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February 26

how do I undo the most recent edit?

How do I undo the most recent edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkmurthy (talk • contribs) 01:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Go to the history and hit "undo" by your name [1] CTJF83 02:02, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Car In "Keeping Up Appearances"

In the show "Keeping Up Appearances", what is the car that Onslow drives? It is the multi-tone and backfires. Allen (talk) 02:33, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

A 1978 Ford Cortina according to a Google search. For another time:

Have you tried the Entertainment section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Our article Onslow (Keeping Up Appearances) also say Ford Cortina. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, PrimeHunter, for your help. Also, thank you for the links. Allen (talk) 04:40, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Painter by the name E. T. Whitesides

I'm looking to see art work by E. T. Whitesides. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.121.139 (talk) 02:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried the Humanities section of Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in answering knowledge questions there; this help desk is only for questions about using Wikipedia. For your convenience, here is the link to post a question there: click here. I hope this helps. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Add a word to the dictionary

To Whom It May Concern:

A friend of mine suggested that a word I recently learned should be added to the Wikipedia Dictionary. I don't know the origin of the word but I think his idea has merit so I would like to add this word to the dictionary. The word is: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) -- a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Thank you,

Bill Adkins — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.183.12.46 (talk) 06:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I was going to suggest the Urban Dictionary, but it seems to already be there [2]. Pfly (talk) 06:22, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There's always Wiktionary, but I don't know what their inclusion rules are like. - Bilby (talk) 06:27, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Twice in the last four months "ineptocracy" has been deleted from Wiktionary as a protologism. —teb728 t c 07:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I was concerned that this would be the case - unfortunately, my search was with a capital "I", so I missed it. Curious. - Bilby (talk) 09:24, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Titles generally begin with lowercase letters on Wiktionary. Dcoetzee 18:16, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

(Wiktionary is case sensitive. This is to support certain language features, e.g. German capitalizes all nouns.) RJFJR (talk) 18:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

waste of time for myself and other contributers

I put links from MY website and flicker to leclanche cell page to pictures that I TOOK of cells that I have in my possession as an Electrical Eng, for public benefit, and somebody or system removed them. could you please put them back. You probably have lost a lot of important information because of this happening to people.

I cannot see any problem with copywrite issues hot linking to a file. you have my full permission to do so, or to place on your site providing no changes or derivatives are made to the pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssrichardmontgomery/sets/72157629454981157/

http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/images/leclanchediag.jpg

http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/images/leclancheinside.jpg

http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/images/leclanchecell.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.212.188 (talk) 08:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

In order to use an image on Wikipedia it must be uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons; images on other websites cannot be used directly. See Help:Files for how to upload and use images. Since Wikipedia has a goal of producing reusable content, images must be licensed under a free license, one that allows reuse by anyone for anything. Since your photos are “all rights reserved,” they are not eligible for upload (unless you license them under a free license).

By the way your edits garbled the formatting of the page; so it is good that they were reverted. Fortunately they were reverted by a bot; so reverting them did not waste the time of other editors. —teb728 t c 08:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

How to make a page on wikipedia

My friend said he had made a page on Wikipedia so I thought I'd have a go. Please may you help me make one — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.171.69 (talk) 08:21, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

You can find everything you need at Wikipedia:Starting an article. Great that you want to help. Good luck with writing articles. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 08:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

You need to ask your friend- does (s)he have a wp:userpage or an article on him/her? If you are going to create an article on you, first see wp:Notability. --Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 16:22, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Nassim Haramein

Hi. I have to say that I find it absurd that you do not publish Nassim Harameins work. In the age of freedom of speech - when we have/should have learned from our past errors - such as silencing Einstein for 15 years prior to finally accepting his genius - you are taking us backwards!

You also publish Higgs Bosun which is just a theory - and one which will Never be proven correct.

This suggests you are a propaganda information site and no one there has the knowledge to discern what is important.

This is very surprising and disappointing

From

Freedom from Propoganda — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.153.225.6 (talk) 12:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nassim Haramein (2nd nomination). You are correct in that the existence of the Higgs boson is a theory; I suggest you read our article on theory to understand its meaning in the context of science. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Looking up "propaganda" may also be helpful. The factual accuracy of people's work or their theories is never a threshold of inclusion here, it's based the coverage they receive in reliable sources. If this individual has received significant coverage in the intervening time then perhaps someone will re-create the article in a way that follows our guidelines (someone without a conflict of interest). Яehevkor ✉ 12:12, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

thank you I know the meaning of propaganda and a theory

The point which you missed due to being defensive is you should not support Higgs Bosun over Nassim Harameins theories, therefore positioning the public that HB has more credibility!

That Is PROPOGANDA - Maybe it is you who shoulld look it up

If you had studied both theories you would find that position quite ridiculous

You are not a physics forum, therefore, you should not be guided by the peer manuals etc...but be neutral

It is ludicrous that the same thing is happening that happened to Einstein repeatedly! You are attempting to silence someone as their theories are too difficult for you to understand

NH crosses over science, physics, spirituality, cosmology so can be placed under any of these headings.

You have a page for Abraham/Hicks - Aleister Crowley and many others who are not recognized in peer manuals So what is your agenda here?

To ignore your reading public repeatedly strongly suggests some agenda

The public are voting by repeat requests and if you looked at any of his pages you would see the support and amount of people who you are ignoring.

Why do you think you have that right to silence so many

The credibility and hidden agenda of Wikipedia is what needs questioning here. Right now you have decided to become a political forum making value judgements where you have NO RIGHT TO DO SO

We have enough of that from our governments and media.

Now instead of a quick defensive response, which did not address what I wrote - how about a considered one instead

AGAINST PROPOGANDA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.153.225.6 (talk) 23:49, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I suggest you read the information provided in the "defensive" replies you were given above. Then you can learn how to sign your posts (4x~) and how to spell the word "propaganda". Then come back with any further questions you may have, keeping it civil. Britmax (talk) 16:31, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Want to work with and contribute to Wikipedia for Summer

Hi there,

I am Apurva Tripathi. I am pursuing B.Tech (I.T.) 3rd year from Jaipur Engineering College. Me and my friends want to join your wonderful team and understand the Media Wiki technology and Architecture for our summer training during May - June. It would be great if you can accept us and send us details regarding the same.

I would appreciate any help and your reply ASAP. Apurva
alonemayank <at> gmail <dot> com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.78.36 (talk) 13:31, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Anybody can contribute to Wikipedia, but I assume you mean working with the Wikimedia Foundation, the people who manage the website. They can be contacted by going to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Contact_us. Good luck, Liam987 13:55, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Naming conventions

I posted this question on the 19th, and haven't gotten a final reply, so I'm bringing it back to the top. Liam987 13:40, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I have a question about the naming conventions of articles that I was hoping someone could answer. I have already read the naming conventions article, and my question was not answered by that. I have written several articles (La Floresta (FGC) and Sant Cugat (FGC)) about train stations run by a Catalan train company called the FGC. I was at first unsure about how to name these pages, but then I found a page on the same topic, Les Planes (FGC), which used the naming convention (putting 'FGC' in parentheses after the name of the station) that I then adopted for the two previously mentioned articles I created. But I am not sure if this is the right way to name these pages, as the redlinks to them are often inconsistent. Also the articles about the FGC's train lines are named as FGC lineand then the name of the line (for example FGC line S1). Should the stations be named as La Floresta (FGC station)? or FGC station La Floresta? Also, if you look at the names of some of the articles about the FGC stations, you will see that they have the name of the article followed by(Barcelona Metro) (for example, Sarrià (Barcelona Metro), but it is only correct to name articles about FGC stations this way if they are serviced by a FGC line that is part of the Barcelona Metro system, which the stations I am talking about are not. Please advise. Thanks, Liam987 16:46, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Have you tried asking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains? They have a manual of style. See this section on titles here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Manual of style#Article name -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 19:26, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

I read their manual of style, but they didn't have a section on train stations. I then posted my question on the talk page there, but have received no reply. Also no no (besides me) has posted anything there since 2010. So I'm coming back here for help. Liam987 15:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

May be better to ask at the main project talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains. MilborneOne (talk) 14:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There's also the subproject Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations. I don't know how active it is, but you could try its talk page. Deor (talk) 21:22, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Roughly how many percent of the Wikipedia articles are semi protected?

I was just wondering - Roughly what's the amount of semi protected articles on Wikipedia and how many percent is that roughly?

''GOURLEYO'' <small>Edit at Wikia!</small> (talk) 13:45, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Not sure of the percentage but Category:Wikipedia semi-protected pages has 2387 articles. MilborneOne (talk) 13:54, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

According to the statistics page there are 3,883,814 articles on Wikipedia, so... um ... 2387 / 3,883,814 .... {{#expr:2387/3883814}}...0.00061460203809966% Liam987 14:07, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I was guessing that sort of amount. I did however think that there would be more than that, or maybe it just varies on how popular that subject is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gourleyo (talk • contribs) 14:04, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Given that we have many articles about small businesses, wide places in the mud in India, and similar that probably rarely see a page view, it would be more interesting to know what percentage of articles that are rated C class or higher are semiprotected.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

How many fully protected articles (excluding redirects) are there? ''GOURLEYO'' <small>Edit at Wikia!</small> (talk) 14:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There are 1,794 fully-protected pages in the mainspace, per Special:ProtectedPages. That would be 0.046% of all mainspace pages. However, I don't know how to winnow out how many of those are redirects.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

A better metric would be ratios of page views, which would roughly correspond to the probability of seeing a page that is protected. I am sure that protected pages have much higher than average page views, which will explain why it seems like the proportion of pages protected is higher than it is.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, you are probably right. For example, the article Greendown Community School would not be protected, while some articles like Queen Elizabeth II would be. Probably about 1/3 popular articles would be semi protected but only about 1 in a few hundered pages overall would be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gourleyo (talk • contribs) 15:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

1 in 1627, actually. Dcoetzee 18:20, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Category Post-Impressionist painters

Can someone remove under letter "P" attached to this category the item "Post-Impressionism"? This item is not a painter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cecil H (talk • contribs) 13:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. Liam987 14:09, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

User name is appearing online!!

URGENT My username is appearing before the subject I have been writing about “Adam Tedder” when I search for “Adam Tedder” online. This is very embarrassing. I deleted my username before I moved the article. How can I fix this? I look forward to your kind help. Maya Frida Barr (talk) 14:32, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

The page that's coming up is User:Maya Frida Barr/Adam Tedder, which I assume you used to draft the article. When you moved the article from there to the article namespace that page was automatically made into a redirect to your article. I would recommend putting {{db-u1}} on the page (User:Maya Frida Barr/Adam Tedder), and an administrator will come by and deleted it for you. I have deleted the redirect on the page so that you will not be redirected when you go to delete it. Hope that helps, Liam987 14:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted it. Note Maya that we don't have control over Google. It may take a while for Google's index to be updated to reflect this and even after the deletion it may still appear. See this external Google page about removing content, though I once tried to use this long ago and found it mystifying.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

When you asked about this draft last month you were told that the article needed references to demonstrate the notability of the subject. That was sound advice, but you seem to have tried to move the article to mainspace without including any such references, so it may well not last long there. It would have been advisable for you to keep the draft in your user space until it was ready for publication. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

User page is redirected

An editor, User talk:Vejvančický, has asked for assistance w/ redesigning his user page. However, when I click on it, it is redirected to his talk page. How do you undo so that the User page is Now Available?? ```Buster Seven Talk 16:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I have removed the redirect code from User:Vejvančický. – ukexpat (talk) 16:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank You....```Buster Seven Talk 16:47, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

For future reference, when you are redirected you will always see at the top of the resulting page (Redirected from NAME) just below the title of the page. If you then click on the link, you can access the redirect itself.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

New section

Regarding the pages about Phoenix floating docks used during WWII in Normandy, how do I ask why there is no reference in these articles to Emil Praeger ,the american architect who designed them ? I am not an expert, just a reader so I do not want to actively edit the pages-but it would be nice if they were complete and accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.59.162 (talk) 16:12, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

If you believe an article is missing important content, or want to know why an article does not contain certain information, you can raise the issue on the article's talk page. Just click the Talk tab at the top of the article. Singularity42 (talk) 16:43, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

music lyrics and chords

I use to be ble to go to roughstock.com for free lyrics and chords. Now it will not pull up as easy. I must say even your site is a whole lot of clicking , simply to as a question. I wa looking for the lyrics and guitar chords to the song If I die Young by The Band Perry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.128.202.249 (talk) 16:34, 26 February 2012 (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. – ukexpat (talk) 16:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Most lyrics and chords for modern songs are copyrighted. Wikipedia cannot reproduce copyrighted content, nor provide external links to websites that are violating copyright. For more information, see WP:NOTLYRICS and WP:LYRICS. Singularity42 (talk) 16:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

How do I dispute an edit performed by another editor

Another editor has added a statement to an article I have been working on. In my opinion, this new statement gives undue weight to a certain point of view and also incorrectly interprets the citation he provides. I believe that the other editor is well meaning and is trying to improve the article.

I would like to somehow flag the statement he added and direct him to the talk page but I am not sure how exactly to go about this. Is there a "How to dispute a statement" article somewhere? Thanks--Bill 17:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BillF4 (talk • contribs)

Yes, there is a page that explains how to dispute content added to an article. See WP:BRD. Singularity42 (talk) 17:49, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Here is one example [3] of how an experienced Wikipedian handles this issue. Ottawahitech (talk) 18:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

cannot enter my account

About 1 hour ago (11:30 am) today, I registered for a new account. the user name (Swami Savitripriya), password, and email address went through fine, and I entered my new account. I left the account to look up how to insert my first article (which I could not find). When attempting to signin again, your computer did not recognize name or email address. I Don't want to sign up for a new account because the account is for Swami Savitripriya, so I can't use a different account name.

Please try to locate my account so I can use it. Please advise. Alternate email account <email redacted>. Thank you. Shaktidevi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.138.97.151 (talk) 19:12, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

No such user appears to exist. sonia♫ 19:41, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

That link says "Swami Savitripriya (Created on February 26, 2012 at 11:45)" RudolfRed (talk) 20:27, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

It only says 11:45 for you because you have changed time zone at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-datetime. The account was created 19:45 (UTC), 4 minutes after sonia's post. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:33, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I see. I'm so used to all the timestamps on help and ref desk being on UTC, I didn't think that other pages would be different. Thanks for the explanation. RudolfRed (talk) 20:41, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Premier League table

How do I indicate a team in the English Premier League has qualified for the Europa League, but the phase is still uncertain? In other words, how can I make "TQ" appear beside the team's name on the league table? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MasashiInoue (talk • contribs) 19:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

You can add the parameter |tournamentqualified=y to the team's row (see example by clicking "Edit" at [4]) but it doesn't sound like the time for it. Where do you want to do it? PrimeHunter (talk) 23:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Liverpool has clinched a Europa League place by winning the League Cup, but still have a chance to win the FA Cup or secure a Champions League berth, so I think I may put a TQ mark for them--MasashiInoue (talk) 00:46, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

OK. I don't know the rules. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

How do I hide a user page (which I have created)

I have several user pages which are drafts! I didn't realise how visible they were, can someone please tell me how I can hide them so that they are not indexed?2829 VC 19:32, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

If you mean so that google doesn't index them, add __NOINDEX__ to the top somewhere. It's not possible to hide them from other users, but it does at least make them harder to find on accident. sonia♫ 19:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Great thanks, so if there's a unique name in it, then Google (eventually) won't index it, but will it still be found through a search at Wikipedia?2829 VC 20:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

A Wikipedia search can find it, but only if the searcher uses "Advanced search" and includes the "user" namespace in the search. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:51, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, that should make it pretty difficult then :-) 2829 VC 20:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

As a note to other users who create such pages, which they might consider drafts, but the public can in fact quite easily find, I have had to include my own disclaimer: (Readers please note, if you have accidentally come across this page, please note: this is a draft, written by me! and not intended for public publication within Wikipedia! It has not been finalised! It is not subject to the checks normally imposed on articles published in Wikipedia!)2829 VC 03:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

I recommend {{Userspace draft}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:38, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Haha, yes thanks, that seems useful and 'we' almost agree on the wording! I think mine is more understandable however to the complete novice so I think I'll keep both2829 VC 04:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)2829 VC 04:11, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Time zone setting -- where does it apply?

Another poster reminded me that I have my Wikipedia time zone preference set to U.S. west coast time. Which pages does this effect time display on? Why does the help desk show all the times in UTC for me and not my preferred timezone? RudolfRed (talk) 20:44, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

It only affects the pages generated on-the-fly by the software. See meta:Help:Preferences#Date and time. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

See also Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:41, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Delete please.

Could you please delete the page "Adam Tedder" while I sort out the citations. Also, somehow by a mistake, there is the page "User Maya Frida Barr/Adam Tedder" appearing online. Could you please delete this too. If you could please delete these two pages online as soon as possible, while I sort them out, I would be most greatful. Thank you for all your help and patience. X Maya Frida Barr (talk) 21:10, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

The subpage was deleted in response to your post higher on this page. I have now deleted the article as well.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

With reference to your answer to "Delete please" above, could you please also take them both off the internet so they are no longer visible. Then, in the meantime, I can amend the article etc.

Thank you again for your kind help and patience.

Maya Frida Barr (talk) 16:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Please keep discussion in one place by clicking "edit" to the right of the section heading. I moved your post here. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:16, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

As Fuhghettaboutit says, both pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Maya_Frida_Barr/Adam_Tedder (User talk:Maya Frida Barr/Adam Tedder as wikilink) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Tedder (Adam Tedder as wikilink) were already taken off the Internet before your latest post. Your work cannot be seen at those links and visitors to the links get a HTTP 404 not found error message from our servers. You can check it at this external service: http://404checker.com/404-checker. However, we do not have control over external sites. Until search engines like Google try to revisit the pages and discover they are gone, there may be links to the non-existing pages in Google search results. Before the pages were deleted, Google may have copied them and may display part of their copy in their search results. These parts are not from the "live" pages which don't exist in these cases. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

What happened here?

On the page Persepolis (film), I noticed that a link to Amnesty International was broken, so I corrected it: [5] However, I'm still not quite sure what was wrong with the original link and why it didn't work. Amnesty Inter­na­tional. Amnesty International. Can anyone work out what the difference there is, and why the second link works but the first doesn't? Robofish (talk) 21:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

In the first link, there's something odd about the rn and at in International causing to copy/paste as Inter-na-tional. Not sure what's causing it yet. Singularity42 (talk) 22:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Nope, can't figure it out either. Not sure why there are hidden hyphens in that text... Singularity42 (talk) 22:12, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There seems to be very small spaces on the red wikilink that you have written ([[Amnesty Inter(small space)na(small space)tional]]). Not sure why it's there though.--Hallows AG (talk) 22:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Probably an incorrect copy/paste from the IP who first added the link to the article. Singularity42 (talk) 22:25, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

There are soft hyphens in the invalid text: Inter­na­tional. Goodvac (talk) 22:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

What tool do you use to find hidden characters like these? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:02, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't know about Goodvac. I use http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ (no relation to Wikimedia). Copy-paste Amnesty Inter­na­tional from the broken link to the "Characters" field and click "View names". PrimeHunter (talk) 13:29, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Bookmarked, thank you. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Snopes

What do you have on Snopes. Is it a valid site. Who funds it?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.160.9.163 (talk) 22:05, 26 February 2012 (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.. Also, you can read about the website at Snopes.com. Singularity42 (talk) 22:15, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

See the article Snopes.com and its links and references. If you have further questions, come to the Ref Desks, as linked above by Singularity. Bielle (talk) 22:20, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Need to add a parameter to a template

As a result of discussion at WT:NRHP, {{NRHP row}} was updated so that it will add pages to Category:NRHP list missing coordinates and display the text "Coordinates missing" if the pages transclude the template without including coordinates in the lat and lon parameters. The discussion also included a provision for an override, for situations in which we don't have coordinates but don't want the text or the maintenance category; however, Multichill, who made the update, overlooked adding the override, and he's busy enough that he's not been able to do it. Could someone please add code to the template so that the word "override" in these parameters prevents the category and the extra text from appearing? For an example of what I mean, see this diff of my sandbox: the first line of the table is how a line looks with coordinates, the third is how it looks if it lacks coordinates, and the second (with the "override" option) should look like the third except without the "Coordinates missing" or the maintenance category. Nyttend (talk) 23:37, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I think this would be neater as a separate parameter rather than a special value for the lat/lon parameters. Have a look at User:John of Reading/X1 and User:John of Reading/X2, which use and implement a "nolatlon=true" option. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:59, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Does exactly what I'm talking about; thanks. To implement this, what do I need to do? Will it work if I simply copy this edit into the template with attribution, and then add the nolatlon=true to transclusions that need it? Nyttend (talk) 17:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, I've updated {{NRHP row}} and its documentation; you just need to add nolatlon=true to the relevant articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:31, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Email Notification For Userpage (Not Talkpage) Change

I have multiple subpages. Is it possible anyhow to get email notification when my userpage (or subpages) are edited? You can add a talkback template in my page! Thanks!--Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 16:26, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

No, as explained here.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:31, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! --Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 05:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

And I knew I had seen this somewhere too, but it doesn't say where that is explained. Apparently the option would slow down Wikipedia.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:40, 2 March 2012 (UTC)