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October 14

Button for Facebook share

just wanna ask a question that is very simple:will you in the future or am i just missing it-have a button for facebook share this link/page?i would like to share some of the cool things you right but have no idea how.thank you.names amanda titus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.132.24 (talk) 01:25, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

The future is hard to predict. There have been suggestions but no agreement. Currently there is an option called Sharebox for logged in users, but it's not enabled by default. It's free and easy to create an account and has many benefits. Everybody can manually copy a url from the browser address bar and post it somewhere. The url for this page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk.

Sharebox is a script that reorders your toolbox. It adds new buttons that make it easier to mail, print or share an article on Facebook or another linksharing service. You must have an account to add Sharebox to the sidebar. See User:TheDJ/Sharebox for more information. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:44, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

This is a perennial proposal and is unlikely every to be implemented as part of the site software. However, if you create an account, you can install the Sharebox script for you account, which provides a number of "sharing" options.--ukexpat (talk) 01:49, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

This involves the death of Mary Vestera (sp) mistress of Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary

If the last exhumation of her body proved to be "a (corpse)of 100 years," HOW CAN THAT BE?

She died in 1889? And, the corpse was last exhumed in 1993. The years don't add up.

I know what the pages on her/Mayerling/and Prince Rudolph are trying to say; but this is not 100 years.

Is there a more correct version or facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.219.50 (talk) 05:39, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

If you believe a 100-year-old corpse can be distinguished from a 104-year-old corpse, the place to bring up your concerns is Talk:Baroness Mary Vetsera, not here. —Tamfang (talk) 06:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

how could i add the photo??

how could i add the photo in my article:??(1)Bian Sangeet Kala Kendra (2)Pandit Bhoal Prasad Singh..pls help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.206.5.130 (talk) 05:47, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

1. Determine the specific free license that the photographer has granted to allow anyone to use the photo, and upload the photo to Wikimedia Commons (or to Wikipedia) as described at Wikipedia:Uploading images. (Note that permission for use only on Wikipedia is not enough.)
2. Use the uploaded photo as described at Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. —teb728 t c 06:26, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Yitzhak Rabin

In this art. you should mention the penalty imposed by the Israeli Court to the assassin. How many years in prison. Is he still in prison, etc.

Yours truly

George Negrete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.166.153.140 (talk) 07:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Please discuss article content on the article talk page (in this case Talk:Yitzhak Rabin. That way people interested and knowledgible about the subject will see your comments. —teb728 t c 08:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Where the article mentions the assassin Yigal Amir, it links to an article about him. That article gives the details of Amir's sentence. Maproom (talk) 08:54, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Problem with archiving

Hello,

since I took the name Tomcat7 the archive box does not contain any archives, stating there are no archives yet. Since I can not find the bug I am asking here for help. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 08:49, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Probably what you want is to move all subpages of User talk:GreatOrangePumpkin to the corresponding subpage of User talk:Tomcat7. —teb728 t c 09:20, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I am confused... All subpages were moved as far as I see. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 10:34, 14 October 2012 (UTC)--Tomcat (7) 10:34, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

See the documentation for {{archive box}} - the "auto=yes" option only works with the simplest form of naming for the archive pages. You will have to adapt one of the other examples to make the template work. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Some subpages were not moved, maybe due to the 100-page limit in Wikipedia:Moving a page#Automating multiple page moves. Special:PrefixIndex/User talk:GreatOrangePumpkin/ shows redirects in italics. Some subpages are not in italics. This means they were not moved. And some subpages are only in italics because they were already redirects before the user rename, and not because they were moved. In addition, you requested deletion of User talk:Tomcat7/Archive 1 and User talk:Tomcat7/Archive 2. If Special:PrefixIndex/User talk:Tomcat7/Archive had shown sequentially numbered redirect pages from User talk:Tomcat7/Archive 1 then I think {{archive box|auto=yes|search = yes}} in [1] would have worked. By the way, "7" in your signature links to the old talk page. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:02, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Redirect to itself??

Hi there! What is this redirect about??? I cannot see a difference between the title and the redirect. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spatial-temporal_reasoning&redirect=no Lova Falk talk 10:17, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

The redirect page uses a standard ascii hyphen, whereas the article uses an en dash. I used this handy tool to tell the characters apart. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:04, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Quick replace link tools!

Is there any tool to quickly replace links/text in multiple articles? For example replacing link Subhash Chandra Bose (which is incorrect spelling) with Subhas Chandra Bose? Tito Dutta (talk) 12:16, 14 October 2012 (UTC) Header changed signed Tito Dutta (talk) 12:18, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

See WP:AWB. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:19, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Long story short: for last 6 months, I have been trying to install AWB in my Linux OS (Ubuntu 12.04 now), but could not do it. Any browser based solution will be excellent! --Tito Dutta (talk) 12:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Any other suggestion? --Tito Dutta (talk) 06:21, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Firstly, stop wasting your time trying to install AWB under Ubuntu because AutoWikiBrowser (often abbreviated AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 designed to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. (AWB also functions reasonably well under Wine on GNU/Linux but this is not officially supported.)

If you have specific tasks that you would like doing with AWB, you can make polite requests here, the team over there are usually willing to oblige. CaptainScreebo ^Parley! 14:06, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Robert C. O'Brien

I'm actually trying to reach Graham87, who wrote me about my edits of the page on Robert C. O'Brien. I am ]]Robert C. O'Brien]]]'s daughter, and corrected the page versed on personal knowledge. Thus, I don't have a work I can cite, so I'm not sure how to footnote such a source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sobconly (talk • contribs) 12:51, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

You can reach Graham87 at User talk:Graham87. I admit it's hard to figure out for a new user because his signature at User talk:Sobconly#Sources doesn't say "talk" like mine. It's subtle but "87" at the end of his signature is a link to User talk:Graham87. See Help:Using talk pages. As his daughter I'm sure you know him best, but our policies Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research do not allow editors to add their personal knowledge about things which have not already been published by a reliable source. If such a source does not exist then the material has to be omitted from the article. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:14, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

But on the other hand we do use common sense to avoid perpetuating inaccuracies of fact, where a non-controversial detail has doubt cast upon it. Rich Farmbrough, 12:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC).

Wikipedia Offline

Is there any convenient way to download Wikipedia in its entirety for use offline? This may seem frivolous or absurd, given the likely size of the package, and the loss of updated changes, but given the increasing importance of Wikipedia, maybe not a bad idea.//RASBookworm (talk) 13:27, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Database download --Anbu121 (talk me) 13:40, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

And Wikipedia:Version 0.8 for an older and smaller option. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:46, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes there are a bunch of ways some are discussed here. Note theat the size of the text part of Wikipedia articles is not really an issue, fitting easily onto a modern thumb drive or SD card. Rich Farmbrough, 12:51, 19 October 2012 (UTC).

Common wiki markup commands

Where did the drop-down box with these commands, for example #REDIRECT, disappear to? Thanks, Espoo (talk) 14:33, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

You should get it above the edit summary box if you disable "Enable enhanced editing toolbar" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:40, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Would be a good idea to add those commands to that toolbar (and a warning on mw-prefsection-editing that turning on this toolbar will make them disappear!). --Espoo (talk) 15:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

They are temporarily disabled during a software update and were supposed to be reenabled days ago. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:38, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

no citation but it's me

Several months ago I made a scholarly contribution to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue–Morse_sequence that included a literature citation. I wish to make further contributions to this article of the from, "Robert Richman claims . . . ." This material has not yet been published, so I can provide no citations However, I wish to have some way to indicate that the material is reliable (in the sense that Robert Richman did in fact make the claim) because I am Robert Richman. How can I do this?

--Robert Richman 17:36, 14 October 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmrichman (talk • contribs)

I don't think you can. See WP:RS and WP:OR. RudolfRed (talk) 18:06, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Wait until it's published. Then, if it passes WP:RS, it can be added. Dismas|^(talk) 06:42, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia has no deadline so we can wait until it's published. Roger (talk) 08:36, 15 October 2012 (UTC)