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February 9

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Wikilinking to wikitionary ?

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[[wiki:fluctuation|fluctuant]]

generates the url

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?fluctuation

...which is a blank page. I want to link to this page

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fluctuation

What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Lesion (talk) 01:43, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You need a T instead of the second I
[[wikt:fluctuation|fluctuant]]
fluctuant
CTF83! 01:48, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, thanks. Lesion (talk) 12:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And it's called Wiktionary, not Wikitionary. By the way, wiki: links to the first wiki WikiWikiWeb at c2.com. This has confused many people and there is a proposal to remove the wiki: prefix at meta:Talk:Interwiki map#Wiki. c2.com already has three other prefixes with names that don't cause confusion. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Dating Guy

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Hi why is the page for the dating guy removed i want it back up i want to learn all about favorite show i go to check it and it says its been removed and i want to know why your site is suppost to have everything in the world on it and i cant get a thing about my show.. this has to change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.254.234.10 (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dating Guy (2nd nomination).--ukexpat (talk) 02:27, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
To save you trying to understand that rather unobvious discussion: no, this site is not supposed to have everything in the world on it, for two reasons. 1) because it's created by volunteers, who write about what interests them. There are huge numbers of things that could be in it but aren't yet; and 2) because it is supposed to contain only subjects which are notable, which means that other reliable sources have already written about them (If none have, then it is not possible to write a reliable article on the subject, and Wikipedia doesn't want an unreliable article). That article was deleted on the latter grounds: not enough had been written by reliable sources independent of the subject, so it is not possible to write a reliable article on it. --ColinFine (talk) 16:32, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone know of any active Japanese speaking editors?

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I came across Russian classical music, which is mostly unsourced while the Japanese version is listed as a GA. I took a look through Category:User ja, but I didn't see anyone who I knew was active. Is anyone familiar with a Japanese speaking editor who is active and might be able/willing to translate the article? Ryan Vesey 04:17, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You could try placing a request at WP:Translate RudolfRed (talk) 04:43, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure if translating it would be the best choice because GA standard varies for different language versions.--Inspector (talk) 06:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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There are 2 links in the references for the article: Babi Yar that have been identified:  "...resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."
-See:

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including systemscanner.ru/. See: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=systemscanner.ru/
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS46549 (GVO). See: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:46549

I didn't know what (if anything) should be done, but I figured somebody should be informed. ~E:05:12, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[modified]:74.60.29.141 (talk) 08:04, 9 February 2013 (UTC) [reply]

Pier Giuseppe Monateri

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I am PG Monateri

Someone is inserting a new paragraph to the entry qbout me entitled 'legal problems' reporting news that are deceptive and may amount to an action of defamation, concerning facts under scrutiny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.158.15.126 (talk) 07:01, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article certainly needs some work. It gives no evidence that its subject is notable. The only references in it are in the paragraph which you have been repeatedly removing. Maproom (talk) 08:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Commas in long numbers

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Is there a policy or guideline explicitly saying that in long numbers the digits should be separated by commas and into groups of three digits? -- Toshio Yamaguchi 09:37, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, with various exceptions: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Delimiting (grouping of digits) -- John of Reading (talk) 09:42, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Mhm, that page says "In scientific articles, particularly those directed to an expert readership, numbers may be delimited with thin spaces.", so it seems in Mersenne prime those thin spaces could also be used. I am asking, because there is a lot of inconsistency in that article and I'd like to unify that. It might be worth raising this on the articles talk page. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 09:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The choice between commas and thin spaces is also a matter of Engvar - Commas are predominant in US publications while thin spaces are more commonly used in some other countries. Roger (talk) 21:33, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
We should abide by MOS:NUM of course but just for the curious ... The Oxford Guide to Style (2002) p. 123 states "In nontechnical work, use commas to separate numbers into units of three, starting from the right: 2,016,523,354 £2,200 or $9,999.50" and "This comma is usually dropped in technical and scientific work, and a thin space [HTML &thinsp;] is inserted for five-figure numbers and so on: 42 200, 4 200 000". Note that HTML &thinsp; is a breaking space whilst the similar HTML &#8239; is non-breaking --Senra (talk) 00:30, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Bold and the Beautiful wiki page

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Hi there,

There is an error on the Bold and the Beautiful Wikipedia page. Under "external links" it lists the DVD release table, however this should appear in the DVD section under "distribution", however the table will not move from "external links" section. When editing the DVD section, the table appears (in edit mode only) Very weird! Could someone please fix, thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.88.157 (talk) 10:31, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is usually a sign that the end-of-table marker has been deleted or damaged. I have fixed it with this edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:43, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Roth was married to my sister Antoinette Putnam,

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there is no mention of her. He married her when in his eighties in Hampstead Registry Office94.6.89.52 (talk) 13:29, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved
  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer
 
21:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please, try to help me

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Mr Fouad Zennari. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ouarzazate-tortures (talkcontribs) 16:42, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Should anything be done with this page? Delete? Move to article space? Thanks Illia Connell (talk) 18:18, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The page has been deleted as advertising. -- John of Reading (talk) 22:16, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Illia Connell (talk) 01:19, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Football programmes

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I need to know if I am ok to upload football programme articles and newspaper clippings. I cannot see any copyright on football programmes. Is this classed as free to upload? I need the articles to back up my work.

Many Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by True Discovery (talkcontribs) 19:27, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They are almost certainly copyrighted even if they do not bear a copyright notice. But you do not need the file to be uploaded to use the publication as a source. Just use the {{Cite news}} template, using as many of the fields as you can so that a reader can find the publication in, say, a library, if they wish to verify what it says.--ukexpat (talk) 01:45, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redlands High School location is incorrect.

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When I type in Redlands High School on facebook, the wikipedia article page come up first on top. Am I the only one who has noticed it says Sydney, Australia on there? I tried to go to edit the page on wiki, but when I go there, I cannot see even one reference to anything about Sydney, Australia. So, will someone please take a look at this and fix it please? I have never edited a wiki page before and am not sure if I would know how anyways. I find it disturbing that when someone might look up Redlands High School on facebook then see the false location listing they might be thrown off. Not to mention it just looks stupid and annoying anyways. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.158.119 (talk) 21:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably an issue with Facebook rather than Wikipedia. You'll need to ask Facebook about it. RudolfRed (talk) 21:13, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Many Facebook pages copy some of their content from Wikipedia but not the Location field. I don't know how Facebook generates location information but they sometimes get it wrong. Many have complained here about other Facebook pages with wrong locations, but there is nothing we can do about it. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:15, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chromotherapy in cancer.

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—Dear Mr. Professor, I would like to get involved in this project as a leader, and all that results from it, for they can not alone, and you have to quit. Please inform me your opinion, if you think it is a fiction and unrealized, to break free of uncertainty. Are demoralized because many people found the idea interesting but nobody wants to promote. You think it's a fiction? Even if it were so it's hard to quit without experimental evidence. Please tell me your opinion and if you have a suggestion, please join me in this adventure. Please promote this research proposal as project leader, because I'm working as a family doctor and can not miss here. In fact, I myself was able to solve this problem, it is clear that we need an industry partner to achieve academic opinion and to put into practice this treatment with colored light, along with correcting acid-base imbalance . Best regards and best wishes, Dr. Viorel Bungau "Chlorophyll and hemoglobin, pigments life, porphyrin structure, differ only by the green chlorophyll, due to the atom of magnesium, and red hemoglobin, due to iron atoms in the structure - PROOF OF ORIGIN COMMON LIFE". (HEILMEYER) We designed an experiment to prove that the final biological oxidation, in addition to its oxidation-reduction, with formation of H2O and CO2, there is a photochemical effect, by which energy is transferred from the H atom, or C, process is done selct, the colors, complementary colors on the basis of the structures involved are colored (red hemoglobin Fe, Mg chlorophyll green, blue ceruloplasmin Cu, Fe cytochrome oxidase red, green - blue with Cu etc.). The basic idea is that if life pigments (chlorophyll, hemoglobin, cytochromes), which provides energy metabolism of the cell, are colored, we can control their activities through chromotherapy, on the basis of complementary color and energy rebalance the body, with a figured X- body-colored- ray. In my opinion, at the basis of malign transformation is a disturbance of energetical metabolism, which reached a level that cell can not correct (after having succeeded before, many times), disturbance that affects the whole body in different degrees and requires corection from outside starting from the ideea that the final biological oxidizing takes place through photochemical process with releasing and receieving energy. [details removed]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Viorel Bungau (talkcontribs) 21:41, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect, based on your question, that you found one of our over 6 million articles and thought we were affiliated in some way with that subject. Please note that you are at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this page is for asking questions related to using or contributing to Wikipedia itself. Thus, we have no special knowledge about the subject of your question. You can, however, search our vast catalogue of articles by typing a subject into the search field on the upper right side of your screen. If you cannot find what you are looking for, we have a reference desk, divided into various subject areas, where asking knowledge questions is welcome. Best of luck. RudolfRed (talk) 22:07, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Using WikiSource For Victoria County History

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I've been able to get the WikiSource entry for the DNB article on John Wolley (MP) to show up properly as an article reference, but I can't seem to get this Wikisource entry for a page in the Victoria History of Surrey to show up properly as a reference [*{{Wikisource-inline|http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Victoria_History_of_the_County_of_Surrey_Volume_3.djvu/577]. Help with this would be much appreciated. NinaGreen (talk) 21:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Try *{{Wikisource-inline|Page:The_Victoria_History_of_the_County_of_Surrey_Volume_3.djvu/577|Victoria History of Surrey}} rendering as
  • Works related to Victoria History of Surrey at Wikisource
--ukexpat (talk) 01:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks! NinaGreen (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]