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March 1

A redirect question

I just merged the articles Mount Riverview and Mount Riverview, New South Wales. I am having trouble getting the redirect from Mount Riverview to Mount Riverview, New South Wales to work.

Blarneytherinosaur 01:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. It's working now. Blarneytherinosaur 01:41, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

WP article count

Includes stubs, anyone know how to do a stub count? Seems to me that an article count sans stubs should be an interesting metric that seems missing. hydnjo talk 03:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Well you have to better define "stub." There are articles which are short and not tagged with some variation of {{stub}}. There are also some that are tagged that are actually now longer than what most would consider a stub. —WAvegetarian•_{CONTRIBUTIONS}• • 03:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

You might be interested in User:R. fiend/How many articles does Misplaced Pages really have?  ·  rodii  ·  03:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, OK thanks folks. And for the record my inquiry had to do with the objective "stub count", how many articles carry a stub notice rather than the subjective question of how many should carry a stub notice. I certainly would not have expected a way to review a count of the latter. hydnjo talk 23:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

how did the wounded knee massacre start

how did the wounded knee massacre start?

Please read the instructions at the top of this page in full. It will save you time and effort in the long run. Notinasnaid 14:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

To elaborate, the Help Desk is for questions about editing Misplaced Pages. Your question belongs at the Reference Desk. -- Natalya 18:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

How to give a website link to a name

My name is mentioned under Mentalism, as one of the Canadians who is of note. Is it possible to include my website information in this section, along with the others mentioned?

My website address is: www.ThoughtControl.ca

Many thanks,

Thomas Baxter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.186.190 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Including external links can be contentious, especially if someone adds their own website, due to problems of vanity. See WP:EL for a fuller discussion on external links in articles. In this case, I've been bold and added a link to your website at the bottom of the article. Any editor can remove it if they feel that it's not relevant, and if you disagree with them you can discuss it at the article's talk page (this system is known as bold-revert-discuss).

The syntax, in case you were wondering, is - that example produces Google. --Malthusian (21!) (talk) 16:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Updating Haitian musicians list

Hi,

My user name is sanbakreyol, and I'm a new user. I wanted to update the list of Haitian musicians. I just added the bio of Boulo Valcourt, and wanted to entitle it and post it on the right section.

1o) First, how can I locate this section? 2o) How can I update it properly?

Thanks,

Sanbakreyol

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanbakreyol (talk • contribs)

I suggest you read some of the material at Help:Contents, perhaps Misplaced Pages:Introduction_2 or Misplaced Pages:Newcomers_help_page might be directly useful. Looking at your contributions, you apparently edited the Misplaced Pages:Sandbox which is a place for test edits and added the bio in French. The text you wrote is recoverable, but this is the English Misplaced Pages. -- Rick Block (talk) 20:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

How to change vlink color in Misplaced Pages?

This seems a little too basic for the Computer Help Desk, so I'll ask here. I've tried to find the answer in the Help documentation, and in the User Preference pages, but I guess I'm not looking for the right thing. I would like to change the color of visited links in my browser while it is using Misplaced Pages, because the blue regular link and the purple visited link are just too close for me to distinguish, either because of my vision or my computer's monitor. (Outside Misplaced Pages, I use red for visited links, but don't want to do that here since redlinks have a different meaning.) I don't see this in the Preference pages... is this something I could do via Monobook.css or Monobook.js, and if so, how? (I am not adept at CSS or JavaScript.) Thanks, MCB 20:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

You should edit User:MCB/monobook.css and add a:visited { color: #00ffff; } with 00ffff changed for a colour of your choosing. You can pick one from Web colours.--Cherry blossom tree 21:06, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

That did the trick -- thank you! MCB 21:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to create my on wiktionary

Hi - Do you have any templates that I can use to create my own wiktionary - using JSPWiki? Thanks

You're not asking a very specific question, so you won't get a very specific answer, but I'll try. Misplaced Pages (and Wiktionary) use MediaWiki, so any templates we have may not work on JSPWiki. If there are any that you want to use then you are free to do so under the terms of the GFDL. Of course you're perfectly welcome to work on Wiktionary yourself without the bother. --Cherry blossom tree 22:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The term "Wiktionary" belongs to the WikiMedia Foundation. You would need to call your version something else. User:Zoe| 18:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Within an article, how can i add a picture?

Wiki-star: I see many articles with pictures that provide visual images of the Topic. I would like to know, step by step, how i can also add an image to articles of my choosing.

Thanks!

Right, lets go!

1. Make sure that the image in question is available under a free licence or that there is a valid fair use claim for it.
2. Go to Special:Upload and upload your image as myimage.png or whatever.
3. Go to point in the article you'd like to add the image to and include the text ].
4. See Misplaced Pages:Extended image syntax to do fancier things with it.
5. Sit back, light a pipe and admire your work.

Have fun. --Cherry blossom tree 22:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

IP address

Hi I have 2 computers, one on the first floor and one on the second floor. Will they both have the same IP address or will each one have a distinct and unique address??

Assumeing they both conect to the internet though the same phone line then yes.Geni 22:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

"Yes" doesn't really answer an either/or question.  :) User:Zoe| 18:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I can answer the question with a little more detail. Yes: either they will both have the same IP address, or each one will have a distinct and unique address. OR, the IP address of either one may change. All of these can happen, and unfortunately, we could no more answer this than tell you what colour the walls are painted, because it depends on what equipment you have in your offices and how your connection to the internet is done. What you can do is visit Misplaced Pages from both, to check the IP address. They might be subject to change, but if they are different today, they are likely to remain different from each other. Notinasnaid 08:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

If you are using a router to network your computers (which you should have to in order to use one phone line) then you computers will have different IP Addresses. If you are not using a router and just directly connecting the computers into the phoneline, I don't see how that's possible, but you would only have one IP Address then.

March 2

Learning basics of Computer Hardware

I want to learn the basics to maintain my computer healthy without breakdowns - like dll file not found, etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomv17 (talk • contribs)

-- Natalya 03:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Lecture citation

I'm certain this has been answered somewhere at some point, but looking through the FAQs and WP:CITE didn't bring it up for me. I recently attended a lecture by Paul Rusesabagina and heard a couple of things which could be added to his article. Both would be of the nature that a citation would be appropriate, however, I'm not sure if WP:V guidelines consider that of sufficient... ah... "reliability" for use here. So my question has two parts: is a public lecture an appropriate resource for mention of the information presented therein at Misplaced Pages? And if it is, how do I cite it? Thanks. Deadsalmon 05:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It's borderline I think. It's not verifiable in so far as readers can't go and check what he said in the lecture. If it's at all possible to find another source (either in things he's written or reports of this or other lectures) then that would be better, but failing that I'd go with the lecture and see if you can get away with it. I've no idea how to footnote it though.--Cherry blossom tree 22:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey, it's a start. Thanks. Deadsalmon 23:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Secret-swing.jpg

User:Emmy withwings uploaded this with a source but without copyright information and according to the photographer's website all images are copyrighted. Can someone with a little more experience than me ask for it to be released with a suitable licence? Otherwise, this image should disappear ASAP. - Mgm| 12:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Redoing a redirect and updating links

I am considering changing the redirect for Ptolemaic found here to a disambiguation page for Ptolemaic, distinguishing between Ptolemaic dynasty and Ptolemaic system and also Ptolemy, plus other uses if I think of them. I clicked on the "What links here" for the current redirect (see here) and there is a list of about 43 links, not all of which should be redirecting to Ptolemaic dynasty (which is where the redirect is currently pointing). Is there an easy way to clean this up, other than manually changing them all? Incidentially, I tracked down a redirection of a mis-spelling (Ptolomaic) to here, so that needs sorting out as well. Carcharoth 14:11, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, there isn't. The best I can suggest is to make the disambiguation page and then go through all the pages on what links here and use Popups to disambiguate each of them in turn. It's not a trivial task, but much quicker than doing it all manually.--Cherry blossom tree 21:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

That looks like a handy tool. Thanks! Carcharoth 09:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Watchlist

Hi

I have a suggestion to make.Currently, the 'Watch' tab at the top of the page, when clicked, immediately adds that page to my watchlist. I think that most often people might click on it out of curiosity as well.

So, you could either provide what the link is for when clicking on the tab and get the user click if he wants to add them to his watchlist. Or else rename 'watch' to the more conventional 'bookmark' as this is the commonly used term for such an activity.

Thanks

Anand — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikixoox (talk • contribs) 14:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

To make suggestions you really want to go to the village pump. Though personally, I think you might find resistance to both ideas. Firstly, there's no need to add an extra step into putting a page on your watchlist. Certainly people only click 'watch' out of curiosity once, whereas they click it normally hundreds of times.

Also, the watchlist is not like a list of bookmarks - if you bookmark something, it's because you want to come back to it later. But the point of 'watching' a page is to monitor the changes made to it. I've got plenty of pages on my watchlist that I've never even read and don't intend to, but to which I've reverted vandalism or soapboxing and monitor in order to look out for more.

If you'd like a proper list of bookmarks, why not add the pages to a list on your user page? --Malthusian (talk) 14:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Why can some websites have articles, and not others?

I've seen articles on Misplaced Pages about websites that are active and popular, so together me and my forum staff recreated a nice, long, article to share, since our board is fairly active and big in it's fandom. And yet the next day, it's deleted. Why is that? There are articles on other fansites, so why was mine deleted? It doesn't seem fair.

Kitty17794 15:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is an encyclopaedia, so everything in it has to be verified and written in a neutral point of view. If you're writing about yourself, or something closely related to yourself such as your Internet forum, that's very hard to do. And if a website is small, it's difficult if not impossible to find reliable sources that can back up the information in the article. You might also want to look at the guidelines for inclusion of websites - those will tell you why we've included some websites. --Malthusian (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

No contributions have been made under the username above, and without any information on what article you're talking about, it's impossible to say. However, most such deletions happen because the site in question is deemed non-notable according to WP:WEB, or the article doesn't assert that the site is notable (see WP:CSD). But there could be many reasons. What article was it?

Also, it's worth noting that "sharing information" isn't really the goal of Misplaced Pages so much as "writing an encyclopedia." The two things seem more similar than they are. Misplaced Pages is not a web directory or a compendium of all information anyone wants to share. It's a collection of articles on subjects that are worth having in a general reference work. No doubt there are many articles here that fail that standard, but that's no justification for adding more.  ·  rodii  ·  15:35, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Not every person on earth gets an encyclopedia article on wikipedia. The same goes for websites. To start with, they need to have some impact on the world or have large amounts of visitors. - Mgm| 17:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Altering signature

How exactly do you alter your signature. I mean to use sub/superscript and colours. I can see the code being used, for example:

]]]''' ^]

for

Fetofs

But is there an automatic way of doing it? --Stu 16:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, put the code in the signature field in your Preferences and select the raw signature box. - Mgm| 16:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Or, create a "sig" template user page, like I did: "{{Subst:User:Kaimbridge/Sig}}~~~~~"——the "Subst" makes it "static", so that it doesn't get reprocessed through the Wiki servers each time (and change the sig's time! P=).  ~Kaimbridge~16:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Kaimbridge,you might want to take a look at WP:SIG#Things_to_avoid...  ·  rodii  ·  18:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• I'm assuming you know enough HTML to create a signature like the one above.) Click on the "my preferences" link at the top of the page and paste your code into the box that says "nickname." Then--important---check the "Raw signature" box just below it, and save. Then just type four tildes (~~~~) to create a timestamped signature like  ·  rodii  ·  16:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah right, didn't know you could just paste the HTML in there. I'll look into doing the sig template thing too. Cheers all! Stu 16:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Make sure you do. Typing four tildes (~~~~) is a lot easier than inserting HTML each time you have to sign. - Mgm| 17:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Adding that "Sign"

Wikistar: Hi again! Wikistar here, and i'm baffled at a markup code. I'm confused at the code for creating a Table. The code itself is self explanatory, but theres a symbol in it that i cannot find on my keybaord. Its that vertical line! You know, the little line you see before most of the words in a table. Where can i find this symbol?

Thanks!

Are you using a standard US keyboard? It might be different with other layuouts, but in the US, the vertical line is usually at the far right above the return/enter key, the shift character of backslash.  ·  rodii  ·  18:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikistar: Oh i found it! Thanks alot! You're the best.

Redirect is Incorrect

I'm new to Misplaced Pages and don't feel comfortable editing a page. However I found that "Alumen" gets redirected to Aluminum. This is incorrect. Alumen is a separate thing. Although the latin of aluminum is alumen. Can someone change that please so that there is a stub for Alumen with maybe a fork for Aluminum? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.134.141.109 (talk • contribs)

Well, I've removed the redirect, but I don't know anything about alumen so I couldn't write anything. Please go to Alumen and write whatever you know about the subject (above the stub notice). Also, remember the guideline Misplaced Pages:Be bold in updating pages and if you ever see anything you have a good reason to believe is incorrect, go ahead and edit it - That's what Misplaced Pages is all about. If you make a mistake, there will always be someone who will fix it. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Updates on Misplaced Pages

For a while now I noticed small differences on Misplaced Pages, or larger ones (e.g. the announcement that e-mail confirmation was enabled), and until this announcement assumed that they were changes in the MediaWiki software itself. Only now I understand that it is not true, and that these are internal EnWiki changes. My question is, is there a page on Misplaced Pages where such changes are proposed and discussed? I've seen many policy-related discussions and such, but they usually seem to end with no result, often because none of the users discussion have the authority to do anything. So, again, is there a page where changes are discussed which actually matter? I'm asking becasue I'd like to know of such impending changes, if possible. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 19:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, communications are not a Wikimedia strongpoint. There are various pages on Misplaced Pages where things like this get discussed - the village pump, administrators' noticeboard and occasionally others if a discussion happens to start there, or if a page is made specifically for a discussion to happen. There are various mailing lists. The relevant ones are probably WikiEN-l, Misplaced Pages-l, Foundation-l and Wikitech-l. Also various IRC channels. The shift to requiring e-mail verification wasn't discussed, though, it was just a necessary reaction to a situation but was explained on Wikitech-l.--Cherry blossom tree 21:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit the Title

Wiki-star: I really apprecaite the help you wikipedians out there are providing. I'm still baffled of a few more things. But the more answers i recieve, the more knowledgable i become of the site. With that being said, i would like to know how to change the title of an article? I know how to change the sub-title, but how do i change the title?

Thanks Again!

Basically, there should be a tab just to the right of the "history" tab at the top of the page, labeled "move", which is used to rename an article. But new users can't use it, and I'm not sure what is the exact amount of time an account needs to exist for this to be enabled. If you don't have this button, you can ask someone to do it for you. Regardless, when posting in talk pages, type ~~~~ to place your signature and timestamp. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

please remove nasty cartoons right now

DEAR SIR,

I WANT YOU TO REMOVE VERY CONTROVERSIAL CARTOON IMAGES FROM YOUR SITE. THESE TYPE OF NASTY THINGS CAN BADLY IMPACT ON YOUR SITE'S GOOD REPUTE AND YOUR SITE MAY BECOME CONTROVERSIAL ALSO.

REGARDS,

DAVID Ŵ¢ąĠþ

Assuming you're talking about those Danish cartoons, then no, we won't remove them. We have a page on what Misplaced Pages is not, and among those things we clearly state that Misplaced Pages is 'not censored. Those cartoons are relevant content and don't violate any copyright laws where Misplaced Pages is hosted, so they're unlikely to be removed. Also, take a look at our disclaimer. On a side note, Misplaced Pages had always been controversial, per se... ☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 20:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It would help greatly if you were to let us know which cartoon images you find offensive. Dismas| 20:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, Misplaced Pages has a pretty good reputation so far. Anyway, please read Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not#Misplaced Pages is not censored. If you are uncomfortable with an image you see in an article, you can be bold and remove it - But you'll have to be prepared to explain this edit, or it will be reverted. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

• Or you could simply not watch articles which may contain material you find offensive. - Mgm| 21:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Beguine Headache

Hey, I submitted about two paragraphs of what I thought were necessary clarifications about Beguine orders. I copied the original article with my two paragraphs added into the edit window. It comes up with the old article preceeding it, and I cannot figure out for the life of me how to delete the old text. Can someone please fix that? I've been up and down trying to figure out how I can correct what I did, but I think I need to deffer to someone with more editing experience.

Thank you and sorry, X los

Sorry, I couldn't understand you. Please be more specific about the articles in question and the operation you were trying to perform. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

There are two copies of the Beguine article on the page. The top one needs deleted. They are identical except that the bottom copy has two additional paragraphs. When I go into the edit window, it only shows the bottom copy of the article. How do I delete the top copy, which is superflous?

X los

Okay, here are a few comments:

• Actually there are 3 copies.
• I would not advise to delete the top copy - It is the only one containing the Wikilinks. The bottom copies, except for the additional paragraphs, should be deleted.
• I don't see the problem, when I edit the page all the 3 copies are shown.
• I'll try to clean it up.

-- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Check it out now: Beguine. I only noticed one additional paragraph. If you wish to add anything, please be more careful. And one more thing - When posting in talk pages, type ~~~~ to put your signature and timestamp. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:31, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Gallery Row Building..

I am trying to find out if the Gallery Row Building at 409 7th St, NW in Washington DC has ever won an award for it's unusual design. I am thinking that it might have won an award as the building has a weird diagramal shape to it. To go further the steps inside go in a square shape. So far my search has come up with very little. Any help that you might be able to provide me would be very helpful.

Thank you Stephen Hosmer

Do not use this template. Use {{RD1}}, {{RD2}} or {{RD3}} instead.-- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 20:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

SERIAL NUMBER LOCATION.

I don't know what your question is, but in all likelyhood it belongs on the reference desk. - Mgm| 21:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

The given for getting on the IRC Chat does not work

This link #wikipedia-en is given in Misplaced Pages for access to an IRC Chat forum for Misplaced Pages users. That link is broken or out of service ... it just does not do anything but bring up an error message. - mbeychok 23:01, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

That is a valid IRC link which works for me. I'm guessing that you don't have an IRC client. See Internet Relay Chat and List of IRC clients for more information.--Cherry blossom tree 23:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It would depend on whether your browser (and any helper apps / plugins / etc. installed to support it) supports the "irc" URI scheme. (The Mozilla/SeaMonkey suite does.) *Dan T.* 23:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Author?

Who is the author of the Samuel Hughes article? (history)

I take it you're talking about citing Misplaced Pages? If not you can get a list from this history tab at the top of the page.--Cherry blossom tree 00:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

March 3

Create a New Article

Wiki-star: Hi again! Don't worry, i'm slowly figuring out the site. Soon, i'll master it! But until then, i'm trying to figure out how to create a new article within an article! You know, like a sub article, under a big one.

Can someone tell me how to make a new article?

Thanks again! You guys rock!!

Thankyou for asking a very polite question. There's lots of ways - the easiest is probably to copy "http://en.wikipedia.org/MyNewArticle" (with MyNewArticle changed to the title fo your article) into the address bar. There will be a link on the page that brings up saying "Start the MyNewArticle article". You click on that and you're off to the races. Good luck with it.

Another brief tip, you can sign your talk page comments by typing four tildes (~~~~) rather than doing it manually like so: --Cherry blossom tree 00:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

It actually is considered better to create pages by linking to them in another article and following the new red link to the page, and editing it. This method is preferred because it prevents orphaned articles from forming. For more information, visit Help:Starting a new page.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 02:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC).

That would help you make the first article. However, if you want a subpage, it would be titled MyNewArticle/MyNewSubpage. Any subpage created this way automatically links back to the larger article. This is mostly used for archiving and administrative stuff, though. Good question, anyway. Cheers! Deltabeignet 05:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

P

Hi. I'm couldn't find an article explains the dictions of the letter P, for example why "psychodelic" sounds like "sychodelic". Is there such article? psychomelo₍di_sc_ussion) 00:28, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Do not use this template. Use {{RD1}}, {{RD2}} or {{RD3}} instead.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 02:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Article Pictures

Wiki-star: Believe it or not, this is the final question before i have completelty mastered everything about an article! It is very imperative that the person or people who respond to this question bear in mind that i am still new. I need you to slow down, and explain everything!!!

The first question i have is, can i upload a Picture onto Misplaced Pages using Microsoft Word?

• Hi Wiki-star, when you post on discussion pages, like this one, please type four tildes like this: ~~~~ after your post. This will sign your name. Johntex\ 03:29, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• As to your quesiton, I do not understand. Do you have a document (like a Word Art drawing) in Microsoft Word which you wish to upload? Johntex\ 03:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• This may help you: Help:Images and other uploaded files. It gets into a lot of detail. Check it out and write us back if you still have trouble. Johntex\ 03:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

You can't upload a picture using Microsoft Word, you can upload one that you have made with Microsoft Word. You would have to save this as a picture (in a format such as .jpg, .png, .gif and so on) and then upload it to Misplaced Pages. You should do this by going to Special:Upload and following the instructions there. --Cherry blossom tree 11:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Tables

How do you put a table on the right side of the page? You can post it on my talk page. Please and thank you! Funnybunny 03:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

tiZom has answered on user's talkpage. - Akamad 10:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Name changes

There's a pretty big backlog at the name changes page; if there's an admin reading this that has a little while to go through some of the names there, it'd be a big help. Thanks. Deadsalmon 04:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

noinclude and includeonly

I can't find the documentation on these two commands. I need to provide links to them in a Tip of the day I'm writing. --Go for it! 05:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

While I'm on the subject, I can't find any of the angle commands. I don't even know what the category is called. Is there a page that lists all the wiki commands, and please provide the link. I'd greatly appreciate it! --Go for it! 05:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I believe this is what you're looking for. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 07:30, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

what are angle-bracketed commands called?

For example, is <noinclude> called "the noinclude command", or is there another name for it? --Go for it! 05:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

In HTML, they're called tags (i.e., the <noinclude> tag) ...is that what you're looking for? tiZom_(2¢) 05:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

&nbsp:

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Deleted Article

Hello

Several months ago I spent some time writing articles on lesser-known computer languages, including one called Ubercode. Today I went back to view the articles and the Ubercode one has been deleted (here is the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Special:Log&type=delete&page=Ubercode )

The reason given was:

02:58, 26 February 2006 Capitalistroadster deleted "Ubercode" (Listed for five days as Prod article with no objection)

I spent several hours writing this article and now it's just gone, I have viewed this person's home page and he does not even have software or programming down as an interest. So my question is:

1. Can I get the page back?

2. Why do people delete content when I have spent some time writing an article? At the moment I feel discouraged from adding to the wikipedia.

Thanks, Bill

Your page was listed on WP:PROD which means that someone thought it merited deletion. If no-one has objected to this after 5 days then the article will be deleted. Capitalistroadster was merely following policy rather than making any subjective judgement on the quality of the article. If you wish to have the article undeleted then you should list it on Deletion Review where a discussion will take place on whether or not this should happen. You will have to explain why you think this article should be in Misplaced Pages.

Articles are deleted from Misplaced Pages all the time. Most of these are things people have written about their garage band or whatever and no-one would dispute this, however much work has been put into the article. Sometimes, though, the process makes mistakes. I'm sorry you feel that's happened in this case and wish you luck getting it undeleted.--Cherry blossom tree 10:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for the feedback. How can I find out why the article was deleted? And is the original text of the article kept anywhere (I have not archived it locally). My concern is, there is a long list of computer programming languages and I was gradually going through the list writing short articles about the ones I am familiar with. This action seems to make my efforts pointless - Bill. Lingolanguage 11:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

A reason is usually supplied when the article is proposed for deletion. Unfortunately this is deleted with the article. My guess (from what you've said) is that someone thought the subject of the article was not sufficiently notable for Misplaced Pages. Obviously there should be articles on very well known programming languages and there shouldn't be articles for ones that no-one but the creator uses. There's no hard and fast line for what can and can't be included but I presume that the person who proposed it for deletion thought it was too close to the latter. You presumably disagree with this.

As far as getting it undeleted, I've just realised I was mistaken before - it's easier than I thought. The Deletion Review page says "Articles deleted under the Misplaced Pages:Proposed deletion procedure ... may be undeleted, without a vote, on reasonable request." So if you make a reasonable request on that page then I imagine that your article will be undeleted fairly quickly. There may (or may not) follow a formal discussion at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion about the article.--Cherry blossom tree 11:55, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again for your help - I appreciate your time on this. The only reason for deletion I can find is "Listed for five days as Prod article with no objection". To someone who knows more about programming than Wiki this is not very useful, it does not explain what a 'Prod' article is or why a 'Prod' article is not permitted. My questions are:

1. Does the deleted text exist anywhere or do I need to re-type it?

2. Is there any point to me trying to spend time filling out the more obscure programming languages by writing articles on them?

3. There are other short articles I have created about languages - are these likely to be deleted also? Do I have to check back weekly? I am fairly new to Wiki, and when hours of effort just 'vanish' it takes most of the fun out of using Wiki.

4. Can I just re-create the page? I looked at the Request for undeletion page and it looked very long and full of bitter disputes.

Thanks - Lingolanguage 12:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I've not been clear enough here. Misplaced Pages has (off the top of my head) three methods for deletion. Articles for deletion is where a discussion/vote on the merits of an article is carried out and a decision come to. Speedy Deletion is for articles that clearly do not belong in Misplaced Pages, such as where the only content "my mate gaz is cool!!!1" Proposed Deletion (referred to as Prod) falls somewhere between the two. This is where someone proposes the article for deletion and states a reason. If no-one objects to this after five days then the article is deleted. The reason given for deleting the article is that it has gone through the Proposed deletion process, rather than the original reason for it being put through.

I know next to nothing about programming so I can't really comment on whether particular languages are likely to be deleted or not. If a reasonable number of people use them then I think they would usually be fine. I understand that this is very frustrating when all you want to do is add a bit of knowledge.

The deleted text is still saved and can be recovered at any time - it is just not viewable by readers. You could just recreate the page, but you would have to type it all out again. I've requested that the article be undeleted. I've never done it before but according to the policy there (for articles deleted via prod/Proposed Deletion) it should happen fairly painlessly. After that it may go to Articles for Deletion but I don't think it would be deleted again. --Cherry blossom tree 13:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

To add to what CBT said, if you want to insure your new articles in the future don't go to PROD (and you think they might), you should probably explain in the Talk (Discussion) page of the article in question why the subject (in your case, the programming language) is important. This doesn't mean your article wouldn't be deleted for sure, but it would have an AfD (Articles for Deletion) vote at least, which is a long process and the article would probably not be deleted without your input in such a case. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 13:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again CBT and Ynhockey. I understand about the process using 'Articles for Deletion' for the normal course of events, and 'Speedy Deletion' for nonsense articles. PROD seems to be a new form of deletion, and it seems in this case the article was deleted simply because someone proposed deleting it under PROD. I spent some time looking and I can find no other feedback or other reasons given for deleting the article. Anyway, thanks for requesting the undeletion, in future I will add a comment on the Talk page for new language articles requesting the article is not deleted using PROD, also I will re-visit the other language pages I did and add this same comment - Bill. Lingolanguage 14:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, someone would have supplied a reason when they submitted it to PROD but they would have put the reason on the page itself and so it would have been deleted with the page. Which isn't the best way of working, I grant you.--Cherry blossom tree 15:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

For the record, the admin who deleted the article does have a choice. Prod relies on the fact that at least two people review the article before it gets deleted--the nominator and the closing admin. The admin only deletes it if they agree. NickelShoe 16:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

User:R.Koot put the Prod tag on the article with the explanation, "non-notable programming language; vanity article". You might want to discuss it with him/her. User:Zoe| 18:32, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I've undeleted this. Someone can take it to WP:AFD if they like. -Splash 03:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Tabs

Is there a way to do tabs on Misplaced Pages, by which I mean having text start at certain places? The problem that I have is making lists with two or columns. Here's an example:

• Blue 1985232
• Red 665
• Green 23265
• Orange 23

It would be nice if there was a way for the second column to start at the same place. I've been using tables for this, which is inconvenient, since I could find nothing about tabs in the Misplaced Pages namespace. Thanks, Kjkolb 13:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Tabs aren't really part of the HTML paradigm. Tables are the way to go. · rodii · 14:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Aww, too bad. -- Kjkolb 14:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

You could just preformat the data. You can do that by putting <pre> tags around it, or just a space at the start of each line (edit this to see what I've done):

Blue   1985232
Red        665
Green    23265
Orange      23

HTH. It's pretty ugly, though. --pfctdayelise (translate?) 16:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk: Al Lewis

This article discussion is blocked because there is a spam link in it; is there any way to determine which link this is? I am trying to add the following to the discussion: Voting records say 1923; he would have registered to vote (probably) long before starting to lie about his age. Daemon8666 13:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.

I've removed the offending link. It was to a URL shortening site, which are blocked because they can be used to circumvent the spam blacklist. --Cherry blossom tree 14:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

what are the rules for binomial nomiclature?

i enjoyn this site a lot

Do you want binomial nomenclature? If not then you want the reference desk.--Cherry blossom tree 14:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Why do users still ask Reference Desk questions here?

That's the biggest mystery I've seen so far on Misplaced Pages, and it flabbergasts me. --Go for it! 14:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Could it be because the 2 departments share the word "Desk" in their titles? --Go for it! 14:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Not sure thats it, as Misplaced Pages:Newcomers help page gets a lot of reference desk type of questions as well. Probably people not reading instructions properly, which is a common trait... Petros471 15:09, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it obvious? It's in order for the users involved in the development of the {{RD}} template to have something to do. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I believe this question would belong on the talk page of the Help Desk. I sympathise with you though.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 04:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I think the reason this article is on this page is because it's talkin about entries on this page.--The Billygoat

• Most people who know squat about Misplaced Pages come here through the "Contact Misplaced Pages" link. As far as I know it clearly states which questions should be asked where, which is restated at the top of the page. I think it's just laziness. I wonder though, why we rarely get help desk qeuestions on the reference desk... - Mgm| 19:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• • I thinks it's a question of size ratios, there are a lot more questions belonging on the refdesk than belong here, so we get some leakage.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 01:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• What do people have to say about the question asked below? It seems to fit in both departments.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 01:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think this particular question fits in neither. It fits in Misplaced Pages's search box. If it would be a bit more specific I guess you would be correct.-- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 07:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Turning off a specific edit button

Is there a way to turn off the button for a particular heading, while leaving all the other edit buttons on the page unaffected? --Go for it! 14:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I take it you know about __NOEDITSECTION__ stopping all section editing links? As far as I'm aware, there's no way of stopping just a single one from appearing. --Cherry blossom tree 15:29, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Just curious, why would you want to do this? Dismas| 15:48, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Images

I am thoroughly confused as whether an image I uploaded and is displayed has been properly tagged. Although I am well versed in reading and writing in English, the instruction appear to me only in Latin. Could someone please check the image I posted under the "Log Home" page is properly tagged...or will it be deleted in a week. If it's not right, how do I fix it?

Thank you, Bill

For those that want a link, it's here: Image:Handcrafted log home.jpg. I'm not great with the licenses, just wanted to provide the link for people. Dismas| 18:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added the most basic self-made public domain tag ({{PD-self}}). Assuming the description in the image page is correct, of course. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 20:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

wiki conundrum

What is a wiki?Architect1 21:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

See wiki. Dismas| 21:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Section below userboxes

I'm unable to get my user page right. I have thre columns of user boxes and I have some links below that, which are in a different section. However, I couldn't get it to work right - the last section would appear to the right of the userboxes, not below. I had to add several == sections of "filling space" to get it to move the last section down below the user boxes, instead of to the right. Line breaks didn't help. How can I get the last section below the userboxes without the kludge? Bubba73 (talk), 21:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

While there may be an easier and less backwards way, the way I use occasionally is to put the text below the userboxes in a DIV with CLEAR:BOTH; So it would look something like:

{{User Canada}}
<div style="clear:both">
Text here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
</div>

-- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 21:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

thanks, that did it! Bubba73 (talk), 22:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

• Just using <br style="clear:both"/> should do it. · rodii · 00:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I had tried already several plain <br>s to move it down, but that didn't help. But thanks. Bubba73 (talk), 01:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Just plain <br> definitely won't work. It has to have either clear="both" or style="clear:both" as an attribute. · rodii · 01:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, both DIV and BR with that seemed to work just the same. Is there a reference for this kind of stiff? Most of what I learn I get by looking at other people's pages. Thanks. Bubba73 (talk), 01:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure how much is documented on Misplaced Pages for how to use HTML, although any HTML tutorial covering floating elements will explain this. You can also use {{clear}} if it's easier to remember. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

RE: INFORMATION

Can I add my own biography on here?

Only if you are notable enough to appear in such an encyclopedia. See WP:N for more information. If you're like most people, myself included, you probably won't :o\ ...but you are always welcome to include personal information on your User page (User:Minorkcalles)! tiZom_(2¢) 00:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Slight correction -- you can't write your own biography, it must be done by others. However, you are welcome to correct any errors in your biography, should one be written about you. The notability requirements mentioned by tiZom still apply, though. Deadsalmon 06:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

March 4

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Audio Pronunciation guides

Have you ever considered providing an audio pronunciation link for certain words that appear in Misplaced Pages or the Wiktionary? It seems that the Wiki would be capable of supporting such a feature. Do other considerations make you question its implicaiton, such as cost, space, copyright, etc.? Any insight on the matter would be much appreciated. Cheers. 07:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Some words already have prononciation guides (both in IPA and sound file). I would imagine, it's impractical to do it for every word as there's hundreds of regional variants of English. How would we ensure people find a neutral spoken version? - Mgm| 19:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Putting redirects in categories

Is there a policy on putting redirect pages into categories?

Looking at Category:Invasive species, I was surprised that Cane Toad wasn't there. The article is there but under Giant Neotropical Toad which is the redirect from Cane Toad. I've added the category to the redirect but wondered if this is generally thought to be a good thing.

I can see some advantages (users are more likely to find the article they are looking for or spot one that is of interest) but also problems (big categories will become even bigger if the same article appears multiple times with different titles). --Cavrdg 07:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• iirc, it is a technical limitation of the mediawiki software that is used on this site. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • At least it was in previous versions of the software... so the policy has not been revisited since. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:54, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks. I'll raise it on Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy) and get some views. --Cavrdg 17:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Need vertical symbol like {${\displaystyle {p \choose q}}$ } without ()

Can Wiki reproduce this? File:Vertical-pq.png

Best I could find is this:

• {${\displaystyle {p \choose q}}$ }

Obviously I'd like to insert numbers for p and q as well!

Any help is appreciated. I could find ANY help on "math" codes besides examples in existing articles.

Tom Ruen 09:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (mathematics)#Typesetting of mathematical formulas is a good place to start.

It has links to various resources including Help:Formula which has

\begin{Bmatrix} x & y \\ z & v \end{Bmatrix} inside math tags

for

${\displaystyle {\begin{Bmatrix}x&y\\z&v\end{Bmatrix}}}$

So, your example would give ${\displaystyle {\begin{Bmatrix}p\\q\end{Bmatrix}}}$ --Cavrdg 10:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Wonderful! Thanks! Tom Ruen 11:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Photo disappeared

Kindly check this Opus Dei and politics and the photo of Antonio Fontan ceased to appear. I wonder what happened. Thank you. Marax 10:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I must say I'm puzzled. The breakage happened with this edit, which seems completely innocuous. It's not just some transient problem, as neither purging the server cache nor actually doing a trivial edit helps. The image shows up correctly in the edit preview when editing either the specific section or the level-2 section it is contained in, but not when editing the entire article. At this point I'm out of ideas. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed. Very strange. · rodii · 14:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. · rodii · 15:14, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Rodii and Ilmari Karonen, for your efforts. Highly appreciated. Cheers! Marax 02:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

No problem. For the record, the issue was that the image above this on the page, like that one, has a wikilink inside the caption, but the second bracket was missing, and somehow this caused the brackets to get out of sync farther down the page. It was tricky to work out and made me wonder whether there's the equivalent of an HTML validator for wiki-syntax. Anyone know? · rodii · 02:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Article Pictures Version 2

Wiki-star: Hello once again fellow wikipedians! I am on the verge of mastering this site! I'm looking forward to writing very successful articles! I love writing and helping people, and this site is going to make my dreams come true. Ok, so i found an image: TFA Title. Click on the link provided. Now, this is one of the many images i will be inserting on the many articles i wish to edit or write. When i uploaded this image, i am given several warnings that it will be deleted within a week. This is due to lack of license. What is this asking of me?

How can i find the license of this image? What is it that i need to know, in order to make safer and more confident decisions?

If these questions are answered, then you won't here from me for a long time (except in articles of course). I appreciate all the support wikipedians, you guys are absolutely awsome.

Thanks again!

Basically you must provide 'proof' why your image is fit for Misplaced Pages. Of course, this isn't real proof, but other users will trust you not to upload copyrighted material. Some copyrighted material can be uploaded under fair use (if that's the case, choose one of the fair use license from the drop-down, like TV screenshot or Book cover). Non-copyrighted material can also be uploaded - if it was made by you, you can put something like {{PD-self}} in the description, which will say that you made it and release all rights. If you don't want to release all rights, there are other licences available, check the drop-down box in the upload dialog. Hope my explanation helped. -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 14:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikilink colors

I think I've seen it done (not 100% sure) before - is there a way to change the colors of the wikilinks (to something other than blue/purple) using the Wiki syntax? I'm mainly asking for userboxes which have dark backgrounds. I'll try to search for such a userbox with a link, but if someone knows, please tell me :) -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 14:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

] = Yellow--Cherry blossom tree 15:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Is there any way to change the underline color as well? ☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 16:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Article Pictures Version 3

Wiki-star: Yes! Finally, i found out how to provide a sufficient license. Thank you wikipedians! Ok, remember This picture i posted in Version 2? I'm having trouble making it smaller. How do i change the size of an image?

Thanks again! Wiki-star 15:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

In the article you can specify the size of the image, like so:

• ]
• ]

-- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 15:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

John Tunnard: removed entry

This is to ask why this entry has been removed. I checked the entry (by anonymous author) two months ago and it seems unlikely there was anything copyright - the statements were mostly straightforward and well-known information. As I co-authored a book on this artist, I corrected a few factual errors to the then version and was content that the revised entry was sound. Brian Whitton

The article was tagged as a copyright violation by Tearlach, but he only mentioned "suspected offline copyvio" and did not cite a source, nor was the procedure in Misplaced Pages:Copyright_problems followed. I left a message on his Talk page and have restored the article for the time being, until he explains the situation. It may well be a copyright infringement, but the editor who replaces the article text with a copyvio tag has at least a minimum burden of proof. If you are familiar with the material and/or its origin, feel free to post on the article's Talk page. MCB 18:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Looking for a page

The other day I, with the help of a friend, discovered you could type in the name of your town/city and my friend and others had articles they had written about themselves. I am now having extreme difficulty in finding that page again. Can you help me?

Articles which do not meet the criteria set by Misplaced Pages:Notability (people) are speedily deleted. Most likely, your friends are not notable enough for Misplaced Pages, sorry. Unless you were talking about something else? -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 15:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you ran into a "Wikipedians in Zanzibar"-type category page that took you to a list of user pages? Articles that people here write about themselves typically don't belong in the main part of the encyclopedia, but people do write extensively about themselves in userspace. What town/city is it? · rodii · 17:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Our Friends in the North

While checking for changes to pages I have created or heavily contributed to, as I regularly do, I saw that this afternoon somebody, an anon editor, has listed this page as a possible copyright violation. There's no corresponding entry for it on the copyright violation page, just the marker in place of where the article used to be. I've never had any complaints about the article in this respect before — indeed, it made it to featured status without anybody mentioning any such issues. Who do I need to speak to about this? Angmering 17:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

If you had gone to the page that they referenced as being the source of the copyrighted material, you'd see it's pretty plainly a vandal that put the notice there. I've since reverted it. Dismas| 17:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't spot that. Cheers! :-) Angmering 18:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Image License Denied, Still Usuable?

Wiki-star: Hello again! I just want to know if an uploaded image, that has an unknown license, still able to be inserted within an article?

Thanks again! Wiki-star 17:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

It can be put into the article but if the license situation isn't resolved in the seven days that are required, the image would be deleted and the article would have a dead link on it. Dismas| 17:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Additional Formatting

Wiki-star: Another Question my fellow wikipedians! Is there any way for me to increase the font size of a word within an article? Is there anyway for me to underline a word? Is there anyway for me to change the color of a word?

Thanks again! I love you guys! Wiki-star 17:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

For color, see the question about 4-5 questions above this one. For underline you can use HTML markup (I don't think there's a wiki-markup for underline). The HTML version would be <u> and </u> like this. Dismas| 18:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually that question related to colors using Wiki syntax, although the solution the person offered was good. As for your question, you can use CSS for font sizes, colors, etc. You probably shouldn't do this outside your user page though (or other special cases). Start with:

<span style="

Then insert either:

• color: YOUR COLOR HERE (ex.: blue, #fff, or #fafafa)
• font-size: YOUR SIZE HERE (ex.: 12pt)
• font-family: YOUR FONT HERE (ex.: Times)
• text-decoration: YOUR DECORATION HERE (ex.: underline)

Or any other inline CSS property, then:

">YOUR TEXT HERE</span>

-- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 20:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Please don't. If you want to fiddle with the font sizes and colors in your Talk page or in your User page, you are more than welcome to do so, but please don't change the sizes and colors within articles. We have a standard appearance in articles, and we want to keep it standard. User:Zoe| 21:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Wiki-star, just to make sure, have you read the articles that were linked in the welcome message on your talk page? There's a lot of good information in there, and with a little digging, many of the kinds of questions you're asking are answered there. Some of your questions are making me wonder--as I imagine Zoe is wondering--whether you're going to be creating articles that really fit the wikipedia style. Just in case, and to save you grief down the road, make sure you've read the welcome articles, OK? And it would be a good idea to read a few good articles and pay attention to the style and format too. · rodii · 21:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Followup: looks pretty good--maybe go easy on the external links and the bold. · rodii · 23:38, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

link to www.clarksvillemo.us

Is it possible to link www.clarksvillemo.us to this site? Thank you for your consideration of this important matter to the City of Clarksville, MO 63336. Jo Anne Smiley, Mayor

We're not a collection of links, I'm afraid. The article on Clarksville, Missouri might have a place for such a link; if it does, then try adding it. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely! If you enter Clarksville, MO into the search box on the left side of your screen, you will be taken immediately to our article on the town.

Anybody is free to contribute to Misplaced Pages, so you can scroll down the Clarksville, Missouri article page to the 'External links' section, and click on the link on the right side of the page next to the section title.

To add a bullet point, use an asterisk before your new entry to the list. Links to external sites (any site outside of Misplaced Pages itself) are enclosed in single square brackets: . Inside the brackets type the link web address, a space, and any descriptive text you want to appear with the link. So, the code (you can copy and paste it, if you'd like)

*

will look like this in the article:

• Official city website

There are more detailed instructions for links and a discussion of what external links may be appropriate to articles at Misplaced Pages:External links. Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and happy editing! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 19:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

LaTeX

Is there a list of articles that need conversion to LaTeX? I've looked at a couple random math articles and there's quite a few that need LaTeX formatting. Admin kingboyk suggested that I create a template, but I thought I'd check here first. Thanks! Isopropyl 20:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

"Admin"! lol! It's only been a few hours :) I said (so you know what advice has already been given, and correct it if need be):

If it's ever been tackled it would (should) be a cleanup-type template which includes articles in a relevant category, like Category:Articles with ASCII art. I've not found one specific to LaTeXing. I suggest you ask around (e.g. Misplaced Pages:Help desk) and if the answer is negative, create a template and category (using something like Template:Reqphoto and Category:Misplaced Pages requested photographs for your inspiration), and start tagging (on the Talk pages rather than the articles, I would suggest). If you need any help with that process come back to me.

--kingboyk 20:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I suggest you ask at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Mathematics and integrate your suggestion with that project. Kusma (討論) 21:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

What is the policy regarding company logos in templates? Specifically, Template:LaTeX. Isopropyl 23:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Watchlist Tray Icon

I was wondering if any Windows users have come across a system tray icon which keeps an eye on a Mediwiki/the Misplaced Pages watch list? Would be quite trivial to write, I know, but I believe in recycling :) --kingboyk 20:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Measurements policy?

I searched the Misplaced Pages pages for this but couldn't find an answer - is there a policy of what measurements to use? I saw articles that use the metric system, the British-American system (ft, in, lbs, etc.), or both. Is there a policy or does it just have to be consistent within an article, in the same way as British/American spellings of -or/-our words are? -- Y Ynhockey || Talk Y 21:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

See here Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Measurements. It doesn't seem to be spelled out but I guess an article should have both systems. And depending on what comes first, look at the first major contributor of the article. x miles (x km) or x km (x miles) Garion96 22:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• I think the first should be determined the same way the variant of English to use is. - Mgm| 11:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

HISTORICAL AUDIO RECORDINGS

I do not have the skill necessasry to add an audio recording to one of your articles, such as F-105, Wild Weasel, Rolling Thunder etc.

I would like to talk to a voluntter who DOES have such skill, and the time to talk about it, and more importantly for a process this complex, to do it for me himself.

I prefer an E-MAIL contact since I have little skill with your systems......

I am metcalf12 AT earthlink DOT net

These 1966 recordings may be quite rare; are not functionally used at the Air Force Museum. or elsewhere to my knowledge.

Email obfuscated. Hermione1980 23:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• How about the people at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Spoken Misplaced Pages? - Mgm| 11:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

SEARCH OPTION IN BROWSER

Hi, do you have an application somewhere that puts a wikipedia search bar on my browser's panel? (not a link to the site, but a search bar, like Google has).

Best, Dov (email removed to protect from spam spiders) Garion96 22:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't think there is an in-browser search available yet, but if you have Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) you can download a Misplaced Pages search widget for your dashboard: . There's even an multi-language one: .—WAvegetarian•_{CONTRIBUTIONS}• • 03:12, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• See Misplaced Pages:Tools#Browser integration. There is one for Firefox. What browser do you use? - Mgm| 11:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

You can also kluge it with IE by using the Google search bar and adding "site:en.wikipedia.org" (without the quote marks) to your searches. User:Zoe| 00:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Another Question

Wiki-star: I would like to first clarify that i did read each link provided in My Talk Page. I even extended the search everywhere on the Site to find out what other information i wasn't given. I then gave up and decided to ask here. This is what this page is for right? It's a desk to further explain what was allready explained. Every question that i have asked has been explained. Misplaced Pages tries it's very best to explain as thoroughly as possible to it's readers. However not everyone will get it, and thats why a Help Desk is there for anyone who needs further assistance. It is a page to provide more information and details for the Flustered reader. If i am being a nuisance for trying to gain more knowledge, then excuse me!

• No no no! I just wanted to make sure yuou knew that stuff was there--there's a lot of "precompiled" help available, is all. But it looks you cranked out some really nice articles. I definitely don;t think you're being a nuisance. Sorry if I gave that impression. · rodii · 03:05, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

However, it is imperative that i continue to ask for whatever information i don't know, and i'm curious to find out. With that being said, i would like to know how to sub-section a Bulleted or Numbered section. This Page explains how i can sub-section within an article. I have gained that information, however it doesn't have something that i wish to know. How can i sub-section a bulleted or numbered section within an article?

===Wiki-Star=== << Sub-sectioned

====Wiki-star==== << Sub-subsectioned

• ====Wiki-star==== <<< Why isn't this one sub-sectioned? It's font should be smaller and bolded because i inserted 4 equal signs like the one above which indicates that it should be sub-subsectioned. It is also bulleted, which i think is the problem. Can i sub-section a bulleted or numbered section?

Thanks again! Wiki-star 23:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

To my knowledge, I don't think you can subsection bulleted or numbed entries. I don't particularly see why you would want to. You can get the same effect by Simply bolding entires on bullets:

• Bullet & Bold

I wouldn't advise using those as section headers. Anyways, welcome to Misplaced Pages and have fun editing :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 23:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

"====" headers must be at the beginning of the line to function (notice how the ones at the beginning of this line are not rendered.)--Max Talk (add) • Contribs • 02:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

There is no way to bullet a subsection: they are two different things. A bullet is a way of organizing a list, so that you can have

• One point,
• Two points, and so on. Likewise, an ordered list is similer, only with numbers:

1. Like this
2. And this.

A subsection, however, is a way of dividing up an article so it flows logically, and it also shows up in the table of contents at the top of the page. Both lists and headings have their roots in HTML, and have been separate entities from the begining of the internet.
Hope that helps! — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 04:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Wiki-star, the best way to sign your posts is by putting four tildes at the end -- ~~~~. User:Zoe| 00:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

March 5

please advise on creating red link articles...

hello, i would like to register and begin by creating an article on the first viking age, i saw a red link to this on another page but im not sure how to go about making it and doing it so that it will link up with it's red links else where, thanks to anyone out there :)

When you click on the red link the Misplaced Pages software will give you a box to start typing the article into. Just put your article in and press "Save page". It's really that easy. Although to create the article you must be registered first. Then once the page is saved, all other red links that point to that page with automatically turn blue. You don't have to hunt them all down or anything. Please see the Manual of style, as well as the rest of the help pages, for help in formatting the page so it looks neat and orderly. Dismas| 01:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Tthe starting a new page article describes how to do so in detail. — ApolloCreed 01:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Note that currently our software doesn't allow new or anonymous editors to create new pages; it was a necessary change we had to make to cut down on vandalism.

I recommend registering for an account now—you can then start immediately editing and improving our existing articles to help you get a feel for Misplaced Pages layout and style conventions. In about four days' time, your account will have aged sufficiently for you to be able to create new articles, following the directions linked above. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 06:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• Since when do accounts have to age to create new articles? - Mgm| 11:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Since December: Zzyzx11 (Talk) 13:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Bots and how to upload their changes

Hi, I want to search automatically for links in some articles and then write them in one of my own pages. Can anyone tell me what I can do to submit the edits to a page with a bot? (Preferably with a Microsoft programmimg language.) Thanks --Jotomicron | talk 01:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Have you investigated Misplaced Pages:AutoWikiBrowser? Make sure you get approval at WP:B before running a bot (you could also ask for help there)--Commander Keane 12:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll look into that link! --Jotomicron | talk 14:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

how to make a wikepidia site/page/article

how do you make a site

If you mean how do you make a new article, a simple way is to type the article title you want to make into the search box. Click on Go. Then click on edit or the provided link to create the article. —WAvegetarian•_{CONTRIBUTIONS}• • 03:05, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you should got to Help:Starting a new page, which I wasn't aware of until just now.—WAvegetarian•_{CONTRIBUTIONS}• • 03:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

English words ending with the letters -gry

I received an e-mail this morning containing a riddle asking which other English word ('other' as in 'apart from hungry and angry') ends with -gry. This mystery word is apparently quite well-known and used daily by most and yet and I am still to figure it out. Any help would ease my frustration and thus would be muchly appreciated. Thank you.

You should read the top of this page. It says clearly that the Help Desk is for questions related to Misplaced Pages. For this sort of questions, please use the appropriate Reference Desk page. If you repeat this, you'll make a lot of people angry (heh)☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 06:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Gry--Commander Keane 12:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Although as stated above this isn't the proper venue for your question, everything you could want to know about this riddle is here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html --Fuhghettaboutit 05:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

What's policy on cites to commercial products?

I'm writing a new section on a new computer technology and was considering adding references andn links to the few vendor sites that actually incorporate that technology into their products, to substantiate that this actually seems to work in practice.

Is that acceptable, or is that seen as advertising. Sorry, I couldn't find this in the FAQ.

Relevant policies include How not to be a spammer and Links to normally avoid. Generally, it's OK to link to a company's website in the "External links" section if that company is mentioned in the text. Relevant links to manufacturers are generally accepted, while links to shops are not. You won't get censured unless you are a persistent spammer, which obviously you are not. Another policy that's worth bearing in mind is that you shouldn't link to your own or your employer's company. If your products are good enough, just wait and someone else will make a link to them. --Heron 12:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

VERY SPECIAL image-formatting - blocking linking to image-page

you know, one can block viewing the image but linking to it like ] but I need a way to do it the other way round!! how to just display the picture without linking to it? is there any code for this??? I know, it would not make sense to use this in wikipedia, but I installed wikimedia for my own wiki and I would need this very much there!!!

thank you very much!!!!!

Please see the MediaWiki support page for help with running your own wiki. There are a number of resources listed there for questions like this. Cheers, MCB 19:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Ipecacuanha Root

I want to buy Ipecacuanha Root. Where in India i can buy them will any body help me.

Try the reference desk.--Cherry blossom tree 15:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

copyright of old material

Works created before 1978 could be copyrighted for 27 years, and the copyright could be extended for another 27 years (54 years total). The law for works created from 1978 is different, but they don't apply to the older works. If something is currently more than 54 years old, can we assume that it is no longer copyrighted and upload it? Bubba73 (talk), 15:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

No. In most countries copyright expires after the death of the author plus a number of years (usually at least 50.) In the USA, which I presume you are referring to, the situation is 28 or 95 years for works copyrighted 1923-1963; 95 years for works copyrighted 1964-1977; thereafter life plus 70 years. (Copyrights prior to 1923 have expired.)--Cherry blossom tree 17:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. How do you go about getting permission to use them on Misplaced Pages? In particular, I'm looking at two (or maybe three) things that are before 1950, but not before 1923, and are on websites that certainly aren't the origianal author. Bubba73 (talk), 00:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Use something similar to Misplaced Pages:Boilerplate request for permission and ask them where they got the image (perhaps educate them about copyright along the way). - Mgm| 08:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

How to add public information that's sourced from a copyrighted website?

Not sure if this is covered anywhere in Misplaced Pages, but I'm a bit unsure what the policy is. As an example, I have been writing a stub article on Kigali International Airport in Rwanda. Being a resident of Kigali, I know quite a few facts about this airport, and can gain more by asking people around, but there's lots of other information on this external webpage: , and this one: , which it would be nice to carry over into the Wiki article. Obviously the text can be reworded and the ext. link cited (not sure exactly how?) but is this acceptable? Cheers. — SteveRwanda 17:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Rewording the link is fine. After stating a fact that comes from the website you should include <ref>http://www.winne.com/rwanda/to00.html</ref> and then at the end of the article include

==References==

<references/>

which will put footnotes in for you. See John Githongo for an article where this system is used. If that sounds too complex then just include a link to the website after the fact.--Cherry blossom tree 17:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Also, please take a look at WikiProject Airports and its associated Talk page for more information and help with writing and editing articles about airports. Cheers, MCB 19:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• Yes, information from a copyrighted site should be reworded. It's the way they wrote it down (not the facts) that are copyrighted. - Mgm| 08:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Unless this lawsuit succeeds : the suit seems to hinge on one book repeating what another book presented as fact. Notinasnaid 20:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Expert on Image issues: please vet my upload methodology

I am of the opinion that every movie article should have a corresponding image—a dvd or vhs cover or ideally, its movie poster. I have uploaded quite a few and plan on uploading many, many more. However, before I travel too far down this road, I was hoping to get some feedback from an expert on image uploads/license issues to evaluate my standard upload methodology for problems or improvements, if any. I had a debacle with regard to dog images recently--I uploaded many and all turned out to have license problems. While movie image uploads seems more clear-cut, thought I'd request some feedback. So, here are links to three recent uploads, all to Peter Sellers' movies, respectively, for a dvd cover, a vhs cover and a movie poster: The Naked Truth.jpg; I'm All Right Jack.jpg and The Wrong Box.jpg. Thanks in advance. --Fuhghettaboutit 20:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images are always a thorny issue, one that many other wikipedias avoid by simply banning them altogether. When we (the english wikipedia) accept them, it should always be with gritted teeth. Statements like "Movie posters are deemed fair use" are much too sweeping. In general, small copies of the poster or boxcover are generally felt to be fair use on the article for that movie. Use the smallest image you can (I'd downscale the I'm allright jack image a lot) and present them using framed rather than thumb in the syntax (so we're not storing more image than we absolutely need for the article). Make sure each image has a fair-use rationale, relating it to a specific article (following the rubric of wikipedia:Image description page#Fair use rationale). Fair-use of covers in these cases is fairly accepted for the movie in question - some folks content it's okay for the article on the stars depicted (and some folks contend it isn't). If, however, you used a Charlize Theron boxcover to illustrate blonde or beauty that definately wouldn't be fair use. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

But (to specifically answer regarding those images) you've generally done it right - used the correct tag, provided the source, and only used it on the article for the movie. For these, if the larger two were downscaled and if all had a fair-use rationale they'd be fine. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

And (when comparing your fair-use contributions to those already existing on Misplaced Pages) you should bear in mind that:

• the great majority of images on wikipedia which are claimed to be fair use aren't
• of those images which really are likely to be fair use, most aren't yet because they've been mishandled (too big, on inappropriate pages, no fair-use rationale)
• a lot of people recognise the above, and there's very likely to be a fair-use purge coming

-- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:53, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Greatly appreciated! I will attempt to put your suggestions into practice. Thanks again --Fuhghettaboutit 01:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

inquire how many available

I am interested in knowing how many (total) groups, associations, organizations, non profits, etc.are available through your company. Also if the list can be brokedown by state, region and or catergory. After I know this I can inquire what the cost will be. Lookimg forward to hearing from you. Thank You, Rick Dobson rick.dobson@randdassociates.com or 937-477-1531

Out of interest, what exactly do you think Misplaced Pages is? --Cherry blossom tree 00:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you should look at the Misplaced Pages article to learn more about Misplaced Pages, or Wikimedia Foundation, which is the parent orgnaisation. - Akamad 03:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Let me see if I can help. You've left a message at the Misplaced Pages Help Desk; this is for questions about how to use Misplaced Pages. Your question doesn't seem to fall into this category, but perhaps it does.

Misplaced Pages is an online encyclopedia, a collection of (perhaps) factual articles about a wide range of subjects. If you browse through it, you will find articles about companies, non-profit organizations, and nearly every notable sort of group -- and many that seem obscure. All this information is free to you, in both senses.

Some of these articles are grouped in various ways, but not consistently. There are several ways you may be able to search for the information you need:

• Many articles belong to one or more Categories. These are formal listings of article pages, such as Category:Companies. Quite often, categories belong to other categories; and many have subcategories of their own. However, this is not a strictly hierarchial tree. Also, categorization is all manual and many articles are miscategorized -- commonly, they are not categorized as specifically as they might be. You'll do well to begin with fairly general categories and work your way down.

• There are many pages of Lists; each one is a fairly simple list of articles on related topics, such as List of doughnut shops. Again, these are constructed manually and may have ommissions.

• On every page is a search box. If you register on the wiki you can go to your Preferences and adjust the way this feature works. It's fairly crude but it does search all pages in Misplaced Pages automatically without relying on manual indexing.

• Finally, and perhaps best, there is still Google. If you prefix any search with "site:en.wikipedia.org" then you will constrain that search to English Misplaced Pages pages only. Please note that you may discover pages relevant to your query that are not encyclopedia articles. For instance, this page is titled Misplaced Pages:Help desk; it is not an article at all. Any page whose title begins with a word followed by a colon, such as "Misplaced Pages:", "Talk:", or "User:" is not an encyclopedia article. You should treat any information you find on such pages with extra caution.

None of these methods will give you an accurate count of articles relating to a given topic; I'm sorry. At the time of this writing, we have over a million articles on all topics; unfortunately, article growth has far outpaced our ability to categorize, index, list, or count.

You notice that replies to your question appear here, below your question and on the same page. This is generally true. There is no need for you to supply your email or phone, since generally we do not reply in this way. If you register, you will be given a talk page and you may find comments directed to you there.

I hope Misplaced Pages proves a useful resource to you. If you like, you can tell us more specifically how we may be of service. John Reid 05:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

March 6

How do you put a picture on a new article.

I just created a new article (Gulu Walk, check it out) and and I want to know how to put pictures on it. Please help me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Isaac Asimov (talk • contribs) .

- Go to special:upload LuciferMorgan 00:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

The picture tutorial describes in detail how to put a picture on an article. — ApolloCreed 04:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

How do you create a table (ish) for band articles?

Such articles as Metallica, Phil Collins and The Beatles have these table like structures on the end of their pages, detailing band members, albums, singles and so on. How are these created? LuciferMorgan 00:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Simply go to one of the articles you've cited as containing the template, click on "edit this page" (or maybe even easier, scroll down to where the template is on the page and click on the button closest above the table you want to duplicate) find the template code text (it will start with---> "{|" , and end with "|}"; simply copy the template from beginning to end, paste into your article, and replace all the filled-in particulars, band name, member names, etc., with the requisite information for your article. You might also find Meta:Help:Table useful. --Fuhghettaboutit 01:14, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Got your message on my talk page. Okay, now I know exactly what you are referring to (I think). The reason you don't see any code is because it is a link to a template message that has been created on its own page, and which automatically links to the code in multiple articles. So, for instance all you would have to do is type {{beatles}} in any article and you get the beatles message template. The Beatles' is located at Template:TheBeatles. Go there, click edit, copy the code, and modify for your article. --Fuhghettaboutit 01:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Getting stuck on Misplaced Pages

I'm looking for images to use for my students at school, and when I go to the Misplaced Pages site I can't get off it and back to my search. I'm trying to avoid Misplaced Pages because of this but what can I do if I go to the site accidentally? It is extremely frustrating and I'm sure there's something Misplaced Pages could do to prevent this. Maybe there's something I can do? Please advise me about this. Thank you. cbalchin@rcn.com

I have to say that this is very interesting. I do google searches where wikipedia comes up all the time. I never have a problem going back. Which web browser are you using? That may have something to do with it. Explorer has no problem. (As far as i can tell) Others might. Also, it may be a virus or cookie on your computer causing it. Tobyk777 04:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see what the problem is. When doing a Google Image search (for instance, ), Google opens the page in a frame. Misplaced Pages, like many sites, includes code to break out of frames. To go back, you must go back two pages. If you just click the back button, it takes you back to the Google framed page, and Misplaced Pages will again break out of the frame. One option is to click the back button twice, although if the break occurs too fast there may not enough time to get back to the search results page. The other option is to jump directly back. All major browsers let you choose which page to go back to. On Firefox and Internet Explorer, there is a small down arrowhead next to the back button. Clicking it will bring up a list of the recent pages you've visited; the second one is the search results page to which you wish to return. This technique will also work anytime you are automatically directed to a new page. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Please allow me to make a more general suggestion; it will help you in a much more general way to improve your browsing time:

→ Avoid single clicking links that lead from one site to another; instead, control-click or command-click. The specific method may vary for you depending on your platform and browser, but there is almost always a way to open a link in a new window, or even better, a new tab. Play around with your browser a little until you discover it.

Opening links in new windows or tabs pays off very well and in many ways. The original page is still accessible to you, so you never have to use your browser's back button (or worse, some website's back button). You might choose to open two or more links from a page. When you decide to return to the original page, it's still in it's original window (or tab), so you don't need to wait while it reloads. (Going back may only reload from cache, but maybe not -- and either way, this is still faster.) Sometimes you may find it helpful to be able to look at both pages at one time -- the link out and the link in. Some sites make it difficult to go back; but if you still have the original page open, you're always safe.

One caution: You should probably not try this with e-commerce or other transaction-type sites; but then, you may have trouble with these sites, too, if you use your browser's back button. Often, you must simply follow along with what the site's designer intends: no choice, poor design.

If you're not especially technical, this may seem unnatural; you're used to clicking from one page to the next, all in one window. But please trust me: Once you try multiple windows and tabs, you'll never want to do without them. John Reid 05:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Keira Knightley article

I wanted to look at the article on Keira Knightley and Misplaced Pages's behaving weirdly. Entering Keira Knightley in the search box and clicking "Go" brings up

"Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name.

• Start the Keira Knightley article or add a request for it.
• Search for Keira Knightley in other articles..."

I just copied and pasted the above, and as you can see I've spelt the name correctly. Also, if I click the "Start the Keira Knightley article" link, I get a page with the full article's source. So the article is actually there - it just won't display. What's gone wrong? --A bit iffy 03:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Further to this: try the Academy Award for Best Actress article, scroll to 2005 and try clicking on Keira Knightley. --A bit iffy 03:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I actually noticed this exact same thing a little while ago with the science Ref. Desk. After a few minutes, it cleared itself. Dismas| 03:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Dismas. I seem to have fixed it by making an edit and reverting. Quite odd. --A bit iffy 04:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

This happened to me with a number of articles today, and I was able to fix it by clicking on the "purge" link. I believe it was some sort of database problem. MCB 07:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

How do I edit a portal?

Hi, I have been here for a long time now, sevral years in fact. After all this time, I still can't figure out how to edit a portal. When I push the edit button, a whole bunch of giberish comes up. Is this HTML, or some type of code? I was trying to edit Portal:Stargate, to try and make it featured Portal quality. But every edit I made messed up the page. What's the secret? how do you edit Portals? Tobyk777 04:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

It's HTML. To edit the individual sections, click "edit this page" then go down to the bottom where it shows the individual templates and subpages that actually have the content on them. Click on the template or subpage you would like to edit and go from there. Does this help? Dismas| 04:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Not really. I don't know HTML. Ive tried editing the subtempaltes. They look like giberish too. Do i need to know HTML to edit portals, or is there another way? Tobyk777 05:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism question

How would Misplaced Pages stop some troll who widens the page? i.e. presses control v over and over and over again, so the page is super long. Not only does it make the page inaccessible, but it also makes it impossible to revert? It baffles me that Misplaced Pages is 5 years old, and there hasn't been a single case about that happening.

I don't see how this would make it impossible to revert. You could easily just go to the history, call up the last good version, edit the page, save, done. Or am I missing the crux of your question? Dismas| 05:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, we've had a quite a lot of people use control-v to copy something into a page multiple times. But I'm glad to report that no matter how many obscenities or monkey pictures someone inserts, there's always someone able to revert. - Mgm| 09:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Why does "See also" only have links that didn't appear before?

I've seen before, but can't find now, a guideline that the "See also" section should not contain links that already appeared in the text. I'm trying to find the reasoning behind that guideline, because of some proposals around the Electronics article. Basically the proposal is for a list of links to appear on Electronics and related articles to aid in navigation. These proposal is being discussed at Talk:Electronics, Misplaced Pages Talk:WikiProject Electronics, and is a continuation of a proposal at Misplaced Pages:Root page. Since the proposal is basically just a "See also" section without the "not previously linked" restriction, I expect the reasons for the restriction to be relevant to the new proposal also. Thanks in advance. -- The Photon 05:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• It's to stop people from putting all the links relevant to the article in the see also section and have it grow out of proportion. Suppose we did that on WWII, we'd have a mile long list of see also links. Instead, "see also" is used to include links the text couldn't discuss because they'd make it unwieldy or because it was outside the scope of the article. Besides, if people keep their settings, links in the text light up blue making them easy to find anyway. - Mgm| 09:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

writing an article

I recently decided to try to write an article on a topic that noone had written about, wrote the article, posted it.. and a few hours later found that it had been deleted.

Would there be a reason that it would be deleted like this ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dreamzweaver (talk • contribs) .

• What was the name of the article? It may have qualified under our criteria for speedy deletion. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

:There could be plenty of reasons, but if you'll be more specific about which article was it, it could be helpful in revealing additional details. If it was deleted in a few hours, it means it got speedy deleted, so there was probably something very wrong with it - Either it was full of nonsense, or it was a copyright violation, or something like that. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 06:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

How can I ungoogle my userpage?

Meta tags in HTML usually allow you to tell google not to index a certain page. How can I do this using Wiki? I want to take my userpage off google (for various reasons, including it catching more hits on searchwords for the websites listed on it). If this facility isn't available, it should be: userpages arent part of the encyclopedia. -- Alfakim --  talk  08:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• I don't agree with that last line. If it wasn't for Google, I wouldn't be able to find some people's excellent wiki tools. Googling userpages can be very useful. Isn't it a good thing, it catches hits for your personal pages? - Mgm| 09:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Nevertheless if you don't want to get Google hits you shouldn't have to get them. I guesws one could just have their userpage erased.. Williamb 10:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• He appears to not want hits for some links, but does for other content. If Google hits anything you don't want to show, just remove it. Like the encyclopedia pages, the userpages are also GFDL, thus regularly Google-able. - Mgm| 12:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Korean War

The article has been vandalised — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.240.128.75 (talk • contribs) . (UTC)

• The vandalism has been fixed and User:204.228.78.131 has been warned. - Mgm| 17:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

recover deleted article...

How do I get a copy of the text and discussion from a deleted article?

The article was listed for deletion on Feb. 26th. It is called "COEBA" It was apparently deleted today.

I would like to get a copy of the article contents as it was when it was deleted and the article discussion tab/page contents.

Thanks!

Ben 17:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Only sysops can see deleted content; I'll put it in your userspace -- see your talk page, thanks. .:.Jareth.:. 18:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you. --Ben 18:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• If you are still there... Can you restore the text from the discussion page and exclude the "whois" info. I am looking to copy out some text I wrote back in November. It was about 5 to 10 paragraphs I think.

Got it again. .:.Jareth.:. 18:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Changing background color of my User page

Can somebody help me? I'm experimenting with my User page and wanted to change the background color, but the best I can do is to change the color of one line. What do I need to do to change the entire background? HTML is not my forte. Any help would be appreciated. User:Zoe| 18:41, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea what is the correct way of doing it, but enclosing your page with <div style="background:blue"> </div> seems to work. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

That still only gave me one line.  :( User:Zoe| 19:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Ah. If I type inside the div boundaries, the line increases, but the images on my page stay outside the color even though they're contained with the div boundaries. Sigh. User:Zoe| 19:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Interesting. It seems to work for me. It could have something to do with the images' settings. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Check this out. I think the point is that the background color extends only as far as the text, so you'll have to put more text for the entire page to be covered. I don't know any way around it, but then again I don't know much. Was this helpful? -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 19:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Meni. Jareth gave me an answer involving tables which seems to work, though now I have to fiddle with other things.  :) User:Zoe| 19:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Annotation

I need to write an annotation about Misplaced Pages for a research paper. How do I go about doing that?

Please see Misplaced Pages:Citing Misplaced Pages. Dismas| 20:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Article Pictures: Links,Colors,and More Images

Wiki-star: And a hello to you too my fellow wikipedians! This maybe the final question i have towards Article Pictures. It's not really one of the versions i previously created, because it's more related to links, colors etc.

I notice that in articles such as This One, Or this one there are links within the Image. Theres also colors and borders to section and better describe the image like in the Nereis Article. My question is, how can i make my Article Images have links, sub images within a section image (like seen within the U.S Article), and/or borders and colors (like seen within the Nereis Article)?

Thanks again! Wiki-star 21:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Those are templates. If you click on the edit page link at the top of those articles, then scroll all the way down you will see links to the templates that they call for. In the U.S. article that template is here: Template:Infobox Country. Dismas| 21:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Wiki-star: Yeah but can you like provide in your own words step by step how i can insert these additions to my Article?

I appreciate your help! Wiki-star 21:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I normally just find the one I want, copy it, paste it where I want it, then change the relevant values to reflect what the article deals with. I've never written a template, sorry. Perhaps someone else can walk you through actually creating one. Dismas| 22:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

You might find Meta:Help:Tables useful—among other things, there is a section there for adding colors to tables. (section 2.3) --Fuhghettaboutit 22:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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what is the address of the excel company because i have to write them a letter

--Fuhghettaboutit 22:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

March 7

Odd Misplaced Pages bug?

A few minutes ago, I ambled over to Teach the Controversy, and saw that the page didn't exist. Despite the fact that the link that led me there was blue, and it had a perfectly good discussion page, and I could see no reason for its deletion.

I checked the page history; the last edit was on February 28, and was a minor change to an obviously existing article.

Thinking that it had been speedied for some reason, I checked the deletion log. Nothing.

At a loss, I clicked on the last edit in the edit history (which should have been the article's current state), then (without modifying it), wrote an edit summary expressing my puzzlement, and hit the "Save page" button.

Well, the article came back, in all its glory. But there was no evidence of my edit in the edit history, at all. Basically, there is now no evidence that the article was ever missing; you'll have to take my word for it.

Any idea what the hell happened there? --Ashenai 00:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Database server lag? Sounds very plausable considering what's been going on lately. — Ilyanep (Talk) 00:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

See the Keira Knightly question about 10 questions up from this one. Dismas| 01:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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Aaron Hill House
Aaron Martin House
Aaron Martin Houses
Abel Allen House
Abijah Thompson House
Abraham Hill House
Abraham Jaquith House
Abraham Watson House
Ace Art Company
Adams Claflin House
Addington Gardner House
Agudas Achim Anshei Sfard Synagogue
Albert Ayer House
Albree-Hall-Lawrence House
Alden Batchelder House
Alewife Brook Parkway
Alexander Foster House
Alfred Vinton House
Allen Crocker Curtis House-Pillar House
Allen House (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Almshouse (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Almshouse (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Amasa Farrier Boardinghouse
Amasa Farrier House
American Waltham Watch Company Historic District
American Watch Tool Company
Amos Judkins House
Amos Keyes House
Amos Stearns House
Amy B. Mitchell House
Andover Street Historic District
Andrew Newman House
Anna Day House
Arthur F. Luke House
Arthur H. Russell House
Asa Ellis House
Asa Locke House
Asa M. Cook House
Asa Sanger House
Ash Street Historic District
Ashland Dam and Spillway
Ashland Town House
Assington (Sherborn, Massachusetts)
Auburndale Congregational Church
Avon Hill Historic District
B and B Chemical Company
Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead
Bartlett-Hawkes Farm
Batchelder House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Battell House
Beacon Street Tomb
Beck-Warren House
Beebe Homestead
Bell Rock Memorial Park
Belmont Center (MBTA station)
Belvidere Hill Historic District
Bemis Mill
Benjamin Beard House
Benjamin F. Clough House
Benjamin Hibbard Residence
Benjamin Hoyt House
Benjamin Wellington House
Bennett-Shattuck House
Bennink-Douglas Cottages
Berkeley Street Historic District
Bernard Cogan House
Bertram Hall at Radcliffe College
Beth Eden Baptist Church
Beth Israel Synagogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Bigelow Block
Bigelow Street Historic District
Billerica Mills Historic District
Billerica Town Common District
Blake Daniels Cottage
Bogle-Walker House
Boston and Maine Corporation
Boston and Maine Railroad Depot (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Boston Manufacturing Company Housing
Boston Manufacturing Company Housing
Boston Post Road Historic District (Weston, Massachusetts)
Boutell-Hathorn House
Bowser Gazebo
Boxborough Old Town Center
Brackett House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Brae-Burn Historic District
Brande House
Brandeis University President's House
Brigham Cemetery
Brigham House
Brookside Historic District
Brown-Maynard House
Brown-Stow House
Buck's Corner Historic District
Building at 1-6 Walnut Terrace
Building at 202-204 Charles Street
Building at 38-48 Richardson Avenue
Building at 42 Edward J. Lopez Avenue
Buildings at 110-112 Inman Street
Buildings at 15-17 Lee Street
Buildings at 35-37 Richardson Avenue
Bullard Farm
Bullen-Stratton-Cozzen House
C. A. Sawyer House (Second)
C. C. Crowell House
C. G. Howes Dry Cleaning-Carley Real Estate
C. Lewis Harrison House
C.H. Brown Cottage
Caleb Wiley House
Cambridge Common
Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirm
Capt. Edward Durant House
Capt. Edward Fuller Farm
Capt. Josiah Locke House
Capt. Nathaniel Parker Red House
Capt. William Green House
Captain Goodwin-James Custis House
Carr-Jeeves House
Carroll-Hartshorn House
Carter Mansion
Case's Corner Historic District
Casey's Diner
Cedar Swamp Archeological District
Center Depot
Center School (Burlington, Massachusetts)
Central Congregational Church (Newton, Massachusetts)
Central Square Historic District (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Central Square Historic District (Waltham, Massachusetts)
Charles A. Daniels School
Charles Baker House
Charles Baker Property
Charles Brooks House
Charles Buck House
Charles Byam House
Charles D. Elliott House
Charles D. Lewis House
Charles Gill House
Charles Holbrook House
Charles Manning House
Charles Maynard House
Charles River Reservation Parkways
Charles River Reservation Parkways
Charles River Reservation Parkways
Charles River Reservation Parkways
Charles Russell House
Charles Street Workers' Housing Historic District
Charles W. Noves House
Charles Wells House
Charles Williams House
Charles Williams, Jr., House
Charles Winship House
Charles Wood House
Chelmsford Center Historic District
Chelmsford Glass Works' Long House
Cheney Read House
Chester Kingsley House
Christopher Page House
Church Street Historic District (Wilmington, Massachusetts)
City Stable and Garage
Claflin School
Clara Buswell House
Clark House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Clark Houses
Clark-Northrup House
Col. Jonathan Tyng House
Colby Hall (Newton, Massachusetts)
Cole House (Winchester, Massachusetts)
Colonel Roger Brown House
Colonial Beacon Gas Station
Commanding Officer's Quarters, Watertown Arsenal
Common Burying Ground at Sandy Bank
Common District (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
Common Historic District (Reading, Massachusetts)
Commonwealth Avenue Historic District (Newton, Massachusetts)
Community Memorial Hospital (Ayer, Massachusetts)
Company F State Armory
Concord Armory
Concord Monument Square-Lexington Road Historic District
Concord Square Historic District
Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John
Coolidge School
Cooper-Davenport Tavern Wing
Crafts Street City Stable
Craigie Arms
Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District
D. Horace Tilton House
Damon Mill
Dana-Palmer House
Daniel Brooks House
Daniel French School
Daniel Morse III House
Daniel Nichols Homestead
Daniel Sweetser House
Daniel Worthen House
David Frost House
David Kenney House
David Lane House
Day Estate Historic District
Deacon Daniel Green House
Deacon John Symmes House
Deacon Samuel Hill House
Deacon Thomas Kendall House
Deacon William Leland House
Deane-Williams House
Dennison Manufacturing Co. Paper Box Factory
DeRochmont House
DeRosay-McNamee House
Dewey Place
Dike-Orne House
District 7 School
Dow Block
Dr. Charles Jordan House
Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House
Dr. John Cuming House
Dr. S.O. Richardson House
Dr. Samuel Warren House
Dr. Thomas Simpson House
Dunbar-Stearns House
Dunstable Town Hall
Durgin House
Dutton-Holden Homestead
E. A. Durgin House
E. Boardman House
E. C. Hammond House
E. H. Brabrook House
E. Sybbill Banks House
e.e. cummings House
East Cambridge Historic District
East Holliston Historic District
East Main Street Historic District (Waltham, Massachusetts)
Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court
Eaton-Prescott House
Edmund Dwight House
Edmund Parker, Jr., House
Edmund Reardon House
Edward A. Brackett House
Edward B. Stratton House
Edward Braddock House
Edward Gardner House
Edward Oakes House
Edward Parsons House
Edward Peirce House-Henderson House of Northeastern University
Edward Sullivan House
Edward's Plain-Dowse's Corner Historic District
Edwin Bassett House
Edwin C. Johnson House
Eleazer Goulding House
Eleazer Hyde House
Elijah Fiske House
Eliot Hall at Radcliffe College
Elisha Hopkins House
Elisha Wright Homestead
Elizabeth Boit House
Elizabeth Frost Tenanthouse
Emerson-Franklin Poole House
Enoch Fuller House
Ephraim Buck House
Ephraim Hammond House
Ephrain Weston House
Evangelical Baptist Church (Newton, Massachusetts)
Everett Avenue-Sheffield Road Historic District
Exchange Hall
F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery
F. G. Williams House
F. Lincoln Pierce Houses
Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)
Farlow and Kendrick Parks Historic District
Farlow Hill Historic District
Faulkner Homestead
Fells Connector Parkways, Metropolitan System of Greater Boston
Fells Connector Parkways
Fellsmere Park Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
First Baptist Church (Framingham, Massachusetts)
First Baptist Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
First Burial Ground (Woburn, Massachusetts)
First Congregational Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
First Congregational Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
First Congregational Church in Woburn
First Parish Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
First Unitarian Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
First Unitarian Society in Newton
First Universalist Church (Somerville, Massachusetts)
Firth-Glengarry Historic District
Fiske House
Flagg-Coburn House
Flanley's Block
Flint House
Forge Village Historic District
Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse
Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse
Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse
Francis Brooks House
Francis Buttrick House
Francis Buttrick Library
Frank B. Hopewell House
Frank H. Stewart House
Frank J. Tyler House
Franklin B. Jenkins House (2 Middle Street, Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Franklin B. Jenkins House (35 Chestnut Street, Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Franklin School (Lexington, Massachusetts)
Fred R. Hayward House
Frederick Billings House
Frederick Collins House
Frederick Flagg House
Fresh Pond Hotel
Fresh Pond Parkway
Fuller-Bemis House
Gale-Banks House
Galen Merriam House
Garfield Street Historic District
Gen. Samuel Chandler House
George Batchelder House
George Brine House
George Cowdrey House
George Gale House
George P. Fernald House
George Robbins House
George W. Eddy House
George Wyman House
Gershom Hyde House
Gilbert Colburn House
Gilman Coggin House
Ginn Carriage House
Ginn Gardener's House
Glen Road Historic District
Glenwood Cemetery (Maynard, Massachusetts)
Golden Ball Tavern
Goodale Homestead
Goodnow Library
Gov. George S. Boutwell House
Gowing-Sheldon Historic District
Graniteville Historic District (Westford, Massachusetts)
Gray Cliff Historic District
Greek Revival Cottage
Green House (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
Greenwood Union Church
Groton Inn
Groton Leatherboard Company
Grove Hill Cemetery
Gustavus G. Prescott House
H. G. Vaughn House
H. Warren House
H.M. Warren School
Hagar-Smith-Livermore-Sanderson House
Hager-Mead House
Hammond House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Hancock School
Hapgood House
Harnden Tavern
Harnden-Browne House
Harrington Block
Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts)
Harrison Parker, Sr., House
Hartwell House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Harvard Street Historic District
Hastings Square Historic District
Hasty Pudding Club
Haverhill Street Milestone
Henry Bigelow House
Henry C. Hall House
Henry Fletcher House
Henry Gane House
Henry Grover House
Henry Higginson House
Henry N. Fisher House
Henry Stewart House
High Street Historic District (Wilmington, Massachusetts)
Highland School (Reading, Massachusetts)
Hildreth-Robbins House
Hillside Avenue Historic District
Hillside Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)
Hiram Sands House
Hoar Tavern
Hobbs Brook Basin Gate House
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Homer-Lovell House
Hooper-Eliot House
Hopestill Bent Tavern
Hopkinton Dam and Spillway
Hopkinton Supply Co. Building
Horace Hatch House
Hosmer Homestead
Houghton Memorial Building
House at 1 Morrison Avenue
House at 1 Woodcrest Drive
House at 10 Arlington Street
House at 102 Staniford Street
House at 107 Waban Hill Road
House at 107 William Street
House at 11 Beach Street
House at 11 Wave Avenue
House at 113 Salem Street
House at 114 Marble Street
House at 1177 Main Street
House at 118 Greenwood Street
House at 12 West Water Street
House at 129 High Street
House at 13 Sheffield Road
House at 14 Chestnut Street
House at 15 Chestnut Street
House at 15 Davis Avenue
House at 15 Lawrence Avenue
House at 15 Wave Avenue
House at 152 Suffolk Road
House at 16 Mineral Street
House at 16-18 Preston Road
House at 170 Otis Street
House at 173-175 Ward Street
House at 18 Park Street
House at 18A and 20 Aborn Street
House at 19 Tremont Street
House at 190 Main Street
House at 19-21 Salem Street
House at 193 Vernon Street
House at 196 Main Street
House at 199 Summer Avenue
House at 2 Nichols Street
House at 20 Hancock Road
House at 20 Lawrence Street
House at 20 Morrison Road
House at 203 Islington Road
House at 206 West Street
House at 21 Chestnut Street
House at 21 Dartmouth Street
House at 215 Brookline Street
House at 22 Parker Road
House at 2212 Commonwealth Avenue
House at 23 Avon Street
House at 23 Lawrence Street
House at 230 Melrose Street
House at 230 Winchester Street
House at 242 Summer Avenue
House at 25 Avon Street
House at 26 Center Avenue
House at 26 Francis Avenue
House at 269 Green Street
House at 28 Cordis Street
House at 28 Wiley Street
House at 29 Mt. Vernon Street
House at 3 Davis Avenue
House at 30 Sheffield Road
House at 307 Lexington Street
House at 309 Waltham Street
House at 31 Woodbine Street
House at 32 Morrison Road
House at 322 Haven Street
House at 35 Temple Street
House at 38 Salem Street
House at 380 Albion Street
House at 39 Converse Street
House at 391 William Street
House at 40 Crescent Street
House at 41 Middlesex Road
House at 42 Hopkins Street
House at 42 Salem Street
House at 44 Temple Street
House at 483 Summer Avenue
House at 5 Bennett Street
House at 509 North Avenue
House at 511 Watertown Street
House at 52 Oak Street
House at 54 Spring Street
House at 556 Lowell Street
House at 57 Woburn Street
House at 6 Adams Street
House at 6 Kent Court
House at 6 S. Marble Street
House at 60 William Street
House at 68 Maple Street
House at 7 Salem Street
House at 729 Dedham Street
House at 77 Howard Street
House at 79-81 Salem Street
House at 8 Park Street
House at 81 Pearl Street
House at 81-83 Gardner Street
House at 88 Prospect Street
House at 9 White Avenue
House at 90 Prospect Street
House at 95 Chestnut Street
Houses at 28-36 Beacon Street
Hovey-Winn House
Howe Building
Howe House (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Howe School
Hoyt-Shedd Estate
Hubbard Park Historic District
Hubbard-French District
Hutchinson-Blood House
Hydrant No. 3 House
Irving Square Historic District
Isaac Bullard House
Isaac Davis Trail
Isaac Davis Trail
Isaac Hall House
Isaac Hobbs House
Isaac McLean House
Isaac Melvin House
Issac Fay House
Item Building
Ivory Sands House
J. A. Wood House
J.A. Noyes House
Jabez Weston House
Jack's Diner
Jackson House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Jacob Manning House
Jacob Stanton House
James B. Barnes House
James Cogan House
James H. Mann House
James Lorin Richards House
James Nichols House
James Parker House
James Swasey House
Jerathmell Bowers House
Jerry Nichols Tavern
Jesse Tay House
John A. Fenno House
John Aborn House
John B. Angier House
John Bickford House
John Bottume House
John Cotting House
John E. Olcott House
John Eliot Historic District
John H. McGill House
John Jones House (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
John M. Peck House
John Mason House (Lexington, Massachusetts)
John Mason House (Winchester, Massachusetts)
John Proctor House
John Robbins House
John Sanderson House
John Steele House
John Wade House
John Woodward House
John Wyeth House
Johnson-Thompson House
Jonas Cowdry House
Jonas Salisbury House (85 Langley Road)
Jonathan and Simon Hosmer House
Jonathan Bowers House
Jonathan Brooks House
Jonathan Fletcher House
Jonathan Green House
Jonathan Hammond House
Jonathan Hildreth House
Jones Tavern
Joseph Andrews House
Joseph Bancroft House
Joseph Cleale House
Joseph Damon House
Joseph Holmes House
Joseph Hosmer House
Joseph K. James House
Joseph K. Manning House
Joseph L. Stone House
Joseph Parker House
Joseph Remick House
Joseph Temple House
Joseph Twitchell House
Joshua Jennison House
Josiah Beard House
Josiah Coolidge House
Josiah Mason, Jr. House
Kemp Barn
Kemp Place
Kendal Green Historic District
Kenelum Baker House
Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan House
King House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Kingsbury House
Kirkland Place Historic District
Lafayette Goodbar House
Lake Cochituate Dam
Lakeside Cemetery Chapel
Langford H. Warren House
Langmaid Terrace
Lasell Neighborhood Historic District
Lawrence Light Guard Armory
Lawrence Soule House
Lawton Place Historic District
Lechmere Point Corporation Houses
Lemuel Snow, Jr., House
Lenoir Dow House
Leonard W. Stanley House
Levi F. Warren Jr. High School
Levi Wetherbee Farm
Lewis House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Lincoln Center Historic District
Linden Street Bridge
Littlefield-Roberts House
Locke-Baldwin-Kinsley House
Lord's Castle
Lorenzo D. Hawkins House
Louis N. Maxwell House
Lovell Block
Luther Elliott House
Lyman Street Historic District
Lynnwood (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
M.H. Merriam and Company
Manning Manse
Maple Avenue Historic District (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Maplewood Cemetery
Marcia Browne Junior High School
Mark Temple House
Marlborough Center Historic District
Marshall Smith House
Marshall Symmes House
Marshall Symmes Tenant House
Marshall W. Jones House
Martin W. Carr School
Masonic Block (Reading, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts State Armory
Mayall Bruner House
Mayor Edwin O. Childs House
McCune Site
McLean Hospital National Register District
Medford Pipe Bridge
Meeting House of the Second Parish in Woburn
Melrose Public Library
Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District
Metropolitan District Commission Pumping House
Micah Williams House
Michael Foley Cottage
Michael Sweetser House
Middlesex Canal
Middlesex Canal
Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways
Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways
Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways
Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways
Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District
Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District
Miles Pratt House
Millard-Souther-Green House
Monadnock Road Historic District
Monarch Diner
Moody Street Fire Station
Moody Street Historic District
Moore House (Winchester, Massachusetts)
Morse-Barber House
Morse-Tay-Leland-Hawes House
Morton Road Historic District
Moses Brewer House
Moses Ellis House
Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House
Mount Feake Cemetery
Mount Pleasant (Newton, Massachusetts)
Mt. Prospect School for Boys
Mt. Vernon Street Historic District
Musketaquid Mills
Myrtle Baptist Church Neighborhood Historic District
Mystic Dam
Mystic Gatehouse
Mystic Pumping Station
Nahum Hardy House
Nathan Sanderson I House
Nathan Sanderson II House
Nathan Warren House
Nathaniel Batchelder House
Nathaniel Cowdry House
Nathaniel Page House
Nathaniel Topliff Allen Homestead
Needham Street Bridge
Nelson F. Libby House
Newell D. Johnson House
Newton Centre Branch Library
Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District
Newton Highlands Historic District
Newton Lamson House
Newton Lower Falls Historic District
Newton Street Bridge
Newton Street Railway Carbarn
Newton Theological Institution Historic District
Newton Upper Falls Historic District
Nobility Hill Historic District
Norfolk Street Historic District
North Lexington Street Historic District
Noyes-Parris House
O. W. Gardner House
Oak Knoll (Winchester, Massachusetts)
Octagon House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Odd Fellows Building (Malden, Massachusetts)
Oddfellows Building
O'Hara Waltham Dial Company
Old Billerica Road Historic District
Old Burying Ground (Littleton, Massachusetts)
Old Burying Ground (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Old Cambridge Historic District
Old Cambridgport Historic District
Old Chelmsford Garrison House Complex
Old Chestnut Hill Historic District
Old Hose House
Old Medford High School
Old Shephard Farm
Old Ship Street Historic District
Old Town Hall (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts)
Old Watertown High School
Oliver Hutchins House
Onslow Gilmore House
Otis-Wyman House
Padilla Beard House
Park Street Railroad Station
Parker House (Haven Street, Reading, Massachusetts)
Parker House (Salem Street, Reading, Massachusetts)
Parker House (Winchester, Massachusetts)
Parker Village Historic District
Parkman Tavern
Patience and Sarah Gardner House
Patrick Slowey House
Paul Curtis House
Paul Gibbs House
Pawtucket Congregational Church (Lowell, Massachusetts)
Peabody Court Apartments
Peabody-Williams House
Pearl Street School
Peirce School
Pepperell Center Historic District
Perez Smith House
Pest House
Philemon Wright/Asa Locke Farm
Phineas Lawrence House
Phineas Upham House
Pierce House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Pierce Organ Pipe Factory
Piety Corner Historic District
Pine Ridge Road-Plainfield Street Historic District
Pleasant Street Historic District (Belmont, Massachusetts)
Pleasant Street Historic District (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
Pleasant Street School (Ayer, Massachusetts)
Plummer Memorial Library
Potter-O'Brian House
Pratt House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Pressey-Eustis House
Prospect House (Waltham, Massachusetts)
Putnam Street Historic District
R.H. Farwell House
R.P. Turnbull House
Railroad Hotel
Randall-Hale Homestead
Rawson Estate
Reading Municipal Building
Reading Municipal Light and Power Station
Reading Standpipe
Reed-Wood Place
Reginald A. Fessenden House
Rev. Daniel Putnam House
Rev. Edmund Dowse House
Rev. Peter Sanborn House
Rev. Samuel Woodward House
Rev. Stephen Badger House
Rev. Thomas Hill House
Revere Beach Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
Richard Holbrook Houses
Richard Nichols House
Richard Pinkham House
Richard Sanger III House
Riverside Concrete Company-Lamont's Market
Robert Bacon House
Robert Frost House
Robert Jenison House
Robert M. Stark House
Robert Murray House
Robert Treat Paine, Jr. House
Roberts House (Reading, Massachusetts)
Robin Hill Cemetery
Rocklawn Cemetery
Rogers Fort Hill Park Historic District
Rowhouses at 256-274 Haven Street
Royal E. Robbins School
Rufus Estabrook House
Russian Cemetery
S. B. White House
S. B. Withey House
Sabbath Day House
Sacco-Pettee Machine Shops
Saco-Lowell Shops Housing Historic District
Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent
Salem Street Burying Ground
Salem-Auburn Streets Historic District
Samuel Bancroft House
Samuel Chamberlain House
Samuel Elder House
Samuel Foster House
Samuel Gould House
Samuel Harrington House
Samuel Ireland House
Samuel Jackson, Jr. House
Samuel Parker House
Samuel Train House
Samuel Wheat House
Sanborn House (Winchester, Massachusetts)
Sanderson-Clark Farmhouse
Sarah Orne House
Sawin-Bullen-Bullard House
Second Cambridge Savings Bank Building
Second Church in Newton
Seth Adams House
Seth Davis House
Sewall-Ware House
Shady Hill Historic District
Sharon House
Shawsheen Cemetery
Shepherd Brooks Estate
Shirley Center Historic District
Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer
Sidney A. Hill House
Silas Dean House
Silver Hill Historic District
Simonds Tavern
Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Skillings Estate House
Smith Shoe Shop
Smith-Peterson House
South Burying Ground
South Common Historic District
South Reading Academy
South School (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
Spot Pond Archeological District
Spring Hill Cemetery (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
Spring Hill Historic District
St. Charles Borromeo Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church
St. John's Episcopal Church (Framingham, Massachusetts)
St. Joseph's Convent and School
St. Joseph's School (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Winchester, Massachusetts)
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Complex (Waltham, Massachusetts)
St. Paul's Parish Church (Malden, Massachusetts)
Staples-Crafts-Wiswall Farm
Stark Building
Stephen Bacon House
Stephen Hall House
Stickney-Shepard House
Stillman Parker House
Stillman Pratt House
Stillman Willis House
Stone Building
Stoneham Firestation
Stoneham Public Library
Strong's Block
Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District
Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District
Sudbury Center Historic District
Sudbury Dam Historic District
Suell Winn House
Susan Russell House
T.U. Lyon House
Temple Building (Marlborough, Massachusetts)
Temple Israel Cemetery (Wakefield, Massachusetts)
Tenney Homestead
Tewksbury Hospital
The Castle (Waltham, Massachusetts)
The Chestnut Hill
The Dunvegan
The Eminence
The Grange (Lincoln, Massachusetts)
The Jarvis
The Larches
The Lowell
The Montrose
The Oxford
The Parsonage
Thomas A. Crimmins House
Thomas Ayer House
Thomas Fleming House
Thomas Hollis Historic District
Thomas Mott Shaw Estate
Thomas Symonds House
Thomas W. Jones House
Thoreau-Alcott House
Timothy Hartshorn House
Trinity Episcopal Church (Melrose, Massachusetts)
Trowbridge-Badger House
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Waltham Gas and Electric Company Generating Plant
Waltham Gas Light Company
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Was wondering if anyone can help me with this. I've got code that looks like this:

{{:User:Tomtheman5/Sandbox}}
{{:User:Tomtheman5/Sandbox2 | Men's something}}
{{:User:Tomtheman5/Sandbox3 | whatever | whatever}}
{{:User:Tomtheman5/Sandbox3 | wherever | whenever}}
{{MedalBottom}}

It gives the table on the right. The actual templates are {{MedalTop}}, {{MedalSport}}, and {{MedalGold}}, and they're meant to be used for olympic medalists. Now, I'm trying to fix this so that it has (a) a border around the entire thing, (b) a white border separating the colors of the medals, and (c) no interruptions, such as the white dots in the outside border that result from the whitening of the border around the gold. Does anyone know how to do this? tiZom_(2¢) 00:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Book cover sources

Is there a preferred source for book covers? Specifically, I'd like to make the Memoirs of a Geisha cover the book and film separately, somewhat like the James Bond series. I remember reading something about getting from Amazon being sketchy. Is this the most recent word? --Christopherlin 00:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Book covers are copyrighted. You can only claim fair use on them if they are used to illustrate the article on the book and if they're resolution is scaled down. - 131.211.210.11 08:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

On the main page!!! Urgent!!!

I clicked on the link for the BADR on the US English main site, and it links to a page that has many pictures of Full frontal male nudity and statements about sexually violating young children.

I contacted you as soon as I saw it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.171.115 (talk • contribs)

Which link are you referring to? The links Battle of Badr and Badr both appear to direct to the appropriate articles... -- Natalya 03:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

If you look at the history for the Battle of Badr page, it looks like someone was having fun vandalizing it to appear as described, earlier today. That must what this person is be writing about. It appears fine now. Crypticfirefly 03:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

searching

I just created a new page, and I was wondering how long it will take till it is a result of a search. It has not been coming up.

thanks for the help Aaron (adomenic)

It depends on how often the database is updated. Usually it's just a couple days. If you wikify your article and add categories it will help others navigate to it from other articles. Dismas| 05:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Memory archive

I read a great article about what I thought was "Wiki Memory", unfortunately it was put out for recycling before I had cut it out.

The article was inviting readers to write personal accounts about any historical incident at all to build up an archive of memories. So it could be a concert one has attended, a historical event you were part of (maybe unwittingly) and so on. I thought it seemed great and wanted to contribute.

Have I misremmbered? Was it not linked to wikipedia?

I believe what you are looking for is called MemoryWiki. It uses the same software as Misplaced Pages, and thus looks somewhat similar, but is not connected with the Wikimedia Project which sponsors Misplaced Pages. MCB 05:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Defence Modernisation in South East Asia

Is it true South East Asia Defence Modernisation has failed in many ways. Can anybody give some idea about this matters.

Thank you

joey

Hi Joey — MCB 07:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Different <font> parameters_parameters-March_7-2006-03-07T08:45:00.000Z">

I know this might sound like a stupid question, but I've searched, looked under the help section, tried experiementing with a wiki page, but to no avail, no solution was found on my part. So let me ask my simple question to receive a simple (and probably obvious) answer: How do I set font to 13px?

Ex: <font size=13px>

Is all I want to do. Wiki doesn't seem to recognize the px, and instead enlarges the text to 13--not 13px. The reason is I want to mimic the style of <h4>. I'm creating a manual with a list about 30 functions (using <h3>). Each function has 3 or 4 subsections (<h4>), but it's not nessessary for those subsections to appear in the Contents table. It purposelessly makes it look and unattractive, so I'd rather use the h4 tag without wiki identifying it as a subsection. I've tried (almong alot of things) <nowiki><h4></nowiki> but that doesn't work. Does anybody have suggestions?

Related Link: My Wiki

--69.108.239.230 08:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)_parameters"> _parameters">

Take a look at HTML in wikitext, which lists all the avaliable HTML functions that can be used. It doesn't mention your specific case by name, but there are some alternatives. To change the size of test easily, the <small></small> and <big></big> tags can be used, which give the following:

small

big

However, if you're looking for a different size, you should just be able to use <font size=foo>, and instead of using 13px, put in the equivalent size by number (with tests, that should not be too hard to figure out).

If you really don't want to use subsections for these sections, consider making them bullet points in the section they are in - then it is well organized but still follows relatively simple markup (of course, it depends on what you are doing). I hope some of that will be of help! -- Natalya 12:22, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Or use <span style="font-size: 13px">. · rodii · 12:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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