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Asking for help editing Driveshaft article
Help. Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Driveshaft and read my comments in the talk section "Drive shaft is two words". I need help from someone experienced, especially concerning the implications of reversing a redirect. I don't want to risk messing it up. Will you do it? Thank you in advance. -- Another Stickler (talk)
 * You need an admin to do it since you will want the page history to move correctly. I will see if I can find one.  Gtstricky Talk or C 18:14, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done  Gtstricky Talk or C 18:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -- Another Stickler (talk) 16:51, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Where do I submit suggestions for software changes to wikipedia?
Thank you knowledgeable editors for reading this. To whom and where do I submit suggestions and/or bug reports for wiki software? I ask this because I want the lead section of all articles to be able to be edited with their own "edit" link, without people having to click "edit this page" and dragging the whole article into the editor. I tried calling the lead section of one article the "Intro" section so the "edit" link would appear, but this made the table of contents appear above anything else and made the article look unlike every other article. An editor after me undid my change and suggested that the MediaWiki developers would have to implement this to do it right. How do I contact them to get this going? -- Another Stickler (talk) 19:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Easy. Go to Special:Preferences. Under the 'Gadgets' tab, check the box marked 'Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page'. Presto, you will see them on every page. The devs decided that people should be able to choose for themselves whether or not to see it. // roux   19:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tweak! Very cool. I'm set now. I'd still like to suggest that they make that the default. To whom do I send the suggestion? -- Another Stickler (talk) 20:38, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The best place to go to gain consensus for a suggestion like that (the devs won't do anything without consensus) is the Village Pump. I'm curious as to why you think it should be the default, though. // roux   00:23, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've mentioned it at the pump. It should be the default because it's better, and each new user shouldn't have to rediscover how to make it better. The "edit this page" link should be there for when the order of sections needs to be rearranged, or sections need to be split or joined, not as a way to edit the lead section. -- Another Stickler (talk) 08:28, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi and welcome to wikipedia. I noticed you are fairly new and have expressed interest in editing some music related articles. I thought I might encourage you to join some wikiprojects that you might be interested in. If you are not familiar with wikiprojects you can find more information here: WikiProject. I personally am heavily involved in WikiProject Opera and contribute every now and then to WikiProject Composers and WikiProject Classical Music. I am currently trying to recruit people for a new project WikiProject Music Theory as wikipedia's articles in this area currently go largely un-noticed resulting in an overall lack of quality. (The music theory article itself needs a tremendous amount of work.) Wikiprojects are helpful as they bring together editors with common interests and provide systems to better monitor article quality. The projects also tend to attract professionals and/or well informed novices within a particular area. I myself have a Bachelors in Music Education and a Masters in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy. I hope to see you around at one of the projects.Nrswanson (talk) 18:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK. I added my name under WikiProject_Music_Theory, assuming that was what was meant by "We would also be delighted if you signed on to the project (above)." What else should I do (other than editing)? -- Another Stickler (talk) 20:31, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome again ;-)

 * Thanks for joining. We're a new project so right now we are working on setting up the project's structure. The set up requires a lot of house keeping which you may or may not be interested in working on. Basically we need to add our banner (Template:WikiProject Music Theory) to all of the talk pages of articles under the scope of our project, devise a quality assessment rubric (a more specific one to our project than the current generic one at WikiProject Music Theory/Assessment), begin the process of assessing articles, review the current categories and stubs (do we like them, do we need others?), get search bots to help us identify newly created articles that may fall under our project, and recruit more editors. Assessment should ideally help us identify specifically what problems need to be addressed in each article. To show you examples of assessment systems see WikiProject Composers/Assessment and WikiProject Opera/Assessment. An example of an assessment would be at Talk:Thomas Arne and Talk:A Night at the Chinese Opera (click show on the opera banner). If you aren't interested in working on either of those that is fine. You could always add articles to the "articles of the month" and "Can you help?" sections to make editors aware of weak areas they can contribute to. Of course adding content to articles or creating new articles is always a good thing. The ultimate goal of the project is to help concentrate edits where they are most needed. I would like to eventually target four old articles every month that the group collectively works on to improve and four new articles we can create every month so that we are both improving quality and quantity at the same time. Once the set up is over the system should run mostly by itself and we can spend most of our time working on improving content where it is most needed. As more editors join the project talk page should also become more busy as people will be bringing ideas and questions there. You are one of the first members of the project so really you get to help make it whatever you want it to be. If you have any questions feel free to ask me.Nrswanson (talk) 21:19, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

persistent vandal
While manually restoring the vandal-plagued inertia article, I came across this persistent vandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/205.213.195.20 I'm not familiar enough with WP functions yet to try to stop this person. I'm hoping someone else can. Meanwhile, can someone semiprotect inertia? It has been vandalized by many different IPs, not just the one above, for at least 2 months straight (that's as far back as I've gotten in the history so far, but I'm guessing it's been happening since school started again here in the USA) and it is still continuing. -- Another Stickler (talk) 00:08, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * A user has to run up their warnings before they can be reported to AIV (in general). The vandal also has to be active when you are submitting the report, as blocks are not a punishment, but a preventative measure. The vandal has been offline for about 12 hours, so he should not be reported right now, and he is also only on his second warning. You should also note that the IP in question is in fact not a person, but a school, as shown at their talk page. If you do ever have any imminent problems that require reporting to administrators, go to WP:AIV and follow the instructions. Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me! :) &mdash; neuro(talk) 00:26, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, and if you want a page protected, you can follow the instructions at WP:RFPP. Thanks! &mdash; neuro(talk) 00:28, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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