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May 30

Remove the deleting tag ?

help me for removing the tags for deletetion. Syedalinaqinaqvi (talk) 00:01, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I archived your talk page (instructions at Help:Archiving a talk page) per the above request. I used the "permanent links archive" method on your page because I am not sure whether you want to maintain separate archive pages like I do. Actually, it is acceptable to just delete anything on that page since it is in the page history. PleaseStand ^(talk) 01:27, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Syedalinaqinaqvi has left a puzzled message on his talk page. I've left a message there asking him to post back here if necessary. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I want undelete the text of my Talk page and how i can remove the 2 tags on my article "Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi" about a famous scholar from pakistan. Help me please. thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Syedalinaqinaqvi (talk • contribs) 15:59, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I've fixed the talk page and will have a look at these tags now. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:11, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, now for the tags at Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi Qumi

The first one - red border - relates to Wikipedia's policy on articles about living people. All new articles about a living person must have at least one reliable source. At the time the tag was added, this article had no references at all. I see that you've done some more work since then, and have added a number of references. Most of them refer to your own works, so do not count as independent sources, and the "alibrary" web link doesn't seem to work; but the "jmuntazar" link might count as a reliable source. I have therefore removed this tag.

The second one - yellow border - relates to Wikipedia's policy on autobiographies. Judging by your choice of user name, it looks as if you have created an article about yourself. This is strongly discouraged. The article is likely to be proposed for deletion again because of this, I'm afraid.

-- John of Reading (talk) 16:46, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I'll try the second answer again now I've seen your message on the article talk page.

The second tag - yellow border - relates to Wikipedia's policy on autobiographies. This was a reasonable guess by Toddst1 when he added the tag, given the close match between your user name and the article name. Since you have informed us that the article is not an autobiography, I have removed the tag.

-- John of Reading (talk) 19:28, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Locating a company

Gentlemen, I have been watching Clutch Cargo and Space Angle. I have not been able to do this since I was a kid. I have done several searches and I cannot locate Cambria Studios so I could not find them. I want to see about pur5chasing some videos. Could you please tell me where I could purchase any dvds of these two shows? Thank you for your time and help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.14.47 (talk) 01:22, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer just about 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. I hope this helps. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Redirect

Resolved

via VPT {{Sonia|talk|simple}} 04:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

If you somehow end up having an article become a redirect, how can you get the article you made come back? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tetobigbro (talk • contribs) 04:17, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Go to the redirect, then when it redirects to the article, click on the "redirected from X" link up the top. Edit that page. Actually, I see you've had help and solving from VPT, so never mind. {{Sonia|talk|simple}} 04:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Rediret The Michelangelo to Taft Hotel

I would like to redirect The Michelangelo to the Taft Hotel. I created both articles with the Taft being a redirect. However I see there are actually two hotels in the same space so I wanted to move it to a neutral name that could encompass both hotels but I can't since there's an article there. Thanks.Americasroof (talk) 07:56, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

According to Help:Redirect this needs an administrator because the redirect page Taft Hotel has more than one entry in its history. I suggest you post your request on your talk page with the {{adminhelp}} tag, and one should turn up. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:54, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I've removed a revision; should be good to go. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 12:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!Americasroof (talk) 13:28, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia access from BlackBerry Internet browser not working

I cannot access Wikipedia articles from my BlackBerry Internet browser since the page layout was upgraded a couple of weeks ago. Previously all Wikipedia articles were just a Google search away from my BlackBerry.

The BlackBerry Internet Browser is crashing (throwing a Java exception) every time I try to access a Wikipedia article.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Busyhobbit78 (talk • contribs) 08:48, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

A possible solution has been posted at Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2010_May_25#blackberry_compatibility. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:14, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

unable to access diffrent language in cellphone

Since the recent change in the wikipedia interface i am unable to change the language. e.g when i search for queen elizabeth in the english wikipedia and would like to change to the same page in hebrew wikipedia - it cant be done (the "language" option is un-linked) my cll is a nokia 6210.--Rzg (talk) 16:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.134.102.16 (talk)

Sales extension counter

Is there any scope for two wheeler sales extension counter at Thakur village Kandivali, Mumbai. Contact cell :

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.143.60.209 (talk) 12:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello. I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our roughly three million articles, and thought that we were directly affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is a help desk for asking questions related to using the encyclopedia. Thus, we have no inside track on the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the left hand side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Suggest Salting of Deleted Page(s)?

How do I suggest that a deleted page be salted? Sanjaychitale (talk · contribs) has created a spam page for Ace Open University, an organisation they are associated with (as per the talk page), and re-created this after speedy deletion. It was also created and deleted at Ace open University. CosmicJake (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:RFPP will, if I remember rightly, salt as well as protect/unprotect pages. TFOWR^propaganda 12:58, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I see they are working on it now in their user space. Dougweller (talk) 18:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Looks like that's per the comment at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#Ace Open University. I'll keep an eye on the userspace version. Sanjaychitale has been advised to ask here or at WP:ARS for assistance - so we may yet see them here. TFOWR^{idle vapourings of a mind diseased} 18:19, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

How Do I create a userbox for my profile???

I was wondering how I can create userboxes for my profile here on Wikipedia. I really need to know. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lildude200450 (talk • contribs) 13:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Does this page help at all? In particular, you may find this section (or the accompanying article) helpful, too. TFOWR^propaganda 13:41, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Healer; Merriam-Webster's definition; 1. One who heals 2. Christian Science Practitioner

Healer; Merriam-Webster's definitions; 1. One who heals 2. Christian Science Practitioner

Source; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Eleventh Edition —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.198.27 (talk) 13:39, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

What is your question? This is the helpdesk, for asking questions about Wikipedia. CosmicJake (talk) 13:45, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Citing newspapers from Google News Archive

Resolved

Hello, is it all right to cite (and include links to) scanned newspapers from Google News Archive as sources? - ArCgon (talk) 16:44, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's perfectly all right and even encouraged over regular websites in some situations. It's no different than citing an actual newspaper, just that a user can instantly see where the information is coming from. You can use either the {{cite news}} (preferred, with the URL filled in) or {{cite web}} template. Xenon54 (talk) 16:49, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Big thanks for helping :) ! ArCgon (talk) 17:04, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I have trouble with this. I have used {{cite news}}, but I am unable to fill in all of the details. I cannot find an archive date and one of the newspapers I used is no longer in business, therefore does not have a website. Please see my references at 1 and advise.Brendanmccabe (talk) 20:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Change of the HTML-page-title, for Wikipedia pages, from vector.js ?

Can this be done from a line of code in the file: [[User:<username>/vector.js]] (or monobook.js)?

On Special:Preferences#prefsection-1 (Tab: Appearance) I use the Vector skin.

• I always open multiple tabs when browsing the web. (And only a tiny part of each HTML-page-title is shown by the web browsers' tab-titles).
• I use the Wikipedias of various languageges. Some of them have the exact same standard ending on their HTML-page-titles, namely: "- Wikipedia". (Which sometimes makes it a bit cumbersome to keep the various language-versions apart, when I save Wikipedia articles to disk for offline reading).

It would be a gret help if I could:

1. Automatically shorten the first part of the HTML-page-title on all wikipedia titles starting with: "Wikipedia:<The rest of the title>" into: "W:<The rest of the title>" and from: "Help:<The rest of the title>" into: "H:<The rest of the title>", and so on.
   This would make the tabs in the browser more navigable.
2. Automatically change the ending of the HTML-page-title, on all wikipedia pages, from: "<The beginning of the title> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" into: "<The beginning of the title> - Wikipedia,EN".
   Of course, for instance on the swedish (sv.wikipedia.org) I will want to change the ending from: "- Wikipedia" into: "- Wikipedia,SV", and accordingly for other languages.
   This would automatically make the articles saved to my harddisk more navigable, because the browser's proposed save file name is based on the HTML-page-title.

(In case you who read this, happen to only use English Wikipedia, I had better mention that each language Wikipedia has its own set of preferences setings, so even if one uses the same username everywhere, the different behaviour for the various language editions clearly will not be anyway difficult to set up).

Now I wonder:

• Can this be done from a line of code in the file: [[User:<username>/vector.js]] (or monobook.js)?
• And, if so, :-) would anyone be so kind as to please tell me what to write (in the english Wikipedia .js-file)?
  --Seren-dipper (talk) 17:30, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment: This was previously posted at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Change_of_the_HTML-page-title_from_vector.js.C2.A0.3F -- John of Reading (talk) 19:33, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

authors

I need to find the author of an article! HELP ME!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.129.10 (talk) 21:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

If you want to cite a Wikipedia article in an outside work then see Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. If you want the contributors to a specific article then click the "View history" tab on the article or see Help:Page history. Articles often have many contributors. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:29, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Triple Entries

I made my first entry today on Wikipedia, on the discussion page of the entry for Sir Thomas More. When I was finished writing it, and clicked to have it saved, it appeard on the discussion page three separate times. Someone was good enough to delete the two extra entries, and to provide an encouraging comment. I went to that person's home page, and wrote a brief note of thanks, which also appeared three separate times. I must be doing something wrong; do you know what it might be? Godfrey London (talk) 21:28, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

It also happened here. It is registered as three separate edits each time at Special:Contributions/Godfrey London. Are you sure you only click Save page once? It can take some seconds or require you to bypass your cache to see your saved edit. Which browser is it? If you save and then use your browser back button followed by the browser forward button then it might also be registered as a new save. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:37, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

This has happened to me before - on a different site. It was fixed when I got a different browser. —Preceding signed comment added by ~QwerpQwertus·_Talk_·_Contribs_· The Wiki Puzzle Piece Award 03:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. I changed browser, from Explorer to Firefox, and the change seems to have solved the problem. Godfrey London (talk) 10:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)