'm a little unsure as to how to go about creating an infobox, and moreover am having difficulties locating the code of the aforementioned Infobox "US university ranking". Any help with this would be much appreciated. Flaming Ferrari (talk) 07:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at Help:Infobox and Template:Infobox US university ranking. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 09:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially libelous entry

Please read the section Scandal in the article on Woodstock High School, Woodstock, GA. In this poorly written article, the author accuses the former principal and school board of collusion to cover up an accident but provides no documentation of the charges. If these charges were proven, rather than alleged, there should be citations or, IMHO, this section should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.180.7.75 (talk) 14:01, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The section you refer to in Woodstock High School (Georgia) was removed from the article on August 3, 2008, 6 days before your post here, with the edit summary: "remove uncited section".--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:05, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current page bold

Hi, I'm working on the following code but I've run into a problem. The code is for this:

Computing - Science - Mathematics - Humanities - Language - Entertainment - Miscellaneous

How can I make a link display in bold when it is on a certain page? For example, if this is on the page Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 1, how can I make the word "Miscellaneous" appear in bold? It needs to display bold on Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous and all of it's subpages, and the same for Science, Humanities etc. 20I.170.20 (talk) 14:40, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

change the link destinations. You should use:

{{Message_box |halign = center |message = <center>[[WP:Reference desk/Computing|Computing]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Science|Science]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Mathematics|Mathematics]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Humanities|Humanities]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Language|Language]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Entertainment|Entertainment]] - [[WP:Reference desk/Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]]</center> }} ...... Dendodge .. Talk^Contribs 14:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That suggestion works for the parent pages, but I'm pretty sure it does not work for their subpages. Links to redirect pages do not appear in bold on the redirected-to pages, so your suggestion is correct to that extent (for example: WP:HD is a redirect to this page, and its link does not appear in bold, but Wikipedia:Help desk does). However, I don't know how to make a link to a parent page appear in bold on one of its subpages, and I don't think we would want it to, because that would violate the behavior of self-links everywhere else. See Help:Link and Help:Self link. --Teratornis (talk) 14:59, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so it would have to be done manually. 20I.170.20 (talk) 15:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Normally the way one determines whether a given page is a subpage of another page is to use a magic word. However, Help:Magic words#Page names and related info does not list any magic word that evaluates to the ultimate top-level parent page of a given subpage which is more than one subpage level down. There is a {{BASEPAGENAME}}, but it only evaluates to the immediate parent of a subpage; that immediate parent page could itself be a subpage of a higher-level page, and so on. Thus I don't know how to write an expression that would determine when the current page is a subpage more than one level down from a given page. Someone who is expert at template coding might know a way to do it, but even if a way exists, I would recommend against violating the normal formatting behavior of self links. --Teratornis (talk) 15:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks everyone. 20I.170.20 (talk) 15:24, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German Wikipedia comment help

Hi. I don't have an account on the German Wikipedia, so could someone please copy-paste the following blue-box text into here (note that unless you are logged in, your IP address will be recorded in the edit history):

“

Hi. The reason I wrote the songs was because I came upon that page, and I wanted to add to it, that's about it. Thanks. --comment left for User:AstroHurricane001

”

Thanks. ~A H 1^(TCU) 14:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done PeterSymonds (talk) 14:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why couldn't you post that? You can sign up for a m:Help:Unified login, and then you will have one account that works across all Wikimedia Foundation projects. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 15:21, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

creating a new page...

This is quite hard! I created a page about Adam Jarvis as my user page, I think I'm meant to do that before submitting it? But now when it's been saved it appears as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newfacesonline and not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adamjarvis? When I create another page about the next person would I do that in my user page and if so wouldn't that overide the 1st page I created?...confused :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Newfacesonline (talk • contribs ) 15:57, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As your Adam Jarvis article doesn't appear to be completely ready for the main encyclopedia area (still needs wikilinks, section header for external links, etc.), I suggest just creating a subpage for any other articles you'd like to write. In your address bar, where it says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newfacesonline, just add /new_page_name_here to the end. What I would do is use my user page as a link board with links to all of your subpages. Also, when you feel that articles you have written are ready, you could post a link to them at WP:AfC to have a more experienced editor officially create the articles, or you could move them to where they belong. Be sure they meet they criteria at WP:New and WP:Notability before doing either of these. Best of luck to you! DaRkAgE7 _[Talk] 16:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Your first article.

Ensure that you have an account and you are logged in. If you don't have an account, create one
Make sure the subject is notable enough to have their own article.
Find references
Make sure no article on the subject exists under a different title by typing the subject into the search box to the left (←) and clicking 'Search'
Type the page name in the search box to the left (←) and click 'Go'
Click 'Create this page'
Create the article, including all your references, making sure you adhere to the Manual of Style and our article layout guidelines
Be aware that Wikipedia deletes thousands of new articles for failing to adhere to our policies and guidelines. New articles by new users are at extra risk of deletion, due to new users' unfamiliarity with our rules. Consider gaining experience by editing existing articles before attempting to create new ones....... Dendodge .. Talk^Contribs 16:27, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've created a subpage User:Newfacesonline/Adam Jarvis and linked it from your user page. You can make similar subpages for other article in progress, and link them from your user page. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 16:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New page- backlisted hyperlink?

Hi,

I am trying to create a new page for the group Fuck the Facts. The old was one deleted a while back, and I have been working to create a new one. I am finished it now, and it has been sitting on my talk page. I was now attempting to put it at here (by just copying and pasting from my draft) but it says I have a backlisted hyperlink. I took a look at the link it gave me, but I didn't find much help. Does this mean that I have a link in my page somewhere that is, for some reason, not supposed to be there? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Ibanez Guy (talk) 17:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that means one of the links is on the spam blacklist. You'll either have to ask for it to be removed from the blacklist, or remove it from your article. Calvin 1998 ^(t-c) 18:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template format

For some reason, template navboxes will not work on Template:Hey Arnold. I've even tried copying and pasting already made navboxes into the page, and editing to the subject of the template, but I still am not able to figure out why it will not display. Please help. CoolKid1993 (talk) 18:59, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems [1] fixed it. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:48, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leaving fields empty in an infobox template

Would someone with infobox editing experience please edit {{Infobox Eurovision country}} so that when a field is left blank it will not show up like it does in Lebanon in the Eurovision Song Contest. Grk1011 (talk) 19:37, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edited template to use {{infobox}} (which does most of the missing fields stuff), and added docs --h2g2bob (talk) 23:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but can you make it look like it used to please? There are also "view, edit, etc" links in the bottom corner that need to go. I liked it a lot better when the title at the top was not floating there. Grk1011 (talk) 23:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I removed those links...... Dendodge .. Talk^Contribs 23:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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