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Rabbi Pinto

Please assist cleanup of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishayahu_Yosef_Pinto Propoganda and other useless materials - Whitewash many negative truths. His role in the death of Obstfeld not mentioned despite countless media references Lebron paid $1 Million for meeting - Whitewashed Users are solely joining WIki for this purpose and should be banned

Feedback is drowning

Some of the editors who usually help out at WP:FEED seem to have taken a few hours break, so there is quite a backlog. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.Addendum-—Pheww, I count 45 requests without a response (and I didn't heave the heart to check older requests.)--SPhilbrickT 00:12, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm working on reviewing some of the requests for feedback, hopefully I'll be able to cut down the backlog by a bit. Feinoha ^{Talk, My master} 02:49, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

FA Link

Hi, does anyone know why english wikipedia doesn't have any bot which puts a star near the interwikis in order to show they are GA/FA in other wikipedias? Thank you. --Arnaugir (talk) 08:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

It might be worth mentioning this over at the village pump. — Fly by Night (talk) 11:19, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

User:LinkFA-Bot did this but has not edited at the English Wikipedia since 29 July 2010. I don't know why or whether other bots do this. You can contact the operator at de:Benutzer Diskussion:Guandalug. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:37, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

you can use the classic version, in the new version you cant see any stars-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:02, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't know what you refer to. I use the new default Vector skin and see the gold stars, for example Afrikaans and Català at Andy Warhol. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Transclusion

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Someone posted a question on the maths reference desk which should really go on the science reference desk. How could I put that subsection onto the science reference desk so that edits to the subsection on either the maths or the science reference desks will appear on both? I know I have to transclude something, but I'm not sure what. — Fly by Night (talk) 10:52, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I recommend against this for your purpose. Instead you can link the sections together and request that discussion only takes place at one of the pages. It is not possible to only transclude a section by giving a section number or heading. It's possible to control which parts are transcluded with Help:Template#Noinclude, includeonly, and onlyinclude but it would become messy because both pages are currently transcluded at Wikipedia:Reference desk/all, and the pages will be archived to other names at some point. The best transclusion solution would probably be to move the section to its own page somewhere and transclude that page in both reference desks but I also advice against that. It's not needed, I don't think there is tradition for such things at the reference desks, and it can cause other problems and confusion. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Okay, fair point. Thanks. — Fly by Night (talk) 15:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Correct way for someone with COI to request that article be created?

If an organization wants an article about themselves to be created, what is the correct way to go about requesting this? -- Bk314159 (Talk to me and find out what I've done) 13:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

See WP:BFAQ#COMPANY. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:50, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Ameen Rihani

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Dr. Ameen A. Rihani Biography Ameen Albert Rihani earned a BA degree in political science (1965) from the American University of Beirut, an MA degree in Arabic literature (1971) from the same university, and completed the requirements for a Ph.D., a. b. d., in modern Arabic literature (1981). He was the Assistant Director at the International College in Beirut, and taught at the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University where he became the Director of Admissions in Byblos Campus. He then left Lebanon and became consecutively the Principle of several national and international schools in the Arab countries such as An-Nahda National Schools in Abu-Dhabi, the Baghdad International Schools, governed by the United Nations, in Baghdad, and the Bahrain Bayan Schools. Upon his return to Lebanon he completed his dissertation on bilingual literature and earned his Ph. D. from the Lebanese University (1996). In October 1997 Dr. Rihani joined Notre Dame University, as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs till 2001. He then was appointed as Vice President for Research and Development (2002-2006) where he assisted in establishing the following centers at the University: the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), the Water, Energy, and Environmental Research Center (WEERC), the Digitization and Preservation Center for Manuscripts (DPC), the Marian Studies Center (MSC), the Lebanese Center for Societal Research (LCSR), and the Center for Applied Research in Education (CARE). He also established the American Friends of NDU in the United States (AFNDU) who got their 501C3 as a tax exempted corporation. In 2007 Dr. Rihani was appointed again as Vice President for Academic Affairs. He recruited instructors and administrators at the following conferences: The University of Northern Iowa (UNI), Cedar Falls, Iowa; Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Search Associates, Boston, and Dubai, U.A.E.; International Schools Services (ISS), Boston, San Francisco, New York, Orlando, San Diego and New Orleans (1990-1997) He participated in the educational workshops organized by the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE), San Francisco, San Diego, New Orleans and Boston; Middle States Association for Schools and Colleges (MSA), Washington D.C., and Princeton, New Jersey (1993-1997); and he chaired the Middle States Association (MSA) Accreditation Team for Medina Academy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, K.S.A. (1993). Vigorous in intellectual activities, inside and outside Lebanon, Professor Rihani participated and presented papers in several international conferences such as: Al-Marbid Poetry Conference, Baghdad, Iraq; The Lebanese Writers’ Union Conference, Beirut, Lebanon; Kahlil Gibran International Conference, University of Maryland, Maryland; The First Centennial of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, K.S.A.; The First Centennial of Al-Huda Newspaper, New York Historical Museum, New York; The Conference on Education in a Developing Society, Manama, Bahrain; The Lebanese-American Literature Conference, Notre Dame University, Lebanon; The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.; Ameen F. Rihani International Conference, The American University, Washington, D.C.; The Platform for Euro-Mediterranean Universities, Alexandria, Egypt; and The Platform for Democracy Reform in the Arab World, Amman, Jordan. Professor Rihani is a member of several international associations, among which are: the Association of College Administration Professionals (ACAP), Virginia; the American Association of School Administrators (AASA); the Association of Lebanese Writers (Itihad Al-Kuttab Al-Lubnaniyeen), Beirut, Lebanon; Secretary of the Middle East International Baccalaureate Association (MEIBA), Manama, Bahrain; the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Washington D.C.; the Historical Society of Norwood, (HSN), Boston; the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE); the President of the Teachers Association of the International College (TAIC), Beirut, and the President of the Lebanese Youth League, Beirut. In March 2010, Ameen Albert Rihani was chosen among ten other authors from the American University of Beirut for an honorary ceremony in recognition of “his distinguished contributions in the world of literature”. A personal plaque was offered to Prof. Rihani by Prof. Peter Dorman, President of AUB, and Ambassador Khalil Makkawi, President of the World Alumni Association of the University (WAAAUB). The winner of the Suad as-Subah first literary Award for 2003 for his work Forgotten Springs, Rihani was also recognized in 2006 as a distinguished author for his outstanding literary and philosophic work A Train and No Station by the Suad as-Subah Literary Committee. Rihani was as well nominated for several American and international awards and recognitions, among which are: International Educator of the Year, World Lifetime Achievement Award, Man of the Year, International Peace Prize, International Cultural Diploma of Honor, and the American Medal of Honor. A special entry introduced him lately in the Encyclopedia of the 21st Century Intellectuals, published in Cambridge, U.K. Ameen Albert Rihani, the writer, has sixteen published books, and several articles published in co-authored books, refereed journals, and local and international conferences. He has translated two works (The New Testament, and a literary novel by Mary Weberly) and edited and introduced three others. Book reviews discussing his writings, and other books refering to his works are detailed in the bibliographical document prepared under the title of The Published Works of Ameen Albert Rihani.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.51.34 (talk) 14:33, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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Who is RSAnimate?

I was just wondering how is RSAnimate? There are a series of videos that are on youtube and also rounding face book about education and economics. But when I looked on wkipedia, I did not see anything except for an article about RSA. Is this one in the same?99.186.77.189 (talk) 15:05, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia has no mention of RSAnimate or RSA Animate. At the top of RSA is a link to RSA (disambiguation). The RSA in RSAnimate is one of the articles there: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. Their website is http://www.thersa.org/.

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Rejab

94NA/38/2399 SEGUN AJAYI i was formerly a soldier who served in 20 mechanise battalion,serti barowa in Taraba state and i was discharge from the army,for reason not obvious to me.the army said that we should not marry foregner,the unit i served just cameback from Liberia op and not quite long a lady i meet in Liberia came on a business trip and paid me a shot visit in the barrack.At that particular period the unit intelligence operative were going about gathering information,while i was in an opration chard besin,without hearing from me about this lady.i was sent a signal to come,before my arrival,some forms were signed in my absent which i later gathered was some discharge form.it is not fear for someone to sign a discharge form for someone and i was surmary discharge from the army.i still love the job and will be glad if i am called back.thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajayisegun (talk • contribs) 15:35, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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how to make a Collapsible tables in a reference template?

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how to make a Collapsible tables in a reference template? the article-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I just looked at the Yuri (genre) article, and think this might make a "floating table" {{Reflist|<number of columns>}}. Feinoha ^{Talk, My master} 17:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

no i want a collapsible table-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

The problem with a collapsible table is that clicking on citations will only work when the collapsible table isn't collapsed. So you'd need to ensure that the collapsible table isn't collapsed by default. For that reason, I'm not convinced a collapsible table is a good idea for references. You could set the number of columns instead, or set the "colwidth". These two options will shorten the references section, though it'll still be quite long. TFOWR 17:16, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

i know that shrinking of references, but thanks anyway-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:21, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

See MOS:SCROLL. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

whats the name of...

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the numbers and letters behind albums or singles in discographies lists, i.e. SEG 8499. And are there any site, which shows this "codes"? thank you-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, SEG 8499 seems to be "Animals, The - Animal Tracks, EP 7" The number is the "Catalog Number" which can be used in searches on eBay and Amazon (IIRC) - and probably places like Google. IIRC, the back end Amazon stuff for Amazon Affiliates (AWS) will return that information in queries to their database as well.

It's probably a good way to find specific versions or variants of an album - which is nice if you are looking for a certain import or a rare release or a first release etc, but on the other side of the coin, it is detrimental when looking for an album of any release (ie: dont care if it's the re-release, original release, etc) as your search results will be limited to the specific release or releases covered by the specific catalog number.

As they applied to single records, you can find some information here. HTH, ROBERTMFROMLI ^TALK/_CNTRB 19:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Just a side note: for general knowledge questions, you may wish to consult with the volunteers over at the Wikipedia Reference Desk, as that is probably a more appropriate place for such questions. ROBERTMFROMLI ^TALK/_CNTRB 19:15, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

indian histroy

what exatly is dharmavijaya —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.117.145.16 (talk) 18:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. The closest I could find was this reference to a ruling dynasty. Is that you what you meant? TNXMan 18:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Apparently it can also be spelled dhammavijaya. Kalinga War#Aftermath says: "Dhamma-Vijaya (victory through Dhamma)".

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Moving edits from account to account

Can you move edits from account to account? (IP address to account) 173.49.140.141 (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Bluntly No.--Talktome^(Intelati) 19:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

But you can request that an accidentally disclosed IP address is hidden. See Wikipedia:Requests for oversight. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Retrieved

how does Retrieved + the date get placed in an article?Ladywords (talk) 21:18, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

The retrieved date for online sources is added manually by editors. It gives a date the given url was known to contain the material. This can be useful if the material later disappears. Sometimes other editors check an existing source and add or update the retrieved date. Many references use citation templates, for example Template:Cite web which has a parameter called accessdate. Such templates will add "Retrieved" before displaying a date assigned to the parameter. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Automatically if you use something like Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0, which is invaluable.--SPhilbrickT 21:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

merging an article with other language wiki links

I am considering merging (really, redirecting) perfluorocarbon into fluorocarbon. At the bottom of the perfluorocarbon page there are the links [[de:Perfluorcarbon]], [[es:Perfluorocarbono]], [[fr:Hydrocarbure perfluoré]], [[pl:Perfluorowęglowodory]], [[pt:Perfluorcarboneto]], [[ru:Перфторуглерод]]. Will redirecting perfluorocarbon disrupt some interlanguage-wiki functions? Thanks. -Shootbamboo (talk) 21:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

You don't have to worry about it. A bot will at some time detect there is no longer an English article and remove the interlanguage links from the other languages. Languages don't have to have matching linkable articles. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:19, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

E. Howard & Co. Wrist Watch. Ned help

My E. Howard & Co. wrist watch that I purchased from you about 10 years ago suddenly stopped and refuses to restart. This happened about two weeks ago and remains dormant. What can I do to have it corrected? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.213.192.211 (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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