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February 5

flagging a page with a possible copyright problem

I noticed a possible copyright problem on a wikipedia article. How do I flag the page so an appropriate editor can investigate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hersbruck (talk • contribs) 01:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

There are several different tags. Go to this link {{copyvio}}, and look at some of the links in the see-also section. RudolfRed (talk) 01:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Can we "Freeze panes" in Wikipedia tables?

I've been looking at List of The Beatles songs. It's naturally a very long list, in table form, with a heading row at the top. When I'm 22 screen pages below the heading row it's hard to keep track of which column is which. Having come here just after doing some work of my own in Microsoft Excel, where I used the Freeze Panes function to make the top row visible wherever I am in a long table, the obvious quesion arose - Can we "Freeze panes" in Wikipedia tables? HiLo48 (talk) 03:09, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think so. There's a 2010 thread about it here, but I don't think anything came of it. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:06, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

How come it never logs me in across all wikis?

I have an SUL/unified account, and when I log in, it says it's logging me in across all wikis (e.g. in Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc). However, if I go to another wiki, I'm not logged in. It logs me in across all Wikipedias, but doesn't log me in across all the wikis it says it's logging me into. Why? - Purplewowies (talk) 07:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Check if you are on the secure server (https) on one wiki, and on the insecure server (http) on the other. If so, access the other wiki on the same server. Lynch7 07:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Nope, they're both just http. I typically know when my browser is on https pages, anyway, because it warns me EVERY time. - Purplewowies (talk) 07:36, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Do you have third-party cookies blocked? Google has instructions on how to check this setting in your web browser. If those settings are correct, you could have ad-blocking or security software that is the problem. PleaseStand (talk) 08:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, it was a cookie problem. I didn't do what Google suggested, though; I just added all the wikis I wanted to be logged in on to the always allow list. Worked like a charm. Thanks! :) - Purplewowies (talk) 18:05, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

How to Change Erroenous Article Title and Links?

The article on artist Vaughn Bodē http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Bod%C3%A9 is incorrectly titled "Vaughn Bodé". The mark over the "e" in "Bodē" is a macron (to show that the "e" is long), and *not* an accent mark. Vaughn pronounced his name "BO-dee"; his son, Mark Bode, states on his web site that his last name is pronounced this way, and I personally heard Vaughn pronounce his own name this way, so there's no doubt that "Bodē" is correct. I've changed "Bodé" to "Bodē" whenever possible on the page, but I don't know how to change the page title, and I don't know what happens to all the links to the page if the title is changed. Also, the page for Mark Bode has the name incorrectly given as "Bodé" as well, so I'll need to change that title, also. (Vaughn used the spelling "Bodē" in the signatures for his artistic work, to show how his name should be pronounced; I believe he didn't always write his name with the macron over the "e". And on his own web page, Mark Bode generally has his own name listed without the macron.)

Thanks for your help.

Akasanof (talk) 07:48, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Moving a page. PleaseStand (talk) 08:31, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

adding new science fiction authors

how do you add new science fiction authors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.14.160.190 (talk) 08:12, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Your first article, and return if you have further questions. Dru of Id (talk) 10:25, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

If you were asking for someone to create an article, see Wikipedia:Requested articles; science fiction author requests would be added Here. Dru of Id (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Demographics is COMPLETELY WRONG on Melbourne, Fl.

I live in Melbourne Fl. It says that the majority of the population is White. This is NOT True. The Majority is Black and Latino Culture. You need to revise this information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.102.71.40 (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi 97.102.71.40. I looked at the source given in the citation and it seems to check out. So, Melbourne is majority white according to the US Census Bureau. It should be noted that this does not include Melbourne Beach or West Melbourne - I don't know whether that's an issue or not. --FormerIP (talk) 15:15, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm not American, but I'm fascinated with the American perspective on race differences. How does one tell a White from a Latino, apart from accent or language? HiLo48 (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, even the U.S. Census Bureau seems to have given up trying to figure this one out. As our Race and ethnicity in the United States Census article points out, they classify people according to 'race' (whatever that is), and then again according to whether people are of 'Hispanic or Latino origin' or not. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:12, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

In the 2012 census, the Census Bureau separated the issue of "race" from "origin". [1] They ask two questions for each person documented on a census form. Question 8 was "Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?" Question 9 was "What is Person 1’s race?" For Melbourne, Florida, 6794 people reported they were Hispanic or Latino, and of those, 4413 said their race was white alone (they could have designated more than one race, but few did). Jc3s5h (talk) 16:17, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

OK, that's interesting. But in the particular case, even if we decide we are going to discount those people as white (first question is why should we do this in any case?), it only reduces the white population of the city to about 75%. --FormerIP (talk) 16:34, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

75% is the majority of the population. QED. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:38, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Translation of an English page to an already existing page in a different language

I am in the process of updating/improving an English Wikipedia page. By this I noticed that the same page (same title) already exists in different Wiki languages. At least, I would like to have the for example the German page exactly the same as the English one. I looked for your translation policy which at a fist glance looks very complicated. Anyway, I do not trust automatic translation procedures very much. Somewhere I read that one also just could do it by "hand" whch means just copy the source of the English page to the German one and translate it there, by this at least keeping all boxes, formattings, referencing etc. By doing this, of course, the old page is completely replaced by the new one, only the history is kept. Is this an allowed procedure ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrHjmHam (talk • contribs) 14:43, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think "automatic translation procedures" exist, so you may want to read that page again. Machine translations are discouraged really. Please see Wikipedia:Translation/German/Translation advice.

The problem is that different templates have different names in different language Wikipedias. {{Reflist}} in the English Wikipedia, for example, is {{Listaref}} in the Spanish Wikipedia. Copy-pasting entire articles in such a manner will result in broken formatting. That said, there is no requirement for different language versions to present the same information in exactly the same way. In fact, it might be detrimental, given that you could be overwriting sourced information for a rather superficial reason. Instead, you should move snippets of relevant information with good judgement, and then credit your sources. Of course, you should also be fluent in both German and English. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 15:43, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Request for feedback

Wikipedia:Requests for feedback soft-redirects here, so here I am. I want to bring the article Wieferich prime to GA status. I think the article generally is okay, but I would appreciate any possible feedback. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 15:42, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

WP:FEED and this help desk are really rather generalized noticeboards. I doubt you can find a lot of people here with the required expertise for good feedback on a highly technical article. I recommend asking in WP:WikiProject Mathematics instead. You might even convince someone to collaborate with you on it.-- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 15:48, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Obsidian. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 22:07, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Tables next to each other

Is there a way to get the two tables at Error function#Table of values to be next to each other rather than one below the other? I think it would look better. RJFJR (talk) 17:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Is that what you wanted? Dru of Id (talk) 18:31, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Thank you. RJFJR (talk) 19:37, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

uploading an image

I'm the IT administrator of a company and would like to upload an image on my company's Wikipedia page but I dont know if I'm an autoconfirmed user.I need to put up an image of my company on the page.How can I do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinu.jackson (talk • contribs) 17:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

If you are not autoconfirmed (which you are not), you will have to request confirmed permissions at WP:PERM. Could I also ask which company you are from? I would suggest that you read our guidelines on notability and ensure that the company is notable enough for Wikipedia. Also, it is strongly recommended that you do not edit articles which you have a conflict of interest in (such as a company which you work for), as this will make it very difficult for you to write from a neutral point of view. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 17:18, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Porsche 991

Why did Porsche designate new model as 991 when previous models were 996 and 997? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.16.14.52 (talk) 17:50, 5 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. RudolfRed (talk) 18:13, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Blacklist

Hi, i have been trying to but an external link to a web page that i think would be amazing for helping people find themselves fitter, bt says site is blacklisted..? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironmanfitness (talk • contribs) 17:52, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

What link are you trying to add and which page are you trying to add it to? RudolfRed (talk) 18:14, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Note user has been blocked as a "spamusername" so unlikley to reply. MilborneOne (talk) 20:14, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Gross misinformation

On the band "Overwhelming colorfast". Original member list is WRONG!!! People are given credit who don't deserve it. Go to their FB page and read up - also contact Bob Reed, founder of the group. boy is he gonna be pissed when he sees this!!!! How embarrassing for your organization!!!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.118.110 (talk) 19:42, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Neither Overwhelming colorfast or Overwhelming Colorfast exist as articles. Can you tell us what article you are concerned about? GB fan 19:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Probably an article on this list. Dru of Id (talk) 20:46, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Multiple external links

Hi, I recently wrote an article about open source software and so I've added external links to Wikipedia pages that are relevant to the article. I was automatically warned that my edits could be regarded as spam, could you check if my edits have been within the rules and whether I may add the link to a few more pages?

Thanks, James McIntyre — Preceding unsigned comment added by Funckyfizz (talk • contribs) 20:12, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

When you add the same link to 3 or 4 articles it gives at least the appearance of being spam. The best thing to do is to discuss with the editor who reverted your additions (User:Pnm) on their talk page. – ukexpat (talk) 20:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Hans Kammerlander

Hans Kammerlander doesn't have a page on the English Wikipedia. Surely his achievements, e.g. with Reinhold Messner being the first climbers to climb two 8000m mountains without returning to base camp, justify a page. So, I'll add a referenced stub. http://www.planetmountain.com/english/special/people/kammerlander/cv.html But, what I'd like to know is if there isn't a page because no-one's made one. Or if there isn't a page because a previous page has been deleted. How can I find if a missing page is because one's been deleted? Ross-c (talk) 20:45, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

This shows where an article with the same name was previously deleted; this list shows matches to his name. Dru of Id (talk) 20:53, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

To answer your question in general: type the name of the article in the URL (for example, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kammerlander) instead of searching for it. If an article has existed but was deleted, the page will give you the most recent portion of the deletion log (which will say who deleted it, when it was deleted, and why it was deleted), but there won't be a deletion lot for a page that never existed. Please note that this is only valid for the precise title; if someone had created the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_kammerlander then going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kammerlander wouldn't help at all. Nyttend (talk) 04:36, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks all. I've added the article, spending some hours choosing suitable references and making sure that I've established notability and context. Hopefully this article will stay Ross-c (talk) 21:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

I've maximized the online reference formatting (authors & dates where included), and added a few categories. Should be fine for now; may go back and include English translations of his work titles if I can find them somewhere. Dru of Id (talk) 23:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

color in links

I have put links from the Tankhouse page to other articles, and from other articles to the Tankhouse page, but the color of the links is a blue so dark it is almost black, not the light blue, red, green or other contrasting color I see in other articles. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, TankhouseTom (talk) 21:49, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

All the links at Tankhouse look the same color of blue to me. If you've visted any of the links, your browser will probably show it as a different color from a non-visted link. RudolfRed (talk) 21:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Link color. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 00:54, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Pine Burr Area Council

I am employed by Pine Burr Area Council, Boy Scouts of America and noticed the area I serve known as Chickasawhay district is not listed. Let me know if I can help.

Rob Harrison wwww.pineburrbsa.org is a great reference to verify content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.96.223 (talk) 22:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Districts are not legal entities separate from councils, so we don't have separate articles. Pine Burr Area Council is currently a section of Scouting in Mississippi, but it has the potential of being developed into its own article. I suggest you register for an account and edit a few existing articles first. If you have questions about Scouting-related articles, check out WikiProject Scouting. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 23:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC) Lead Coordinator, WikiProject Scouting