Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2010 September 19

= September 19 =

User talk:M12390
The user mentioned seems to have a history of inserting POV on related articles of the MQM/Altaf Hussein and now to a recetn death article Imran Farooq. His user page is also full of such warnings. I dont know if a block or something should be considered or where to go next with this?
 * He also just added a lot of copy violation stuff to the imran Farooq page that i just went and altered to better wording. Everything he added in the section was a direct copy+pasteLihaas (talk) 21:55, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hover board
I find an error with your hover board article. It says its a fictional item but I found a company that makes them

http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm

Have a great day! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.235.208.220 (talk • contribs) 01:45, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Feel free to edit the article, review Verifiability and citing sources first. Thanks. %  Gryllida talk 01:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Your request has also been added to the article's talk page. %  Gryllida talk 02:01, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * The lead of Hoverboard says: "Some companies hoping to leverage the commercial success of the movies have marketed hovercraft vehicles as hoverboards, but these products have not been shown to replicate the experience depicted in the movies." You need independent reliable sources before claiming that this is a hoverboard as normally understood and not just a product the manufacturer markets as a "hoverboard". Your own link says it's a hovercraft, it uses air instead of magnetism, and it only lifts 1 inch. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:22, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Francis Bacon
I'm a Wikipedian on an enforced Wikibreak Does anyone have problems with the Francis Bacon page? It looks weird on IE. When I type in 'Sir Francis Bacon' instead of 'Francis Bacon' it looks normal though. 113.253.206.154 (talk) 02:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmm...could you perhaps offer a bit more information, such as what exactly looks odd? I looked at the page using both Google Chrome and IE 9, and it looks fine to me. ~Super Hamster  Talk Contribs 03:09, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks fine here using Firefox. Dismas |(talk) 04:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks fine on chrome for me too, but still weird on IE8. Screenshot here. Thanks 113.253.206.154 (talk) 06:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Bypass your cache. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Francis_Bacon and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon are different pages to your browser because Wikipedia redirects don't use URL redirection. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:09, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

cutting chicken claws
is there any way of cutting long claws on chickens. if so please let me know. Allan
 * This page is for asking questions about how to edit Wikipedia. For factual questions about everything else, see the Reference Desk.  Dismas |(talk) 04:08, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Bigotry at Wikipedia
THIS ARTIST HAS ALL THE REQUIRED SOURCES. YOUR EDITORS HAVE NOT RESEARCHED WITH THE NAMED SOURCES DIRECTLY, CLAIMED THE ARTIST WROTE ALL THESE WEBSITES HERSELF (!!!), HAVE MERELY DONE A LAZY (UNWILLING) WEB SEARCH (AND EVEN THAT BRINGS UP HUNDREDS OF INDEPENDENT LINKS INCLUDING STANFORD UNIVERSITY RADIO, CELEBRITY EVENT FOUNDER ARTICLES, ETC) ..AND THIS ARTISTS' BACK UP GUITARIST IS CITED AS HAVING THE HONOR OF PLAYING WITH THIS ARTIST IN A SEPARATE WIKIPEDIA PAGE. I ALSO READ THE OTHER RESPONSE THAT THE ARTICLE HAD ADEQUATE SOURCES BUT DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH LITERARY VALUE. HOWEVER, THAT WAS NOT PERCEIVED AS THE ISSUE EITHER PREVIOUSLY. EITHER WAY, NO REASON TO BAN PEOPLE. LET THEM ADD INFORMATION TO AN ARTICLE AS THEY SEE FIT. YOU DON'T NEED TO CENSOR PEOPLE FOR SUPPORTING AN ARTIST YOU DONT LIKE.

This totally legitimate transgender artist was harassed and insulted by wikipedia "editors" who also banned my user ID and IRC entry, after making transsexual jokes in chat room [01:02] == - Thank you for using freenode [01:02] == - [01:02] == End of /MOTD command. [01:02] == Usermode change: +i [01:02] == gateway/web/freenode/ip.76.169.14.24 is now your hidden host (set by syn.) [01:02] frigg [~frigg@freenode/utility-bot/frigg] requested CTCP VERSION from bralalalalacenso: [01:02] frigg [~frigg@freenode/utility-bot/frigg] requested CTCP VERSION from bralalalalacenso: [01:02] == #wikipedia-en-help Cannot join channel (+b) - you are banned Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bralalalala... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Foulballl (talk • contribs)

Another copy of the AfC page removed for clarity -- John of Reading (talk) 07:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * This question was also posted at Editor assistance/Requests and has been answered there. It is usually not necessary to ask a question in more than one place; most Help Desk volunteers will be watching all these pages. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:44, 19 September 2010 (UTC)


 * There is no need to re-post the text from Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bralalalala here. Anyone visiting this page can see the text by clicking the link. Have you read the response at Editor assistance/Requests? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

THE ``RIYASAT```
sIR,IM SEARCHING FOR THE HISTORY OF URDU WEEKLY THE ``RIYASAT``...THE ONLY URDU WEEKLY DEVOTED TO INDIAN STATES.PUBLISHED FROM DELHI IN 1920`S,DIWAN SINGH MAFTOON WAS THE EDITOR,PO BOX NO.82.WHERE CAN I FIND THE HISTORY OF THIS NEWS PAPER. 16:41, 19 September 2010 (UTC)16:41, 19 September 2010 (UTC)VISHAL MAHAJAN
 * You'd best ask at the Reference desk but because I don't know the best way to forward your query, I'll offer what I can here and perhaps all could be transferred en masse to the reference desk. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have have an article on the Riyasat. The Sikh Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Indian Literature have entries on Diwan Singh Maftoon; both refer to his work at the Riyasat. By the way, your Caps-lock seems to be on. Haploidavey (talk) 17:26, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There is also an Urdu Wikipedia which might have an article, but I was unable to search because I cannot type in Urdu.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  17:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Is there an under construction template?
Is there an under construction template I can use to indicate that a page is undergoing lots of changes and is in a state a flux? I thought there was such a template, but I forget what it was. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 17:11, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * yes, Under construction  GB  fan  17:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Depends on what you are doing, you might also want to lok at inuse  GB  fan  17:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Or maybe Current if it's the subject and not just the page that is changing. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Is there a way to sort my watchlist by the date I last edited the page
I want to drastically trim my bloated watchlist. I used to add every page I ever edited - even a trivial typo fix or vandalism revert. Now I find my watchlist too large to manage so I want to remove pages that I have not edited in a long time. Roger (talk) 18:21, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If you go to Special:Watchlist/edit you can edit the list (or Special:Watchlist/raw, although that doesn't have a "tick the items you want removed" option!) --  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 20:06, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If you click My preferences and then Recent changes, you'll see a checkbox called "Enhanced recent changes (requires JavaScript)". If you check that, your watchlist will take on a condensed format with all changes to one page covered on a single expandable line.  This means heavily-edited pages won't overwhelm your watchlist.  Why this is under Recent changes and not Watchlist, I have no idea... Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 13:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Which place to talk?
I have modified a copy of no:MediaWiki:Gadget-HurtigSlett.js at User:Iceblock/Scripts/Seeking-help.js so that it checks for Wikipedians looking for help and displays a tab saying, e.g., "1 seeking help". I believe this can be of interest to others, but where is the correct place to talk about this? (See also User:Iceblock/Scripts/Helpdesk.js) Iceblock (talk) 20:12, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe WikiProject User scripts or its talk page. --Teratornis (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Also see Help Project. --Teratornis (talk) 00:43, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Iceblock (talk) 22:17, 22 September 2010 (UTC)