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August 11

Zooming_articles_problem (further discussion)

Hi. This Help Desk's archives' item titled "Zooming articles problem", at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008_September_4#Zooming_articles_problem , start-dated 05:03, 4 September 2008 (UTC), seems to have gotten a successful solution from user Teratornis' response, dated 21:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC). However, I did not completely.
In part of that response, Teratornis asked, "Can you give us an example of a page which has the problem you describe?". The example I have for which Teratornis' response did not work is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_talk:Music_of_Canada .
I'm using a Firefox version 3.6 browser's "Zoom Text Only" option, on a pc, yet on that wiki page I'm having to scroll horizontally anyway.
My focus-challenge variety of adult-a.d.d., has enough of a task assimilating text as is, even when zoomed in, with just keeping my finger at the ready resting on one down-arrow button for vertical scrolling, without the distraction of having to switch horizontal-arrow buttons, back and forth, to scroll horizontally, and keep my place on the page as it moves that way. That's even worse if I try to do that via a mouse, or track-pad, or track-ball, etc..
This condition makes it too much of a challenge for me to bother joining Wikipedia to help maintain it.
Please, ask the folks at that wiki, and at all wikis, to improve word-wrap ability to correct that flaw on whatever wikis it exists.
Also, please, forward this message to your user, Teratornis. I'll just keep checking that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2008_September_4#Zooming_articles_problem item in your archives periodically to see if any more of that discussion comes from this note.
Thanks. 66.69.210.193 (talk) 00:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

• Dear user, whenever you zoom contents of a browser using the above mentioned method, in all browsers (except Internet Explorer), you would face a situation where the word wrap functionality stops working past a certain specific point (defined by the browser). If you wish, you could use Internet Explorer to browse such pages where you wish to zoom in to read clearly. You would notice then that although the text size keeps increasing, the word wrap functionality continues indefinitely. Kindly write back for any further support. Warm regards. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 06:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

How do I get license for photos I want to upload?

I want to upload photos in a specific article, but I believe photos and images must be license right? How do I get lecense for that —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulopie (talk • contribs) 03:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

• Dear Ulopie, kindly first read Wikipedia:Image use policy. Once you are clear about what is written here, go to Wikipedia:Uploading images and understand how to upload images. We have to explicitly mention >> Please do "not" upload images that do not adhere to our image use policy. Please feel free to write back for any help. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 06:39, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Why can't I edit "Category:African American rappers"

Hello I'm trying to edit the African American rapper category, but when I do I get some confusing directions, and I'm new so some things I don't understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeHarris662 (talk • contribs) 03:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

In general, you wouldn't edit that page. Instead, you'd add [[Category:African American rappers]] to the bottom of the page that you want to add to that category listing. The page Category:African American rappers will then show that page, after a little delay for indexing. --AndrewHowse (talk) 03:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

See more at Help:Category. There is usually only a delay if the category is added via a transcluded template without editing the article, and then the delay can be long. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:01, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Is this a case where null edits (adding an extra line or space) is appropriate, to force the addition to a category be visible?Naraht (talk) 15:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that will work but should usually only be done if it's important for some reason to rebuild the page quickly with the new version of the template. The reason it's normally delayed is to reduce stress on the servers by placing it in the job queue. By the way, you describe a dummy edit which is similar to but not exactly the same as a null edit. Both will work in this situation and then a null edit is best to avoid an unneeded version in the page history and elsewhere. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanx!Naraht (talk) 17:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Online Jobs

How to earn online money through data entry? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Varun.verma11 (talk • contribs) 05:38, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

This page is for questions about using Wikipedia. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge 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, select the relevant section, 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. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:47, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem

I have uploaded a few pictures of album covers

File:Birds of Paradise (musical).jpg
File:Salvation Musical.jpg
File:Now Is The Time For All Good Men Album cover.jpg
File:Making Tracks Album.jpg

I have taken scans of these pictures myself, as I own the albums. Wikipedia states it's free to used for the infobox, and that is all I am using them for. Here is one of the messages I recieved:

File copyright problem with File:Salvation Musical.jpg Copyright-problem.svg

Thank you for uploading File:Salvation Musical.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Magog the Ogre (talk) 08:46, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Can someone help me with this?

Thank You Phaeton23 (talk) 11:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

You've only had messages about the first two, not all four. If you click through to File:Making Tracks Album.jpg you will see that your full-resolution scan has been replaced by a low resolution version; this is an essential step for a copyrighted album cover. Also this one uses {{non-free album cover}} in its licensing section. Does that help? (Disclaimer: I'm not an expert) -- John of Reading (talk) 12:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

The fact that you own the albums is irrelevant for copyright purposes - the album cover, just like the content of the album itself, is protected by copyright law. So the only way scans of the cover can be used on Wikipedia is pursuant to the Image use policy and the Non-free use criteria. In this case the image info pages must contain a non-free use rationale as set out at WP:FURG. Adding the {{non-free album cover}} template with its parameters completed accomplishes this. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 14:54, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

how do I fix a typo in a headline/page name?

Resolved

Question: I noticed that one of the pages I have helped edit has the name misspelled in the headline. It's this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gara_Lamarche

The subject's name is spelled wrong though. It's spelled Lamarche in the headline but should be LaMarche with a capital M, as is consistent with all the sources and links in the entry.

Can I edit the name of the page? Or do I have to create a redirect or a whole new page?

thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin21045 (talk • contribs)

It has to be moved to the correct title; I've done so. By the way: Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks OrangeMike! I'll give it a try. And I'll remember to sign ... --Benjamin21045 (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Most Efficient Way to Edit or Correct Copy

Folks,

Hello. I am the director of communication at Educational Testing Service (ETS). You have many, many pages on your site relating to products or programs we design or administer - e.g. GRE, TOEFL, TOEIC, ETS corporate, the College Board's SAT, and others.

We have external relations staff who represent each of these programs and they have the responsibility of visiting your site and our pages and making sure they contain the most accurate and up-to-date information.

So, would you prefer that one contact do all updating on behalf of the many programs at ETS or, as we are considering, could we have the appropriate representative of each major page here at ETS be the contact with Wikipedia? We're only talking about five people. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Etscorporate (talk • contribs) 15:24, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Unfortunatley, anyone associated with your company or products with your company should not be editing the pages regarding your company or any of your company's products, as stated in Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. If you have any further questions, I will be happy to answer them if you post them on my talk page. Regards, WackyWace ^{converse | contribs} 15:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Lost Account

I am pretty sure I created a user account a year+ ago, but never actually created my user page. Since then, one of my email addesses has changed & I think this is the one I used to sign up. How do I 'prove' that the user name is mine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.34.246.73 (talk) 16:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you can't. You would need to log in to the account to prove it's yours, but if you've forgotten your password and changed your email address there's no way to get your account back. TNXMan 16:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

"Find" command

For some reason I can't find the button I need to enter a word to search for.

What am I missing?

EoGuy (talk) 17:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Where do you want to search? Wikipedia has a search box to search Wikipedia pages in the upper right corner. If you want to search a word on the page currently displayed by your browser then it's a browser function and Ctrl+F works in most browsers. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

If you want to conduct an advanced search, go to Special:Search and click "Advanced." —La Pianista ^{♫ ♪} 18:44, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I keep getting error 404 and I'm asked to reenter what I was searching for. I DIDN'T SEARCH FOR ANYTHING.

I keep getting error 404 and I'm asked to reenter what I was searching for. I DIDN'T SEARCH FOR ANYTHING. Marcy Mandel —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcybronfman (talk • contribs) 19:11, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

What are you doing when you see the 404 error? --Mysdaao ^talk 19:21, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

There were some errors (that seem to have cleared) stating "This wiki has a problem". Were you referring to those errors? TNXMan 20:55, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Changing names

I forget if I ever asked this question: If you change your username, do you get to keep the rights to your old one? As well, how long does it take to change the name, and what happens if it changes while logged on? 2Ð ℳǣ$₮ℝʘ ^{talk, sign} 22:20, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

If your username is changed, the old name becomes available for registration. Because of this, we recommend that you re-register the old account and simply re-direct it to your new name. The username change process usually takes a few days, depending on how many bureaucrats are active. The process is outlined here. TNXMan 22:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

bookcreator table of contents and index

The bookcreator creates an index before saving to PDF; how do I get bookcreator to create an index at the end of the book before I save it to PDF?

PediaPress creates an index when I send by books to them; however I want to create an index for words in my book that I save to my computer as a PDF. -neil rones

≈≈≈≈ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilrones (talk • contribs) 23:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)