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December 24

Biographies of living persons policy

I know there is an established Wikipedia policy regarding biographies of living persons (WP:BLP). Is there a similar policy for biographies of deceased persons? Or is "living persons" in this context meant to differentiate from fictional persons? KuyaBriBri^Talk 04:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Nope, we only have WP:BLP. Fictional or deceased persons cant sue, so we don't care about them is more or less how it has gone down. Icewedge (talk) 04:48, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I would challenge that. Biographies of deceased people still must comply with the fairly stringent policy of verifiability. They just do not have the extra-careful attention paid to them, and editors removing contentious content from them do not have the 3 revert rule exemption granted when doing so to a BLP. -Seidenstud (talk) 07:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Most viewed pages

Resolved

 – ukexpat (talk) 21:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Is there a list of the most viewed wikipedia pages? Thanks --Interesting Drug (talk) 08:21, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Here is one such tool that may suit your needs: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ -Seidenstud (talk) 08:41, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

See also http://stats.grok.se/en/ --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 08:45, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Why thank you, you little charmer. --Interesting Drug (talk) 08:49, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Donation

Hello,

I was trying to donate to wiki, however, the form requires a STATE in the US. Since I live in Turkey, I could not fill that part and also there is no COUNTRY entry. Please modify the form to include all countries and provide a maens to skip STATE.

Regards,

<personal information removed>—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kerciyes (talk • contribs) 09:53, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

There is no such entry in the form I get to by clicking the 'donate to Wikipedia' link on the left sidebar. What, precisely, are you doing to reach such a form? Algebraist 10:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Please do not include contact details in your questions. We are unable to provide answers by any off-wiki medium and this page is highly visible across the internet. The details have been removed, but if you wish for them to be permanently removed from the page history, email this address. Chamal ^talk 11:34, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Browsing in my mother tongue-Tamil

I want to browse Vikipedia in Tamil Version. How to get it? Help me. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.60.254 (talk) 10:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Here. Algebraist 10:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Note that the Tamil Wikipedia is much smaller than the English Wikipedia. You may not find all the articles you want in the Tamil language. However, you could help translate articles from the English Wikipedia to the Tamil Wikipedia. In general, when you translate articles, you need less skill with the "from" language than with the "to" language. It's relatively easy to translate articles from almost any language to your mother tongue if these conditions are true:

• You are familiar with the subject matter.
• You are familiar with writing and formatting articles on Wikipedia.
• You have at least a machine translation of the article in the source language to start with.

Some articles are harder to translate than necessary because they use images which are on the language-specific Wikipedia rather than on Commons. For more information about translating articles, see WP:EIW#Translate. --Teratornis (talk) 21:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

How do I get a template?

I would like to make a template for my profile, but I don't know how to do it! Can you please help me? --S.C.Ruffeyfan 11:38, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

If it's just for you, there's no point making a template (since the point of templates is to be easily reusable in lots of places). What exactly do you want to do? Algebraist 11:43, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I would like it to link it to various pages I've created. --S.C.Ruffeyfan 11:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

You presumably know how to make a link. What's the problem? Algebraist 11:46, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

I haven't made a template before. --S.C.Ruffeyfan 11:49, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

There is no need to make a template for that. You can take a look at my page (or anyone else's page) to see how it's done. If you have any problems understanding the codes etc, please ask. Chamal ^talk 11:58, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

You may find some useful tips on user page design in the links under WP:EIW#UserPage. Personally I prefer to have a very simple userpage design, but some people like to make theirs elaborate. --Teratornis (talk) 21:34, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Editing Talk Pages

I am fairly new to Wikipedia, and I do not know how to add my own comments to the discussion pages. Can you give me a step by step method of editing talk pages?

--Skydude176 (talk) 15:38, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

For very detailed information, see WP:TALK and WP:TP. The most important things to remember are to put the new stuff under the old, and to sign your posts. Good Luck! --Jake Wartenberg^Talk 16:12, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Cite news

Is it possible to change the date formatting in {{cite news}} (2 December 2007) to match {{cite web}} (2007-12-07) at Elmer Gedeon?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

• You could bring it up at Template talk:Cite news. My guess is that they are trying to match two separate standards.--Max Talk (+) 18:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Trivia

Hi, dunno if this is an appropriate place for this question but I was wondering if anyone could tell me where trivia sections of articles can be found? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidbhoy2805 (talk • contribs) 21:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

See the links under WP:EIW#Trivia. --Teratornis (talk) 21:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Featured Picture

Dear Sir/Madam

I would like to send some photos to the section: TODAY'S FEATURED PICTURE.

Could you please inform me how to send them, in what format and size etc.

Thanks . 
Maniannan (talk) 23:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Featured pictures. The community decides if a picture is good enough to be featured. Chamal ^talk 01:14, 25 December 2008 (UTC)