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paraggelia games

tha eithela na paranggilo to spyro the dragon 3 games gia pc.pitemou tin diadikasia pou hriazete na paranggilo kai th tha stihisi apo leuta olo to paketo.to onomamou einai apostolos kai meno sto neo souli serron.otahidromikos kodikas einai 62100 kai to tilefonomou einai (telephone number removed by Deor (talk) 10:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.68.6.164 (talk) 01:16, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

This is the English Wikipedia. You'll have to communicate in English. Cresix (talk) 01:20, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

(ec) Hello, this is the help page for the English Wikipedia. We do not have an article on "paraggelia games". Can you repost your question in English please? Or, find the Wikipedia for your langauage (http://www.wikipedia.org/) and inquire there. RudolfRed (talk) 01:21, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

My Modern Greek is pretty much nonexistent, but this appears to involve ordering some version of the video game Spyro (series). I'd direct the OP to the reference desk at the Greek Wikipedia, but they don't appear to have one (at least, there's not a relevant interwiki link at our ref desk). In any case, the OP isn't going to get an answer here. Deor (talk) 10:34, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

THUMBAIL and THUMBS

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache

Dear sirs

Reference: THUMBAIL and THUMBS

It seems that the application creates the Files thumbs, with photo files has its origin in your company.

I would not have this application on my computer. How should I proceed to delete it permanently?

Best regards

Carl Wang. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.1.154.29 (talk) 11:30, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

I think you misunderstood the text in that article you've linked at the top. Windows is a Microsoft product. Wikipedia has nothing to do with it. -Thibbs (talk) 12:51, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

You could try WP:RD/C for information on how to disable it or purge it on a timer.--Canoe1967 (talk) 20:30, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Input requested

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post it, but I'd like to see if anyone would be willing to give some input on a proposed change to List of Presidents of Egypt. The issue is whether to have one table for multiple sections for this list article as in the current revision or multiple tables as in this revision. The discussion is at Talk:List of Presidents of Egypt#Tables. Thanks! Trinitresque (talk) 16:52, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

defamatory vandalism

The "Richard Marggraf Turley" page has been vandalised regularly for over a year, to this date in relatively good humour. However, changes made on 1 July 2012 were defamatory. I'm at a loss what to do about this problem, because I have no desire to check the page every day to see what new things have been added. Is it possible to delete the page? I'd rather that than have to keep checking. thanks, Mollymoggle (talk) 17:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

If this belongs anywhere, it's at WP:BLPN. However, there's no need for you to check on anything if you don't wish to. Others will no doubt check the article for any clear vandalism. I'm still struggling with how one vandalizes "in relatively good humour".--Bbb23 (talk) 17:39, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Since the OP is the creator of the article, has contributed all but the most minor of amendments, patrols it regularly for vandalism and has made almost no edits to any other article, I would hazard a guess that he may also be the subject of Richard Marggraf Turley. The creator of a page can request its deletion by adding {{db-author}} to the page, provided no substantial content has been provided by any other contributor and that the request is made in good faith and not out of frustration. The OP could try this, but I suspect the page has been around too long, and has attracted too many other contributions, for it to qualify for a speedy deletion, to say nothing of the fact that the motivation does indeed seem to be frustration with the frequent vandalism. We don't delete articles on Wikipedia simply to prevent them being changed in a way that their creator dislikes. If I am correct that the OP is indeed Mr. Marggraf Turley, then this is unfortunately a prime example of why writing an article about yourself is not a good idea. See Wikipedia's Law of Unintended Consequences. Karenjc 18:39, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

If the page is frequently vandalized,then protection might help. See WP:PROTECTION RudolfRed (talk) 18:42, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

The OP made the same comments at WP:BLPN. I have no comment on the identity of the OP, but the page does not qualify for protection. There hasn't been much vandalism and almost no recent vandalism. One obvious vandalism today (reverted), and one piece of weird trivia put in by the OP in early June (reverted). Then, you have to go back months.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:41, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

When did the OP make any comments on BLPN? I don't see anything on the noticeboard or in the OP's contribs. RudolfRed (talk) 01:08, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Home handyman

i have a book called the home handyman which i think was published by the news of the world.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.241.204 (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Please read WP:COI before thinking about creating an article for your book. Athleek123 21:24, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Pretty sure owning a copy of a book would not constitute a COI if writing about it. OP, if you're asking who published it, look in the front of the book or do a search using the ISBN. If you think it should be included in or as an article, we don't really mention every book released by a publisher, unless it is especially notable.--Jac16888 ^Talk 21:34, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

You're totally right. For some reason when I read it I thought it said "i wrote a book ... " Sorry about that, Athleek123 21:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Also, please use the article wizard before creating it. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 22:46, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Conspicuously Absent Article

Hi I'm a big fan of wikipedia and wikipedians. I just read about this website on a news site today, thedirty.com and it seems to have a strange community and with the owner subjected to lawsuits etc so of course I immediately came to wikipedia to read about the site and the guy,(nik richie) but there is no article on the website or the guy, they seem pretty infamous and get lots of google hits etc so why is there no article? It seems very odd, is there a story behind it? Thank you 60.241.171.231 (talk) 23:11, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

It probably doesn't meet our notability guidelines for web content. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 23:14, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough, I can see how the guy is a case of just being famous for being famous (among other things) but the its hard not to notice the discrepancy between this article and other similar ones. Obviously there is some other reason, but thank you for your answer.60.241.171.231 (talk) 23:31, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

It's also possible that nobody who cares enough about the subject has gone to the effort of writing the article. People tend to write articles about things that they have a genuine interest in, so maybe no thedirty.com fans are also Wikipedia editors. You could start the article yourself if you felt compelled to and if the site meets the requirements as stated above. Dismas|^(talk) 23:36, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

A one-line article at thedirty.com was appropriately deleted in 2008. The only content was: "thedirty.com, aka dirty scottsdale, aka the dirty, is a notable gossip site. more information must be added". The deletion doesn't preclude others from creating a proper article if they can find sources but it hasn't happened so far. There are millions of websites. I wouldn't make assumptions based on some others having articles. I'm sure there are loads of more notable websites which don't have articles either. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:48, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah... its probably a mutually exclusive interest situation, also I am quite happy with it not existing.60.241.171.231 (talk) 01:16, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Thousand Oaks High School

On the Wikipedia page , you have the location correct...(thousand oaks, calif.)

But on my facebook page, you have this high school address in la canada minnesota... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.50.92.215 (talk) 23:17, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Facebook sometimes includes content from Wikipedia, but Wikipedia has no control over how it is displayed. RudolfRed (talk) 23:19, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Facebook community pages may incorporate content from Wikipedia— such use complies with Wikipedia policies on reuse of content. We at Wikipedia have no control over how the content is included nor can we help to remove it. Facebook does have a topic on Community pages and profile connections on their Help Center.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thousand-Oaks-High-School/113066058703697 says "Description above from the Wikipedia article Thousand Oaks High School". This only applies to the part with heading "Description". The alleged location in other parts of the page is inserted by Facebook and not taken from Wikipedia. I don't know how Facebook generates location information but they sometimes get it wrong. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:30, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

It seems likely that that "location" information has nothing at all to do with the content of the page, and I guess that it is using the location of the person who created the page when they created it. But this is speculation.--ColinFine (talk) 08:46, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Note that the complaints registered here give a lob-sided view, 100 Facebook location complaints in x months: Yes, but of how many? How many are overlooked? How many are noticed and ignored? How many aren't looked at? Dru of Id (talk) 00:13, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

There may well be more than one "Thousand Oaks High School"; and Facebook is notoriously bad about keeping institutions with duplicate or similar names straight when ganking information from Wikipedia. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)