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September 17

roger rice

seeking bio information re: roger rice, clockmaker, Bristol, Great Britain, I think in 19th century. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.2.157 (talk) 00:25, 17 September 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. Gonzonoir (talk) 07:28, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Have a look at R & V Butler ‘An Eighteenth Century Provincial Founder & Brazier: - Roger Rice of Bristol’ The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, 5 (1997) - I have not yet seen this, so I do not know if the authors are aware of the fact that Rice was bankrupt in 1757. As a bankrupt he was described as Dealer & Chapman of Clifton, formerly Founder, Brazier, Clockmaker & Chapman of Bristol. Dividends were paid in 1758 and in 1768.

Impartial reviewer(s)

A user, Aquib, has deleted my sourced additions to the Dhimmi article half a dozen times. I am new to the Wikipedia procedures, so I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question, but how, exactly, do I get an impartial reviewer to check on the situation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deseretian (talk • contribs) 00:57, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

This is called an Edit war. I'm afraid I don't have enough knowledge on the subject to do an independent review. Maybe best to talk with the contributor who disagrees with you. %Gryllida^talk 01:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

You can also take a look at our page on dispute resolution for some guidance on how best to handle the situation. — QuantumEleven 12:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Flickr copying

While doing a google image search, I noticed a picture I had taken was on flickr and the uploader marked it with "All rights reserved". I looked at the rest of the album and he has all of the pictures of MBTA bus uploaded with a copyright claim [1]. What, if anything should be done about this? I can already see deletion notices coming when someone mistakenly thinks that they were uploaded improperly. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 02:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

If you are sure that these are your pictures, and you released them originally under a CC-BY-SA licence, then you can assert your own copyright by contacting the uploader and informer him or her that all derivatives or redistributions of your work must be attributed and similarly released under a free licence (SA stands for Share-Alike, as you probably know). If the uploader does not respond, the next step would be to contact Flickr directly. Intelligentsium 02:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

W3C Validation

Sorry if posting in the wrong area.

For sometime all Wikipedia pages fail W3C validation simply because of a pair of stray but empty

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located generally at lines 617 & 643. It would be so wonderful to remove this and again enjoy a compliant Wikipedia as an excellent example to all.

NavajoDutchman (talk) 02:18, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

• I think this would be better presented at The Village Pump where all the techy folks gather! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 13:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

This is a known issue, there is a bug report, it has been fixed but not deployed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:37, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Untitled thanks

i couldn't find an appropriate place to send this so here i am. i would like to thank all those who have contributed to the mathematics portion of wikipedia. i cannot ever express how much help you have all been. an invaluable resource, to make an understatement. if there is person any group of people who have a semblance of "management" of the mathematics portion, please accept my heartiest thanks, and please extend it if you can to any contributors. if not, i hope at least one person who has contributed will be thanked as a result of this email. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.152.128.76 (talk) 10:23, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

What a nice thing to say. I've alerted the members of Wikiproject Mathematics to your comment. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

my article was removed

Dear Wikipedia, my name is Christina Sakaziro who is a daughter of High Chief Beouch Sakaziro Demk. I wrote an article about my father but someone just removed all the information I have worked hard to write to create my father autobiography. Can anyone delete everything I wrote. Is that possible? I am just disappointed because it is so invation of privacy. I worked long hours to build that article. I want my article to be restored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Domicia (talk • contribs) 11:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting us. The article Chief Beouch Sakaziro Demk was indeed created by you, and your last edit on the article was in July. There has been some removal of material, but from what I can see it has generally either been material which is either unsourced, too promotional in tone, or sourced at unreliable sources (such as facebook). The article is not 'yours' - it is Wikipedia's, and anyone can edit it. Unsourced or promotional information can be removed. I am afraid that I don't see how it is an invasion of privacy - Wikipedia is a public site, and when you submit work to it, there is a notice that says (under the "save page" button): "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. All text that you did not write yourself, except brief excerpts, must be available under terms consistent with Wikipedia's Terms of Use before you submit it." If you feel that sourced material has been removed, then you can either re-introduce it, or (and this would probably be the best way) discuss it at the article's talk page (here) and get a consensus. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 11:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Incidentally, you might want to read Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guidelines. As a relative of the Chief, it would be hard for you to be completely neutral and objective! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 11:16, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Hm. The above reply is absolutely correct outline about inclusion of articles into Wikipedia. Now it might be up to restoring the information that isn't at the article now for you to save your work somewhere... I'm not sure whether you're referring to the abovementioned article, because it was not deleted, it's present there. Did you log in when you edited the article, so that it did appear in your contributions? If your article is really no longer present and the [[link]]s to it are red, you can request undeletion by an administrator and have it moved to your user namespace. If they aren't red, you always can refer to the article history (see the history tab at its top) to have a look at any revision of it. %Gryllida^talk 12:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

solitaire games

I have upgraded to Window 7 and I would like to know if there is a computer game of solitaire that can be downloaded and played on Window 7 ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.82.84 (talk) 12:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were 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 for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right 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.--Orange Mike | Talk 13:23, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I have copied this to the Computing Reference Desk. Someone may be able to answer your question there. This page is for questions about using Wikipedia itself. Rojomoke (talk) 13:34, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I have an answer for that, so I'm popping over there now... -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 13:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Church Rates (England)

I am a first-time contributor and the contribution process looks daunting. I have added some comments to the Talk Page on the above topic. Are they what you want to see? If they are, I will give the originator a chance, then add a para myself.Douglaid (talk) 14:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

ვიკიპედიის გამოყენება

სად მივუწერო ჩემს მიერ შექმნილ სტატიას გადამოწმებადი წყარო,სქოლიოშიო წავიკითხე და სქოლიო სადაა? და რომ არ მივუწერო გადამოწმებადი წყარო არ დაამატებთ? --ბუხრა (talk) 16:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this is Georgian. Please take this to the Armenian Wikipedia. თითქმის დარწმუნებული ვარ რომ ეს არის ქართული. გთხოვთ მიიღოს ეს ქართული ვიკიპედია. --Iamred1 Talk to me! 16:52, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

ka:ვიკიპედია:ცხელი ხაზი Magog the Ogre (talk) 16:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

tOPICAL ANESTESIA

After I recovered from two strokes, I've found that my insulin injections hurt a lot as compared to not much prior to the strokes, Can the ropical anestesia be used to lesson the pain of the injection site without damaging the insulin injectdion process or the insulin itself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.123.34.29 (talk) 17:26, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but we cannot give medical advice. Please check with your physician. TNXMan 17:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Need Help With .pdf File That Is So Big It's Problematic

I have uploaded the image file Ft-Banks-1946-1953-C.pdf, a map to go with the article on the fort. This is the first .pdf image I have uploaded; all my others have been .jpg's. I tried converting this to a .jpg, but the resulting file was not clear enough. The file results from a scan of an historic blueprint. So I tried staying with the 7000 x 5000 px file. It seemed to upload OK, to WP/en.

Problem is, when I clicked on the thumbnail to expand it, it took a very long time (although it worked), and then froze my machine (a 2MB memory P4 XP system). I wanted to display it at the top left of article, atop the 1938 map of the fort.

Can someone help me solve this problem? Thanks Pgrig (talk) 17:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Archive bot

I have added a bot to User_talk:Mtaylor848 this users talkpage and its not showing up can anyone who is good with bots see what I have done wrong? Off2riorob (talk) 19:25, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

The documentation on User:MiszaBot/config states that "The bot expects to see only one parameter per line. The closing }} must be on its own line". This is the only problem I can see, but I'm not really good with bots either. Intelligentsium 00:03, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at that, lets see if he comes around. Off2riorob (talk) 11:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Identification of policies

How can I identify if a Wikipedia page is a policy or a general content page? 161.24.2.130 (talk) 19:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Policy pages are marked with a {{policy}} template at the top of the page (for example, see WP:V). Other Wikipedia pages are generally marked at the top with which type of page they are. TNXMan 19:38, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:List of policies -- wiooiw (talk) 19:40, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Editing multiple wikis simultaneously

At 06:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC), I made this minor edit. Just a while ago I checked my global contributions out of curiosity, and there it said I had made one edit at the Greek Wikipedia - which surprised me a lot, because I clearly remember I have never edited any wiki other than this one. I checked out that edit and it turned out to have been an exactly identical minor edit made at the same date and time, to a page that was at that time exactly identical with the English Wikipedia article. What's going on here? --Theurgist (talk) 19:53, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I can't speak Greek, and my browser won't translate it for me, so I can't say for certain but I have seen this before: I've (apparently) edited the German Wikipedia. In my case I'd edited a page here that was subsequently copied across to de.wiki - I'd imagine that the same thing has happened here. To provide attribution, the page's entire history will have been copied to el.wiki, thus showing that you were one of the contributors. TFOWR 19:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict)See This. I believe the page was imported wiooiw (talk) 20:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

(edit conflict) TFOWR is quite correct! If an article is imported into another wiki, the whole history (and contributors) is copied as well. I exported an enwiki article and imported it into my personal wiki as a test, and was surprised to find (in the database) names of editors on enwiki who don't have an account on my wiki! -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 20:08, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Language reference problem

hi , i have created this article for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malak_Koura#References an Egyptian actress but i have a problem to find references in English , she is Egyptian so most of references are in Arabic , so i want to know if i can use Arabic resources or i have to find or create some new English independent resources?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmed Fouad(the lord of programming) (talk • contribs) 20:29, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Arabic sources are acceptable. There is no rule saying that all sources on en-Wiki have to be in the English language. Foreign language sources are valid as long as they meet WP:RS. Mjroots (talk) 21:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

It may be helpful, however, to enlist an impartial editor who is bilingual in Arabic and English to confirm the reliability of the source in question. --Jayron32 03:35, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a problem

I do not know if this is the correct place, however, on Firefox, when I come to wikipedia, the font, whether it be formatting or text style, is not working correctly. I did not change any of my preferences for this either. Is there any comments/help with this out there? ChaosMaster_Chat 23:20, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

We have a hard time helping with font problems because all such problems are likely on your end. No one can see what your browser is doing or why. You can see Wikipedia:Browser notes and search the Help desk archive for: font difficult read. I doubt that Wikipedia is the problem. Protector of Wiki (talk) 23:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)