April 18, 2008

Can someone delete the Category 'Mountaineering clubs' [1] please? I created it today before finding there was already a category for Climbing organizations. It is therefore redundant but I can't see how to uncreate it. Ta. Ericoides (talk) 11:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have tagged it for speedy deletion "per author's request". – ukexpat (talk) 15:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ukexpat. Ericoides (talk) 15:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please if possible on the pages that you have on the individual Aircraft Carriers could you put a box that lists all the Air Squadrons in order that served aboard. It would help greatly in tracking the squadrons as they moved from ship to ship. Now you list Airwings and that is ok but a list of the squadrons and the dates they were assigned to the ships would be of great importance to all the old sailors such as myself that served. I truly would appreciate anything you could do.

Thank-you

Frank Butler email removed Served 1972 to 1975 with VF-103 aboard USS Saratoga to USS Kennedy to USS America and back to USS Saratoga in just 3 years with detachments all over including "Hot Pad Duty" on Boca Chica Island north of Key West. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.72.122.146 (talk) 00:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would require

verifiable sources for us to put that information onto a page. -- Kesh (talk) 00:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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We have articles about some squadrons such as

VF-103; does that help? If you want to help improve these types of articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history. --Teratornis (talk) 04:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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want to no more about artistic adults —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.171.197.66 (talk) 01:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• What specifically are you looking for? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 01:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• This is a wild guess, but could you be talking about autistic adults? In which case, have you read our article on
  Autism? If you actually meant artistic, see if Art or Artist leads you somewhere useful, or else come back here and try to explain in more detail what you're looking for. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 04:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Hi, i suddenly have random articles included in my watchlist. How did this happen? I assume somewhere someone is using my account and adding pages to my watchlist. If this is true, how do i fix this problem? ќמшמφטтгמ^torque 03:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are you using a semi-automated tool like Twinkle or Friendly? These, by default, will add articles you tag/revert/whatever to your watchlist.

t-c) 03:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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(edit conflict) If you have

bot 03:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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(another edit conflict) If in your preferences, you might have "add pages that i edit to my watchlist" selected. If you think someone has gained access to your account, you should change your password. LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 03:37, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, i dont use any of those, and i didnt select that preference. Ya, i'll change my password and see if the problem persists. Thanks all. ќמшמφטтгמ^torque 03:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you recognize any of the "random" articles that appeared in your watchlist? E.g., do you recall having browsed to those articles in the past? Or are they completely unrelated to any articles you have edited or viewed? Just for fun, I tried searching the Help desk archive for: random article watchlist and that found a previous question that mentions one possibility:

• Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2008 January 25#Rogue additions to my watchlist?

It looks like if you are watching an article, and a vandal maliciously

moves the article to silly names, you can end up with the weird names on your watchlist as deleted articles. If you could tell us the names of some of the random articles you are seeing, we could check their histories and see if anyone has been messing with them. --Teratornis (talk) 04:04, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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If a page on your watchlist is moved then the new name is added to the watchlist, and it stays if the page is moved back. Could this be the cause? Some vandals move articles to strange names. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the articles added i have never even viewed them (as far as i remember), and some are weird names. Heres some of it: Jean Nouvel, Birmingham campaign (never viewed these), HERMY?, HERMY??, H.A.G.G.E.R.???, etc. ќמшמφטтгמ^torque

All of them have indeed been involved in move vandalism. Maybe you have or had one or more of Lord Voldemort, Hermione Granger, Ann Coulter, Resolution on your watchlist when they were moved as vandalism and the new name added to your watchlist. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this today myself. It's just a combination of an old feature (if a watchlisted article is moved, you end up watching both the orignal title and the new title, so in move vandalism you'll autowatchlist the malicious title) and a very new feature (logs now show up in the watchlist). Someguy1221 (talk) 04:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ya that must be it. Thanks again. ќמшמφטтгמ^torque 03:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_High_School_%28Marion%2C_Ohio%29 someone has made several false statements and it is locked and we can't fix it

currently the only thing left is:

"The High School is small and contains about 300 students. A recent unfortunate event caused 299 to be dead, leaving one student known as Leonidas." Other slanderous statements that have been made have already been removed after the local authorities were involved.

The Staff of Pleasant local Schools would like for this page to be either fixed (which we can't do because the person that caused the trouble seems to have played a part in locking it after they made the false statements ), or the page deleted. We also would like users Dreadstar and Masvolta to receive some sort of punishment for the wiki vandalism

Thanks

Brad Pettit Assistant Technology Coordinator Pleasant Local Schools —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bapettit (talk • contribs) 03:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you could specify what's true on that page and what's not, we can change it for you. And Dreadstar only protected it, Masvolta vandalized.

t-c) 03:57, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Hello Brad, school

WP:CUV, and adding Pleasant High School (Marion, Ohio) to your watchlist. --Teratornis (talk) 04:15, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Brad, you were not able to edit the

talk page; User talk:Masvolta does not have a warning just yet as I write this. Special:Contributions/Masvolta shows only one small edit; it looks like most of the vandalism to the article has been by non-logged-in users, who show up in the history as IP addresses. As long as the article remains semi-protected, non-logged-in users will not be able to edit it. --Teratornis (talk) 04:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Actually, for the benefit of the newcomers here, I'd like to point out that planting one of Wikipedia's myriad and obscure

uw-block1}}), for vandals whose behavior indicates that they clearly already know they're up to no good. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:16, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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131.215.167.115 (talk) 07:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Google cached a version of the article that was "page move" vandalized. It will update to the correct version shortly.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 07:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

s it too late to do a short sale and talk to my morgage bank? if the bank allrady put a notice to vacate my property? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.43.194.208 (talk) 09:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you've come to the wrong place for help. This area of Wikipedia is for people having problems using the site. You should also note that Wikipedia is not the place to come for financial advice (or legal, health, etc). Please read this

talk) 09:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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What should I do to get my site link unblocked? Is there anyone I can contact? Thanks in advance, BonnieDonny (talk) 11:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First, read Wikipedia:Spam. If you still feel the site should not be blacklisted, then you can file a request at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#Proposed removals. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 17:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll pursue this further. BonnieDonny (talk) 17:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More information is at

sour grapes to mean spite rather than the historically proper "the false denial of desire for something sought but not acquired; to denigrate and feign disdain for that which one could not attain." --Teratornis (talk) 18:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Such as unbanned status on my forum? I apologise for not fully explaining my use of the expression "sour grapes". However, in the future I'd advise you to think more carefully about what other people mean before jumping on their use of a word or phrase! BonnieDonny (talk) 19:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

I cannot login to joseph031164, and all the revison history of this account has disappeared. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.240.130.179 (talk) 12:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I can still see joseph031164 (talk · contribs)'s revision history just fine. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 12:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Different Wikipedia languages and Wikimedia sites have different accounts. Maybe you didn't try to log in at the English Wikipedia at Special:UserLogin earlier. I see User:joseph031164 has edited since the above post so I mark it resolved. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I need information in English on an article you have documented on your Spanish encyclopedia. It is titled "La Adrenoleucodistrofia (ALD) (A GENETIC DESEASE). I will be greatly appreciate your help. Thanks. Grace —Preceding unsigned comment added by Albagracia (talk • contribs) 14:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• What kind of information? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 14:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you are looking for

talk) 14:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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The {{Google translation}} template can machine-translate articles from the Spanish Wikipedia to English, although not as well as a skilled human translator. You may find this useful for comparing the machine-translated results of the es:Adrenoleucodistrofia article to the Adrenoleukodystrophy article.

• Translate the Spanish Wikipedia's Adrenoleucodistrofia article to English

--Teratornis (talk) 17:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also see

WP:EIW#Translate. --Teratornis (talk) 17:22, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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I cannot find the copyright information for the images in the portal.tropical_cyclone imagess. I have spent about two hours trying to figure out how to determine what the copyrights are. How do I find the "image description page" for an image. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.153.162.113 (talk) 15:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clicking on an image will usually take you to an image page with license information. If that doesn't work then where is the image? PrimeHunter (talk) 15:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited a number of Wikipedia pages but do not understand why I get the message "Unknown file type" when loading the page "Circuit complexity". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmonroe (talk • contribs) 15:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does Circuit complexity work? What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_complexity? with '?' at the end? Some browsers or other installed programs with bad settings have problems with certain endings that they try to interpret as a special file type even though there is no '.' in the name. Maybe your software thinks it's a .ty file. If that's the case then try to fix those settings somewhere, or manually add ? to the url. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By "loading the page" do you refer to editing the page? Do you only have this problem when you are

logged in? If so, check your preferences

and click the Editing tab. Maybe you have a check mark at "Use external editor by default". If so, does it help to remove it? This problem comes up occasionally on the Help desk, for example:

• Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2007 November 11#Trouble editing when logged in

--Teratornis (talk) 17:28, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How do I make a new article all together? Thanks.64.203.192.70 (talk) 16:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to first

search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines which all articles should comport with. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people

.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see

Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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If you tell us the subject of the

policies and guidelines most new users will not be aware of. --Teratornis (talk) 17:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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How do I detect the hex colour code for this template: 2008 in tennis? 88.104.225.179 (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have to click the "edit" button to see the source code. In this case, you had to follow that code to the template for that template (oy) which is {{Navbox}}, and the code is #ddddff Someguy1221 (talk) 19:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Meta-templates? Those poor kitties! Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 22:06, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

When using

In the "List" menu, there is a button that says "Convert to talk pages". Good luck!

bot 20:26, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks a lot!

« Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) 20:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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If it's a redirect, it hasn't been deleted. When you see the notice that you have been redirected (it's up top, the part under the title that says "Redirected from..."), click the link to go to the redirect page. You will see that the page has not been deleted, but made to redirect to the page about candidates. Hope this helps!

t-c) 22:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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(edit conflict) A redirection is not considered a deletion so there is no deletion log. When you click the redirecting

Terry Anderson (politician), you get to the target page with the text "Redirected from Terry Anderson (politician)" at the top. Click on the name there to get to the redirecting page where you can click the history tab to find you version. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:52, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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