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Hola, I have doubts about renaming/moving an article: There is
Color, a '80s Japanese punk band. I wish to create (or at least properly link to) an article about a similarly named popular Hungarian band from the '70s. Should I create/link to Color (Hungarian band)? Should I create a disambiguation page? As far as a few Google searches went, the assumed notability of the two groups are about the same... (also, I know I could find answers if I'd dug deep in Wiki policies, but I considered this too small of an issue to invest the time)
poisonborz(
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Does either band go primarily by the word "color" in their native language ? If so, we should create the article under that word, and provide a link there at the top of the other. The "color" disambiguation page should also have links to both.
StuRat (
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16:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Italian American Inventors
Ref Italian American Inventors
To whom it may concern:
My Dad Michael D Ercolino invented the early homing device used during World War 2 which was used sucessfully during the Invasions of North Africa and Normandy. He also invented the Conical V Beam in 1946 which made it possible to receive signals beyond the immediate areas of the TV stations. I have the original patents.
The article
List of Italian Americans is intended to be a list of Wikipedia articles about Italian Americans — or you could say, a list of Italian Americans who have Wikipedia articles. I cannot find a Wikipedia article about your father, so he does not qualify for the list. However, it is possible that he is notable enough to justify the creation of a Wikipedia article about him.
Maproom (
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16:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I have tried unsuccessfully to change the title of my page from my Baltimore City Council campaign to my actual name, Adam Van Bavel. The page can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AVBforBCC Please help!
Sincerely,
Adam Van BavelAdam Van Bavel 15:28, 6 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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AVBforBCC (
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Your information regarding the history of Red Square is completely incorrect.
It was the place where executions took place, hence the name "RED" originated from the color of blood.
You must do your homework.
71.219.45.245 (
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Do you have any sources for that ? Executions wouldn't fill much of the square with blood, and I doubt if the official name would be based on that (although perhaps a slang name might be).
StuRat (
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16:09, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
The central square of Moscow. Its Russian name (Krasnaya Ploshchad) derives from the Old Slavonic krasny (‘beautiful’ or ‘red’). The translation of ‘red’ became established only in the 20th Century . Historically the site of executions, demonstrations, and processions, the square became the scene of parades every May and November.
Red Square has been the scene of executions, demonstrations, riots, parades, and speeches. Almost 800,000 square feet (73,000square metres), it lies directly east of the Kremlin and north of the Moskva River.
I suggest you do your homework, and find the reliable sources for your claim. To me it sounds typical of the stories of
etymythology - many of which are widely believed but either wrong or extremely dubious. --
ColinFine (
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16:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
We also have this:
После надстройки в 1625 году Спасской башни Кремля, небольшой участок Пожара между выстроенным на Взлобье в середине XVI века собором Василия Блаженного, башней и Лобным местом в обиходе стал именоваться Красной (то есть красивой) площадью. К концу XVII века название «Красная площадь» распространилось на весь незастроенный участок.
After the add-in in 1625 Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, a small area of fire between Vzlobe ranked at the middle of XVI century, St. Basil's Cathedral , tower and place of execution popularly became known as the Red (that is, beautiful) area. By the end of XVII century the name "Red Square" was extended to the entire vacant site
Finally, then I'm done here, we learn from a Google translation of
Russian Wikipedia:Place of Skulls (which is on Red Square) that "It is also common misconception that the place of execution was a place of public execution in the XIV - XIX centuries" which seems to entirely refute Vladimir's assertion! --Senra (
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For completeness (Sorry. I know I said I was done) I should point out that I am not suggesting that we use Wikipedia, specifically in this case the Russian Wikipedia, as a
reliable source. I am simply examining what the Russian Wikipedia has to say on the subject --Senra (
talk)17:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Magic words
Is there a policy or performance constraint applied to the use of
magic words? I use them on
my user-page (via
this sub-page) and I used them recently at this
help-desk in this thread. I noticed recently that magic words are interpreted, even when using a permanent link to a page containing them. By interpreted, I mean the contents change each time the page is loaded. This behaviour is desirable in the way I tend to use magic words. Is such usage allowed? I initially prepared this question for posting at
Help talk:Magic words but the edit-notice there suggested I post here --Senra (
talk)16:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Indeed. But as, in my case, I do want them dynamic, is there a policy or performance constraint against their wide use? If not, I shall carry on using them --Senra (
talk)16:39, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Using {{!}} allows piping it like a wikilink to work. How this appears in the template is {{
about|Hitler's father|his half-brother|Alois Hitler, Jr.{{!}}Alois Hitler, Jr}}. I made the edit to fix it. -
Purplewowies (
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17:12, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
The article
out of character was deleted as per
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Out of character, and later resurrected as a redirect to
breaking character. I contest this. Out of character and breaking character are very different things. Breaking character is a fault in acting as the character, while out of character is a fault in the character itself. For example, a Donald Duck fan comic where Donald suddenly starts killing people would be out of character, as would simply be the following sentence:
Harry Potter replied to Hermione's question: "Yo dawg, fo shizzle, ya dig?"
I already tried
WP:DRV but the request was instantly closed. How do I go about contesting this? Or should I simply go ahead and restore the deleted article myself?
JIP |
Talk17:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
It was deleted for be only a dictionary definition. Restoring it would result in it being deleted as a recreation of a deleted article where the problem that caused its deletion remains. Can you write an encyclopedia article about 'out of character' that references reliable sources and is more than a definition?
RJFJR (
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17:39, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
i've edited articles on wikipedia before, but I tried to add a section to the Leadership page today and it is not working. There was some sort of formatting issue when I tried to post it. Can you please let me know what the problem is- and how I can resolve it?
Please help me rectify the fact that our company name is written incorrectly as the Header.
Our company is called WET (Water Entertainment Technologies) and it has for too long been associated with WET Design because that is our domain name. We currently ONLY refer to the company as WET, it's official title, and we need to somehow ensure that our wikipedia page does not say "WET Design" but rather "WET (Water Entertainment Technologies)"
I have moved the article for you, that was easy. But I see two problems.
You have a username that suggests you are associated with the subject of the article. This is strongly discouraged, see
Wikipedia:Username#Promotional_names.
I suspect you may have preferred Wikipedia to leave your company name as
WET Design. Wikipedia is case-sensitive but readers of the encyclopaedia generally do not recognise this. Someone searching for your company name may try "Wet" which leads to
Wet. Your web site appears to be
wetdesign.com so I would naturally try
Wet design or
Wet Design (both empty pages). Eventually, perhaps in frustration, I may try Google.com using the search term "wet design" (Google is case-insensitive) and the top hit (currently) is your web site
wetdesign.com with the second top being
WET Design which is now a
Wikipedia redirect to
WET (Water Entertainment Technologies). And of course, as Maproom says, you need to take care editing your own company article. You have a clear
conflict of interest--Senra (
talk)18:43, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Help requested .....
I have posted an article about our newspaper information, which is not for adverting purpose, but for history archiving. And this has been deleted. I am wondering what I did must not be fully compliance with your policy, can you please help how to do this correctly.
Thanks
Redmaplecorp (
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19:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Trying to publish a page. I have a username and login, I have created, edited, and proofread the page, I have saved the page, I just dont know how to make it live. The wikipedia instructions to me that once I was satisfied to click on the 'move' tabe, remove the 'User:(your username here)/' bit so only the article name remains, only problem is I cannot seem to locate this tab. Any suggestions? Thanks! — Preceding
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CA Department of Rehabilitation (
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19:51, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Deleting A Page For A Non-Existent Person
I've corrected the entry for the third Dean of Carlisle on this page
[1]. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the third Dean of Carlisle was the Queen's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, who died in 1596. There is a Wikipedia article on him under the title
John Wolley (MP). Before I corrected it just now, the link on the Dean of Carlisle page went to a stub article entitled
John Wooley (priest). It appears there never was such a person, i.e. a John Wooley who was a priest and who was Dean of Carlisle. I'm wondering whether the page should be deleted, and if so how that would be done. Help with this would be much appreciated.
NinaGreen (
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22:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply