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March 24

Article text reliability

Is there any system to mark recently edited work to alert casual users that this text is a bit less reliable than the text which has been reviewed by the community for a while? For example, I was just on the Mickey Rooney page and the heading indicated that he was the Antichrist. It got fixed within five minutes or so by another user, but it would be nice to give readers a bit more of a confidence estimate with a special color for relatively new text, perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.25.63 (talk) 03:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added a header to distinguish this question from others on the same day.

An intriguing idea and possibly one to raise at the village pump. Then again, maybe Wikipedia:Flagged revisions provides some of the functionality you are looking for. Astronaut (talk) 04:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sandy / University Line

Something's wrong with the infobox in the article Sandy / University Line: it's taking in the main body of the page. I'm an experienced Wikipedian and have tried to fix it but can't. There are no stray {{ that I can see. Anybody know what's wrong? --Lincolnite (talk) 00:01, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is not in the article. It's either Template:Murray Midvale University TRAX Diagram or something transcluded by that template. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The problem appeared with this diff. DuncanHill (talk) 00:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a link showing that diff which transcluded Template:Murray Midvale University TRAX Diagram. I don't believe the article has been broken since 2009. Something probably happened to the template recently. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Recently" was 23 October 2010, apparently. I find these route templates to be something of a black art, but by some trial and error I think I've cured the problem. - David Biddulph (talk) 01:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'd felt bad that, after 5 years of editing, I couldn't solve this myself but it seems that these particular templates really are the most specialist of areas. Glad someone knows their way around them! --Lincolnite (talk) 02:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mouseover preview

Something has just happened to my mouseover previews and I don't know how to reverse it. Now, when I mousever a bluelink, large text appears starting with the line "Wikipedia:FAQ" the next line has the word actons and then a bullet point list of actions (edit, history, most recent edit, move page, what links here, related changes, un|watch, talk page, edit talk, and new topic) then it says popups with a bullet point list of enable previews, reset and disable popups. The text on the mouseover text is much larger than before. I notice an SP icon in the toolbar at the bottom for search preview option. I don't know if this has anything to do with the change. Previously I could see a modest size print in a box of the beginning of the page being previewed.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting the same thing here. There might be something at WP:VP/T. Dismas|^(talk) 04:05, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, see Wikipedia:VP/T#Did something happen to popups? Dismas|^(talk) 04:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit updates only occasionally appearing in searches?

1. I'm not sure what is wrong but when I enter the search string "Joanneum" I am sometimes taken to a disambiguation page and sometimes taken to a redirect page that leads to an outdated version of the English wiki entry on the subject. There are 3 different articles to which the name Joanneum accurately applies and the disambiguation page is correct however it only rarely goes to that and instead goes to a redirect to an outdated English wiki entry.

2. I have recently translated the entire German wiki entry into English and re-did the entire "Universalmuseum Joanneum" article with the updated information, however this doesn't show up in my watchlist and only sometimes comes up when I enter the "Joanneum" search string, it usually goes to the old English version as if it had not been updated in the last few days.

Any ideas on what the problem(s) is/are? Thanks Smf77 (talk) 07:19, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried searching Joanneum and Universalmuseum Joanneum a few times each on a couple of different browsers and haven't had any problems, and both articles' histories look normal. I'd guess it's some kind of temporary glitch in the database that will sort itself out soon, if it hasn't already. You might want to post a note here tomorrow if the problem is still occurring. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 10:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see any problem but some glitches with outdated versions only affect some of our servers and you may get different results depending on which server serves your request. I have purged Joanneum so all servers should hopefully give the current version now. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:18, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

writing an article about author Aleksandar Obradovic

Dear Colleagues, writing an article about the author Aleksandar Obradovic I met with a problem that I do not know to solve. In fact, I wrote the text and cited credible sources of data and after that, when I clicked on the preview, it did not looks like the text that I wrote. Parts of some sentences and sources of data were missing, and so the sentences are losing there meaning. Can you explain me how it happened? Yours sincerely Nobelovac (talk) 10:19, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is missing, Nobelovac? The Interior (Talk) 10:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't see anything in edit mode that's not appearing in the article (which I have just given a copyedit). If you only previewed, we can't know what was missing. However, it is quite common that when we get similar questions to yours—mysterious disappearing text that is present in edit mode but missing in regular view—the issue resolves to a missing ending ref tag or one that was not coded properly, such as leaving off the closing forward slash in </ref>. By the way, the submission has been declined, for lack of citation to reliable sources. I suggest you start replacing the web sources currently in the proposed article, with those from here and here.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:08, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

pop ups

Resolved

Hi, my pop ups appear to have altered, they used to be clear and in a box format and now they are showing as a shadowy long list that remains on the screen even after I have moved my mouse pointer away? Off2riorob (talk) 11:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're not the only one. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Did something happen to popups?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link Fuhgettaboutit, one of the fixes there appears to have sorted it out. Excuse me for having my blinkers on and not being able to see the previous threads above. Cool, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 11:53, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. You could have searched all day above; it's at WP:VPT:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Multi function tab not working

In my row of tabs, I have a read tab, edit tab, new section tab, a watch list toggle tab, a purge tab, and a final tab that has a whole bunch of functions, including page history. For some reason, I cannot access that last tab, which is there because of a preference I secected. When I mouse over it, nothing is show. When I click on it, nothing happens. It took all the functions like page history away from the left side bar, so now I don't have access to those functions. What is that name of this tab, where is it in my preferences, and how can I fix this? -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, the "Add page and user options to drop-down menus on the toolbar" in Preferences > Gadgets is what no longer is working. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added importScriptURI('http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&title=User:Haza-w/cactions.js'); to my vector.js book[1] per this suggestion, purged the page, then unchecked the "Add page and user options to drop-down menus on the toolbar" in Preferences > Gadgets and things seem to now be working. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:05, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Young (Sad Café)

Hi the wikipedia page Paul Young has a title Paul Young (Sad Café) http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Paul_Young_(Sad_Caf%C3%A9)

It's true he was in Sad Café but he is more famous for being in Mike + The Mechanics, so shouldn't the title read: Paul Young (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics)?

This would provide better search results for people who are looking for this Paul Young and not the other Paul Young of "Wherever I lay my Hat" fame. http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Paul_Young

This is very relevant at the moment because Paul Young of Mike + The Mechanics and Sad Café although dead has a new album titled "Paul Young Chronicles" which has been produced using material recovered from the musicians home studio, and the album features members of Genesis and 10cc.

Featured famous musicians: Paul Carrack: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Paul_Carrack Mike Rutherford: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Mike_Rutherford Eric Stewart http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Eric_Stewart Graham Gouldman: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Graham_Gouldman

I hope the title can be changed as I feel this will help others who are searching for info relating to this musician and his new material. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.62.25.74 (talk) 12:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a reasonable suggestion, but I think it'd be best proposing it, and giving it a little time, to see if anyone objects. You could do all that yourself, it is quite easy.

First, I'd suggest you create a user account. That isn't essential, but it makes things easier.

Then, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Rm#Requesting a single page move to start a discussion on Talk:Paul Young (Sad Café) - saying why you think the page should be moved.

If you need any help with it - or, if you'd simply prefer someone to do that for you - I'd be quite happy to help. You can contact me on my own talk page, or you can leave a further message here.

If I do not hear from you, within a couple of days, I will add the 'requested move' myself.

Best, Chzz ► 13:20, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The usual way of dealing with this in articles for sportspeople is to disambiguate by date of birth rather than by team etc so I would suggest by analogy with that practice, that this article should be moved to Paul Young (singer born 1947). No one is likely to search for him by band name so the hatnote on Paul Young should be sufficient disambiguation. – ukexpat (talk) 13:38, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox 4

Popups gadget not working

I've just installed Firefox 4, which is pretty impressive. However, all the "hover" functions (blue links, diffs, hist, actions etc) on Wikipedia now produce gibberish instead of the expected content. Is it just me, in which case how do I fix it (I run Windows 7), or is a project-wide problem that will be sorted in due course? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimfbleak (talk • contribs)

Are you referring to popups? If so, Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Did something happen to popups? may have the info you need (it worked for me!). TN X Man 13:08, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, following solved problem,

@import url('http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?action=raw&ctype=text/css&title=User:Lupin/navpopdev.css'); Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Log Me in Globally"

What is this "log me in globally" business about on the login page? I found someone's answer to the question from Feb:
Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011_February_16#Log_me_in_globally
Which stated: "It means that you can log into Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, etc...", which sounds like a great answer, but it doesn't appear to be true. I logged in globally just now and am not logged into those other sites. Is there more information on this someplace? Could there be a link to information on the login page? Or the Help:Logging in page? Thanks! Kenirwin/(talk) 13:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've only actually experienced being logged in globally once - when I first logged into Wikimedia Commons. The rest of the time, I have to separetely log in each time to the different properties Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, etc...". I don't get it either. If I globalize my account (Special:MergeAccount), have "log me in globally" checked, and I log into English Wikipedia, I should be able to jump to Wikimedia Commons without having to then log into Wikimedia Commons. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have you created a unified login, see WP:SUL? – ukexpat (talk) 13:40, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It turns out that checking the "Log me in globally" option does not log you in globally as the phrase implies. It merely gives you the ability to log in to any wiki site of the Wikimedia Foundation without creating a new account. You still have to log into each editable online resource community. A fix would be to change "Log me in globally" to read something like "Give me an ability to log me globally without creating a new account". Until then, I clarified this at Help:Unified login. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uzma Gamal (talk • contribs)

If I log in to the English Wikipedia then I'm automatically logged in if I view a page at another Wikimedia wiki, and my account is automatically created there if it didn't already exist. It's the same for many others (some of them come here because they receive welcome mails in languages they don't understand) so I think you should revert your edit. It may depend on browser and settings but I don't know the details. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted your edit. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:34, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Such problems are usually caused by browser cookie configuration. You might have an option to 'enable cookies' or somesuch; look in your browser's help files. Cheers, Chzz ► 18:42, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Semicolon or relative clause?

Which is preferred, a semicolon or a relative pronoun/word? Thanks Kayau Voting IS evil 14:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Like all such stylistic issues, there are no hard-and-fast rules. It depends on the specific case, and either could be appropriate. In general, I'd suggest avoiding over-use of semicolon, because it can interrupt the flow of prose. Some info is in WP:MOS#Semicolons, and also you can read the opinions of one very experienced editor in User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - if you search that page for 'semicolon', you can see some specific examples of usage. Chzz ► 14:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I was just wondering; if I see any cases where I'm unsure I'll ask at the HD again. :) Kayau Voting IS evil 14:51, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help Needed Adding Tsunami Images to Article on Devastated Japanese Town

Here is the discussion area, there are two requests for help in adding images.

- I have been reading some of the Wikipedia Help info on adding images, but find it very confusing.

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Minamisanriku,_Miyagi

50.16.18.34 (talk) 16:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to add an existing image to an article, add [[File:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text.]] to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information.
If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article, you must determine the proper license of the image (or whether it is in the public domain). If you know the image is public domain or copyrighted but under a suitable free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (sign up). If you are unsure of the licensing status, see the file upload wizard for more information. Please also read Wikipedia's image use policy. I hope this helps. TN X Man 16:32, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A six year Government Intrusion including officially documented incidents of actual torture

To whom It Concerns :

I am very ignorant on how to go about addressing official misconduct. But I have a case of Government intrusion that will impeach even a Governor and possiblly include Federal officials as high as the United States Attorney General. I am not in any way being knave or misinforming, I can literally prove by a Federal Rules of Civil Procedures rule 34 and 33 the actual and factual official acts of torture as a means to persuade me from my free action. Here is my problem, I do not have the assistantance nor the equal influences of those who electronically monitor me 24 hours a day, not because I am doing anything wrong but because I am pursuing such gross malicious misconduct such as elecontric sodomy, forcing suffering of sleep deprivation and inflictions of torture by means of Government property Please would someone help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conpiracy371 (talk • contribs) 16:27, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We cannot offer legal advice. Please see the legal disclaimer. Contact your lawyer. Sorry, but you are asking in the wrong place! -- John of Reading (talk) 16:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Crazy AfD/Twinkle problem (Probably needs administrator attention to fully fix).

Resolved

Here is my problem. I tried to AfD Kevin Leckner, it failed to twice. It made 2 AfD nominations, but without listing them, nor notifying talk page of original author, nor actually putting a tag on the page saying it was up for AfD. Where I am at the moment has strict internet rules, so I can't directly edit articles (I have no idea why). I was wondering if you could fix this by listing the AfD or by just deleting them. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kevin_Leckner and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kevin_Leckner (2nd_nomination), thanks everyone. Bluefist ^talk 16:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2nd AfD deleted, first listed on the AfD log, original author notified. TN X Man 16:46, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Bluefist ^talk 16:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

authority to upload files

How do I get the authority to upload my own files and/or photos to a biography of me created by someone else? I think I must be "confirmed." I must not be autoconfirmed because I have made only 4 or 5 edits. So, how do I get to be confirmed without making many edits?Chsubextra (talk) 17:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to be confirmed, because you can upload them at Commons - and them you can use the pictures on Wikipedia. Cheers, Chzz ► 17:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you own the copyright to the images, you can upload them to Commons. If you don't own the copyright and you cannot get the permission of the copyright owner per WP:IOWN, then you should not upload them, either to Commons or here. – ukexpat (talk) 17:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What if password lost and emailaccount has been closed?

Good Afternoon!

I got confronted with the problem that I lost the password for the english page of wikipedia. Furthermore realized that my account on that page uses an old email address to which I have no access no more. At last I know my username.

Thanks in advance ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.109.205.157 (talk) 17:12, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but if you do not know the password and have no access to the assigned email address, then there is no way to recover the user account; you would have to create a new one. You could state, on the new account, what the old one was. Sorry, Chzz ► 17:16, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thats bad luck. So I assume it's not possible to delete this account if I submit you my name and username. I'd like to connect both accounts, the englich and the german one.

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.109.205.157 (talk) 19:14, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really sorry, but no. If the enwiki account had no edits, you could usurp it (take it over). But, I think from your description, you've edited with it.

If you'd had a unified account, you would not have had a separate different password for enwiki and dewiki - and this wouldn't have been a problem. All new accounts (since about May 2008) are automatically able to log in to sister projects. Again, I am sorry - I know that doesn't help in your case - but at least, in the future, we shouldn't have these problems. Cheers, Chzz ► 21:03, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If your enwiki account had edited its userpage saying that it was the same person as the dewiki account, and you know what the email address is for the account, then we could likely get that account back to you. Prodego ^talk 23:27, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great! How can I submit you my username and email address? Shall I post both right here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.218.221.187 (talk) 07:50, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's a bad idea; you'd get spam. I suggest you email our bureaucrats, using either Special:Emailuser/Bureaucrats, or e-mail wikien-bureaucrats

lists.wikimedia.org.

You could just copy-paste from this discussion, and explain. If you don't get a response (in a few days), please feel free to shout up (here, or to me on User talk:Chzz). Best, Chzz ► 13:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome... I give it a try!

someone else is using our name

I work for CTO Forum, Inc. and someone else is using that name in Wikipedia. What do I do?

Maria Canul CTO Forum, Inc. www.thectoforum.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.75.232.202 (talk) 17:07, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed your email address and phone number; they're not appropriate here (plus, you might get lots of spam). Chzz ► 17:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC

Are they using it inappropriately? Could you provide a link to the user/talk page or the exact user name? Zakhalesh (talk) 17:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Or do you mean this article? The magazine is called CTO Forum and thus has a reason to be there. Zakhalesh (talk) 17:14, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)

If you are referring to the article CTO Forum then please read our business FAQ, and take care regarding your conflict of interest. You may suggest edits to that page on Talk:CTO Forum. Cheers, Chzz ► 17:15, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i don't understand how to use user/talk pages

The exact user name is CTO Forum. I imagine that no one can use that name, since we have CTO Forum, Inc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.75.232.202 (talk) 17:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No one is "using" that name, someone has created an article about a publication with that name. That's how Wikipedia works. – ukexpat (talk) 17:24, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is no user with that name - or anything like it [2]. There is an article about the magazine. User names are not related to article names. Chzz ► 17:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not often, anyway. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am seeing the info on COI, but I am confused about what steps to take. Do I just write an article and post it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcanul (talk • contribs) 17:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a conflict of interest and I am

confused about how to rectify it. I work for CTO Forum, Inc. and someone else is using that name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcanul (talk • contribs) 17:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC) I am confused about how to go about dealing with a COI[reply]

See above. Thanks, Chzz ► 17:45, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CTO Forum is an Article about a magazine - most probably the magazine that you work for. It is not a User name, nobody is using it. How to deal with your conflict of interest is explained here. The fact that you work for the subject of the article is the source of your conflict of interest - it simply means that if you choose to edit the article you need to take care that you do not introduce biased material. Roger (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a shot at this, if I may. We have the article CTO Forum, describing an Indian IT magazine. We could also have CTO Forum (thinktank), which would be about the organisation at www.ctoforum.net, if and only if it meets our notability standard for organisations. Maria, we call this disambiguation and it's very common.

Now, you would certainly have a conflict of interest in writing CTO Forum (thinktank), and you've been given links to some info there. Does that help? --AndrewHowse (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's the gist of it, see the parallel discussions at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#CTO Forum 2 and on my talk page. – ukexpat (talk) 18:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Page swap request

I think that NASA Causeway (now an article) and NASA Parkway (now a redirect page to that article) should be swapped. The article concerns the parkway, and even notes that the causeway is only a section of the parkway. I would do this myself but can't figure out how to swap, since my attempts have just produced page blanking. Might be above my pay grade?

Thanks for any help,
RadioBroadcast (talk) 17:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please take a look at Requested moves. – ukexpat (talk) 18:03, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit

Resolved

Wikipedias section edit links look different today, and the edit urls are going via http://wiki.riteme.site/w/api.php?action=clicktracking rather than the usual http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php. Why? Is there a discussion on this somewhere? I had a quick look at WP:AN and the Village Pump and couldn't see anything obvious relating to this change. 82.43.90.38 (talk) 18:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

When I edit this section, I get the edit URL: http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=66. I don't see anything unusual about the appearance of the section edit link. Perhaps the situation you describe is not affecting all Wikipedia users at this moment. --Teratornis (talk) 19:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikimedia Technical Blog is another place to look for notes about bugs and changes to Wikipedia. --Teratornis (talk) 19:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that had some info on it. Apparently people are being selected at random for a UI design experiment. I cleared cookies and it has gone back to normal. 82.43.90.38 (talk) 19:42, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It also happened to me last week. I was first worried that my browser might had been infected but I found the explanation. http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/ui-design-experiments/ says: "The experiment is scheduled to be conducted on English Wikipedia from March 9th, 2011 to March 16th 2011". It appears from your post that it was extended. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:47, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

pictures

when i right-clicked and got mistaken,in wikipedia page,, all pictures in the page got hidden. how can i resume pictures on pages? i want to see the pictures also , when i browse. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.5.158 (talk) 19:53, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It looks as if you've accidentally added the domain http://upload.wikimedia.org to your browser's list of blocked websites. If you can't work out how to undo that, tell us which browser and version you are using, and someone will give you exact advice. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This usually happens for Firefox users. With Firefox you may need (possibly some details depend on the version): Tools - Options - Content - Load images automatically - Click the "exceptions" button and delete http://upload.wikimedia.org from the list - Highlight - "Remove site" button. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:42, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Page

A page I created seems to have been "hijacked" and I now cannot edit it. I also seem to have mislaid my "login" details........ Help?!! please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.21.1 (talk) 20:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean by "hijack". Can you post the name or URL of the page?

For login problems, have a look at Help:Logging in#What if I forget the username? and Help:Logging in#What if I forget the password? -- John of Reading (talk) 20:57, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The page has almost certainly not been "hijacked", though we can't tell for sure because you haven't told us which page. It may well have been edited, perhaps in ways that you disagree with, but when you edited it you would have been shown the message "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here." on the edit page. It may have been vandalised, but most vandalism is noticed and reverted quite quickly - and if you cannot now edit the page, it may be that it is semi-protected, which is normally done only when a page has been subject to repeated vandalism. --ColinFine (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

is my article neutral

I need a second opinion. --Mcanul (talk) 22:30, 24 March 2011 (UTC)mcanul[reply]

It would have been helpful if you had told us what the article was. I presume User:Mcanul/CTO Forum, Inc.. --ColinFine (talk) 23:22, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It might be helpful to read WP:NONPROFIT. Generally the organization must have been the subject of multiple reliable third party sources in order to be notable in the sense of Wikipedia (see also WP:RS and WP:THIRDPARTY). Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 01:16, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editing difficulty

I was trying to edit the bio page about me. The Personal section is inaccurate, but when I tried to change it, the software put the changes under the "Reference" heading. Now the personal section says I'm married and the reference section says I'm single. I would like to put the entry from the reference section to replace the current inaccurate entry in the personal section. How can I make that happen? Many thanks, Bill Ransom — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billransom (talk • contribs) 23:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it up for you. You have to click the edit link above the section you want to edit, not below. Prodego ^talk 00:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that, as the subject of the article, you have a conflict of interest in editing it, and should normally be requesting changes on the article's talk page rather than making them yourself. --ColinFine (talk) 08:05, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And/or, see Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) Chzz ► 13:24, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've got a similar problem. I entered "Isidorus Pacensis" and got "Chronicle of 754," correctly, and noticed a reference to the (anonymous) author as having written under "the Ummayad Arab regime." Since there were no Ummayads ruling between 750 and 756 anywhere, I replaced the reference with "under Arab rule," and so it appears if you enter "Chronicle of 754." If I enter "Isidorus Pacensis" without having logged in first, though, the article appears under "Chronicle of 754," but it still contains the incorrect reference to the author's having written "under the Ummayad regime." If I've logged in first, the text appears correctly even if I enter "Isidorus Pacensis," but a correction that only appears to the person who entered it seems a tad useless. How do I (or we) avoid this?Isidorpax (talk) 03:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you need to clear the cache in your browser? The edit has been made, so you ought to see the changed version, whether logged in or not. - David Biddulph (talk) 03:52, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]